I, Flamingo

Seven years ago I began my blog and created a Facebook page which has since evolved from me simply stating the title of the blog post or story, to me becoming far more engaged in my small community. Profile pictures are simply pictures of me trying out different styles of beards, and accurately depict my path through weight-loss. It's subtle, but I am definitely still losing weight, but I digress.

Above is the official new logo to my entire operation. I have shared this image on both Facebook and Twitter, but will only place this as the new profile picture on Facebook. On my Facebook page, I am representing Blu Flamingos and what it stands for. On Twitter, I represent myself as an author, Robert Hassan Kahil, and what I can do to help the writing community grow on social media. My site's (both of them) have the motto "When innovation meets irrelevant birds..." for a reason. As far as I know, I'm kind of following at least some of the advice Suzanne Rose gives. In the beginning, Blu the Flamingo meant nothing. It still doesn't mean too much; though it is eye catching and unique enough to attract attention. Blu the Flamingo is visual representation of how my writing works- the plots may seem simple, but the characters add a lot of depth.

Here is some of the greater detail of my engagement. Number one is in reference to a post from my older site, entitled Fightin' Words, about threats, insults, and other various vocalizations in Ruby Caves. The second is one of the earlier pictures I shared from another page (I had never really done this until very recently).

Other changes include talking about my favorite actors (praise for Guillermo del Toro about his wins for the beautiful Shape of Water, and mourning the loss of certain public figures like Stephen Hawking). Typically though, if I have small updates about my stories that would not warrant an entire blog post for, I leave those to Facebook and Twitter for some micro blogging.