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5 March 2004 navigating the high seas |
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WHAT IS THE LADYTRAP?
Ladytrap.org is the personal website of Simon Graves. It began as a way to teach myself how to communicate through the internet and blossomed into a dream research project, a showcase for my photography and opinions, and a forum for whatever miscellaneous creativity and information I care to present.
I wrote an article last year that describing some of my motivations for setting up this project.
The name "Ladytrap" is indeed misleading and I have some misgivings about it. But, as with a stray cat, once it develops a name you cannot possibly change it! It's too late now...
Where did the name come from? Since college I have been fond of naming the various houses I have rented from year to year. The big house full of music in Hillcrest was affectionately called "The Conservatory" by all who lived there over the years, and Pat and Mike and I dubbed our Mission Hills bungalow "The Plantation".
You can't try too hard to name a house; you just have to wait for a name to appear, and you'll know when it's right. A few months after Pat and I moved into the house on C St. (in Golden Hill), I had my friend Stefan and his family over for dinner. I had the impression that his wife Charissa was trying to set me up with a friend of theirs and she asked if I was single. When I answered in the negative she said (in her charming Afrikaans accent) "I find that hard to believe. This house is such a ladytrap!"
Pat and I knew instantly that was the name of our house. Months later, when I was thinking of a name for my website, ladytrap.org was surprisingly available and I took it.
So there you have it. We're not misogynists. Women need not fear visiting this dingy corner of the internet. After all, LADYTRAP spelled backwards is
PARTY DAL! |
