What is GorillaSushi?
Reader Phyllis L. Snider asks "What Is GorillaSushi?"
Excellent question, Phyllis. I've been waiting for someone to ask that question for almost a year now.
Why has no one asked this basic question? Have you made your own assumptions? What are they?
Back in '95 I had a serious internet addiction. There would be times when I would cruise back to work around 3am on a Friday night just to do a little more chatting. Luckily I didn't have an internet connection at home. I rearranged my job description to the point where my duties included "waiting for something to break" and "chatting online."
That lasted about a year and then I severed my connection almost completely.
Years later I was back online but less of an interactive relationship. The internet was now a place to consume information and a source of reference.
About a year ago, the wife and I decided that writing blogs might be fun. I was faced with the task of creating an "online identity" again. My name, being a common one, was already taken so I racked my brain to come up with a descriptive moniker.
At the time I was obsessed with making my own sushi. It felt like I was doing something that was reserved for an elite few. Training for sushi chefs takes years and when moving from one sushi bar to another, retraining can take months. I felt like I was starting some kind of grass-roots movement in the privacy of my own kitchen. It was like guerrilla sushi.
Now, the word "guerrilla" is not so easy to spell and we all know that monkeys make everything better so I decided on GorillaSushi.
At first it was just a funny name with a personal meaning but it's evolved to be more of a spirit to me. The idea of working inside a framework to take control from the accepted powers that be. Taking media, news and entertainment into my own hands. I don't expect to take down any giants but I am taking a small piece of their audience and making it my own - with a dash of monkey.
I switched to a multi-contributer format because I believe it perfectly compliments the spirit of GorillaSushi.
Do you have an "online name"? What does it mean to you? What did you think GorillaSushi meant?
Excellent question, Phyllis. I've been waiting for someone to ask that question for almost a year now.
Why has no one asked this basic question? Have you made your own assumptions? What are they?
Back in '95 I had a serious internet addiction. There would be times when I would cruise back to work around 3am on a Friday night just to do a little more chatting. Luckily I didn't have an internet connection at home. I rearranged my job description to the point where my duties included "waiting for something to break" and "chatting online."
That lasted about a year and then I severed my connection almost completely.
Years later I was back online but less of an interactive relationship. The internet was now a place to consume information and a source of reference.
About a year ago, the wife and I decided that writing blogs might be fun. I was faced with the task of creating an "online identity" again. My name, being a common one, was already taken so I racked my brain to come up with a descriptive moniker.
At the time I was obsessed with making my own sushi. It felt like I was doing something that was reserved for an elite few. Training for sushi chefs takes years and when moving from one sushi bar to another, retraining can take months. I felt like I was starting some kind of grass-roots movement in the privacy of my own kitchen. It was like guerrilla sushi.
Now, the word "guerrilla" is not so easy to spell and we all know that monkeys make everything better so I decided on GorillaSushi.
At first it was just a funny name with a personal meaning but it's evolved to be more of a spirit to me. The idea of working inside a framework to take control from the accepted powers that be. Taking media, news and entertainment into my own hands. I don't expect to take down any giants but I am taking a small piece of their audience and making it my own - with a dash of monkey.
I switched to a multi-contributer format because I believe it perfectly compliments the spirit of GorillaSushi.
Do you have an "online name"? What does it mean to you? What did you think GorillaSushi meant?
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All efforts to keep me out of jail are appreciated, as always.
AND, I thought it was possibly the grossest habit ever, but hey now, you DO like your sushi.
Oh yeah. Plus, I didn't give a fuck. Just kidding.
You scare me. Hahahaha. No really.
I wasn't paying attention and ACTUALLY thought your "name" was CandyCane. Lie.
I am an escaped mental patient.
My online ID is Jules.
Which is short for: Mad Chicken Who Makes Tomato Jelly Sandwiches.
In reality, this is the first time I have not used some sort of other name in which to write/chat/comment/contribute online.
I am sure it has to do with being tired of explaining said name.
PS-
I'm super glad that you're only a semi-addicted internet junkie.
Using the Wayback machine here. Way, way back.
circa 1980's. early.
I was a courier driver then. Drove around town (Jackson, MS) delivering... stuff.
We had 'handles', ID's. Nicknames. Mine was Zentari. Back then there weren't really computers, except in big old mega corps. Certainly no home computers. And the Internet was a glint in it's creator's eye.
There was this one game that used a small computer to process it's games. It was called StarWeb (amazingly it's still around and you can still play this silly game! google 'starweb') It was about building 'empires' by 'flying' fleets of ships around and taking over worlds. Me and roomie were gamers even back then. We mailed our turns off and waited like kiddies for christmas visions for the turns to come back in the mail. It was a simpler time, yup.
Well, I had recently gotten an Atari computer and it was the cat's pj's. So, when I came up with the nick (I can recall it like it was yesterday)... Zen + Atari = Zentari ... which made a hellacool Space Empire name.
It 'stuck'. It was shortened to 'Zen' (I also have a deep interest in Eastern Philosophy and zen 'no mind' type things). The I Ching is a wonderment, yup yup.
So... from Zen .. it went to various variations:
GypsyJoeZen was a handle at one time. Spoke of the Gypsy in me. A short form of my name (Joe = Joel) and it was 'Zen'.
ShadowZen was adopted as I got older and I felt I was a 'Shadow' of the former, glorious days of 'Zen'.
When Tags put a lock on my Shadowzen site (later released by fred), I came back with ZenShadow. Thus and therefore, I am.
Well, there ya have it... the origins of ZenShadow. We're talking Decades. Decades!
Zenny
ps... my Vanity Tag is Zentari.
But no, you had to pray for...
Sheesh!
You can ask Jules about how they taste - I sent her a box...she didn't open it for a few days because she thought it was anthrax.
I believe I enjoyed them with a glass of chardonnay and a few cigarettes around midnight.
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