The "Electric" Name Change and Metaphor Art

Yup. I just kinda changed the name of my blog with telling anyone or saying anything. But I figure I will let you in on the name change from "Soul Sister Rebel Girl" to "Rebel Girl Electric."

Lately I have been playing with, musing, and inspired by metaphors of the "Electric." I changed my blog title quickly and didn't talk about it, because I just had this rush of artistic energy in my head. I do not consider myself an artist in the traditional sense, but seeing as I am a nerdy comm major, I consider myself an artist of imagination and rhetoric. I find words that inspire me and play with little metaphors alllll day in my head. For someone who enjoys words so much, I suppose that "playing with words in my head" may be a stretch of the definition of "art." But screw definitions, they are too ......defining. Instead of giving you an in depth analysis of why I find the rhetoric of the electric inspiring..... I will give you some stuff I jacked from the OED (lovely thing!) about the etymology of the word "electric" and you can play with your own metaphors of the electric in your life. Go forth, and wordinspirationmetaphor art!

electric, adj. and n.

4. fig. Suddenly exciting, thrilling, or intense, as if caused by an electric charge or shock; stimulating; charged with tension.

1796 Poems v, The electric flash, that from the melting eye Darts the fond question or the soft reply

1976 I hear Amer. Swinging xiv. 197 Our fingers touched, sending an electric thrill through every nerve.
5. Designating a steely, brilliant, or metallic colour or shade.

1989 Our Grandmothers' Drums (1990) xii. 225 They [sc. chemises] came in brilliant electric colours scarlet and black, a vehement pink, cobalt violet, turquoise, and a particular fluorescent green contrasted with maroon.

b. Of a musical instrument: using electricity or electronics to produce sound; (in later use often) spec. using electrical amplification