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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.

Many years ago, I worked as an a-dash at Microsoft, where previous employees having my name had taken the easy aliases, so MS issued me the first three letters of my first and last name -- that was the day I became BRYSMI. If you find a username on the internet that matches, it is probably me.

My second favorite nom de plum, LesChaps, is taken from one of my "next band names", a solo act performing as "Les Chaps und das Lonely Sombreros" (along with my future Star Trek tribute band, "Ensign Expendable and the Red Shirts", and my daughter's family act, "Troll Poster and thee ALL CAPS").

All of those are side projects to Klownhole, of course. While we have performed together in other bands and incarnations going back to the '80s, Klownhole has been the repository of our Saturday night recordings since the last few years of the 20th century.