PaNaTa “Natty” Alford Gregory

Traces of Texas

PaNaTa, y’all. Do you see this name? With random capitalization? And it’s not even a contrived, trying-uber-hard-to-be-unique NBA name. I can’t even hazard as to why they wrote it that way, but goodness, it looks like a series of elements on the periodic table. Protactinium, Sodium, Tantalum. Awesome.

Look at that tree from which she stems!! Puchethi? Fernaty? Are you kidding me? Chief Techumseh, a manatee, Puck from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and some meth? You can’t make this up.

Deep breath. I presume y’all don’t have any facebook friends named PaNaTa. I’m just gonna go out on a limb here and call this one special. Now I don’t know if that rhymes with banana, but I sho nuff do know that it’s just one letter’s difference from a Mexican fiesta! Ole! Oh, honey, I wonder if they called her piñata.

I guess they didn’t–because her…