October 20, 2008

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:

Blogger The Sum of All Monkeys said...

Mack Cognos?

Mack Cognate?

Mack Aroon?

Mack Innations?

Mack Caine!

(Sorry, too soon for that last one?)

October 20, 2008 at 3:53 PM  
Blogger VMM said...

I'm still mulling over Max Tandard.

October 20, 2008 at 5:44 PM  
Blogger JAB said...

Good suggestions, but I'm wary of puns: more along the lines of Dickensian evocations.

October 21, 2008 at 10:27 AM  
Blogger JAB said...

But I must say Mack Innnations and Maz Tandard are ingenious.

October 21, 2008 at 10:29 AM  
Blogger Viceroy De Los Osos said...

Mac Swellhouse

October 21, 2008 at 1:59 PM  
Blogger JAB said...

Very good ....working....beep..-

October 22, 2008 at 9:36 AM  

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