Ish

I Tweeted this earlier (I'm on Twitter @kristysf / Ish is there @Ish), but this is the kind of thing that goes through my head as I'm trying to fall asleep:

She Just Walks Around With It 2009

Writer, publisher, mother of two incipient adults, slave of cats: Barbara Friend Ish is the publisher of Mercury Retrograde Press, which publishes fantasy, science fiction, and interstitial works.

MIND MELD: The Best Genre Crossovers 2010

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ish'ma-el; 8 because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

Genesis 16. 1999

Similarly, one of his best friends and cricket coach, Ishaan (known as Ish), is not interested in religion either -- and is even less interested in combining religion and politics.

The 3 Mistakes of My Life by ChetanBhagat 2008

So does Kiko start calling Ish-later shown in all his shirtless glory-by his first name?

Anime Nano! 2009

Adam called his wife Ishah, and himself he called Ish, abandoning the name Adam, which he had borne before the creation of Eve, for the reason that God added His own name Yah to the names of the man and the woman -- Yod to Ish and He to Ishah -- to indicate that as long as they walked in the ways of God and observed His commandments, His name would shield them against all harm.

The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 Louis Ginzberg 1913

Smith gets call-back With Aaron Brooks suspended for Monday night's game, the Rockets recalled Ish Smith from the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA Development League.

chron.com Chronicle 2011

Smith gets call-back With Aaron Brooks suspended for Monday night's game, the Rockets recalled Ish Smith from the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA Development League.

chron.com Chronicle 2011

"Ish," as he's called by intimates, credited screenwriter Alex Garland, a longtime friend and novelist in his own right, with producing a "free, abstract structure which is more or less linear, and which still retains that texture of someone looking back and thinking."

Never Let Me Go: Ishiguro, Mulligan Speak About The Movie The Huffington Post News Team 2010

This fall, the league began airing short cartoons Monday nights on Nicktoons about a 10-year-old San Diego Chargers fan named "Ish" with football-player super powers who must fight evil overlord "Sudden Death" and free the "benevolent life force" trapped in the strongholds of the NFL's 32 stadiums.

The NFL Just Tackled Your Kids 2010