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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.

Long time ago, my wife and I were having fun in the desert in Arizona, or near enough. We decided to start a church. Church of the Stone Pharisees, we called it. Later, we put up a sign in front of our house advertising the church. Got into the local religious notices section of the paper. later still, a landlady asked us if we were some kind of a sex cult. Seems like a good definition of marriage to me. Many years later, the church is singular, but still important to me. The Stone Pharisee stands along side the Pink Monkey Farmer and my more normal self as an ally, friend, and guru.