Okay, so I'm not really trying to be anonymous. I've just always wanted to have an alias. I am definitely not planning on posting things here that I'd be ashamed for my church folks to read, let alone anything about them!
But I'm not necessarily going to stick to stuff I would say from the pulpit or in Bible study either. If church members are out there, know that when you're reading my blog, it's as one netizen to another. Don't add that extra authority that I know you give to my every word at church to what you read here! (At least, they told us in seminary that you do that...) So the pseudonym is sort of to protect us all from people confusing my official pronouncements from what I write here.
So I'm going to stick to calling myself Lucky Fresh and write as though I am sort of anonymous. I find an alias a bit freeing, and I want to be free here, to be as quirky and opinionated as I like. So there.
So why Lucky Fresh? Funny story -- thanks for asking!
When I was in seminary, some friends and I went to a Prince concert. There was a guest artist, a rapper I believe, who performed at some point during the evening. On the way home, I remarked to my friends that I thought "Lucky Fresh" was a really cool name for a rapper. They laughed and laughed. His name wasn't "Lucky" Fresh. It was Doug E. Fresh. Who ever heard of a rapper named Doug? Bizarre. But since he wasn't using it, I held onto it in case I ever needed it later. Which, as it turns out, I did.
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I love it....Do you know about Mondiegreens? They are when you mishear a lyric...as in..."I wore goggles when you're not here" (My world crumbles, allegedly). So called because of an old ballad
"They have slain the Earl of Moray and laid him on the green" (or, more convincingly, And Lady Mondiegreen)
So Lucky, why Creme Anglaise?
re crash blossoms should crash, well said, sir
I see by the snailpapers in Britain that a major literary agent has signed up a top journo there to write an "on language" type of book about CRASH BLOSSOMS in the English-language media the world over, for publication in 2012 -- and advance of US$25,000 is being reported, the writer keeping low profile, book capitalizing on Ben Zimmer's recent New York Times "On Language" article about said "crash blossoms" and how they, er, bloomed, er, blossomed ..... THE BOOK SHOULD BE A WINNER! BRAVO!
No, the book won't be Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim, and Other Flubs from the Nation's Press published by Columbia Journal in 1980, before the term "crash blossoms" bloomed, and no, it won't be titled Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge a 1987 tome by Gloria Cooper. The title of the Crash Blossoms book is still tentative but for sure CRASH BLOSSOMS will appear in the title. Any suggestions for what to call this book? I will forward them on to the literary agent, the editor and the author.
The book also will not be titled Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language which Richard Lederer did in 1987.
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