Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Pseudonyms

If I'm ever to become a real writer, I will obviously need to evolve my current writing into a more focused, potent version of itself. BUT, less obviously, I will need my current name to obscure itself anagrammatically into a pseudonym...here are a few that I've come up with:

Michael McNamara -
Cameraman Chi Lam
Anarchic Emma Lam
Chairman Acme Lam
Carmine Halmacam
Caiman Harem Clam
Chance Mammalair
Maniac Malemarch
Cache Alma Manrim

I think the most dashing, suave pseudonym by far is Chance Mammalair. I wish he were really me. On the other hand, Maniac Malemarch seems to be a more apt description of my life in general up to this point...BUT...though it in no way really resembles a real name, Caiman Harem Clam draws such an intriguing picture in my mind that I must consider it...I see a kingdom of caimans ruled by a sexually deviant sultan whose prefers clams to female caimans, thus starting a clam harem (his frolics with a lower species are, of course, considered bestiality). I suppose under the pseudonym ''Caiman Harem Clam,'' I would take on the persona of one of his subjugated clamstresses.

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