McKenna: Girl of the Year 2012

[NaturalMystik]

Good find OP, I'll bite

When I first read the subject of this thread I was intrigued right away, a big loud "HUH?" rang through my head. Now obviously since the thread was here on RI I can make immediate connections with Terrance, context is everything. Although for what it's worth I would have made the same connection had I seen that headline anywhere else.

Not knowing anything about the American Girl dolls, the company who produces them, or who pulls there strings, I suppose I'm not very well informed to comment... But it definitely strikes me as 'funny', and not in a comedic way. I for one will be keeping an eye on the google to see if what they say about "McKenna 2012" in the coming months should happen to change. And if a cigar should be just a cigar, then fair enough.

I will admit a minor bit of disappointment that HMW has not commented on this yet.

[Nordic]

i sorta doubt you have you have any freaking idea how popular the name "McKenna" is as a girls name right now in the U.S.

Seriously, Nordic? Why on earth...?

Sorry, I have to laugh. My first association will always be with Ian McKenna, the hero of our primary-school football team. He was a self-dribbling jeweled basketball all right. Even at the age of eleven he was built like the proverbial brick shithouse. He was nearly as wide as he was tall. From the neck up he looked like Edward G. Robinson, if Edward G. Robinson had been ginger. Beautiful he was not. Just hard to stop.

(When "McCann" comes into fashion as a girl's name in the US, I won't hesitate to tell you about John "Sody*" McCann, another unusual-looking child who was famous at our school for acts of bizarre random violence.)

*Short for for "sody-heid", i.e., "soda-head". He was a somewhat effervescent chap.

Hey i don't name them and i don't understand the parents who do.

For instance, I can't tell you how many girls are named Savannah right now. Anyone who's spent much time in strip clubs or watched much porn in the early 90s will tell you that's a stripper/porn star name. In fact one of the biggest porn stars of that era was "Savannah" (one word) and she obtained even more fame when she committed suicide via a shotgun. This was just a couple of short years before a lot of these girls were birthed and bestowed with this scandalous name, a fact which i find to be quite disturbing.

[Stephen Morgan]

I don't think the idea of KWH is inherently stupid. Google is how people find information, I could see the CIA or someone putting memes out in popular culture, asking one of their Mockingbirds to name a character even, to make finding information inconvenient to them slightly harder. Maybe they do, maybe not. We know they have their mockingbirds, we know they have close tie to the Banana Barons, why not the Barbie barons? I mean, probably not in this case, but it's not as silly as Hugh's classic claim that "Chewbacca the Wookie" was named to encourage people to join the army and take up chewing tobacco.

Also, who's this McKenna chap?

[Joe Hillshoist]

Terrence McKenna is very well known outside this board and even vaguely well know in general culture, tho perhaps less so that 10 or 12 years ago.

If I Google McKenna 2012 I get 7 or 8 hits about Terrence before one about the doll.

The thing you lot are calling a sigil or a gymnast looked like someone wearing a witches or wizards hat for the first 10 times I looked at it. I couldn't see a sigil and had to make myself see the gymnast, but its still clearly someone wearing apointed hat. maybe a duynce hat I dunno.

Awesome thread tho.

If you go here:

http://dolldiaries.com/more-on-mckenna- ... year-2012/

for pictures of the McKenna doll (on crutches with a cast ffs) check if you get an end times 2012 ad. I did. (Tho that says more about me probably.)

[wordspeak2]

Agreed, Terence McKenna (one "r" in first name) is very well-known in the counter-culture. Most folks who have dabbled in psychedelics even a little have heard of him- many dozens of friends and acquaintances of mine. And his influence was far beyond the number of people who know his name.

The capitalization of the "K" in the doll name makes me think it's an inside joke on the part of someone at the company. We're in 2012, folks- time to celebrate and be psychedelically punny whenever possible.

I only wish more people would follow Terence's most-simple advice: Take five dried grams of psilocybin on an empty stomach and clear head in silent darkness. Wait an hour or so then smoke some really good weed. Enter hyperspace. You must try it! Don't go to the grave without this experience!

[sunny]

Ya'll are trippin'.

Ellen L. Brothers was until recently the president of American Girl and executive vice president of Mattel, as well as a member of Mattel's management committee.

Ellen L. Brothers, President of American Girl, Announces Retirement

Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Press Release:

Middleton, WI (April 11, 2012) – Ellen L. Brothers, President of American Girl and Executive Vice President of Mattel, announced today her decision to retire after 17 years with the company. Jean McKenzie, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Mattel, will assume the leadership position as Executive Vice President of American Girl as of September 1, 2012. Ms. Brothers will remain on as an advisor until December 31, 2012. During the next five months, Ms. Brothers and Ms. McKenzie will begin making the leadership transition. link

[Nordic]

The only example of real keyword hijacking i've ever seen is Glenn Beck's hijacking of the term "The Overton Window" .

He wrote a book with that title, thus making it damn near impossible to google and find the true meaning of the term.

I don't even like to use the term kwh because our very own hmw didn't even know about seo until i told him about it due to his mm (monomania).

Glenn Beck is the poster child for demonstrating how the overton window works so it was only fitting.

[wordspeak2]

Sunny, yeah, but, "McKenna" as a girl's first name? Could be inspired by the "McKenzie" CEO? Could be you're right....

[Simulist]

Sunny, yeah, but, "McKenna" as a girl's first name? Could be inspired by the "McKenzie" CEO? Could be you're right....

Hey, Frank Zappa named his daughter "Moon Unit." "McKenna"? That's nuthin'.

[Weather Balloons]

Sunny, yeah, but, "McKenna" as a girl's first name? Could be inspired by the "McKenzie" CEO? Could be you're right....

That's a plausible idea, especially considering that Ms. McKenzie is taking over in 2012. I would think they would have just named the doll McKenzie then though since McKenzie seems to be a significantly more common first name for a girl than McKenna, albeit usually spelled Mackenzie as a first name.

Mackenzie as a girl's first name

Mckenna as a girl's first name

[Wombaticus Rex]

The only example of real keyword hijacking i've ever seen is Glenn Beck's hijacking of the term "The Overton Window" .

The all-time example, I agree, but there's been a lot more "soft" hits. I mean, P2 is a strange title for a horror film about parking.

[Stephen Morgan]

Thi bloke's into psychedelics? Well, given the long push for drugs by the intelligence services, with Leary and Owsley and the rest I can't see why they'd want to obscure him.

[wordspeak2]

Stephen, to say you're confused on the matter is a vast understatement. Try some mushrooms someday, and see for yourself.
"Drugs" are one thing; natural entheogens are completely another.

[MayDay]

That's hilarious, Stephen. I know you're not joking, but I can pretend you are.

[Joe Hillshoist]

Quick someone gives Morgs some mushies now.