I’m intrigued by a lot of the avatars. who or what are they?
I’l start off. Mine is my favorite actor, the inspired genius, Buster Keaton.
He and gf are about to build a house that will soon collapse all over him.
Currently it is the Zinaida Serebriakova “Self Portrait”
My “William” acount is a the Roger Fry portrait of one of my favorite poets: Dame Edith Sitwell
P.S: Now I recognize your avatar, it’s One Week!
Holo the Wisewolf. The greatest agricultural economist from an animated series.
This thread is already epic.
I figure mine is self-explanatory.
My current avatar is Friedrich Nietzsche. Duh.
Moving back in time:
Commander Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion, my favorite show
Maes Hughes from Fullmetal Alchemist
One of my favorite surrealist paintings
Mine is Radiohead, although they don’t favour my particular understanding of how the economy works, their music is absolutely amazing. And, when they released In Rainbows, they did what most anti-intellectual property musicians would do, and made their album free, and asked for people to only donate what they can. It, to me, was the greatest album released of all time except for some Beatles albums, and as a result I have fallen in love with the band.
Mine is a humorous jab at one of my favorite movies, 300. My first job was mopping the floor of a grocery store before closing each night. So it’s particularly humorous for me personally.
Here’s a clip of the relevant scene:
The movie treaded dangerously close to being overly furtive but mostly managed to pull it off, especially if you have a soft-spot for boys’ literature, which is where I first read the story of the 300 Spartans at the age of 12; it completely blew my mind. 300 versus one million. Good god. And it’s a true story!
Clayton -
I was actually thinking of asking the same question of the user on here with the mouse avatar (why? does he feel like the elite’s lab rat?)
Anyway, when I registered for these forums I thought that I was gonna mean some pretty radical/rebellious people. At the time, LulzSec was pretty popular, so I decided what better symbol of anti-authoritarianism than LulzSec? Of course, I did it mostly as a joke, partly parodying libertarians (lightly), because I’m not really a typical rebellious teenager.
I decided to keep it because it looks cool 
Now it could be a capitalist pig
@Wheylous: That’s gamma_rat. I think it comes from a Doug Casey article where he talks about alpha, beta and gamma rats. Alpha rats try to hoard all the females and “control” the beta rats, who submit to the system. Gamma rats, on the other hand, do not attempt to control any of the other rats and simply wait for the opportunity to become their own alpha rat or, at least, mate with the female rats when the alpha rat isn’t looking.
Clayton -
Muffinburg = muffin + castle
Hence, the avatar.
Why didn’t I realize that before???
Anyway, I think my avatar is self-explanatory because 1) Captain Picard and 2) facepalm.
My first avatar was the creator of the greatest webcomic of all time, Andrew Hussie
This is his webcomic
My second avatar was Lil B, the most ridiculous star in hip hop
[view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5gKerbnLE]
Current avatar is from one of my favorite manga, Battle Angel Alita
You can read it here
http://www.mangahere.com/manga/battle_angel_alita/v001/c001/
generic avatar given by the website.
Sterling Archer, codename DUCHESS, from the tv series Archer. In disguise. I used to use a recent picture of Axl Rose.
I think that I used to have Rothbard as my avatar.
I know of Mr. Hussie through his YouTube alter-ego, Gazorra.
So THAT’S why this guy calls another TV character named Archer “Duchess”! LOL!
My avatar is a picture of Sadi Carnot, the important French physicist and thermodynamicist, and I guess my keeping his avatar is a small tribute to the enoyment I had learning and applying the concepts he came up with and are named after him.
Before that my avatar was Wolfgang Pauli, who unfortunately many people here thought was a Lost character. Primitives…