So Larry was laughing because he was telling me this story about yet another somebody mangling the company name when he was out to brunch this weekend, and I asked him if it was OK if I told the Secret Origin of the Name AiT/Planet Lar™ on the blog.
"Sure, OK," he said. "Knock yourself out."
Yes, he really does talk like that.
It turns out that when he was in college, he used to play that B-52s song, "Planet Claire," kind of a lot. And since half his friends called him "Lar" for short, anyway, after a while it just became "Planet Lar." He says there's words for a whole "Planet Lar" song, too, but he won't sing them. First time I ever saw him embarrassed. We should get him to do it at APE. Or track down some of his college friends.
He did a fanzine called "Planet Lar" every week for a year back in 1995, so when the Snell Brothers folded up Gun Dog Comics, he and Mimi decided to keep publishing Astronauts in Trouble under the name "Planet Lar." They threw AiT in front, because that was what everyone called the book, anyway.
So there it is. The Secret Origin of the Name AiT/Planet Lar™.
--Josh
Today at AiT/Planet Lar
March 20, 2006
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