Pacing, Ben.

As in "Celerie Kemble"?

It's a vegetable's name, isn't it? I don't think they have genders.

People are less adventurous with boy's names so new names are much more likely to be girl's names.

Thank you, F! I knew I had seen a Celerie. She can hang with Strawberry Saroyan and Apple Martin. And Plum Sykes. And. Yeah.

It's a girl's name.

Like "Bryony". Or "Emily". Or "Beverly".

5: "My name's Strawberry. My purse is a lunch box!"

I disparage the notion that assumptions about one's gender may be made on one's name.

The Sex of Things.

8: There's an exception to every rule, Beverly.

Cherimoya BPLastname-Oggedlastname

let's go with the assumption that Ogged's last name is incredibly ethnic and BPL's last name is incredibly whitebread.

Cherimoya Hedges-Khosrowkhavar

If Celery were a person's name, what would that person be like?

For which jobs would you hire or be reluctant to hire a Celery?

Art Frahm says celery likes the laydeez.

Or, at least, it makes their panties drop.

More Lileks! What is going on around here??11??

Interestingly, LinkedIn has two people with the last name of Celery, one British and one apparently an American in Afghanistan.

And one person with it as a first name, but that's a Chinese, and they take all sorts of crazy English first names for themselves. ("Cash," for example.)

I'd totally name my daughter Celery. I'd name my son Celery, too, except for the fact that he'd spend his childhood getting beat up for it.

I'd name my son Celery, too, except for the fact that he'd spend his childhood getting beat up for it.

Not for the name, just for making the panties drop off other guys' girlfriends.

The male version of Celery is Celeriac.

But "Kale" is a better name for boys, and "Arugula" for girls, anyway.

Not looking good for Celery as a first name. Slightly more luck as a handle and fictional character.

"Arugula" is a terrible name for a girl.

I'd name my son Celery, too, except for the fact that he'd spend his childhood getting beat up for it.

My daddy left home when I was three
Didn't leave much to Ma and me
Just this old guitar
And an empty bottle of booze....

Arugula, doot doo de doo doo
Arugula, doot doo deet doo
Arugula, doot doo dee doo doo, dee doo doo, dee doo doo da na na naht da

"Arugula" is a terrible name for a girl.

Better than "Daikon".

Celerey = either. Evelyn.

I've always wanted to name a girl Salamander.

Also, Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray soda? Delicious.

when i see the word cherimoya i stop-imagine cherries+moya moya that too thick blood flow ready to coagulate visible on echo
then i recall the turkeylike flesh from its photo and description of sweetness of its taste, disturbing
i mean, i don't like the word how it looks
may be i'll become indifferent to it after tasting
i like celery chicken salad though, celery can't be used for naming imo
i wanted to name my future offspring Anand(a), but i remember my mom said she had a blind coworker named that, so i won't, out of superstition

Salamander is a great name for a girl, and Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray is a great thing to put in one's body.

Comity!

You couldn't call an English child Celery, it wouldn't be fair.

But I suppose it would be a girl's name, like Eleri.

I could see Celery as either in England, while in the U.S. I think girl's name. I haven't had Cel-Ray for about thirteen years, but the last time I tried it I thought it was vile.

Girl's name, but I could see a slightly further out possible world where it's a name that used to be for boys, but switched, and is now almost exclusively for girls.

Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray is a great thing to put in one's body

You should stick to the bottled kind, though, since the cans don't have a flared base. Safety first, kids!

There's really no need to name children after any vegetables when nice names like "Tziporah" and "Balkis" are going unused every day, like last year's fashionable socks sitting unfooted at the bottom of the drawer.

I know a Tziporah!

I've had some tsipouro.

the last time I tried it I thought it was vile.

Anti-semite.

35: The local old-skool (genuinely; most of the customers are in their 70s) Jewish(ish) deli sells it in bottles, no worries.

"Cel Ray" is the southern version. As in "Cel Ray! Go tell Jimmy Bob to come in for dinner!"

"Celerie" is a cool name, however. Not as amazing as "Galaxy Craze," but still pretty awesome.

31: That's a weird chant.

40: She's from Amherst? Small world.

OT: I'm headed out of town and changed my blog to protected just so I don't stress about maintaining it while I'm gone, in case anyone shows up wondering if I've quit again. It will be back up next Wednesday. Bye!

Hey Everybody!

So here's a major bleg, it would be awesome if y'all music nerds and connected people could help me.

I play with the frisbee team at my university, and the undergrad frisbee players have always lived in a particular tenement in Hyde Park that is about to be more or less condemned at the end of this year. Student housing will kick everyone out of this incredibly unsupervised apartment building (which was probably breaking who knows how many city and university codes anyway) in the summer, gut the place, and renovate.

