Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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Usual byline: Jose F. Lacaba. Full name: Jose Maria Flores Lacaba Jr. The late Jose Sr. was nicknamed Pepe, so Jr. was nicknamed Pepito, the little Pepe. In college, Pepito's nickname got shortened to Pito, then Pit, but the last gave rise to jokes about armpits, so Pit was respelled Pete.
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I was trying to create a link to an earlier posting of my poem "In Memoriam," which gets mentioned in the post "Edjop and the First Quarter Storm." Instead, this turned out to be a link to the piece on Edjop. Now I don't know to delete this incorrect link.
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