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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 favourite things: singing, spelling like a Canadian, my little boy who acts out Joseph the Amazing Technicolour Dream Coat when he watches the DVD, a sketchbook and a set of nice pencils, coffee, cooking, video games, cats, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, David Eddings, Terry Pratchett, the great humanist movement, good movies...

...and I like hats. If I was rich I'd have a closet full of them, and still only have 3 pairs of shoes. I'd hang out at a hat salon and drink coffee with milliners.