Italian Fish

Welcome to Italian Fish, an international conglomerate of companies, service providers and bad ideas. (It was a hilarious name when I concocted it, but it is a very inside joke. As in, some people inside didn’t get it.)

Italian Fish is a holding company and each of its subsidiaries is rather unique. (I say “unique” because spell-check kept rejecting “bizarre.”) In case I don’t have an About page for any of them, I put a short description here.

  • BoogerWillie
    • A reflection on my inability to remember names. When all else fails, create a term of endearment.
  • CrabbyGram
    • Dedicated to my mom-in-law. RIP.
  • FeBBS
    • Dedicated to my dogs, past and present (and probably future).
  • Gilhooligans International
    • A name created by one of my co-workers for a sample IBM client during my final days running a cloud consultancy. Bad job, great name.
  • Planet Xriva
    • Mapping my travels around – mostly business. See eighteenknots for leisure travels.
  • Stagecoach VII
    • My only band experience. Tragic.
  • SuperKlutz
    • An ode to my beloved spouse, written in emergency rooms across the country.
  • The Texas & New Jersey Railroad
    • This is the personal railroad that would have saved me driving around the country.

I always wanted to be rich and famous. Well, rich. The way to do that today seems to be becoming a celebrity, for which I have no aptitude (or physique), or starting a world-famous company which people have heard about, but nobody is really sure what it does. I have started a number of small companies, but none of them ever took off – and I realized it is because none of them had a cool, meaningless brand name.

All the cool domain names are held by squatters (there’s a business I should have started years ago.)

This domain name was left. Italian Fish. Easy to pronounce, two independent entities that make sense together. As a brand, it can be anything – a restaurant, women’s shoes, a cool boutique, a search engine. So, there’s lots of room for growth and diversification. This is a good thing, since I have dabbled in creating an on-demand airline, band management (Stagecoach VII), running a railroad and light entertainment (FEBBS), so far.

I just have to figure out what I’m going to be when I grow up.

Kevin Gilhooly
Founder
Dallas, TX