Welcome To The Show

Hello Everyone,

As you might have guessed, I've started another blog. I wanted a place to chill out, and do more writing and less ranting. I've never been very good at keeping book journals, and as I'm at the computer for a good part of the day (probably too long), I thought maybe an e-journal might help.

I'm going to stay away from serious political, religious and social issues as much as I can here. Like I said, I want this blog to be looser, more fun. If it's ranting you want, check out Constantine's Sidearm or my website, SPQA.org. Plenty of that at those sites.

Here you will find, in addition to largely boring and mundane updates on my life, some short stories, poems, scribbles, wit & wisdom, musings, crap that I've been working on for years, links to stuff I find nifty or otherwise entertaining, anecdotes of various kinds, thoughts on religion and spirituality, keys to strange and terrible vistas of esoteric thought, unpaid (for now) and unsolicited product endorsements, flights of fancy...well, you get the idea. Basically, just me being strange.

Perfectly Logical Nonsense. Which was going to be the title of this blog, but I liked The Ripper McQueen Show better.

Why The Ripper McQueen Show? First of all, it's a Python-esque title; if you don't know what "Python-esque" means, climb out from the dull box of your existence and find out. It will be worth it, trust me. Go to your favorite search engine and type in "Python" with a capital "P". (But not now: stay with me here.)

Secondly, I've always secretly wanted to be called "Ripper", but a) I've never really had any nickname; b) I've never been able to come up with a good enough reason to ask people to start calling me "Ripper"; c) when most people think of the name "Ripper" they think of crazy people running around cutting people into tiny bits for various reasons, instead of the rugged, sort-of-handsome American/British Hero of the Frontier/Punjab like I do.

McQueen? "The Ripper Show" sounded weird even to me, so I needed another cool, rugged name. And Steve McQueen is about the coolest, rugged-est cat ever, so there you go. And "The Ripper McQueen Show" was born. Can you dig it?

So if you want, come along for the ride, bumpy, erratic and careening though it may be. What the hell else are you going to do? Waste two pointless hours on Facebook? Waste 20 or 30 pointless minutes here.