What's in a name? (2)

When I posted "What's in a name?" a few days ago I had entirely forgotten that I was about to have another outing as part of an ad hoc quiz team. The quiz was last Saturday, the team was my wife, a friend of hers, the friend's partner and me. I looked the other way as the inevitable "what should we call ourselves" came up. The two ladies had spent the day in Sainsbury's supervising Girl Guides who were packing people's bags to raise money. My wife (I think) suggested "The Bag Packers" as the team name. Was I the only one who noticed the nuances of the name, with the suggestion of back-packers and carpetbaggers?

What's in a name?

Why Phase Two (Faceless)? Why any name for anything? Any time that I'm in an ad-hoc quiz team, there's always the struggle for a name, almost always people don't agree with my "witty" suggestion and go for something toe-curlingly bland. I've given up suggesting "And The Winner Is...". But I'm getting off the point (which you'll find happens a lot with me (along with nested parentheses)). Why this name for this blog?

Phase Two because it's my second serious attempt at a blog (the first ran from April to November 2005). (Faceless) is my reaction to the Facebook "look at me, look at me" self-publicity side of self-publishing. My old blog had my photo and profile in the standard top right position. I'm not a particularly avid reader of blogs, but I've noticed that many eschew the profile/photo thing and don't even have any part of a name in evidence. Somehow I like that, so this time round, I'm faceless. And of course (I was taught at shcool that you couldn't start a sentence with and, but what's good enough for William Blake is more than good enough for me) the whole thing sounds like the relationship betwen the Reader and the Blogger - face to face except not quite (less).