On the plane back from New York, I was reading a Ray Bradbury short story collection that Mindy’d got me for my birthday. (Parenthetically, I was sort of surprised to see that Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales isn’t a “best-of” at all: no “I Sing the Body Electric,” no “There Will Come Soft Rains,” no “A Sound of Thunder,” etc. I was a little surprised at first, but a little Internet research makes it looks like this newish collection is actually a sequel to 1980’s The Stories of Ray Bradbury, with all-new, second-tier contents. I guess this one should really be subtitled “Stories 101-200 in a List of His Most Celebrated Tales.”)

Anyway. The cover of Bradbury Stories is as shown at left, with “BRADBURY” in navy blue and the letters within “BRADBURY” that spell “RAY” in white. I thought this was pretty cool and wondered: are there other famous people who first name is contained, in order though not necessarily consecutively, within their last?

Ray makes it looks so effortless that you’d think there would be lots of others, but I spent about half an hour trying to name some and could only come up with one: sportscaster Al MichAeLs. I tried to interest the assembled Grand Slam brain trust into thinking of others, but evidently even the Sony greenroom provided too much stimulus for a dull pursuit like this one.

But hey, this is the Internet. There’s got to be lots of bored people out there. Can anybody think of other “kangaroo” celebrities like bRAdburY and michAeLs?