Kent Harrington popped in a note about the recent nod to our pal (and publisher) Dennis McMillan: “Loved the shirt post and the shirt. It reminded me how we used to use aliases for fun. I was always Lt. Raj Gupta Light Brigade etc. Usually, or a variant of that. I think I was the one that started calling him the Doctor which I think he enjoyed.”
As I mentioned, I’ve been digging in email archives rounding up stuff to move over to a new DMac file. One email I found from early 2009 — unconnected with Kent — features a guy using “The Doctor” to refer to Dennis.
You could do it scientifically, I guess, find guys with communiques from DMac and get precise stats on use of the aliases. Also, I need to check my snail mail files, somewhere around here, for others. I know that when Dennis and I attended the Left Coast Crime convention in Portland in March 2002 he was going by D. B. Bug, Esq. — Daddy Blue Bug.
In 2007 I find Denny Ray McSteinheimer-Schmidt — and D. von Stahanlanderheim.
In 2008 add in D.R. Nyurlenhopoper, Hep Hop-Hed Stern Assoc. — and D-Ray McNonners, Jr. — and Deeny Ray Munknunkler, Jr.
In 2009 Von Nylander, S.D. — and Von Nylander, From the Borox Open Pit Mind — and Von Nylander, the Elder of Days. Plus D.R. McSkunkhed, Jr. — and Denis McMee-yhuns, ex-offico de antigua casa de Manuel Ramirez, constructor de guitarras y bandurrias, S. A.
The pic at top shows me and D-Ray — Dennis Ray — McMillan mid-March 2009 on a side trip during the Tucson Book Fair.
