Point A DC Naming Party – you can help
I am spending the current Snowpocolypse in a place called Swan Point. It is a lovely Point A DC retreat which is hoping to do a bunch of things, including start the income sharing group in Washington. I am pleased to be hanging with such a clever, talented and motivated group. If anyone can pull off this perhaps impossible task, it is the likes of these folks.
Urban communards all snowed in and happy
And names are important and we don’t yet have one for the DC Point A community. Below is the list of names which have been suggested so far. You can put in your votes (6 yes votes and 3 no votes) for the names you like and those you can’t stand. You can reply either on Facebook (where this is posted on 1) my personal page, 2) The FEC Facebook page or the Point A Facebook page) or if you are not on FB at all, or dont want them to know what you think, you can leave a comment on this blog. You are also welcome to make suggestions for new names for the commune. The names currently on the list are:
Avalon
Asylum for Idiots (What the first promising Point A DC site was originally called)
Georgia Flats (we are most likely to be near Georgia Avenue)
Salt Flats (we are likely on Morton St)
Trapazoid
The Tower of Power
Anarres (the anarchist moon from the classic Sci-fi novel The Dispossessed)
Kat’s Cradle (for Kat Kinkade, founder to TO, Acorn and East Wind)
Point B
Babel II
The Hanging Gardens of Morton St
Cappel’s Follie
Arc
The House of Common
Xanadu
Orbital Lifeboat Factory
Point Awesome
Bliss Wallah
Paradox
K Street Extension
Terra Prime
Dream Village
Alchemy Lab
All You Can Eat Shrimp Just $4.99 (was almost sort of Batman‘s new name)
Stone Soup
Echo Estates
Fawkes Gloves
Hologram House
Point Z
Morton Street Kommune
The Fortune Cookie Factory
Commune Pooper
DC Bolsheviks
The Matriarchy
Pigeon
Blind Faith
Bootstrap
Unicorn Factory
Firestorm
Laser Snake
Hyperbola
Landslide
Ricochet
11235 Eureka!
The Anarchist Frathouse
The Arbor
Paradise Found
Helix
Fast Forward
Best Chance
Double Back
Rascal
Open Secret
Groupworks
Tech Startup
High Risk
High Wire
Threshold
Hopscotch
Mosaic
Manticore
Bent Thunder
Raspberry
Fair Share
Long View
Charismatic Wolf Leaders
Microcosm (making members Microcosmonauts)
Castle in the Sky
Wolftrap
The Hanging Gardens
Manifest
The A Ward
The Ward (we would be Wardens)
The Twin Towers
Cuddle Cult
Vespucci
Atlantis
Valparaiso
Lucca
Hatrack
The Supernatural
The House of Unicorns
The Communist Castle
500 Grumpy Anarchists
Styrofoam
ACDC (an acronym for A Commune in DC)
Some of these names are crazy unlikely. Even tho i have an old lover named Styrofoam, the Point A folks are unlikely to choose this clever name. Nor (thankfully) does Communist Castle have much of a chance.
Help us Choose, by commenting on this blog or write on the Facebook Pages this article is posted on. Feel free to add your own names, we will likely choose quite soon though, so hurry.
17 responses to “Point A DC Naming Party – you can help”
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Anarres is an awesome name, but wouldn’t that be confusing within the FEC universe, as it’s a house at EW?
I think there is room for this type of confusion
Hey Paxus, glad you’re safe and in a good place – you always have such cool life stories to tell, and this will be another one! Did anyone think of something along the lines of ACDC (A Community in DC), or maybe something along the lines of the Power Company? Empowerment… something about Tesla and Edison? So I have to go with, “The Tower of Power” from your list – I like the beauty in the name Avalon though it might be too trite for that group. 😉 Good luck and I hope I get to come visit someday!!! 😀 hugs!
We will add ACDC tot he list, a fine name. And one vote for Avalon and one for Tower of Power
(Not sure if this went through, may be duplicate)
Hey Paxus, glad you’re safe and in a good place – you always have such cool life stories to tell, and this will be another one! Did anyone think of something along the lines of ACDC (A Community in DC), or maybe something along the lines of the Power Company? Empowerment… something about Tesla and Edison? So I have to go with, “The Tower of Power” from your list – I like the beauty in the name Avalon though it might be too trite for that group. 😉 Good luck and I hope I get to come visit someday!!! 😀 hugs!
would you consider choosing a name that does not immediately disinterest skilled, practical persons, giving the community a chance for a balanced population rather than being peopled entirely by pseudo-anarchist dreamers?
I would like to suggest the name Matrix after the science fiction movie The Matrix.
Vote up: ACDC, Anarres, Point B/Z, Redpill, Threshold, Terra Prime
Vote down: anything that references specific geography since the property isn’t acquired yet, The Anarchist Frathouse (blech), Cuddle Cult
While I disagree with Milo’s apparent assumption that skilled, practical people and Anarchist
Vote up: ACDC, Anarres, Point B/Z, Redpill, Threshold, Terra Prime
Vote down: anything that references specific geography since the property isn’t acquired yet, The Anarchist Frathouse (blech), Cuddle Cult
While I disagree with Milo’s apparent assumption that skilled, practical people and anarchist dreamers are mutually exclusive groups, I do have a preference for names that are a little more accessible/not as likely to be off-putting. So while I think Asylum for Idiots may be accurate, it might not be how we want to advertise ourselves. 😉
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My yes votes are for: Anarres, Kat’s Cradle, Hanging Gardens of Morton St., House of Common, Point Awesome, and Fair Share. If i had a 7th vote it would go to Open Secret.
No on names that i think are already taken elsewhere: Groupworks (duh), Stone Soup (Chicago), Mosaic Commons is a cohousing in Boston, and there’s a Dreamtime Village in Wisconsin, isn’t there?
Of the lot, I think AC*DC worth voting up, though I believe the final name is still under discussion?
Shira
AC*DC is the working name
Ah. I was a bit confused when GPaul mentioned needing a name a couple of weeks ago. Thanks. Shira