[edit] The Birth of Ganymead: A Tale
I know! I know! I misspelled the name Ganymede. I kinda had to.
Many moons ago during the last Ice Age, shortly after Al Gore gave birth to the Internet, a young man needed a screen name for a chat room. Having tired of his current screen name (something involving Sir Lancelot and vampires) the young man picked up the stack of music sitting next to his computer and began flipping through a book of Schubert's lieder to find something appropriate. After trying "Erlkönig," which was taken, he stumbled on a lied, "Ganymede." Not being very observant (and rather dimwitted most of the time), the young man misspelled the name. But soon the name stuck, though the young man knew nothing of the name's meaning or illustrious history, knowing only that it rang a bell somewhere in his dimwitted brain.
One afternoon after someone in the chat room kept referring to Ganymead as "Zeus' boytoy," the young man decided to jog over to the library and flip through a few reference books and find out exactly who Ganymede was. He was led into a world of myth and discovered that the name is an old literary code word for homosexual. Alas! His almost randomly picked screen name had actually cracked the door to his own closet. Since this revelation, the young man and his screen name have lived happily ever after (though now, finally, out of the closet).
[edit] C'est moi
For fun, I had my roommate write this:
My latest acting headshot.
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- Lewis is a jerk, he leaves his dirty dishes in the sink and they pile up over time. Where ever he goes he leaves a trail of books and papers, not unlike the trail of slime left by a snail or slug. When he's not working in corporate America he's either in a rehearsal for a show or here on Wikipedia. And if there are any single guys out there, please look this way, because he desperately needs a boyfriend!
Ok, thankyou, David. That really makes me sound utterly depressing!
[edit] Wikipedia stuff
An article in Newsweek led me into these hollowed halls. Since I was a kid, i've had the strange desire to collect information. Over time I have come to imagine that perhaps I was a monk or archivist in a past life. Thus when I found Wikipedia, I suddenly had a way to satiate that desire. My first edit was an entire article on Julian Eltinge contributed 28 April 2004 followed by a number of other articles, contributed as a whole. I began working on cleanup and after a while, my work gravitated towards theatre related articles. Out of the blue, I created an article on the Mandan people of North Dakota and worked it up to FA status. I'm still quite proud of that! In addition, I created WikiProject Theatre and recently WikiProject Elizabethan Theatre. Expect WikiProject Ancient Greek theatre soon!
Having ADD, I tend to jump around from project to project and article to article, but as long as I'm having fun, that's really all that counts!
[edit] Editing-related
Current projects:
[edit] Call for editors!
Please, vandalize my page! It lets me know that someone, somewhere, cares enough to do the very best! But, please, vandalize it in a classy manner. Iambic pentameter is always best!
- To vandalise the page of Ganymead
- (I thought) would be as easy as to take
- A gurgling infant’s candy cane, or feed
- A dieter of low resolve a cake.
- But no, ’twas not to be as simple as that;
- Gone down the spout were all my best-laid plans.
- The cur had only set a caveat
- That all defilement must be in iambs!
- I laboured night and day to get the verse
- To flow like streams meand’ring down a dell,
- But all my efforts read like dross, or worse,
- Some awful pseudo-Shakespeare doggerel.
- So, much embittered, I must now concede
- You win this time, you weasel Ganymead!
HAM 
[edit] Subpages
These are works in progress or sandboxes. Please do not edit these articles!
Ganymead as the ghost of Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol, Springer Opera House, Columbus, Georgia.
