I've been busy with recent personal issues, house and yard and my weekly vapid but hopefully entertaining OTs and thereby missed a bunch of major sturm und drang. Being curious I looked superficially into it and came up with dozens of great ideas for essays. I chose, however, to write this instead.

First, some basics:

What the hell is this place, anyway? It is a blog, a website, a community, a collection of authors and essays, commenters and comments, and music.

This evening's music features Chicago blues slide guitarist and singer, Johnny Littlejohn.