Body Memoir Politic:
Looking
A Play in Ten Scenes
by
Jennifer Semple Siegel
© 2008
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One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that Mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she’s 10 feet tall.
–Grace Slick, “White Rabbit”
Go to the website.
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As a writer and domainer, I decided to conduct a small experiment by posting a play, using relevant domain names for the title, subtitle, prologue, scenes, and epilogue.
This play has a title (Body Memoir Politic) and a subtitle (Looking)
Two Domains: BodyMemoirPolitic.com and Looking.biz (The title goes to a portal page which contains my playwright and character notes; the subtitle resolves to the actual play; however, each site is fully connected to the other with back and forth links).
Thus, the title: Body Memoir Politic: Looking
The play is structured as a Prologue, 10 scenes, and an Epilogue; each of these elements has its own domain name:
XL Portal: Body Memoir (XLPortal.com and BodyMemoir.com)
Scene 1: Functional (Late 1953) (Functional.us and Functional.tv)
Scene 2: Body Collision 1 (1958) (BodyCollision.com)
Scene 3: Body Collision 2 (1962) (BodyCollision.com) --not posted yet
Scene 4: Hostility (October 1968-January 1969) (Hostility.biz)--not posted yet
Scene 5: Won’t (April 1979-May 1979) (Wont.biz)--not posted yet
Scene 6: Abbreviated (1987) (Abbreviated.us)--not posted yet
Scene 7: Rescued (June 1990) (Rescued.us)--not posted yet
Scene 8: Iowa Spot (June 1990) (IowaSpot.com)--not posted yet
Scene 9: Dieting FAQs (September 11-12, 2001) (DietingFAQs.com
--not posted yet
Scene 10: Psychedelic Bingo (October 2025) (PsychedelicBingo.com)--not posted yet
Official Exit: Circling (2035) (Circling.biz)--not posted yet
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If one types in the actual domain URL, it will take the searcher to Looking.biz; it doesn't make sense to send a reader to the middle of the play.
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I'm not sure how this will work out; however, the important thing here: I used relevant keywords (albeit sometimes implicit) for the domains. It wouldn't make sense to use words that were meaningless to the play.
