I have such a hard time with titles

Picking names is easy for some people. These people have snappy, appropriate names for their blogs. They have tattoos with apt words written permanently on their bodies. They wouldn't have a hard time coming up with the name of an art exhibition, say, or naming a pet or a company. And yet, for me, these things present problems.

Borges has a great statement about the false simplicity of language: "I have done my best -- I don't know with what success -- to write straightforward stories. I do not dare state that they are simple; there isn't anywhere on earth a single page or single word that is, since each thing implies the universe, who most obvious trait is complexity."

Hence I take: "We Buy Broken Gold" (the existential slogan for endless pawn shops in Texas) as my blog title, hoping to project optimism in the face of disappointment.