I always thought it was cool to be named after the place you're from: Judy Chicago, Utah Phillips, Tennesee Williams & like that. Irving Berlin.

But I can't make it work for me. "Clint Idaho" doesn't come at all trippingly from the tongue, though I hear there's a Clint, Texas.

"H. Clinton Panhandle" has a certain dignity to it, but not quite the image I intended.

I think the best I came up with was using my first name and the place I (mostly) grew up: "Harry Bonners Ferry." This has a certain swing to it, but it lacks what I believe they nowadays call "gravitas."

I just don't know.

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