Roninspoon's Interview

My buddy Ed has been soliciting requests to be interviewed. Unfortunately, concomitant with the ego boost of having someone ask you to talk about yourself is the obligation to actually furnish them with a proper answer, and moreover to put it up on the internet, for all …

A Short Review of Randomly Selected Metal Band Names and Song

"War is My God", by Draugr

Rather good, I think. It makes a statement, which is a rare thing. It also employs metaphor, which shows that they're putting a little bit of effort in--unless it's actually about being a worshipper of the Greek god Ares, which is something I …

"Maigret, showing no excitement, looked at the ears of the man in green. That settled it." --Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett

The Lake

O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,

Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop,

With the bright little boxes

piled up neatly on the shelves

And the loose, fragrant cavendish

and the shag,

And the bright Virginia

loose under the bright glass …

Blog Import

Apparently there will be blog import "coming soon"—at that point I will just plug my proper blog into this page and it will populate itself.