#Elijah Sparkman

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the 20th anniversary issue of 'sleepingfish' is now on line

This 20th anniversary issue features work by Steven Alvarez, Rosaire Appel, Ali Aktan Aşkın, Nat Baldwin, Niles Baldwin, Maeve Barry, Chiara Barzini, Mark Baumer, Emilio Carrero, Kim Chinquee, David-Baptiste Chirot, Bobby Crace, Anna DeForest, Federico Federici, Noah Eli Gordon, Mariangela Guatteri, John Haskell, Chelsea Hogue, Tim Horvath, Zebulon House (or Horse), Meiko Ko, Kelly Krumrie, Mary…

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Fundie Middle Names

Here’s the breakdown of fundie middle names, as requested by @keepingupwithfundies​. Again, I counted different spellings as different names. If a person had two middle names, I counted them as two separate middle names. I also couldn’t find middle names for a lot of the people I counted in first names, so this is a smaller sample size. For people with hyphenated names, if they had an additional middle name (i.e. Jordyn-Grace Makiya Duggar) I did not count the hyphenated portion as a part of the middle name, but if they did not have an additional middle name (i.e. John-David and Joy-Anna Duggar), I counted the hyphenated portion as the middle name. 

Fun Facts

While men were more likely to name their sons after them for first names, with middle names that is more commonly seen amongst women.

Despite this, there are only 21 middle names that are shared by at least two women, while there are 30 middle names shared by at least two men. This is partially due to men often giving a son their brother’s middle name.

The middle names Lynn and Ray are shared by both men and women. If you add in different spellings of the same name, Ray/Rae is still shared, as is Joe/Jo.

Top 12* Fundie Boy Middle Names

David: 7 (John Duggar, Daniel Dillard, Jonathan Webster, Elijah Shrader, Khai Dominguez, Israel Dillard, Garrett Duggar)

James: 7 (Curtis Bowers, Nathan Maxwell, Carver Bowers, Nehemiah Shrader, Michael Duggar, Andrew Maxwell, Levi Webster)

Michael: 7 (Robert Tull, Derick Dillard, Benjamin Seewald, Jason Duggar, Benjamin Webster, Timothy Shrader, Jaxon Dillard)

Andrew: 6 (Marc Millsap, Nick Tunstill, Caleb Burnett, James Duggar, Nehemiah Afarian, Phillip Waller)

Stephen: 4 (Charles Paine Jr., Seth Shrader, Charles Paine III, Charles Paine IV)

Alan: 3 (Daniel Webster, Brent Webster, Robert Ballinger Jr.)

Charles: 3 (Dwain Swanson, Micah Jeub, Spencer Holt)

Gabriel: 3 (Daylon Dominguez, Brighton Keller, Charles Millsap)

GIlvin: 3 (William Bates, Zachary Bates, Bradley Bates)

Levi: 3 (Austin Wilson, Jackson Duggar, Ephraim Forsyth

Robert: 3 (James Duggar, Jedidiah Duggar, Jeremiah Duggar)

William: 3 (David Waller, Luke Wilson, Paul Waller)

Top 11* Fundie Girl Middle Names

Grace: 12 (Abbie Burnett, Susanna Keller, Emily Reith, Cassidy Bontrager, Katie Bates, Serena Afarian, Julia Waller, Katie Miller, Meredith Duggar, Calia Maxwell, Edyn Dominguez, Elizabeth Maxwell)

Joy: 10 (Sarah Waller, Esther Shrader, Hannah Dornink, Alyssa Webster, Susannah Maxwell, Esther Millsap, Sophia Shrader, Ellyn Dominguez, Lydia Maxwell, Zoey Webster

Lynn: 10 (Jodi Shrader, Regina Webster, Jessica Ballinger, Priscilla Waller, Sarah Webster, Allove Tunstill, Davia Waller, Kaci Bates, Aubrey Webster, Harper Ballinger)

Elizabeth: 8 (Susan Waller, Sarah Waller, Meagan Ballinger, Anna Maxwell, Carinna Burnett, Claire Miller, Ruthanne Maxwell, Hanah Afarian)

