My grandparents (both sets) ended up living there in the last decades of their lives. Lots of CA ties.

You could just add your real name to your sig.

I wish I could change my real name. Going through life as Warren Stupidity is a pain in the ass. What were my stupid parents thinking?

I was named Eva after a relative. Interesting woman. I remember her well even though I didn't see her after I was 10.

http://collections.lacma.org/node/217155

beautiful.

I was named for her.

She was beautiful when she was in her fifties and early sixties too.

Hello, Eva!

It's nice to meet you.

You never know what some looney might do if he/she decides to stalk you online.

I know just sharing a 1st name is pretty safe...but I prefer to err on the side of caution.

and it's not like the loons at some of the conservative-obsessed-with-DU sites don't know my real name and where I live. Don't know how they found out, but oh well.

I use my real name here and on Wikipedia and no one's ever hunted me down to key my car.

OK, that's because I don't own a car, but I've never had any other kind of trouble, either.

If he catches you, you're through.

I think there is about 4 different Cali ....but you're the only Cali with no additional additives.
I had to apologize to one cali because I thought it was the other cali

But it wasn't you Eva

Sometimes I think I have fought with cali and other times, I am not so sure. Anyway, sorry if I was uncivil ever, Eva. I am making an effort to be less so on DU.

...from California or the owner of a Calico Cat. (guessing about the latter )

Marie is my middle name, also, and I've always liked it.

Anyway, Hi Eva Marie! Very pleased to meet you! My name is Rebecca Marie.

odd, I've only knows a couple of firstname Maries in my life.

IIRC, Skinner has granted at least 3 'change your name without consequence' periods...

OK with you?

try to get enough DUers who want to change and ask Skinner (nicely) for another name-change amnesty

Just for the record, my name is Joe.

Peace to you Eva,

the name my mother said was too pretty to nickname so she named me Vicki. Think she was on some heavy duty drugs during my birth.

Namaste...

And you even spell it right! When I was 5 I asked my mother if I could change my name to Judy. No idea why, I just decided one day I should be a Judy. Glad she said no.

In case you didn't know, I enjoy all your posts whether I agree with them of not.

Only it was spelled "Yva".

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Squinch was a word that struck me as funny on the website I read before I first came to DU, so I tossed it in when I signed up. Who knew it would become my name for years to come?

They go well together.

Does it have anything to do with the actress Eva Marie Saint?

Named after my cousin- double cousin really, as in my family cousins married cousins for several generations.
She was an artist. Self-portrait here:

http://kuenste-im-exil.de/KIE/Content/EN/Persons/herrmann-eva-en.html

I know you more as "cali" here on DU. That name symbolizes the general nature of your posts.

"Eva Marie" is a very nice name. Do you happen to know which of your parents came up with it?

to tell cali from Kali. I know, I'm a slow learner.

Eva Herrmann and Marie is a family name, along with Sophie and Fannie. At least I wasn't named Fanny.

Eva Herrman was part of the German and British Ex-pat community in Sanary-sur-Mer and then in SoCal. She was very close to Mann, Huxley, Auden, Isherwood, Bedford and others. She was an artist in her own right and a well known caricaturist of her time. She did a wonderful one of Huxley, but I don't think it's in the book she published. It can be found on line. Here's a self-portrait she did:


http://kuenste-im-exil.de/KIE/Content/EN/Persons/herrmann-eva-en.html

Here's her book from the Whitney Museum collection:

https://archive.org/details/onpacari00herr

Eva was American as her father was American. He was a painter who was instrumental in the German New Secessionist Movement. His name was Frank Simon Herrmann, born in NY in 1866. He was life long close friends with Alfred Steiglitz who did this portrait of Eva. Oddly enough, years later, a photographer friend of mine did a similar portrait of me, having never seen or known of the Stieglitz portrait.

http://collections.lacma.org/node/217155

I remember Eva very well though I didn't see her again after I was 10. She lived on Mandeville Canyon Rd. I remember playing on the lawn as the adults talked and talked and talked, long into the evening.

was six, and she and I were looking through my book on relatives who worked on the canals & railroads, she said that there were "way too many Patricks." It is used in every generation. I explained that, as shanty Irish -- on the Old Sod, then here as immigrants -- the family was poor, and could afford very few names. That worked for about one year.

Thank you for taking the time to provide that part of your family history relating to your name. Very interesting! I think names should have meaning. Your's, of course, suely does.

I have a spear head that is known as an "Eva." It is about 6,000 years old. The type is more common in the mid-Atlantic states, and very rarely found north of Long Island. Mine came from a field near the Susquehanna River in Chenango County in NYS. Interestingly, for all of its travel, it remains in mint condition.

I couldn't help assigning them in my mind to various DU names.

