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May 27, 2004

i'm kenyatta cheese. who the hell are you? - part 2

sorry i forgot to explain:

i'm IMing with my friend, michelle, when she tells me that someone has taken on my old AIM username "kenyattacheese." Say what!?! Why would someone take my old screenname? More peculiar - my screenname is my name. And bizarre as the world may be, I feel pretty certain that the possibility of there existing another kenyatta cheese within the known kenyattaverse is pretty much nil. So i decide to IM this guy to figure out who he is.

As you may have read, he wasn't too forthcoming in revealing his identity. So looking at kenyattacheese's IM profile (if it isn't a spoof) suggests that "Jack" is in high school or college. In particular, googling "KINGCO CHAMPS" brought me to King County, Washington State. While "IHS Track" is most definitely the Inglemoor High School Track Team. Interlake High School was my first false positive until I realized that their track team didn't have their own domain like Inglemoor.

he's good with IM shorthand (idk, nm)

And he likes the movie Office Space (or at least the quote in his sig, "i used to be by the window....")

So my hypothesis is: he's in high school. he's smart. he's an athlete. he has a peculiar but good sense of humor that most high schoolers think is a bit odd. he thinks Nicole Ari Parker is hot. So he looks up her page on imdb which leads him to the page for patrice's film which i worked on back in 97. which leads him to the full credits where he finds the name "Kenyatta Cheese" which cracks him up. He decides to use it as his sn.

And hence, our big misunderstanding.

Posted by yatta at May 27, 2004 1:11 PM

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