With a name like Gavin…

My cousin Kirk posted a particularly harsh comment this morning down there in the entry about Laurie Anderson. He made one of those ridiculous rants about how his tax dollars shouldn’t go toward such things as art  [more...]

This is a fascinating story, the kind of weird trivia that I love. John Kelly in the Washington Post reports on a town in Maryland that has two names: The town in question is about 150 miles from Washington, in Allegany  [more...]

I used to collect interesting names, ostensibly for use when I wrote little odd short stories. Among my favorites was W. Wesley Muckenfuss. It’s been a long time, and I can’t remember all the fun names I  [more...]