What's Your NPR Name?
doree:
spiegelman:
liana:
Eric and I recently discovered a shared fascination with the slew of impossibly named NPR hosts we listen to every day: Renee Montagne, Steve Inskeep, Corey Flintoff, Korva Coleman, Kai Ryssdal, Dina Temple-Raston.
In fact, we’ve often wondered what it would be like to be one of them. A Nina Totenberg or a Renita Jablonski. A David Kestenbaum or a Lakshmi Singh. Even (on our most ambitious days) a Cherry Glaser or a Sylvia Poggioli.
So finally, after years of Fresh Air sign-off ambitions, we came up with a system for creating our own NPR Names. Here’s how it works: You take your middle initial and insert it somewhere into your first name. Then you add on the smallest foreign town you’ve ever visited.
So I’m Liarna Kassel. And Eric is Jeric Bath. I even have a new nickname for my little brother in Dylsan Rosarita.
The local affiliates also have some great names. Soterios Johnson on WNYC and Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY (I thought her name was Mosskowain for the longest time) are two of my favorites. My only problem with Liana’s method is I don’t have a middle name!
My NPR name is Djackavid Arenal
McCain-Palin Rally Sites from here to the election
Thursday, October 30: Defiance, Ohio
Friday, October 31: Denial, Virginia (the real part); Creeptown, Pennsylvania; Wackjob-Diva-Opportunist Tri-Cities, Pennsylvania (Palin only)
Saturday, November 1: Daylong rally and picnic at Anger, Indiana campgrounds and demolition derby
Sunday, November 2: Lyeville, North Carolina; Bargaining, North Carolina
Monday, November 3: Depression, West Virginia (actually, a whistle-stop tour of the whole state)
Tuesday, November 4: Supression, Ohio; Intimidation, Florida; victory bonfire scheduled for Acceptance, Arizona
More on the Mad Men Twitter dustup
doree:
I just don’t find Don Draper’s Twitter all that clever, is the thing! Maybe also because Don Draper would NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS have a Twitter. Peggy’s is better, in my opinion.
The Reuters story about the dustup brings up the important issue of fictional character law:
Many Twitter accounts are fans pretending to be fictional characters, so the “Mad Men” flap could set a precedent for Twitter users. Although anybody can legally pretend to be any made-up character, Twitter could be in violation of AMC’s trademark if its presentation successfully confuses readers as to whether the feeds are endorsed by the network.
Where was all this fervor over fictional character law when I was writing my law school certification paper? Oh yeah, there was no commercial Internet then. Sigh.
