dream_names
raze the people who only live when i'm asleep tend to have interesting names when i'm lucky enough to learn them.

the latest: biscrowe hughes. 		240830
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epitome of incomprehensibility That sounds like a second cousin of Benedict Cumberbatch!

Now I want some British-sounding dream names. I haven't had any lately, not that I remember, but my half_asleep_thoughts gave my grandmother a fake Polish surname. Kuwarnowska isn't an actual name, I looked it up, but the w's were pronounced Polishly (ku-var-NOV-ska) and the -ska ending is appropriately feminine.

And most lately I encountered the Zaplinksky couple, who went on a date for three and a half years (how was "date" defined? my half_asleep_thoughts didn't tell me). Curious, I looked up the name, and there was a Henry Zaplinsky in the 1940 U.S. census, born in Poland "abt 1881." 		240830
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e_o_i edits *Zaplinksy (no extra "k") 240830
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raze elizabeth stasko. 240905
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e_o_i Between when the damn airplane woke me up and when I was actually ready to wake up, my half_asleep_thoughts gave me "Jean Miely" - the first name pronounced as in French, the last name pronounced "mealy." 240906
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raze david bromison. 240907
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raze erotica thavineau. 240908
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raze amanita amatiero. 240909
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raze kelly cola. 240910
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e_o_i (Okay, I need to give these people places and professions:
1. American weather reporter
2. pseudonym of a Quebecoise porn actor
3. pseudonym of an avant-garde Macedonian techno singer
4. satirical puppet voiced by an American comedian; the puppet is made of pink felt and has a muppet-like mouth) 		240910
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raze (you're officially in charge of providing backstories for all my random dream characters now. that's just too good.) 240910
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raze marcel bacon. 240913
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raze follecio collano. 240917
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raze gabriel lightman. 240919
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raze mary rothstein. 240925
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raze kate barker. 240926
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raze goddess barnelle. 240927
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e_o_i Madeleine Vadeleine 240927
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raze vonda radnu. 241003
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raze goodson david.

(seems a bit backwards, no?) 		241004
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raze owena rowan noland. 241011
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raze rhonda robinson. 241012
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raze tom sarter. 241013
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raze rochie rovel. 241020
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e_o_i The Callabrin, a hotel chain. See dream_travel. 241023
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e_o_i (I forgot about giving raze's dream names places and professions! Mea culpa.

Poor neglected Elizabeth Stasko is a professor in Ontario. She looks like an English teacher, grey-haired and soft and round, but she's doing something highly scientific and technical that I wouldn't understand.

Marcel Bacon isn't a person but a restaurant in Montreal. It's French. There is bacon. The exterior has a signature art style, not quite as slapdash as that of Patty Slaps and not quite as polished as La Belle et Le Boeuf. Perhaps with a homage to the creepier art of Francis Bacon for Halloween.

Follecio Collano is an American wrestler with a Spanish background but an Italian stage name. He did the professional wrestling circuit for a while before real injuries caused him to go into graphic design. He hasn't found riches or fame, but he's content, mostly.

Gabriel Lightman manages a truck stop in Calgary. He sees all sorts. Tolerant of various weirdnesses, he nevertheless dislikes his own fondness for fluorescent-coloured slushie drinks. It's childish, he thinks. He's almost fifty.

Mary Rothstein is a painter from the U.K. She lives in Canada now but won't tell me where.

Kate Barker would think it funny if I called her a dog-walker, but she's really another British painter. She's stayed in and around Coventry most of her life.

Goddess Barnelle is a singer and composer from Fiji, mixing traditional and contemporary music styles.

That's all I've got for now!) 		241023
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raze ::: thunderous applause ::: 241024
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e_o_i Hey thanks!

I don't remember the rest of the dream I had last night, but in it, "Callaxcan" was the name of a chicken dish. 		241024
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raze ellie butler. 241101
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raze cyrus meadows. 241102
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raze tom billingson. 241111
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raze amy jennel. 241116
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raze tom orthodox. 241120
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raze dr. yorbode. 241122
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raze lauren dupont. 241128
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raze pontifo serrero. 241206
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e_o_i "Latsumi" is a method of education.

"Dariu" a town in Europe. I'm not sure whether it's Germany or Romania - I feel like it's the location of some battle - but I know it's in Europe because I'm paying the bus fare in Euros.

(The battle part: I think my dream_mind incorporated Ukraine's Mariupol.) 		241213
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raze jill day. 241215
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raze tussy a'fo. 241216
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e_o_i This batch of raze's dream_names belong to artists, I've arbitrarily decided. Everyone is an artist sometimes, but specifically:

Goodson David was a New York jazz pianist who knew poet Langston Hughes, only he never achieved the same fame;

Owena Rowan Noland is a New Zealand author who writes fantasy books for children and teenagers;

Rhonda Robinson was in a London rock band in the '80s with big hair and attitude - now retired from that, she's a portrait painter in Salisbury;

Tom Sarter is a reclusive American short-story writer;

Rochie Rovel is another short-story writer, born in Burundi and living in Belgium with his politician wife who's more famous than he is, but that's okay because he's also low-key reclusive. 		241217
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e_o_i edits *belongs (I think; subject-verb agreement doesn't always likes me) 241217
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e_o_i edits again also, I like how Rhonda Robinson has retired from attitude; I don't want to retire from attitude, but to each their own 241217
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raze sharketta is not, as you might imagine, an anthropomorphic shark, but rather a university student who dabbles in activism. she just happens to have an unusual name.

(also, now you've got me wishing some of these fleeting dream people were *real*, e_o_i, if_only so i could read their books.) 		241220
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