Friday, March 9, 2007

Initial Gratituous WTF Is This Blog About?

OK, boys and girls...this blog will be about: geekdom, politics, gaming (tabletop RPGs like D&D and the Serenity RPG, World of Warcraft, Warhammer 40K Dawn of War), computers, Guinness, sf/f, ancient and medieval history, spirituality, art, military science, cats, weight loss, tech support and love.

It will not be about big-money sports, TV, big-money sports on TV, domestic American "beer," fishing, hunting, SUVs, game consoles, most anime, Fox News, the stock market, local TV news, the mainstream media godhead, Hollywood celebrities . . . except to mock them and heap upon them the contempt they so manifestly deserve.

What about the name of this here blog? Easy. "Operation Mindf*ck" is from the Illuminatus! trilogy by the late Robert Anton Wilson and the late Robert Shea. Think of it as The X-Files meets the Marx Brothers (including Karl!) meets very obscure 1960s cultural referants. I replaced the conventional four-letter vulgarism in the original with "fsck," which is a Unix command to verify and repair a computer's filesystem.

2 comments:

fionn320 said...

Hey Rich. That's a good picture of you.

RichO said...

T like that one, too. It was taken with the camera on my Mac at a D&D game with the old group over at Rob Suarez's house back in September.