I have been blogging here under false pretenses ever since eve got away with being eve2 and eve3.

Face it: her posts weren't any the better for cross-commenting and rate inflations, but for a while the fawning made it contagious.

Then we learned not only of the ruse but the number who had been in on it for a while. Is that some kind of reverse renaissance when a person has to diversify personas to have diverse pursuits? Chacun à son goût, I suppose.

I think if you work the system here for hits, rates, and comments, it's like playing "Riven" with the solutions. But I say that in full Abramoff mode and in need of your sympathetic eye and redeeming heart.

Forgive me salonistas for I have committed what I am learning is the ultimate salonista sin: I have been multiple members.

Not that freak cat on YouTube - that's in solid, blinking caps. I mean I have signed up as and networked socially as thirteen bloggers you've come to know and heap upon.

Remember the fun I had with miit sakaguchi, Japanese film maker and self-made icon. It was amazing how many of the "old guard" were completely fooled.

I was handybob. There, I've said it. Mystery solved.

The wildly popular addition to the "DIY" section of the cover page and that whole "ask handybob" feature? Yours truly.

so right? so right was one that got away.

I became davy. Location: a mountaintop in Tennessee. Bio: killed me a bar, when I was only three. (Fessin' is good for the soul.)

young machiavellian in texas was widely reviled. But it proved the old adage that websites as primitive and klugey as OpenSalon could use at least a good adage. You may thank me when the haze of your own involvement clears.

girlfriend met with an abrupt PM from The Lord.

(Sorry.)

hokeysmokes was Mr. Peabody hacking my salonista account.

 6% solution was deemed by the membership writ large as not strong enough.

As was munchies.

With shorn: the sheep my OpenSalon presence soared to stratospheric virality.

persona was a true test to remain anonymous, after the investigation of site statistics had become recreational. 

I was thinking of one more, mittville_romnencocker, until OS went "outing-crazy" on folks like me.

Busted, and on the verge of a thoroughly justified backlash from folks like you, savvy reader, I pledge from now on to pick one identity and stick with it. (No I won't release the condition of the fingers behind my back.)

So George: why don't you introduce our next contestant.