I love this one- not sure why:

http://www.unz.org/Pub/Bookman-1932may-00184

Keep posting, whatever name you use.

You could say you're Cali in your sig line, so your friends still know who you are.

For some reason, people didn't care for my new name.

...in North by Northwest.



TYY

I think we would all be better off in the long term if we would forget our birthdays and change our names every once in a while.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The night is always young. It's never too late.[/center][/font][hr]

Not the other pronunciation which, according to the Urban Dictionary, has quite another meaning.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

I'm Kathryn Marie.

Have done for a long time. I love it like you love a person.

I'm from California too and when i see your name i smile and think of home. And the songs 'going back to Cali' and ' It never rains in Southern California'.
I'm Bianca. I never meet Bianca's outside of California.

Rebecca Marie, to be exact.

But...you know the rest.

where every morning we said this:

The Salutation of the Dawn
Every morning, before classes start, the entire student body and faculty gather on the lawn. While facing the American Flag and overlooking the city of Los Angeles and Catalina Island, the School community literally raises its arms toward the sun and recites "The Salutation of the Dawn," which is taken from the Sanskrit. While reciting this ancient poem, all members of the community think of ways to make the day as fulfilling as it can be. The following words are spoken:

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn:

Look to this Day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the verities
And realities of your existence:

The glory of action,
The bliss of growth,
The splendor of beauty.

For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision.

But today, well lived, makes
Every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore, to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn.

And that was in the early sixties.
C'mon, how CA is that?

Heck, my grandfather even worked in the movie biz.

Gawd, it's been 12 years or so! My name is Mike C.

"I'm the Batman, but you can call me Bob."

--Bob Schneider

That's funny. Reminds me of ducks.

Others don't find you as fab-ulously fascinating as you seem to find them.

to hunt down someone's activity on another site and/or keep the page bookmarked for two years.

Just chase them from thread to thread all night demanding they reply to your post in another thread and tell them you're timing them.

To whom?

He holds a very old grudge about something I have no memory of from when I first joined DU. I've suggested he spare himself the agony of my presence by putting me on ignore, but he has chosen not to. His choice, but I most certainly do not follow him around. I don't think I've been the first to respond to more than two of his posts in the past year. I can't say the same about his responding to mine.

My introduction to you a year and a half or so ago was logging on one night, replying or posting to something else, and you jumping in to demand I reply to you in another thread where you replied to me earlier in the day. When I said "I just logged on, what's your problem, are you alright?" basically....you postulated I had already been on for forty minutes to an hour, I was ducking you, I was a coward, and of course, like everyone you disagree with, a misogynist demanding I reply. It was weird and creepy. It was at that moment I decided "This person Bain's Bane is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too fucking into this place."

I'm sure you'll claim you don't remember this. Don't know whether to believe you or not. I suppose you either revel in this crap, or your truly do so much of it you don't recall.

Of course, it became clear rather quickly that you were way too fucking into this place. What with that sock and so forth....

And yeah....the sock should be mentioned, and at every turn. I disagree with the admins decision to not only allow you a pass, but to then permit you to sit on MIRT after so blatantly violating the rules. I'm sure you have a big smirk on your face over that.

Anyway that's the "grudge". I think you're kind of a loon, and I don't think you're here to discuss issues, but rather look for drama and bemoan how awful DU is. I have no idea what you do on other sites, but I'm not surprised if it's to bash this place 24/7.

I expect a jury hide for this, by the way.

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I have no memory of it because it seems you are not as fixed in my mind as I clearly am in yours. You previously mentioned that my early actions to you were the worst treatment you had ever received. I hope you realize what a charmed life you've led. It must be amazing for that to be the single worst thing anyone has ever had said to them.

Truly, I don't have even what comes close to the level of interest in you to rise to stalking. I seriously doubt two posts to a person constitutes stalking under any definition. I again invite you to put me on ignore. Clearly seeing someone as horrendous as myself online has caused lasting trauma in you, trauma you can avoid re-triggering by using the ignore feature. I think two years of hostility more than makes up that one post you consider so awful.

It wasn't even close to the worst treatment I've gotten in real life, online, and maybe only tied for worst here. Sorry to disappoint. But it was totally unprovoked. And that's simply why I dismiss you as a legitimate commentator on DU. I'm also sorry if the disrespect directed at me is the one I took to heart. I mean, who does that? What an awful person I be. If only I could be as magnanimous as you.

Just look at this sub thread. A totally nothing comment by Warren, turned into one of your usual "me me me it's all about me" fests. Thankfully, this whole thread is bullshit meta anyway....so kvetch away.

