Off For a Week

I realize that loyal Lair readers (I suppose viewers would be a better word these days) may not notice, but I’ll be off on a secret mission for the next week, so there probably won’t be much in the way of posting until about May 15. Rest assured that Keyser will be thinking of you! [...]

Keyser’s Back

Had a week of various ventures whose details must, sadly, remain secret for reasons of national security and general concern for the delicate sensibilities of the readership. Suffice it to say that Keyser is pretty tired after a successful mission of socio-political machinations and watching of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Nothing like a combination [...]

Bye for a Week

For the next week, your old friend Keyser will be off on another secret mission. I could tell you what it is, but then you’d have to be eliminated “with extreme prejudice”, and we all know how frowned upon prejudice is these days, so that’s a no-go. So don’t be worried about Keyser’s well being. [...]

Blast from the Past

You know, back in the day Keyser used to write a lot on this blog, talking about economics and other abstruse shit like quantum physics (and Keyser’s fundamental disbelief in it). Well, somebody recently put a comment on an old post, so I went back and read it after replying (jocularly) to the comment. Now, [...]

Back in the Day

I just learned that today is the twenty-seventh anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. Back in that year, your old friend Keyser was in the middle of his second year of doctoral studies at Harvard. I was feeling disaffected for various reasons (the Horned One wasn’t being cooperative), so I was thinking of dropping [...]

Keyser’s Back: After a Fashion Edition

Mrs. S. and Keyser were off on a vacation (yeah, really, first time in four years!), hence the lack of posting recently. Well, not entirely, things have also been hectic (“The loser’s making excuses again. Pathetic.”) Actually, things are still hectic. We’ll see how it goes… Anyway, what we were seeing was stuff like what [...]

Keyser Has a “Milestone”

And, Christ, are they painful to “pass”! Truth be told, Keyser has now been on this earth for fifty years. The festivities are about to start (and the dancing goyles are getting a bit rambunctious), so I’ll have to shut down the computer for a while to put it aside and make sure no ill [...]

Great Art Takes a Long Time: Keyser’s Pathetic Excuse Edition

You know, Keyser’s been feeling bad about letting down the Interwebz World Team by not posting much anymore, and just sticking up some funny/lewd pictures with the occasional humorous heading. I thought it was a matter of having lost inspiration. But you know what? It just takes too God damned long to compose even a [...]

Tortoises Are Bad-Assed Fuckers

This “motivator” reminds me of something that happened to your old friend Keyser many years ago. I was visiting the ancient city of Cassope in Epirus with a group. (And by the way, it’s a great place to see. The city’s population was dragged off by the emperor Augustus, along with those of a number [...]

Max the Cat, 1992-2012

Twenty years ago, Keyser was living with the ex-Mrs. Söze in Somerville MA while he was finishing his doctorate in daemonology at Harvard. One morning in late June we woke up to hear some plaintive mewing from the driveway alongside our apartment building. It was raining fairly hard, and there was this little kitten sitting [...]