Folklore

Odd and funny things that are true and fit nowhere else on the site. Coverage is on Press.

• Getty Degas Doppelgänger · Luke posted himself beside a Degas self-portrait at the Getty; the museum reposted it, and the photo later wandered through the international museum-doppelgänger meme swamp.
• Find Minjim · The proved paternal line ends at John T. Walton. The page traces the leading theory: Minjum Walton of Cumberland, probable son of George Walton, married Sally F. Mann, and John T. is a serious hypothesis for their son. A 2005 genealogy’s Maurice is an expansion of an unexplained M. in a 1997 compilation. Kerns lists Maurice and Minjum as two sons, which is his list and not a proved birth. Luke does not know whether that man is a relative. It is unproved.
• Urban Dictionary · Bobson Dugnut, September 15, 2022: an indie musician who named the project after a meme and wears a dog mask, and who produced the new CHAI record. The same page has other definitions that are not about him.
  
  In 2023, Walton and his wife adopted a rescue dog and named him Bobson Dugnutt.

  

• Shibuya, World Series Game 1 · Walton was at Fields in Shibuya for Game 1 of the 2024 World Series, cheering for Shohei Ohtani with the rest of the bar. He is in the back right, in a white t-shirt, round glasses, and a blue hat. His wife photographed the television. The FOX broadcast had the room on screen.

  

• Minjim Minjum · Luke’s uncle, Joshua Walton, gave him a family genealogy that seemed off. He checked it against the Mormon records and the courthouse records. The proved line ends at John T. Walton. Minjam Walton of Cumberland County, Virginia, spelled Minjum on an 1831 deed, is a man those checks reached, not an ancestor the records establish. He does not know whether that man is a relative. He cannot go further than that with any confidence. He kept the name anyway, more or less: Minjim Minjum is an Alabama royal claimant in The Signatories. Find Minjim.

Fictional websites

Off-domain websites for people and places in Luke’s fiction. They are written in character. The people, the bar and the venue are fictional.

Shouts to my dude, Kendall Walton. Waltonian make-believe, produced by Walton. The sites run on Surmado, except OUTHERE, which is left to fend for itself.

• barspaniels.com · Bar Spaniel's, a fictional craft-beer bar in Japan. In Japanese, with an English page. From When Gods Meet.
• cawleen.com · cawleen, a fictional London artist, co-created with Jonathan Gillie. Also a character on the planned MÖBIUS LP. From The Signatories.
• outhere.london · OUTHERE, the fictional London venue where cawleen plays. Its archive lists Scoobert Doobert and FEiN as a cameo; those were never real shows. From The Signatories.
• burtcashman.com · Burt Cashman, a fictional jingle composer. A major character on the planned MÖBIUS LP, and a credited performer on it. From MÖBIUS.

Each site’s footer says it is fiction and links to lukefwalton.com and to the work it comes from (signatoriesnovel.com, whengodsmeet.com, or the MÖBIUS page). cawleen.com and outhere.london link to each other. barspaniels.com links to whengodsmeet.com, the project’s factual page, which is not in character. Each site’s structured data names Luke F. Walton as creator and marks its subject as fictional.