Racist Gollum Slams Black Gospel Station

[Albert Hidel]

His name is George Dana Gollin not Gollum. The more his real name is posted on the web, the more likely it will be seen by the search engines as more relevant to a search for his usless self and dwarf his nice web sites about himself.

Good point, Brian.  I think we call him Gollum because of his disgusting physical and behavioral similarity to the literary character of that name.

Originally known as Sméagol, this character was later named Gollum after his habit of making "a horrible swallowing noise in his throat"....During his centuries under the Ring's influence, he developed a sort of split personality: "Sméagol" still vaguely remembered things like friendship and love, while "Gollum" was a slave to the Ring and would kill anyone who tried to take it. In The Two Towers, Samwise Gamgee named the good personality "Slinker" (for his fawning, eager-to-please demeanour), and the bad personality "Stinker" (for obvious reasons). The two personalities often quarrelled when Gollum talked to himself (as Tolkien puts it in The Hobbit, "through never having anyone else to speak to") and had a love/hate relationship, mirroring Gollum's feelings for the Ring and for himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gollum

But as you note, considering how University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign physics professor George Gollin (George D. Gollin, George Dana Gollin) spends so much of his "community service" time on self-promotion (even to the point of editing his own Wikipedia profile) it is important that he get full credit in public for all his bizarre activities and not just the ones he wants people to know about.