Gawain and the Moor proceeded west thanks to the quick thinking of Senor Eduardo. Well quicker thinking than the two blue bloods anyway. There was a mystery about the west.Everyone knows that east is east and west is west. And...
AN ODE TO Old NickTwas the night before doomsdayWhen all through the martsNot a damn thing was stirringNot even the shopping cartsMortgages had been bundled byTheft merchants without careIn hopes that someone elseWould get caught holding scaredThere were almost three...
I'm writin me a blogI'm the pajama manI'm writin' me a blog todayFor we're all in the mood for a good essayAnd everyone's readin all nightOh Its nine o'clock on a SaturdayThe regular bloggers start loggin' inThere's an old man...
Senor Eduardo was in a pensive mood. He was always exhilarated by the quest, by the hunt. With Sir Palidan he had found the best partner. Palidan had already fired one of Senor's caretakers for negligence. The best horse in...
Here we ago again, Daily Beast summarizing the NYT: Could the familiar story of the Iraq war's early bungled reconstruction effort get any worse? Yes, it could. The military is now investigating its own senior officers, who are suspected of...
Lancelot and Palidan were proceeding east having ditched their previous dates at the inn. Eduardo began neighing again. His laugh became more and more uproarious until Palidan was having trouble staying on the saddle. All right, all right. Everybody makes...
I came across this at The Daily Beast yesterday:Hillary Transue, 17, of Wilkes-Barre, PA, knew something was wrong when she was sentenced to three months in juvenile detention for making fun of her assistant principal on MySpace in 2007. "I...
The Mystery Continues; Episode IIIThe Feast of St. ValentineWell why are we meeting in the French Count's room, inquired Iseult.Because I can no longer rent the anteroom, or the ante anteroom for that matter. It is getting so one cannot...
A MYSTERY PART DEAUX The morning always comes sooner when you cogitate through most of the night. Sir Rathbone really attempted to fit all the clues into some paradigm over his favorite scotch and this new vice from Asia he...
THE DEATH OF LAGAMOR, A MYSTERY IN PARTSSnerf was walking his rounds again with Macaca, his trusty monkey. I wish I was back with the peasantry. I so dislike the aristocracy. The peasants are revolting, the peasants are revolting.I am...
One day, after meandering the forest to find scrub wood from its plentiful floor, I looked down and espied a small toad clinging for life next to a tree. It was the last month of winter and I could hear...
THE TRIAL OF KAYProceed with jury selection counselor, said the King.You are Sir Lagamor of Caerleon? Asked Bedivere, chief prosecutor.Yes, Sir.Do you know Sir Kay, the defendant in this matter?I know of him. That is, ten years ago I challenged...
Senor Eduardo and the Moor arrived at Joyous Gard, in Cornwall in pretty good time and in pretty good shape. Now let me do all the talking Sir Palidan said. Who goes there? Cried the Palace Guard from the turret....
Meanwhile, back at CamelotTwo lines queued to the Grand Living Room, all the way around the castle and across the moat.It was the annual, Old Stuff Road Show. The traveling experts on old stuff came across the Channel to Camelot...
Lancelot awoke on a wooden bed stuffed with straw and covered with animal skins. His room had two beds and a window. He attempted to rise.Ooooooh, that hurts. He managed to get to the window anyway to peruse his new...
"What executives have done is troubling, but it's equally troubling to have government telling shareholders how much they can pay the executives," said Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL). HUFPO-TODAY Why is it that every time I see an issue become part...
Meanwhile, back at Camelot...The King of the Roundish Table was firm enough after his catastrophe a fortnight before, to meander down to the great living room. When I say meander, I mean that he went very slowly because...
Introibo ad Altari DeiSo the morning Mass began. Lancelot was beside himself with a grief gnawing at his chivalrous soul. Gwenivere had said goodby. He was now alone as he had almost always been, only this time there was a...
Quinn returned to Marhaut after having a rather romping time with the previous hedge hogs. It never occurred to him that you could have a romping time with previous hedge hogs. Just as he returned, Marhaut awoke.Laddy, I must have...
Palidan packed up forthwith on a quest to Cornwall. King Mark had summoned him since Tristan was otherwise disposed. The Moor was always suspicious of foreigners but he had gotten used to the crowd at Camelot. They represented something bold,...
