The Matticus Kingdom
You asked why I chose this title for my blog and what it means to me and, being the benevolent ruler of the kingdom that I am, I shall entertain these questions from my royal subjects without complaint, and even deign to respond.
As some of you know, before I became ruler of the Matticus Kingdom I was just a lowly DJ – a jester of sorts, if you will – plying my trade here and there, but mostly in my own house, trying to make a name for myself. My DJ name, my persona when I transformed into that character, was Matticus.
That name is a combination of two other names. The first of which is my real first name: Matthew. The second part comes from none other than Sparticus. Matt(hew)(Spart)icus. Now before you go accusing me of coming up with such a pompous moniker for myself, I assure you had no part in picking this name. It was bestowed upon me by some friends in college due to my heroish ways: always coming to the rescue of people when they needed help.
If I was in college now maybe my nickname would have been something like Mattda or HeHohew. Matt(hew)(Hon)da. He(lpful)Ho(nda)(Matt)hew. So I can be very thankful those commercials came out later. Really dodged a bullet there, didn’t I?
After spinning for a few years and really deciding what type of music I liked to play, I sat down one day and recorded a three hour long set that encompassed all of the genres that I loved. It represented who I was as a DJ completely. I titled it: The Matticus Kingdom.
When I started this blog, and knew that it would encompass all of the things I love about writing, there was really only one name that I considered.
There you go! Great story. I think it is a great name. When I leave a comment I like to mention the person’s name so they at least know, I know something about them, so even though one would guess your name is Matt, it is good to get conformation. I think Matticus Kingdom is a apt and catchy name, and certainly one of a kind. Happy writing Matt!!!!!!!!!!(Extra Punctuation for the kingdom)
The kingdom happily accepts your punctuation contribution and will use it to stock our coffers. Matt works. Matticus works. DJ works. Though I am toying with the idea of switching that to WJ – Word Jockey.
And there you have it, you have the same name as my son, and you spell it with two t’s as well. I also like your blog name, it’s unique and personal to you. :)
Two “t’s” because, as my mom would say, I’m not something to for people to wipe their feet on. ;-)
I love that, your mum has talent. :)
Personally, I’d have gone with Hewspart as a nickname. Those poor neglected parts of Matticus need some love, too! I kid. I’ve always liked DJ Matticus. My fav DJ ever.
You might be a bit biased though…
Well I did wonder …
and now you know.
It suits you – sort-of dignified …
Wow! That’s fun. I’m not sure I would consider myself dignified… perhaps that’s the persona I’ve created on here though. Thanks!
.. even Sir Matticus of that Ilk … :-)
Oooo, Sir Matticus? Oh, yes. I do ejoy the sound of that. I do. I do. *steeples fingers and grins devilishly* Muahahahahahahahahahahaha
I`ll get Goosey to have a word with Her Maj …
I would certainly appreciate that, thank you.
Great Story thank you for sharing. My blog was named due to WordPress not understanding what I had written so I kept it lol…
Silly WordPress goofing things up. I like it though – it’s unique. And being unique is always a good thing! :-D
That is certain right down to my first name lol.. Have a blessed day :P
Great name!
Thank you, thank you very much. In my head I said this with an Elvis voice… not sure how to translate that into words though.
You did fine.
Matticus is much better than HeHoHew, which sounds like sniffing for the blood of an Enlishman. Was wondering where Matticus came from …. great name!
Fee Fi Fo Fum, I’m smell the blood of a Matticus. I coudlnt’ think of any better (worse) ways to get that Helpful Honda part in there… I forgot to mention that I where blue a lot – it could have been very confusing.
Fee Fi Blue Fum?
M Dizzle Fo Shizzle?
Thwack! [Jen slaps her forehead]
Careful, careful! Did you take your rings off first? Those forehead slaps can be painful!
Actually, I think it rattled some of the gunk in my sinuses. (TMI! Sorry!) Perhaps it’ll encourage this nasty virus to abandon me though. Who knows. [slap!] [begone, foul virus!]
I got a couple extra hands if you need some help…? :-D
Rattle away. Kent hoit.
*THWACK!* Ouch! Dang, what the heck. I just hit myself in the forehead…
Uh oh. Better get the sanitizer. You don’t want any of this creeping crud, believe me. :(
LOL
One of the ladies I work with is a bit… um… hmmm, how to put it nicely? Well, she uses hand sanitizer every five minutes or so. She has gotten me into the habit of using it much more frequently than I ever used to, but I still don’t scrub down 1/100 as much as she does.
Well, it says it kills 99% of germs … makes you wonder about that 1% left behind! Maybe it’s good for that potential 1% to have some competition. Just sayin’! ;)
HeHohew , im still laughing on that :lol: the matticus Kingdom is Awesome – :-)
Awww, thank you!
Great name! And a great story too :)
It’s good to be the king(dom). ;-)
Your kingdom is one of a kind that is for sure! I also like the humor you display, it’s refreshing with an old world twist. You chose well for the name of your blog. It seems to suit your character nicely. :-)
Thank you for the compliment and the follow!
I always thought the name was pretty cool!
Cool? Pretty cool? Very cool? :-P Thank you!
The Queen is amused. But really, as a college DJ back in the day I can appreciate how your kingdom got its name :)
Did you have a fun stage name when DJ’ing?
Good to know how it all happened :)