So. Some weekend in May, or preferably the first weekend of June, we are looking to set up a massive raucous party at this place, and help start a lot of the demolition early. We are looking in particular for bands that we might be able to coax into playing at such an event. I will probably talk to Man Man when I see them tonight, but can you guys suggest any similarly loud and good bands who would probably be available to play a show for decent money, crash on couches, and generally help wreck our shit up? Each non-local band will probably be a bit of a long shot, so I could use a lot of suggestions.

(note to self, check with Lightning Bolt as well)

PMP, you should ask the WHPK kids.

Huh wha?

Ah, the UofC radio station. Sorry, I was only familiar with WLUW in Chicago.

WHPK. HPK = "Hyde Park and Kenwood". It's a radio station. It's based in Hyde Park and its range extends to Kenwood on a good day.

You should ask them for recommendations.

You ought to have a sober subervisor for the demolition, Po-Po.

Celery: girly. Celerity, now, that could go either way.

sober subervisor

Emerson removes himself from the running

L.!

I just saw a woman named "Ptorsha". The P is silent. I immediately thought of young La Felonia, and how they could start a whole family of mis-heard legalese names.

53: You were at a lapdance bar?

49: Don't worry, shivbunny would be welcome.

48: I dunno, I didn't see any suggestion of great connections among their in-studio band appearances. And I would probably have no problems arranging a couple good Chicago bands through friends of friends. We were just hoping to reach beyond our station, to pull in a name people might recognize, and to turn a final bow into greatness.

Hell, if I wanted to just go to a bunch of strangers who aren't cool internet people, I'd probably just sit outside the Pitchfork offices and give Ryan Schreiber noogies until he agreed to hook me up with their rolodex.

they could start a whole family of mis-heard legalese names

"And these are my cousins, Estoppel and Laches."

Fuck pitchfork. Get in touch with paperrad.

Here.

That is, if you can't get Extreme Animals to play.

58, 59: My visual cortex took deperate measures to defend itself. Now I can only see in black-and-white.

But it was worth reading to see this:
No Doubt + Lincoln Park + New Red Hot Chili peppers = the Extreme animals sound

Now that's quality! (and mis-misspelling!)

54: Close. I had Maury Povich on TV whilst I sorted through a large pile of dusty books. If one neglects to put the remote within reach, then ends up in the middle of said pile of books, well.

Now I'm trying to remember the name of my nephew-by-non-marriage's band. Not that it would help a party in Chicago, as he's in NYC, but still.

@ 43
Well, I'm oddly relieved. recently all the good blogs seem to have been dying on me. (Yes everything is about me me me)
Enjoy the trip!

60: their live sound is pretty much the auditory equivalent of their design aesthetic.

Celery is a dumb name. Salary, however, is a great name for a girl. Empowering, and everybody will call her Sal anyway.

Salary, however, is a great name for a girl. Empowering.

You're thinking too small, OFE. The real money these days isn't in being a wage slave, even a very highly remunerated one. You need to name your daughters "In-the-Money Options", "Equity Carry", and "Compound Interest".

I'd like you to meet my children: Junkbond, Derivative, and Filthy-Lucre.

"Here's my daughter alpha, who's the apple of my eye, yes you are! And my sons, delta and beta. I'm neutral on them."

- "Equity Carry, I don't want to see you bringing that rapscallion junk bond around here again. We are a respectable, investment grade family."

- "Just because he doesn't kiss up to the raters at Standard & Poors doesn't mean he's a bad person. He's kept companies afloat that no one else would recapitalize!"

- "He's nothing but bad news, young lady. All he wants to do is lever up your balance sheet to boost his own lousy equity returns. I lived through the 1980s. I know how highly leveraged transactions can end. No daughter of mine is going to risk insolvency. Your mother would be humiliated."

"Daddy, you're just prejudiced against J.B. because he can't get into the best pension funds where you and your blue chip buddies hang out."

"Listen, sweetheart. You know I wouldn't say this if I didn't love you. I know his type. 'Three hundred basis points over treasuries,' you say to yourself. 'He doesn't even care about my flimsy EBITDA to interest coverage ratio. He isn't just looking for a tiny loan-to-collateral ratio like those other guys. He sees the real me.' Honey, I know how that can make a girl go weak in the knees. I've seen it a thousand times. You're too young to think about things like default and receivership. I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Your mother was in receivership once."

"No!"

"Yes, honey, and it was a high yield debt issuance that did it to her. One minute she was flying high, the next minute she was in a court-supervised restructuring negotiation. She did it in a remote venue, of course, and the court sealed the records so that her family's friends never found out."

66: Wow. Very weird names. Not like mine; Marg, Cap and Deb. My aspiration is that they all become Profs some day.

68,69: Holy crap. Well, at least I love you, Knecht.

Wow. Very weird names.

Y'know, I didn't want them to be one of fifteen or twenty IRAs in their school.

71: Thanks, PMP. I was hoping that I might give at least one needy child the gift of laughter.