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How often do we not just not see, but do not even bother to look?  If this be asked of the driver of minivan chariots upon the Siliconian Way, also called "the 85" by provincials, then the answer must be: pretty much all the time.     We have often heard ill spoken of the driving skills of "Asian chicks;" but in Gilmoricus' experience upon the Siliconian Way, equal mayhem has surely been caused by the men-folk hailing from those lands far East of Parthia.     This very morning, as I rode north on my steed Xenia, one such charioteer did so precipitously veer into the HOV lane that I feared for my life. I sounded my war cry (or horn) and bumped the armor upon my right knee on the minivan chariot's door, escaping mortality by a hair.      One might think this charioteer should have seen Gilmoricus galloping forth between lanes; more yet, one might think a wise man of such venerable years ought to be found on Wednesday morn in the library, or the...
This morning, while the gods forced me to listen to Quiet Riot as I shaved my beard in the shower room, I reflected that the ascending guitar arrangement behind the verse for “ Bang your Head ” is so similar to the arrangement from Def Leppard’s “ Let it Go ” that it could have been a complete fucking ripoff.  Indeed, as I thought more and listened to the brain-dead tones of the former composition, I realized the Def Leppard song was a far superior composition, and that, in fact, I like Def Leppard, especially their deep reflection on Saturnalian release , to which even a man of duty and discipline is entitled on occasion. I rejoiced over discovering this important truth from my past. For it was Def Leppard that opened a Blizzard of Ozz show I once attended at the Bangor Auditorium in my youth, accompanied by Christopher Machias Trentonius Stroustah. I also rejoiced over glimpsing a woman in tight orange gym wear who seemed to me almost unreal, a phantom of perfect femi...