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Yes, I Admit It, I Stole My Name
Nov. 4th, 2003 10:19 amOn Friday at Kevin and Crystal's house party the Gothvickers who are on LJ (most of them anyway, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadesofwinter was otherwise occupied) found ourselves talking about our online journals and various bits of LJ life, including where we got our user IDs. I tried to explain briefly where I stole mine, here are some more details, excerpted from the Mail-Art Encyclopedia (http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/encyclopaedia/items/lieutenant_murnau.htm): ( Read more... )
However, I didn't rip this off randomly - "Lt. Murnau" is only one of several personae I have appropriated during the 17 years I've been sporadically involved in mail art, fake and multiple identities, and other pranks usually funny only to myself. (I was a real live lieutenant in the army, too, once upon a time.)
If you can't amuse even yourself, then what's the point?
Anyway, that's my expose for today. I would like to do more with "Lt. Murnau" as a cover identity for different projects - perhaps one day he could open for Hackfleisch.
shadesofwinter was otherwise occupied) found ourselves talking about our online journals and various bits of LJ life, including where we got our user IDs. I tried to explain briefly where I stole mine, here are some more details, excerpted from the Mail-Art Encyclopedia (http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/encyclopaedia/items/lieutenant_murnau.htm): ( Read more... )However, I didn't rip this off randomly - "Lt. Murnau" is only one of several personae I have appropriated during the 17 years I've been sporadically involved in mail art, fake and multiple identities, and other pranks usually funny only to myself. (I was a real live lieutenant in the army, too, once upon a time.)
If you can't amuse even yourself, then what's the point?
Anyway, that's my expose for today. I would like to do more with "Lt. Murnau" as a cover identity for different projects - perhaps one day he could open for Hackfleisch.
