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Name: Gene Zipperlen
Joined: November 20, 2004
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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.
When I began doctoral studies in the humanities, I considered research in "outsider music." Irwin Chusid's Songs in the Key of Z is the name of a book and two records about the phenomenon. The name coincided nicely with my surname.
When I began doctoral studies in the humanities, I considered research in "outsider music." Irwin Chusid's Songs in the Key of Z is the name of a book and two records about the phenomenon. The name coincided nicely with my surname.