Whither Mack Brain?
A fellow Isengarder has been encouraging me with a generous offer to help edit Rebar For Tootsie Rolls into a form that might actually be publishable. (In case you're wondering, the lack of continuity in the storyline would continue: the book design would feature a chapter, then an image of a waterlogged, torn Pulp magazine cover, then the next chapter. )
But there's a problem. Mack's last name: Brain.
It's not the best, I'm forced to agree. It was slightly funny once, but it's not an good enduring character name. It was written long before I keep writing these stories, and right now has the effect of a slightly funny band name that gets less funny every time you repeat it, like Bunny and the Hoptones or Led Zepplin or something.
So I need your help: what are your suggestions for Mack's last name?
Worse, the current chapter turns on his name and is being delayed!
6 Comments:
Mack Cognos?
Mack Cognate?
Mack Aroon?
Mack Innations?
Mack Caine!
(Sorry, too soon for that last one?)
I'm still mulling over Max Tandard.
Good suggestions, but I'm wary of puns: more along the lines of Dickensian evocations.
But I must say Mack Innnations and Maz Tandard are ingenious.
Mac Swellhouse
Very good ....working....beep..-
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