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[iidoru]

The Festival has begun again!  Haven't you missed my stories about the Festival?  I know you have.  Last year the merchants in the area decided they'd had enough and the Festival moved several blocks down the street.  It was great!  No crowds, no nerve-wracking baseline all day long, no idiots screaming into microphones for hours on end.  But this

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Wow

[kuzibah]

Let's take these one at a time:

If that festival is going to go on awhile, I'd make friends with the police presence on the block and tip them off that drug use and indecent exposure is going on behind the tent. I think a quick peek whenever they go by on their rounds would probably solve the bulk of your problems. Good luck, though. Yikes.

Via the sci-fi/horror circuit I've met kids named: Anakin, sisters Tasha and Nichelle (both from Star Trek), Lucas (after George), Oktober, Autumn, and most recently, Talbot, after the character Larry Talbot, a.k.a. The Wolf Man. That being said, our first choice name for a boy was Luke (yes, from Star Wars.) On the other hand, my brother always said if he had a son, he liked the named Aaron Dallas, after his two favorite baseball players (Hank Aaron and Dallas Green.) So, is that more geeky, less, or about the same?

Is your building made of brick? It may need to have the mortar replaced in spots, as wasps frequently make their way in that way. Or, if it is a curse, I'd recommend a good smudging with white sage.

And that dinner sounds amazing.

Re: Wow

[iidoru]

We complain and call the cops constantly, but there's a bit of a feud going on between the Festival and the city, something to do with extra police fees, or something. So they don't often patrol at all. After 10 pm, a security force is on site, but until then, we're kind of on our own.

Anakin is geeky, Aaron is not, I'd say. My totally personal criteria? Anakin wasn't a name before Star Wars. And I don't know that I'd have a problem with Anakin. Well, I probably would. But TALON? It's like a character from a romance novel or a bad sci-fi movie. Hee.

Re: Wow

[kuzibah]

Let me tell you the Anakin story:

The parents- real geeks. But the kid was born, I'd say... 1987, or thereabouts. Return of the Jedi came out in 1983, and Darth Vader's real name was only mentioned in it in passing. The family had a real Scandinavian last name, I want to say Nillsen or something like that, and they thought the names sounded good together. I guess they figured it would be an in-joke for them and just sound Scandinavian to everyone else. Then The Phantom Menace came out. Luckily, the kid seemed to have a good sense of humor about it. Of course, I only ever saw him at a Sci-Fi convention. High school may have been a nightmare.

Re: Wow

[iidoru]

High school is a nightmare for most people, anyway. If he had a typical Scandinavian name, he probably would have been teased anyway.

At least they didn't call him Greedo or Jabba.