How it came to be: I was looking for a name for my Yoga4Kidz society 24-relay team. This organization works through UNICEF to provide funds to children living with HIV and AIDS, and the aftereffects of same [HIV and AIDS, not the children or the funds] which are numerous and ghastly. Through the 24 hour relay, each member of our 8-person team will be practicing yoga for a 24 hour period, thereby raising money and awareness for the Yoga4Kidz society.
I was pretty much levitating with panlinguistic glee when I came up with this name. I had just completed my stint as a guest artist at a Delta sports bar singing Iron Maiden and Judas Priest covers and was enamoured of the raw power of rock and roll mayhem. If my adventures on the Interducts have taught me anything, it’s that my genius was likely not just my own, and so I contacted the Great Gazoogle to see my colleagues in brilliance…
They seem like pretty kool kats. I am humbled and pleased by the ability to [hopefully] share a screen name and blog spot with some donuts, a gorgeous woman and her talent for photography, a hilarious and deep sketch, and what seems like the nerve center of New York veg*nism.
It’s like watching the Ethan Hawke scene of “Waking Life” and suspecting that you and everyone else you might know share a brain. So please, fellow brain-sharers, let me know if I’ve omitted credit where credit is due.