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.
Real Folk Blues is my blog and creative outlet. Yep I know, just what the internet needs. I said to myself one day, you know what the web needs more of James? Blogs! There just aren't enough blogs out there. The internet(s) needs at least one more.
How I got my nickname is a huge story involving stolen diamonds, explosions, a car chase through the streets of Rome, and three elephants all named Bongo who need to get across the country in an elaborate plan to save a circus and a dying hospital patient known as "cancer boy".
Well it might if Hollywood made a movie about it, but the real story is perhaps less interesting.
I really liked the series Cowboy Bebop back in the day, which featured amazing music by The Seatbelts, which had a song that ended every episode titled The Real Folk Blues. Needless to say, I decided to purchase realfolkblues.com and obviously rfb stands for "realfolkbluesjames".
I was one of those lurkers of metafilter going back to about August 2001 or so. I'm not sure what took me so long to sign up, but one day I decided that I really should pay up my fair share for enjoying the site. Well.... that and membership was finally opened up after a long dry spell of being closed and I thought I'd better jump in before it closed again one day.
My first computer when I was a little kid was a coco2. Why do I include that in my profile information? Really, I don't know, except to say that we have come a long way since then.
