
Holy shit I just realized what your tumblr handle is supposed to mean since I visited your page. I kind of thought it was along the lines of "It's told like it" or something like that. You know I had a wordy heuristic sound. I TOO DISLIKE IT! HOLY SHIT! !
Yeah, this is an occupational hazard of URLs, and I feel a little too livejournal-era using underscores... I try to put the properly punctuated version of the handle at the top of profile pages ("I, too, dislike it," -- first line of Marianne Moore's poem "Poetry") but it doesn't always happen. I do like hearing all the ways people read it though... one of my favorites reads my name as "Toodis," reversing the meaning such that I, Toodis, like it! Words are funny, and I am sort of in love with the throwback to oral culture that urls create... alphabets make us hyper-aware of the spaces between words, whereas oral culture doesn't really hear words as distinct entities. Anne Carson ties this in with radical solitude and the nature of desire in a beautiful way. Anyway, mazel tov on your reading victory!

