Sinister: sinister: our obsession gets us known

[e. kraft]

spunky twattroubler wrote:

>Before marrying Trevor Turton at Attercliffe registry office, my mother
>went by the charming name of Beryl Twattroubler.
>
>For her eighth birthday, my kid sister was given a spaniel, which she
>proceeded to name Spunky.
>
>See ? It's all bobbins. These things NEVER work.
>
>
>yerluvinuncleTurt
>

what a delight to wake up to this post. i was eating my breakfast as i
perused my email this morning, and i almost spewed a slurry of
half-masticated total raisin bran and milk all over the keyboard and
monitor of my new computer. despite my unmitigated delight, i do feel
compelled to offer a slight correction/modification to all of this
name-game zaniness...

That bloke Rod Begbie wrote....
> No, "Porn Star Names" are made up from the name of your first pet, >
along with your mother's maiden name.

guy trebay of the new york times sunday magazine would beg to differ.
according to last sunday's issue (style column, p. 49), porn star names are
conjugated by taking the name of your first pet and adding the name of the
street you grew up on. on the other hand, the version the list has been
playing, at least according to this article, is the drag-name game, because
i suppose you're supposed to imagine a drag queen when you combine your
first pet's name and your mother's maiden name. here's a funny bit from
that article:
	An intellectual friend with a serious Eastern European handle
	turned into Silky Diamond, a moniker suggestive of years spent 
	touring the Borscht Belt with a feathered fan. Friedman, who
	is by her own description "a little 66-year-old lady," was 
	transformed into the incomparably earthy-ethereal Pumpkin
	Wander. My own drag name happens to be Happy Foster, an
	alias that for me conjures up a semialcoholic field-hockey
	captain out of "Butterfield 8."
anyway, this porn/drag distinction is a minor quibble, but if nothing else
it gives us twice as much pseudonym fun. 

not to be daunted by the most gigantic words in the dictionary,
.erik
(porn: chelsea fairfield
drag: chelsea johnson)
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