I’ve been thinking of killing off Mister Anchovy.
When I started blogging several years ago, some of you will recall it was on the Blogger platform and the place was just called Mister Anchovy. Back then, I started a blog just to see what blogging was all about. Just like now, I had no idea what I was doing. People told me, hey you better not blog using your real name, and that seemed reasonable. I think after a while, my cheap ruse became evident to everyone, and when I coyly referred to my good friend or my alter ego Eugene K, most readers realized this was a Bruce Wayne/Batman kind of deal (never mind which of us is the super-hero).
After a while, I changed the name to Mister Anchovy’s and invited some other people to post there as well. That experiment was short-lived, although I enjoyed trying to make it happen. Eventually, I moved over to the WordPress platform and changed the name of the joint to 27th Street and so here we are, faithful readers.
These days I’m not convinced I need Mister Anchovy anymore. After all, posts from this blog are sent to Eugene K’s Facebook and Twitter accounts anyway. Perhaps that sounds cruel? Maybe killing him off is a little extreme. What if I retired him to some paradise island with a tropical climate instead?
27th Street 
I think that if Mr. Anchovy did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. I say leave him be.
All our pseudonyms are people we did not get quite enough chance to be because of the tyranny of time. So I think we should let them live.
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Maybe-just maybe…Mr. Anchovie needs some time on a island with his desert island disk picks all revealed on a reality show-ala Gilligans island while watching Bruce Wayne/Batman rerunz…in order 2 plot an even bigger”comeback” after another “makeover”…etc. …etc. …etc.-
STAGG
Perhaps just retire Mr Anchovy, put him out to pasture – no need to get so drastic about it! And anyhow, I don’t think you can change your WP user-name, can you?
I know what you mean about nicknames though. When I first became active on a couple of internet forums I took the name “azahar”, and continued to use it when I started blogging and getting involved in social media. These days “azahar” sometimes feels more like my own name, and it is now also my business website: azahar-sevilla.com.
But things have changed. Used to be that nobody used their real names on line and now the opposite is true. I think if I had a nickname I didn’t identify so much with then I’d drop it. Or lay it gently aside…
Et tu, Brute?
I forming an NGO to save Mr. Anchovy.
Let’s put our creative heads together and evolve Mr Anchovy into an app… something to do with art appreciation or a gaming platform… or character.
I always wanted my own app!
No! Not Mr Anchovy!
You know…Arthur Conan Doyle tossed Sherlock over some waterfalls to kill that cocaine addled genius off..and then resurrected him under the weight of public pressure…just saying…there’s no killing off your characters..