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October 19, 2002
self-identification..
arent nicknames interestin? not the kinds that are shorter for real names: 'bill' for 'william' or 'bert' for 'albert', but the kinds where people come up with some random alias. like 'mungmungdog'. or 'p-diddy'. its just funny, aint it?
mine, for instance, is 'stuttersteps'. ill be honest--the first time i used it was for one of the first basketball fantasy leagues i joined and i tried to come up w/ somethin coo. i always thought the stutter-step move was coo on the court, so a name was born. since then, its stuck with a lot of the accounts/aliases ive created--on xanga or espn..
i find it intriguigin when i hear of other peoples aliases cuz it obviously reveals somethin of who they are. granted, the names may have been created on a whim or from some lame-crazy-stupid story, but it remains a part of their identity. or a complete separate one in and of itself..
its funny--with all the effort we make in tryin to connect to other people or be a part of somethin bigger or greater, we still make room to set our individual self out..
Posted by cpaik at October 19, 2002 05:29 PM
Comments
the lamest screenname i ever used: jwk7atdukedotedu
Posted by: joe at October 21, 2002 10:36 AM
yeah, i'm just a dog that barks 'mungmung'.
Posted by: mungmungdog at October 21, 2002 11:04 AM
You'll always be "Charsssse" in my book...
Posted by: Tran at October 21, 2002 04:30 PM
I agree. Nicknames as self-identification are insightful. However, nicknames are equally telling in terms of public perception. For example, most of my aliases are predicated on a single letter - "G". G Money, G Dog, G Styles, G Funk, G Monkey, G Curl, etc. Mind you, these monikers were not donned of my own accord! Such is how I have been branded by the cruel iron of society. Although I question the pertinence of each of these nicknames individually, the question of greater importance lies in their totality. Why the "G"? Is it merely a foundation borrowed from my first initial? Or is it a deliberate reference associating my public persona to the underground hip-hop subculture? G as in Gerry or G as in Gangsta...I fear I may never know the answer. The latter is no doubt questionable given my background and socioeconomic status. The former...well, no one calls Geraldo G-Funk. My final avenue of recourse...address the public...demand an answer and an explanation as to what my nicknames are attributed to...essentially...to "G" or not to "G"...that is the question.
Posted by: G$ at October 21, 2002 05:35 PM
Gerry, you will always be in my mind...
G-AY...
Posted by: Tran at October 22, 2002 09:26 AM
tranch!
Why you gotta be dissin?
Posted by: G$ at October 22, 2002 02:47 PM
Just reeling ya in. Sometimes, my Sri Lankan poet brother tends to extemporize, and overabundantatiously soliloquize, and needs to be... cut down in size...
Can you dig it?
Posted by: Tran at October 22, 2002 05:24 PM
You know I still love you, G-String...
Chris
Posted by: Tranch at October 23, 2002 09:44 AM