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August Wahnsinger: Adventures in North Jersey

August has just finished his write-up on the Wicked Winter Renaissance Faire, and speaks glowingly of all the individuals and events he took in.

A happy August is an August who is less likely to hold the free-world for ransom with a death ray.

So check out "My Weekend at the Wicked Winter Faire and the Fawlty Towers Hannover, NJ".

A Message from Northern Canada

A letter came in the mail for me today bearing the seal of the Inter-National Society for Exploring Science, Nature and the Esoteric (INSENSE). This could only mean one thing – August had urgent matters for me to take care of:

Dear Mr. Williams,

As you may be aware, I intend to spend some time this coming February, the weekend of the 20^th - 22^nd to be exact, in the Tri-State area. It appears that a festival of some infamy and notoriety shall be taking place, and my colleagues in INSENSE have advised that I should represent them.

The festival in question is the Wicked Winter Renaissance Faire in Whippany, NJ, which, despite its name, also boasts appearances from some of the most notorious and deviant characters from the Middle Ages, Enlightenment and Victorian periods as well. I have already noted that I shall be attending as a representative of INSENSE, and I also hope to generate some interest in these visions that have haunted me since the tenderest of ages. Your lovely wife also appears scheduled to make an appearance at that fashion show on the 20^th. As always, I look forward to seeing her creations tremendously.

You, of course, being the agent for my affairs in the Tri-State area shall see that the INSENSE clubhouse in Murray Hill has a room reserved for me, and will also arrange for a lunch meeting with our dear friend Chester the Penguin. If you can, I would also appreciate an evening with Poe's ghost. I hear he's about the Bronx at this time of year, too, and we never finished that go

And finally, I will require two fresh cadavers for my presentation to the INSENSE general assembly the night before I fly out. You always find me the freshest corpses, Williams! It's why you're the right chap for the job!

Give my regards to the Missus.

Yours truly,
August "Graveyards Are My Dancefloor" Wahnsinger

So there you have it, folks! If you ever wanted to meet Mr. Wahnsinger, he shall be in attendance at this faire, evidently. Something tells me he'll be hovering about around a very specific crowd.

August Wahnsinger: Effrontery at Our "New Year"

Hello, everyone!

August decided to send over a bit of New Year's cheer, and he seems to basically do it by saying that he thinks our conception of "New Year's Day" is silly.

He's one to talk...

The Best of 2008

Well, it's over.

There's been good (the Porch kicking off, Blaster at Cornerstone, Unified Underground, Barack Obama being elected president), There's been bad (Arsenal's tragic season-and-a-half, my loss of the LotRO and ChristianWriters.com forums, the death of Gary Gygax, the economy tanking, Barack Obama being elected president). It's also been, by previous standards certainly, a rather productive blogging year for me.

Since this seems to be the thing to do right now (and it doesn't sound like a half-bad idea to myself) I'm going to go ahead and re-cap the best of Bootsandbibles.com for you lot right now.

It also helps that my brain still feels like it's also on holiday, despite my body being here at work.

Anyway, here are my favourites:

• "Sure, I'll Sign Your Pledge to Keep the Church-State Complex Going!"

• "Why I Don't Really Care All That Much About Easter"

• "How To Shake My Faith"

• "The Music of the Spheres"

• "On Simon Magus and Bad Revivals"

• "Viral"

• "Your Best Death Now"

• "The Franchise Church (Intro - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Appendix)"

• "Philippians 1:15-18 – Because Context Counts for A Lot"

• "I Think I Actually Want McCain to Win"

• "Whiddling Away With What Wrongs We Live On"

• "August Wahnsinger: Issue #0"

• "The Ol' Moon-Stompin'"

• "A Beam of Light, Applied Directly to Forehead"

• "On Taking People Hostile to Your Beliefs to a Celebration of Said Beliefs, and Then Expecting Them to Convert"

• "The Writing Scene"

• "Gut Reactions"

• "How Far Could My Materialism Go?"

• "The Black Rose of the No Man's Land"

• A Field Guide to Logical Fallacies: "The Straw Man", "Hasty Generalisation"

• "Unified Underground 2008"

• "Mainstream for/vs. the Underground?"

• "I'd Say 'Boots and Braces Don't Make a Racist', But These Idiots Don't Even Have Those", and directly related, "Few More Thoughts..."

• "And the Beast Lumbers On... – Part 2: Happy Guy Fawkes Day, Everybody!"

• "The Brain Drain: or The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret"

• "I Don't Belong Here"

• "Black Friday Redux; or I Already Blogged About This Nonsense", and directly related, "As If to Prove My Point"

• "August Wahnsiner: Peddler to the Masses"

• "I Can't Get Too Excited About This..."

• "This is the Kind of Thing That Causes Me to Pound My Head So Hard Against My Desk That It Starts Bleeding, and Then Covers My Desk in Blood, Ruins My Work, and Causes Me to Get in Trouble, Despair More, and Pound My Head Into the Desk Again."

• "A Public Service Announcement re: Goths and Emo Kids"

• "I Am Officially 'Bah, Humbug!'-ing Again"

• "Christian Foot-Soldiers of the Shadow Government – A Review of Jeff Sharlet's The Family", and directly related, "Some Clarifications from the Source"

• "Don't Forget - They're Called Elves for a Reason"

Now, if you're as bored at work as I am today, then you should have ample time to read through every single one of those!

Anyway, I hope you enjoy reading the backlogs of 2008. I'm sure 2009 will have all types of nasty surprises waiting in store for us!

A Well-Earned Honour

All hail Sir Pratchett!