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008: The Curse of the Common Name

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If you are blessed with a cool name — Gordon Lightfoot, Ernest Hemingway, or Tiger Woods, for example — life is all downhill the moment you're born and the world is your oyster. But try slugging through life when sharing the same dull name as every practically everybody else, like Mark Johnson. I've decided, however, to beat the system and become THE Mark Johnson.

The Curse of the Common Name

After completing some exhaustive scientific research (two minutes on my phone while in line at Starbucks), I've confirmed what I've always strongly suspected: I have a very common name. Over the past century, Mark is the 16th most common…