Gabriel

Ooh! Favorite name and an excellent first-last match!

I like it, too. It would be assonant without feeling like a cartoon character's name.

Ooh! Favorite name and an excellent first-last match!

I know!

If Lily had been a boy, that would have been her name. Of course, it's good she's a girl, because that's also Cool Comic Book guy's name, and that would have just been awkward.

Heh, Susan. I love that Lewis re-named himself at the age of, what, two? Three?

Naming is just endlessly fascinating to me: babies, ancestors, the very concept that naming something clarifies and defines (and sometimes traps) it for both the namer and for the thing named, the power inherent in bestowing a name, or rejecting the one given and claiming another. There's a fantasy novel whose name I can't now recall, by a friend of Lewis's named Charles Williams, about an impending apocalypse in which the universe is disintegrating into formless chaos, and doom is averted by the act of Naming.

That does it, JZ. You're just going to have to produce a boychild so people on the internets can have our name prefs indulged.

It's from Monday, and refrigerated since? I would totally eat it.

Heh. I was trying to talk myself out of eating it because I wanted a burrito not MORE LEFTOVERS. I just decided to throw the soup in the freezer here (it's in an appropriate container) and get the DELICIOUS BURRITO.

Food Network loves: Alton Brown, Jim O'Connor (not a chef but he cracks me up), Mario Battali (though what's up with all the bottled sauces in the grocery now??) MORIMOTO OMG.

Food Network likes: Ina Garten, Paula Deen (though I don't think I have ever/would ever cook anything she makes) The Calorie Commando, the Low Carb & Loving It guy (because the are both kind of dorky) Michael Chiarello

Food Network so-so: Bobby Flay (though it pains me) Sara Moulton, Giada, that new dude on the budget cooking show

Food Network hate: Ray-Ray, Emeril, Sandra Lee

I have now opened myself up to much mocking. I never said I was cool!

{{-t}} Thinking of you.

I like Gabriel, and have a friend with a 4 year old with this name, shortened to Gabo.

Way back on Edith: My mother's grandmothers were Mary and Edith, and so my mother was named Meredith. I've always thought that was a nice, neat solution to honoring them both.

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I'm so sorry.

Ina Garten

Can't stand her, but for some reason end up watching her anyway. A couple weeks ago she said something along the lines of "I need to cook nice meals so that my husband will want to come home to me after his business trips." So annoying.

There's a fantasy novel whose name I can't now recall, by a friend of Lewis's named Charles Williams, about an impending apocalypse in which the universe is disintegrating into formless chaos, and doom is averted by the act of Naming.

Not The Never-Ending Story? My memory of that is quite fuzzy, but I remember that's how the boy-hero triumphs, by Naming the Queen(?).

sj, I would LOVE to visit you East Coast-types. Just have to figure out the $$$....