I'm not sure how I knew it was him -  I just sort of smelled him...  just the feel of the alter ego name and the language he uses. which incidentally disproves Mark K-punk's theories about the impersonality of text-based communications -  the voice manages to creep in, despite the nature of the medium. it's like the fingerprint of someone's mind. I wanna do some massive pro-personhood post dealing with all this, the importance of charisma, grain of the voice, intonation, voice as "language lined with flesh" as Barthes had it. 

it's like with MC-based music, it's not  really understandable or enjoyable except in terms of the voice, character, idioysyncracy, the rhythm of someone's thought.

(once again bloggers = MCs)

although i suppose that said,  the word "character" is ambiguous, meaning both a role you theatrically play and your truest deepest authentic self. persona versus personality. 

hmmm...