Dantam Do

Name: Dantam Do

Who he/she is: Loudoun County (Virginia) National Scholar Award winner circa 2003, possible orienteer in Indiana

How I found him/her: David Brooks’ On Paradise Drive

June 30, 2008. Tags: , , , . Uncategorized. Leave a comment.

Stanley August Miesegaes

Name: Stanley August Miesegaes (pronounced “MESS-e-guess”)

Who he is: Dutch millionaire and patron of 1970s prog rockers Supertramp

How I found him: wikiing “Goodbye Stranger”

June 30, 2008. Tags: , , , , . Uncategorized. Leave a comment.

Arpad Busson

Name: Arpad “Arki” Busson.

Who he is: French/Swiss financier and socialite, now engaged to Uma Thurman, who also has a fantastic name. Their children’s last names could be Thurman-Busson. A++

How I found him/her: New York Daily News story.

Speaking of Uma Thurman, based on the “Uma-Oprah” Oscars routine, I’m convinced David Letterman shares my name obsession.

June 27, 2008. Tags: , , , , , , , , , . Uncategorized. Leave a comment.

Dickie Scruggs

Name: Dickie Scruggs

Who he is: Wall Street plaintiffs’ attorney just sentenced to 5 years for in prison trying to bribe a judge

How I found him: Wall Street Journal story

Bonus names for this post: Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs, 70s rocker Boz Skaggs

June 27, 2008. Tags: , , , , , , , , . Uncategorized. Leave a comment.

Savannah Guthrie

Name: Savannah Guthrie

Who she is: journalist/attorney, NBC News Correspondent

How I found her: trolling Google Trends

June 27, 2008. Tags: , , , , , , , , . Uncategorized. Leave a comment.

Tanner Scheppers

Name: Tanner Scheppers

Who he is: starting pitcher, University of Georgia Bulldogs, recently drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates

How I found him: watching ESPN

June 27, 2008. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , . Uncategorized. Leave a comment.

Adelia Honeywood Harrison

Name: Adelia Honeywood Harrison

Who she is: television and radio producer, works for The Innocence Project

How I found her: she emailed a distrib list I’m on.

June 25, 2008. Tags: , , . Uncategorized. Leave a comment.

Keunwoo Jefferson

Name: Keunwoo Jefferson

Who he is: sadly, probably no one.

How I found him: a spam email I received came from this person.

June 23, 2008. Uncategorized. Leave a comment.

Tucker Bounds

Name: Tucker Bounds

Who he is: spokesman, John McCain for President

How I found him: submitted by Lisa L.

June 19, 2008. Tags: , , , , , . Uncategorized. 1 comment.

Farhad Manjoo

Name: Farhad Manjoo

Who he is: Salon.com columnist just hired by Slate, author of True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society.

How I found him: longtime reader of his stories, was reminded today by this post about his new gig.

June 18, 2008. Tags: , , , , , , . Uncategorized. Leave a comment.

Next Page »