Marie: 8 (Rebecca Bontrager, Rachael Tunstill, Anna Maxwell, Jana Duggar, Elissa Maxwell, Adeline Tunstill, Anna Anderson, Alice Waller)

Renee: 7 (Deena Dillard, Anna Duggar, Chelsy Maxwell, Allene Millsap, Kendra Duggar, Mackynzie Duggar, Abigail Waller)

Faith: 6 (Charity Wearden, Johannah Duggar, Agape Shrader, Bethany Maxwell, Adalynn Waller, Destiny Waller)

Hope: 4 (Lauren Caldwell, Addallee bates, Abigail Maxwell, Everly Paine)

Denise: 3 (Angela Webster, Ashley Sparkman, Marlie Ballinger)

Eileen: 3 (Sandra Webster, Whitney Bates, Laura Webster)

Nicole: 3 (Jinger Vuolo, Allison Bontrager, Felicity Vuolo)

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The next Good Tyme Writers Buffet will take place amid the Public Pool’s first fundraiser exhibition, The Night Of One Thousand Cocks! It’s a show that celebrates the magic and the mystery of the cock. It includes drawings, photos and small sculptures mostly of roosters, but wieners too, and even a shuttlecock—all donated by artists and priced to sell at $40. February 23, the Writers Buffet considers the rooster, birds, androgyny, trans-issues, the idea of human sexuality, and masculinity in all its various forms—toxic or innocuous or just normal—thank God for the normal! Come to the Good Tyme Writers Buffet! ALSO THERE’S THIS: If you bring a dish for the potluck, you get two minutes on the floor (just two timed minutes) to read your own cocky stories. Yes! Please come! Bring food, and bring something share—a poem, a short, short, short story. Come hungry. Come thirsty. Bring food! It’s a potluck! Dreamy Lover will kick it on turntables Readers include: Laura Bernstein-Machlay Ambrose Mary Polly Rosenwaike Elijah S Sparkman Cody Walker More about the Readers: Laura Bernstein-Machlay, a long-time Detroiter, teaches literature and creative writing at The College for Creative Studies. An award-winning author of poetry and creative nonfiction, she's been nominated for seven Pushcart Prizes. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous national and international magazines and literary journals including The American Scholar, Georgia Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, New Plains Review, Poetry Northwest, etc. She has an essay forthcoming from Hotel Amerika, and her full-length collection of creative-nonfiction essays, Travelers, was published in 2018 by Sonder Press. Ambrose Mary is a nursing student at Wayne State, and hopes to someday insert your catheter. She plays guitar in Fat Angry Hens and writes monster stories Polly Rosenwaike’s story collection, Look How Happy I’m Making You, will be published by Doubleday in March of 2019. Her stories, reviews, and essays have been published in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013, Glimmer Train, New England Review, Colorado Review, the New York Times Book Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Millions. A former lecturer in creative writing at Eastern Michigan University, she currently works as a freelance editor and as the fiction editor for Michigan Quarterly Review. Elijah Sparkman is a local reader of books, and, on occasion, opens up his Google Docs and punches what must be random keys. A devout connoisseur of Book Suey, Source, and the 2 John King’s, he lives over there by the Rock n Roll Liquor Store and the Outer Limits. He is elated to be here. Cody Walker directs the Creative Writing Sub-concentration at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He’s the author of two full-length poetry collections, Shuffle and Breakdown (Waywiser, 2008) and The Self-Styled No-Child (Waywiser, 2016), as well as a chapbook, The Trumpiad (Waywiser, 2017). (The chapbook doubles as an ACLU fundraiser.) A longtime writer-in-residence in Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools program, he was elected Seattle Poet Populist in 2007. He’s the co-director, along with Laura Kasischke, of the Bear River Writers’ Conference, which will take place this year on and around the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birthday. Steve Hughes hosts the Good Tyme Writers Buffet. He writes and publishes the zine Stupor. His book, STIFF (Wayne State University Press, 2018) collects many of the stories he’s read at previous Writers Buffets.