Funny story: there was a Christmas program at the Stanford church/institute building that involved, among other things, me playing the guitar as a “travelling minstrel.” Someone showed up at the church and asked the guy at the door if this was the place where “Ed Johnson is playing guitar.” So the guy goes and gets me and brings me out. But it turns out that he was looking for the other Ed Johnson, who apparently was giving some kind of guitar performance at another church on Stanford Avenue. True story.

Whispers: Shhh Ed Ed, did they ask you for a bishop’s recommend?

And for a long time I was confused when I say the initials KHH. I kept thinking of the Kentucky HeadHunters, a redneck country band with hits including Redneck Girl, Dixie Fried, and the very popular It’s Chitlin’ Time.

I want to get this on a t-shirt. It is that deep….

But we cannot, at this point, rule anything out.

As for mistaken identity and impersonation, how are we to know that I am Jim F or that DKL is DKL, etc.? Perhaps sometimes I post responses over DKL’s name. In that case, however, the impersonation would probably quickly be found out since my posts would be witless in comparison. Perhaps I’ll give it some practice and see whether I can pull off posting as Nate Oman. It will require me actually to care about the law, but I might be able to fake that. I’m sure, however, that I could not impersonate Wilfried–unfortunately for me.

But I am concerned about the recent spate of mistaken identity that seems to have plagued Mormon Culture. Recently, for example, a school in Ogden booked Jon Stewart to MC at a gala there, thinking that they were hiring the host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” In fact, they got a former professional wrestler, also name, “Jon Stewart.” Check out the story here.

Not that there’s anything wrong with professional wrestling, but I do think that T&S has an obligation to make sure that we’re treated to guest posts from the real Ed Johnson and not the professional wrestler Ed Johnson.

One of your more recent guests passes himself off in the blogosphere under a variety of aliases, Juan Pena, Ivan Davidovich, Yohanna Ben-David, and Johannes Clerk, just to name a few. He probably is some kind of international man of mystery, but would you want your daughter dating somebody with that kind of background?

But anyway, it has been good to see both John and David at T&S, thank you both, and thanks to the Board of Directors for inviting you.