my name is charley hardman
just visited a blog trying to find out if the owner — who gave his first name everywhere — was who i thought it was, but finding the last name was a pain in the ass. finding my meatspace name’s not so hard here if you poke around for 5 minutes (it’s on every “serious” article, here and here), but why should somebody need to do that if the name’s the only thing he gives a shit about? in the interest of user-friendliness, my prime directive, i’m adding it to the “about me” profile thing.
please continue to call me salty or whatever. or you can call me dr. paul and send me some protection money, because <SuperHugeTypeface>the hope of the republic is in my hands, children o’ the state!</SuperHugeTypeface>
December 26th, 2007 at 01:16
What do you think about completely anonymous blogs? What about pseudonyms?
You had a pseudonym at LRC for a time, right? As a woman, no less.
December 26th, 2007 at 01:44
completely anonymous blogs? What about pseudonyms?
i not only don’t see anything wrong with it, i think it’s a damned necessity these days for anyone with an even mildly conventional career and a passion for liberty. that doesn’t describe me; hence, i’m not anonymous.
You had a pseudonym at LRC for a time, right? As a woman, no less.
a hot woman. wouldn’t do that again, except to fuck with LRC on a grand scale. since lew would have his guard up now, it’d be much more difficult; would have to change my writing style radically and compose a much better fake background, possibly including phone calls. given my relationship with lew at the time, it was a mixed bag, and i always felt bad about it — especially when a longtime writer there asked me to review one of his books and i couldn’t feasibly do it under the pseudonym (too new, and no reason for “her” to have been asked).
when i told lew the truth it was a weaselly low for me — probably a good indicator that i shouldn’t have done it, despite the rich history of pseudonyms and general acceptance. might never have told him were it not for external intervention (long story).
you know the easy way to write for LRC now, i’m sure. look at the stupendous hacks flowing through like freight trains delivering useful-idjit stew.