Way back when in the stone age, I started looking for some instant updates about the Celtics' potential acquisition of Garry Payton (or maybe it was getting Antoine back...it was that season anyhow). I'd never been involved in any blogs or forums or internet kind of hangouts. I don't even think there was a Facebook yet.
Anyhow...I found Celtics Blog and started digging for updates and insights in the forum. I created an account with no expectations of having a social presence whatsoever. This was soon after Red Auerbach had passed, so I made a pun that I thought only I would understand. Taking a line from Pulp Fiction - Who's Zed? Zed's Dead Baby, Zed's Dead...I went with Redzdeadbabyredzdead.
Now, I had no idea how involved I'd get in the forums or how that name could be perceived as an extension of my personality, but I rolled with it for a while. Eventually, when I was to be a Mod, we thought it might be best to lose the DeadBaby part and shortened it to just Redz (which is what most people were calling me anyhow).
My login info still requires the old Redzdeadbabyredzdead name though!
Awful....
Next I need to fix up that offensive avatar