{"id":254,"date":"2009-05-17T10:08:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T17:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/2009\/05\/17\/254\/"},"modified":"2011-11-12T11:04:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T18:04:27","slug":"q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/2009\/05\/17\/254\/","title":{"rendered":"Q"},"content":{"rendered":"

Current mood:\u00a0\"\" amused
\nCategory:<\/strong> Life<\/p>\n

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It’s my turn to blog at Seven Wicked Writers today and here is what I wrote:<\/p>\n

As a writer, I collect lines of dialogue, names, places, little snippets like a bower bird. Names particularly intrigue me as I write so many books I am constantly on the lookout for unusual first names. I don\u2019t go for the de rigeur Duncans, Connors, Logans, Chances, Chases etc that many romance authors opt for.
\nI guess I have been collecting names for decades because when I was writing \u201cBlack Point Surrendered\u201d my May 1 release with DJ Manly, I remembered back in school a kid called Michael Hunt, who was called Mike naturally enough. Unfortunately his parents hadn\u2019t thought his name through too well.<\/p>\n

He was called Mike Cunt from the age of 9 and often went home in tears. I reached back into\u00a0the future and used that name in my book.<\/p>\n

Like I said, I beg, borrow and steal names. When I was covering the sport of boxing, I met an incredibly sexy\u00a0boxer from New Zealand, a dynamic,\u00a0powerful Maori named Jimmy Thunder. I asked him if I could use his name for a book character. He was thrilled.
\nI am not sure what he would have to say about the fact that the fictional Jimmy Thunder is a retired gay for pay porn star who is happily married to\u00a0his husband Tem and that they just happen to be vampires who live in Waikiki.<\/p>\n

I love names and the more unusual the better. When I was a kid\u00a0I went to school with a Fredrick Frogmortten. He once asked me if I thought his parents hated him. I said, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

He became known as Freddo Frog after an Australian chocolare of the same name. Poor Fredrick. I wish I\u2019d been kinder to him but by now he\u2019s surely changed his name. And I remind myself I didn\u2019t give him the name in the first place. Freddo, I mean Fredrick hung out with the equally name-challenged Lucy Farkas.<\/p>\n

Of course, kids would screech, \u201cLucy, Fuck us!\u201d<\/p>\n

Which leads me to my point.
\nWhat is up with people calling their kids weird-assed names? A Swedish family is fighting the court system this week to call their kid Q.
\nQ! My neighbor\u2019s dog is named Q. It\u2019s a dumb name for a child but not cruel. No, that label I\u2019ll happily slap on the ignorant twats in New Jersey who\u2019ve\u00a0named their kid Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n

I met a kid called Balthazar Starblitz when\u00a0I was\u00a0living in London many years ago. His brothers\u2019 names were Hugo Spinx\u00a0and Fergus Pollen and their sistes were Petunia Petal and Spirit Wild. All fucked up, the bunch of\u00a0\u2019em.<\/p>\n

My father is a weirdo too, naming us after family members he confesses to dislike.<\/p>\n

Why do parents pick crappy names?<\/p>\n

David Bowie, my childhood icon called his kid Zowie. Understandably Zowie changed it.<\/p>\n

I am betting Apple Martin when she grows up tells her parents Chris and Gwyneth to lay off the Limoncello when they\u2019re\u00a0dreaming up more sexy names.<\/p>\n

How about you? What is your idea of a sexy name? And a scary one?
\nAloha oe,
\nAJ<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nCurrently\u00a0listening:
\nWillie K Live at Hapas<\/span><\/strong><\/a>
\nBy\u00a0Willie K.
\nRelease date:\u00a02003-06-03<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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