Ganked from the lovely and talented
~1~ How did you find me/ become aware of me?
~2~ If I’m on your friend’s list, why did you add me?
~3~ Why did you pick your lj username? What does it mean?
My username is my first name and the name I perform under, ran together. Wraith was taken when I got my first email account so I used davidwraith. For the record, a wraith is an apparition: something you can see but not touch, like a ghost or a puff of smoke.
1. Your posts on the community.
2. Your posts are intelligent, interesting, and worth reading.
3. It’s my first name and maiden name.
1. You commented on my journal.
2. Why the hell not?
3. Someone gave it to me as a sort of nickname, and I can’t for the life of me remember what the hell it means. But I thought it had a neat ring to it. . . .
Orlando, Stuart, Ewan Obsessed Pixie.
–AC
(As in, Bloom, Townsend, and McGregor)
–AC
1. You commented in ‘s journal.
2. N/A. I only read your posts through ‘s friends page.
3. I picked my username by randomly drawing letters from a scrabble bag. So it doesn’t really mean anything. Unless you want to go around finding patterns in random letters, which I personally think is a waste of time.
–Allan Crain
1) I found you through your posts in .
2) Why did I add you? Hmm. Well, you had a few interesting posts in and after a couple of them I wandered over to your LJ, did some back-reading, and you were very interesting. What I like about you is that you give me a new perspective on St. Louis that I don’t often get exposed to, being a non-native. I was a bit of a voyeur for a while before I added you.
3) Regarding my username? Eh. It shows my geekitude, but I’ll answer. I go by Concertina in other areas of the net, in particular it was a staffer/gm name on a roleplaying MU* I’ve played on over the years (I view it as co-writing, not roleplaying). The name originally derived from a Tori Amos song by the same name and was reinforced by the fact that sometimes I can be a razorlike bitch. When I came to LJ, concertina by itself was already taken so I just added the 42 all Douglas Adams style.
The sad thing is, I knew before you posted the last names…
Your maiden name is Zoole? All this time I thought it was a Ghostbusters reference.
Well…. Actually, the Ghostbusters demon Zoole is a reference to my cousin Nancy. She’s a friend of the scriptwriter!
Harold Ramis?
No, of the anonymous scriptwriter who proofed the script. The name Harold Ramis had chosen for the demon, an authentic Babylonian demon’s name, turned out to be the same as the last name of a California state congressman. Nancy’s friend called her and asked if her unusual last name could be used instead, she said Sure. “Zoole” has been used by other writers who know Nancy. ‘Law and Order’ had a character named Emma Zoole; and there is a Pulitzer-prize winning play called “P.S. Your Cat Is Dead” with a lead character named Jimmy Zoole.
Cousin Nancy Zoole, actually my Dad’s cousin, just retired from the publishing business. She was an editor, a literary agent, eventually a VP of Henry Holt Publishers. She got to know many, many writers.