Comments on: Picture this

By: Newshound

Newshound — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:33:11 +0000

Avatar? Pseudonym? Gravatar?

No, this is a real photograph!

By: Peter Porcupine

Peter Porcupine — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:23:02 +0000

DK – how’s THIS???

(A scan of the engraved masthead from a copy of Porcupine’s Gazette, circa 1800)

By: Lafcadio Mullarkey

Lafcadio Mullarkey — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:04:02 +0000

Seems like a good place to explain my pseudonym. It’s a combination of Lafcadio Hearn, a person also of Irish descent and Japanese connections, slightly older and more dead than myself, and Monsignor John E. Mullarkey, who presided over the St. Pius Rectory in Lynn in the 1950s and ’60s.

My gravatar has my real first name stamped on his forehead, to distinguish from the recent interloper of the same name.

By: Newshound

Newshound — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:44:11 +0000

My Avatar. Finally!

By: Steve Stein

Steve Stein — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:44:15 +0000

Avatar, schmavatar. This is just a freakin’ PICTURE. A *real* Avatar would let me jump around on other planets.

Just sayin’.