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to be subject to my abuse of pointing out that people love to do what that for which they stand in such aghast of others. I understand people take badly to having that sort of thing pointed out. The righteous should be able to insult, attack, hunt down and gossip about the inferior, and never have anyone point out they do so, much less that they aren't entirely just. (To clarify, I am not accusing the other poster of all of these behaviors). Kind of like censoring people to protect free speech. You see, a simple comment from Warren led to a simple comment from me, but naturally I am responsible for not only what I said, but forcing you and he to go into great detail about past events. You have no control over your actions. My feminist powers compel men to act as I command.

If you had followed my discussion with Warren, you would see that it is in fact not about me. You chose to make it such by bringing up your grudge you insisted constituted stalking, which based on your description clearly does not qualify.

I have a pretty good memory, but I congratulate you for far exceeding mine. Of course, when I first joined I didn't do well with remembering who was who, so that likely plays into it. If you have the link, I'd like to see it because if I truly was so rude, I don't want to repeat the behavior.

Just like . . . Only I don't. I will search for links upon request, if I have time.

How about the recent shit storm?

I haven't forgotten how the internet works. I just find it ironic that you mention stalkarrazi and claim disinterest and then try to exclude the internet from such stalking. I can't imagine any other way someone might stalk someone they only know online.

The recent theme of DU has been double standards. I suppose this is no different, the difference being the other party never did said behavior, that I know of anyway.

And I don't really care about the details. All I'll say is that I've seen plenty of noxious stuff, much of it worse, said by people right on this very site, some of it this weekend. The point holds about the internet and stalkerattazi. Pot, kettle, black.

However people were talking, someone had to have hunt them down, which required a Google search. That requires interest. I don't think it ever occurred to me to Google anyone on DU outside of newbies while I was on MIRT. I have read some stuff about where a couple of people I don't care for congregate, but I can't be bothered to care enough to snoop. Obviously that wasn't the case with you or whoever hunting down the duckies site. Whatever you think of its content doesn't change that fact. You obviously were interested enough to track people down off this site.

As for the shit show, I can't help but connect you to it. Not only did you participate, but I know for a fact I first heard about that place when you sent me the link. I was so unconcerned, I never mentioned it to the parties supposedly involved. I read a bit and got bored. I didn't see any reason to read much further. Of course, I wasn't hunting for ammunition to use against online enemies.

I didn't imagine your stalkerazzi comment applied to that group. I simply found the irony of it funny. I wouldn't know if you actually have stalkers. I just know the woman at the heart of that shit show isn't among them because she has never expressed any interest about you or your private life to me, either online or in person, despite your having passed around information on her off-site activity. You say you were mentioned over there. Okay. I'd say you have more that gotten her back for it. I dare say if anyone else had been subjected to that kind of treatment, there would be dozens of threads on it in a certain protected group. I can't even count the number of times people have talked crap about me, and if I held onto it all I've had nothing else to think about. I prefer not to do so.

Oh, another point about interest. It's pretty obvious a number of people, yourself included, read HOF quite religiously. I can't even remember the last time I looked at the men's group. And whoever it is who is so obsessed with me to alert on threads about soccer games and other ridiculous stuff (I am not accusing you), I can say with certainty I don't monitor a single person on this site like they do me.

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I said hunting down people's off-site activity necessitates interest. Everything on the internet is public, including whatever information exists about you. The difference is said person has not hunted down or disseminated such information, in contrast to yourself. The justification does not negate the interest necessary to search Google and report on off-site activity by other DUers. In fact, it only confirms my point.

You're right there is no pot, kettle, since their is only one pot at issue here. Only their off-site activity was hunted down, not your own.

I don't live for drama. I'm just not going to pass by an obvious double-standard when I see one. As much as you may think yourself entitled to do what others may not, I feel compelled to point out irony. I am beyond sick of people justifying their actions by insisting the people they are acting toward deserve the treatment, whether that includes censoring people they imagine sent an alert, or censoring speech they dislike while claiming they are protecting freedom of speech, waging sinults, or commenting about being stalked while engaging in hunting and reporting of others' off-site activity. Everyone can justify their behavior. That doesn't mean that they haven't engaged in it. You of course are free to do what you like, as I am free to comment.

As for the drama. I pointed out the irony or your stalkerrazi comment and mentioned ducks. You chose to revisit the whole thing in detail, including the ridiculous duck image that you and others like to use against me, despite the fact I could have had no involvement in the site.

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which requires interest. That was my point.

And I still don't understand why talking about people off-site is so much worse than talking about them on DU. Why are some people entitled to talk shit about others on-site, but others are deemed pariahs for doing so off-site? Seems a strange standard to me. The only thing I can figure is that we are back to people who "deserve it" (meaning are inferior) and people who don't (meaning they think themselves superior).

If they hadn't Googled? How would they even know such a site existed? Googling is how that happens.

