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An interesting watch about “black-sounding” naming conventions:

Thank you to Audible for supporting PBS Digital Studios. You can try Audible for 30 days at https://www.audible.com/sayitloud or text sayitloud to 500500! What's in a name? Sometimes it's just our imagination, and other times it's an attempt at a political statement.

…which inevitably took me back to this piece of Key and Peele gold:

This year's East/West Collegiate Bowl is full of flamboyant personalities.

…and then on to Name of the Year, a selection of real names pitted against each other for the annual title.

Some personal favourites (real and fake):

  • D’Squarius Green, Jr.

  • Jackmerius Tacktheritrix

  • D’Isiah T. Billings-Clyde

  • Travis Couture-Lovelady

  • Covadonga del Busto Naval

  • Leoz Maxwell Jilliumz

  • L’Carpetron Dookmarriot

  • J’Dinkelage Morgoone

  • La Royce Lobster-Gaynes

  • Swirvithan L. Gooding-Splatt

  • Quindarious Gooch

  • Mahogany Loggins

  • Bucky Worboys

  • Shakiraquan T.G.I.F. Carter

  • Sequester Grundelplith M.D.

  • Crystal Patriarche

  • T.J. A.J. R.J. Backslashinsforth V

  • Legume Duprix

  • Vagonius Thicket-Suede

  • Ladennifer Jadaniston

  • Logjammer D’Baggagecling

Recommended TV/films list so far

Time to clean up the sidebar. Here is my running list of best film/TV, IMHO, for safe keeping. 

  • 13 Assassins
  • 1408
  • 21 Jump Street
  • 22 Jump Street
  • 28 Days Later
  • 300
  • 50/50
  • 9 Songs
  • American Crime Story (TV Series)
  • American History X
  • American Movie (Documentary)
  • American Psycho
  • Annabelle
  • Anomalisa
  • Antichrist
  • Armadillo
  • Audition
  • Awakenings (Documentary)
  • Bad Neighbors
  • Bill Cunningham (Documentary)
  • Black Swan
  • Boy
  • Bronson
  • Bully
  • Bus 174 (Documentary)
  • Captain Phillips
  • Chico and Rita
  • Chopper
  • Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
  • Cold Fish
  • Coraline
  • Cube
  • Dark Shadows
  • Dear Zachary - A Letter To A Son About His Father (Documentary)
  • Django Unchained
  • Don Jon
  • Donnie Darko
  • Dorothy Mills
  • Dredd
  • Edge of Tomorrow
  • Elephant
  • End of Watch
  • Enter The Void
  • Evil Dead (2013)
  • Fantastic Mr Fox
  • Fish Tank
  • Fubar
  • Generation Kill (TV Series)
  • Get Him To The Greek
  • Godzilla (2014)
  • Hell and Back Again (Documentary)
  • Her
  • Ichi The Killer
  • Ils
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • Inside
  • Inside Out
  • Interstellar
  • It Follows
  • Jarhead
  • Juno
  • Kick-Ass
  • Kill List
  • Killer Joe
  • Killing Them Softly
  • Last Man Standing (TV Series)
  • Looper
  • Love and Mercy
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Making a Murderer (Documentary)
  • Man On Wire (Documentary)
  • Mary and Max
  • Melancholia
  • Miss Bala
  • Moon
  • Narco Cultura (Documentary)
  • Neds
  • Never Let Me Go
  • Note By Note
  • Once Were Warriors
  • Out Of The Blue
  • Pacific Rim
  • Pandorum
  • Perfume
  • Persepolis
  • Porco Rosso
  • Rango
  • Red Dragon
  • Restrepo (Documentary)
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
  • Se7en
  • Seven Psychopaths
  • Shaun The Sheep
  • Shortbus
  • Sicario
  • Side Effects
  • Silver Linings Playbook
  • Snowtown
  • Sound City
  • Stranger Things (TV Series)
  • Survive Style 5+
  • Take Shelter
  • Taken 2
  • Tears of the Sun
  • Ted
  • The Act of Killing (Documentary)
  • The Babadook
  • The Boy
  • The Bridge (Documentary)
  • The Bridge (TV Series)
  • The Cabin In The Woods
  • The Cell
  • The Conjuring
  • The Crazies
  • The Dark Horse
  • The Fall (TV Series)
  • The Grey
  • The Guest
  • The Hateful Eight
  • The Hurt Locker
  • The Jinx (Documentary)
  • The Killer Inside Me
  • The Machinist
  • The Mist
  • The One I Love
  • The Possession
  • The Prestige
  • The Raid Redemption
  • The Resolution
  • The Room
  • The Silence Of The Lambs
  • The Skin I Live In
  • The Social Network
  • The Way Way Back
  • The Witch (2016)
  • There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane (Documentary)
  • This Is The End
  • Under the Skin
  • Unfriended
  • V/H/S
  • V/H/S 2
  • Valhalla Rising
  • Waking Life
  • West of Memphis (Documentary)
  • Wet Hot American Summer
  • Wet Hot American Summer (TV Series)
  • What We Do in the Shadows
  • Whiplash
  • You're Gonna Miss Me (Documentary)
  • Young Adult
  • Zero Dark Thirty
  • Zodiac
  • Zombieland