Introduction

You can call me whatever you like, but my proper name is Chris. My many aliases may alienate the name, but that doesn't mean I dislike it. I love the name. It's the only name I've ever stuck with. My AIM account has changed 4 times in 3 years. I even just spent upwards of 20 minutes with an e-friend thinking about the name of this blog - is it reasonable ? is it distinctive? He thinks it sounds like a brand name or summat.

Trouble it, I have problems with names. Especially when it comes to screen ones. There are the many human names I admire - Max - Zack - James - Skip, and there are the internet aliases like Bramish and Flatwick and Inigo. Band names, like The Cat Empire or Spoon, Of Montreal and Wilco. The ____-villes and ______ Avenues. So many of them are so wonderful. They mean nothing and everything at the same time! Why can't I come up with one that does that and fits?

Past that, it's the words that really get me going. They're/there/their (I know it's their) extreme connective base in Latin and Greek (down to Sanskrit) and the way they fit together into one sublimely generic meaning. It's amazing! Now how to apply that eloquence to personal life I don't know. But that's the goal.

I've spent the last several years in a loophole. I saw that if I would just take in the world around me without having the courage to be a part of it, life slips forward like butter. Or olive oil, I dislike butter. I sure learned alot, but at quite some cost. But after a few months of therapeutic thought, harder work and strengthening drive, I'm starting things off differently. It's a new year in a few days, I can start working towards othr and bteter things fi I want/. Typos and all.