EP/MP — Name of the day

EP completists (hi, Dad!) will want to peruse the September issue of Modern Painters, which has my short review of John Porcellino's King-Cat compendium. (Alas, it's not online, though I'll try to get it onto The Unarchivable soon.)

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Some interesting names have been cropping up lately, nomen-omenishly or not: Yurbiladyberth, Jack Hammer, and Poopa Dweck.

But I think this one might be my favorite. He's an associate of beleaguered Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu. He is...Winkle Paw!

The only public evidence of Mr. Hsu’s connection to some of the political contributors who appear in his company’s financial ledger can be found in campaign finance filings. On several occasions, two donors, Winkle Paw, a financial analyst in California, and Paul Su, a computer company executive in New York, described themselves as partners in Mr. Hsu’s companies.