“There’s a joke here somewhere, and it’s on me…” B.F.J Springsteen, American Philosopher I started an extremely well-meaning series on bulldust, and have not gotten far with it. It’s a slippery substance, and while in my head I think it’s fascinating all the ways people inflict each other with it, it seems more challenging to […]
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First of all, I have had a strange relationship with my name throughout my life. Pre-internet days, I had the strange (and apparently misguided) thought that my name was kind of odd or unusual. At the roadside Stuckey’s, it seemed like I could rarely find my name on a toy license plate. Maybe that’s where
Growing up I was not painfully aware of the banal, generic quality of my name. My dad complained about his name (which was, and I am not making this up – Sam). But that was before the internet put us all in a global competition for handles. (And let me tell you how shocked I
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