The Big Reveal:
My name is Kevin Xavier Kyle. I never liked Kevin as my name. “Kevin” is an eight year old boy whose mother loves him. Lash or Steve would have been much better I thought in my MIND.
“Kongo” was the name I settled on; but I never told anyone. I even made up a little ditty melody. “There he goes, Kongo Kyle, riding down the Nile on a Crocodile.” I never told anyone that either. It was none of their business. But in my MIND, I was Kongo. I spent the first 14 years of my life in Hoboken, New Jersey. Kongo+Boken = kongoboken and there you go. I’ve grown to like the name and at least for a while will keep this site going.
kongoboken.com was originally “cabinets and drawers and boxes and chests holding an almost random collection of dubious literary odds and ends, many biographical many opinionated many miss-spelled” but I’ve realized lately, the Blog IS the organizing. As I find things in the basement of my life they get Blogged in 500 word chunks and are thereafter forever digitally available as long as I pay the fee. So, in addition to being the irreverent and perhaps irrelevant observations of an old white man, this Blog will be that old white man’s life in pieces. Which is pretty close to how life happens anyway.
Every now and then some of the pieces will get organized into drawers and scattered around. Because one doesn’t want to be TOO organized. Maybe when I’m TOTALLY semi-organized, I’ll move kongoboken.com to kevinxkyle.com and be done with it. It’s good to have goals!
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