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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

My handle is the name of my (other) website, staggernation.com. I think its origin had something vaguely to do with "Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation" and my realizing that I was not a part of that nation. But really, I just thought it sounded interesting.