My friend Adam brings a question to me: is Moby (aka Richard Melville Hall) really related to Moby-Dick author Herman Melville. Notes: A screenshot of Moby's Wikipedia page, taken May 2023 Excerpt from the Afterword of Moby's 2016 memoir, Porcelain (2016) Tweet from Moby (@thelittleidiot): "On this day in 1851…" Tweet from Moby (@thelittleidiot): "Happy Birthday Uncle Herman…" Background on Moby's career was compiled from several sources including:  Moby's memoirs Porcelain (2016) and Then It Fell Apart (2019); Grayson Haver Currin, "All That Moby Needs to Be Good," NPR, May 22, 2020 Rob Gordon Bralver documentary, Moby Doc (2021)   Clip from "Rave Dancing the Night Away," Philadelphia Inquirer, September 13, 1992  Clip from "Moby Bright Spot in a Colorless World," Los Angeles Times, January 18, 1993 Clip from "Moby: Remixed, repulsed, reborn," Hartford Courant, March 12, 1995 Video of Moby's segment with Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards Clips of Moby discussing his childhood from Moby Doc (2021) Obituary of James Frederick Hall, Bridgewater Courier News, September 26, 1967 Clip of Moby discussing childhood in San Francisco, taking LSD from Porcelain (2016) Clip of Moby talking about his nickname from an interview with Steve Paikin on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin Melville's family tree of direct descendents, taken from Hershel Parker's Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 2 (1851-1891)  "Metaphors? I hate metaphors…" clip from Parks and Recreation episode "Fluoride" (Season 6, Episode 8) "Though I wrote the Gospels in this century…" quote from Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, June [1?], 1851   Music by Blue Dot Sessions, closing theme Breakmaster Cylinder. 

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