You've said plenty of shit about people, myself included, right here. You know I have called you on it. Many of the people who complained most in that shit show thread have said some really bad stuff about others. The outrage strikes me as selective, as it usually is around here. That was my point about pariah's and some people thinking themselves better than others. I don't know how else one can justify a double standard. It seems you aren't even aware that you are engaging in one. You justify it by talking about how horrendous the other parties' behavior was. That is the point. You think it justified because they deserve it, whereas see no problem in smack talk about those same people. It is so reminiscent of this weekend's discussion that went so far as to advocate banning people they decided were responsible for the Rude Pundit alert (even thought they were totally wrong about who that was), with no awareness of the incredibly irony.

but I think we've been through enough of this here. I would refer you to PMs where I confront you on what you've said about me in the forums. It's not like I've been shy about expressing myself on the occasions it really pissed me off.

As for the original shit, what I know is you are the one who sent the link to me about a year ago, and it then became the subject of a huge call out thread a couple of months ago. That is what I know.

As for her board being discussed in Meta, I've seen people discuss sites where they've got accounts, but I haven't searched for them. Why? Because I don't care. I'm not interested. Dislike of someone isn't going to motivate me to hunt them down. Seeing something mentioned doesn't put it in your browser unless you look for it or someone gives you the link. Someone had to Google at some point. Perhaps after that it was simply a matter of spreading it all around the site, which likewise requires interest.

It's okay if you don't mention my name but instead quote something I said and insist I am dishonest and unfit to be on MIRT? Bullshit. Add to that all the shaming of my and other women's sexuality by referring to us as prudes because we raise concerns about objectification, rape porn and human trafficking. And endless gossip threads in a certain save haven where women are called out by name. Give me a break. That must fall under deserves it, over having the audacity to disagree with you. If only I spent my days using vulgarities to refer to women, perhaps I could then earn the requisite level of respect not to be subject to ridicule.

Rob here. Though we do not always agree, I enjoy your posts and often find them informative. And Eva is a beautiful name, ma'am. Look forward to seeing you around our virtual neighborhood.

Trav

I am Robert, I was named after my father. My Hebrew name is Ari Ben Ezra (v, Hanna). My nickname (which I had carried since 1974) is Radar.
Honored to meet you.

...without hurting my 92 yr old mother's feelings, I would.

Your name is lyrical and lovely.

My name is Martha, and I've never liked it - just feels stodgy and dull. Unlike Eva Maire Saint, I have never found any elegant, sophisticated or glamorous associations with the name. Just the opposite. Quite often, when a book or movie needs a cranky old lady character, she is "Aunt Martha."

The worst image I ever saw was the back cover of a medical journal. It featured a very sour-faced, very elderly woman sitting atop a 4 legged wooden stool. It was an ad for the stool softener Colace, and the text for the ad was, "Give Aunt Martha Colace in the PM, for a BM in the AM.". Couldn't they have had her be Aunt Bertha?

I would have loved to be Kathleen/Cathleen. I have met a few cyber friends IRL, and they all call me Cat, which is the closest I will get. I'll take it.

...you have a Beatles song. That's nothing to sneeze at.

As Eva has been my name for the past 6 decades, that will be just dandy.

all I had to do was go to your Wikipedia page, where I found your date of birth, the city you currently live in, and your husband's name. (The page even revealed that you have "struggled with under-age alcohol abuse.&quot

Imagine what a stalker could do with all that personal info!!!

(I hope it's obvious that I'm kidding.)

Dang, you're a great actress!

Nice to meet'cha.

and also that your user name might have something to do with the goddess Kali. Shows what I know

Greetings from Norway, Carl here. Nice to meet you.

but longtime Vermonter.

I've met Idahioers, New Yorkers, Indiana-ers (?), Chicagoans, Minnesotans (sorry about that Bachmann thing, BTW), a bunch of Californians and even a few Utahians/ers... whatever

But never a Vermonter IRL.

Pleasure to make your acquaintance

It's as beautiful a place as any I've been too. And I live in what's called the Northeast Kingdom.

<snip>

The Northeast Kingdom has been listed in the North American and international editions of "1,000 Places to See Before You Die", the New York Times best-selling book by Patricia Schultz. In 2006, the National Geographic Society named the Northeast Kingdom as the most desirable place to visit in the country and the ninth most desirable place to visit in the world.[5]

<snip>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Kingdom

https://www.google.com/search?q=discordant&hl=en&gl=us&authuser=0&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=grCpU6a7BafJsQSenILQCg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1173&bih=516#authuser=0&gl=us&hl=en&q=northeast+kingdom+vermont&tbm=isch

This is the town I live in:

I'm from not too far from here

From the county of Rogaland.

so beautiful.

And in the spirit of William Pitt's reply, pleased to meet you, Eva!



I understand how the changing norms may make you want to change your user name, but for the record, it is a "recognized" one by many of us at this point, which is kind of a good thing, right?

get confused.