Trazom
Recruitment
Hot —> Trazom.
Source: npl-folk email from Trazom.
Recruits
None.
Nom
My nom is the obvious reversal. The interesting thing though is that it was he who came up with it, not I. Cf. E. Winternitz: “Gangflow [sic] Trazom: An Essay on Mozart's Script, Pastime, and Nonsense Letters,” in _Journal of the American Musicological Society_, vol. xi (1958), p. 200.
Combinoms
I've combiflatted with Hot, Qaqaq, Xemu, Beacon, and once erroneously with Aesop (turned out the base had come from Plaid – I forgot). Maybe others, I'm not sure; I don't do much of it. But no interesting stories really. All the combinoms have been boringly orthodox except HOTTOTRAZOM.
Pronunciation: TROT-sum.
- Hottotrazom: Hot/Trazom.
Offices
- President (1990-93)
- 1st Vice President (1990)
- Cryptic crossword coeditor (1995 - present)
- Coeditor of National Puzzlers’ League Cryptic Crosswords (2005)
- Con host, Berkeley CA (1988)
- Con host, Confrancisco (2000)
