This blog, of course, is not secret--the title, an in-joke about one of the funniest Tolkien sites on the web (Cassandra Claire's "The Very Secret Diaries of the Lord of the Rings").

As a relative pioneer in web-medievalism (first saw email in fall of 1979, and first had it in 1984; member of the Ansaxnet mailing list by 1990; present at the conference session where Deborah Everhart and Martin Irvine introduced the seminal Labyrinth website in 1993), great was my consternation to learn just now (July, 2007) that many of my fellow medievalists have been blogging like mad about medieval studies and about being professors for rather quite some time. People are supposed to tell me this kind of stuff. Yes, this may well mean you. The fact that I never really started reading blogs in general before now is no excuse (for you, that is).

Some have even dared to take the name of the Kalamazoo conference in vain, and to heap abuse on the Saturday dance, the most entertaining of all human festivities. (Although I admit that the Hindu festival of Holi may be a strong contender. On a related note: you need to see the film "Outsourced." (poster here) The Seattle Int'l. Film Fest just ran an extra screening on the last night of the festival due to the demand, and it filled up. I will say just one thing about this film: "Monkey pulls the turnip!")

Of course you realize this means war.  Or at least a blog with my own checkered perspective on life, the universe, and everything. In the immortal words of Lloyd Bridges as Mandelbaum: It's go-time.

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