The Brother, that is: Poet-Laureate of the Post-modern Counter-revolution. I am supposedly a member of this “post-modern counter-revolution” because I have accepted the statement: “There is truth.” He is possibly as strange as I am, and has a vast amount of knowledge on a wide variety of subjects.
Three Random Facts Gleaned from the Brother:
The “Titman 98” paintball gun is designed with a curved barrel which accelerates the paintball in such a way that it fires a perfectly straight shot up to 100 yards away. It costs over $100 for the barrel alone, even though it is a simple aluminum tube, “probably made in China,” that “they got no more than three bucks in.”
Extremely fine fly fishing rods are crafted from a piece of bamboo cut into sixty degree segments, epoxied together, finished by hand one degree at a time, and wrapped in silk. A high-quality fly fishing rod can run as high as $5,000. Also, the baby seals that get clubbed in the head are used to make one of the finest fly fishing baits known to man.
Our local power refinery in our small rural burg (population 20,000) at this very moment is a locked on target for a Russian ICBM.