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President Awesome

By laurenflax | Published: February 12, 2009
I was in the car today when it occurred to me that there are way fewer people named Elvis than one would really expect. I didn’t grow up in an Elvis-based culture, so maybe I’m missing something, maybe it is considered a kind of sacrilege in Elvis cultures. After all, anglos don’t name their kids [...]
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Nomenclature

By laurenflax | Published: February 11, 2009
Yesterday I was standing in the kitchen, and I looked at my dog and I thought, “Herbert. Herbert Hoover.” I don’t think Max is an incarnation of the thirty-first president, but it’s good to know that there is something innately Herbert Hooverish about him, just in case we ever have to change his name.
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