PLEASE HELP US
As you will notice as you read along, scattered throughout this post are photos of our new friend, a life-size posable plastic skeleton.
I cannot lie about why I spent the money to buy him. IT’S ALL KARI’S FAULT. She showed us her skeleton friend, Roger, and I needed to have one of my very own to keep me company.
In other words I loved her idea, so I copied it.
However this fellow desperately needs a name and so far we’ve come to a dead end. [pun intended]
You see, and I’m sure you’ll understand that, when an English Lit major & a history buff attempt to name inanimate objects, things go sideways.
Oh sure, THERE ARE MEANINGFUL IDEAS APLENTY with sound theoretical underpinnings, but to actually pull the trigger on the naming, well– that has yet to happen. [again pun intended]
Below I’ve listed the possibilities we’re pondering. Do you, my gentle readers and Halloween aficionados, like any of these names? OR do you have a better one to suggest?
Just like the air moving through the bones of this skeleton, we are open to ideas.
10 POSSIBLE NAMES FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
WILD BILL [Hickok], as a tribute to he who was shot holding black aces and eights, aka the Dead Man’s Hand, which leads to the next name on the list…
CHARLIE, as in the man who dealt the Dead Man’s Hand, a fellow named Charlie Henry Rich whose grave I featured in a post years ago
McCOY, as in the character from StarTrek whose nickname was “Bones” but you probably know that
CAPTAIN JACK, either [Sparrow], Johnny Depp of movie fame, or [Harkness], Jon Barrrowman of Dr. Who fame, choose your franchise
SHELLEY, because on Murdoch Mysteries Dr. Emily Grace named the morgue skeleton this name for reasons that I conjecture might be related to the next name on the list…
PERCY, as in Percy Bysshe Shelley who wrote the poem “Ozymandias” giving us the timeless message: “And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains.”
YORICK, because when Willy Shakes writes a play like Hamlet, there has to be an applicable quote: “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy…”
EARL OF GRANTHAM, because this skeleton does have an aristocratic bearing like Robert Crawley and is without funds
THE PREACHER, as in Ecclesiastes, a chapter in the Bible, & the famous spooky picture by Charles Allen Gilbert titled “All is Vanity” that is a reference to this Biblical quote: “Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.“
AND FINALLY THREE READER COMMENTS…
About sharing photos of the mundane:
“Yep. I agree — reality is infinitely more interesting than the scrubbed and filtered, highly tweaked social media images…. Fantasy – just fantasy.”
~ Victoria
“… I’m totally obsessed with the idea of the Muse of The Mundane…. And suddenly I saw her – she’s actually two-sided like a coin. Her other side is the Muse of The Magical. Makes sense doesn’t it? Magic is always hidden in the mundane, we just don’t often use our eyes to see it.”
“My daughter and I had this discussion recently about photos…. The photos that get the most, often unexpected positive responses are the ones that have an ‘it’ quality. Goosebumps…a new perspective… and not perfection.”
THE SPECTACLED BEAN 