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About Me

I make my living as a field service engineer on laboratory chemistry equipment. But my passion is photography. Especially fantasy photography. Anything creative gets me interested. I love renaissance faires, heroic fantasy books and movies, and anything that shows imagination. I sincerely believe that when we are creative we are close to God, in whatever form He/She/It may be. Of course, I could be wrong.Since you've obviously got nothing better to do than read this nonsense anyway, go look at my photography at Barbarian Photography .

My Interests

Photography, Renaissance faires, music, literature, art, dance, history, science, poetry, spirituality, metaphysics, and anything else that might help me to understand.

I'd like to meet:

Fun, creative, artistic people with a flair for the unusual.Even if you aren't any of those, I might be interested in meeting you, too. Who knows?

Music:

Djilia Phralengo, Owain Phyfe, E Muzeki, Kevin Tyler, Blackmore's Night, Mediaeval Baebes, The Corsairs, Rambling Sailors, Rush, Warren Zevon, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, uhhh...and a bunch of other stuff.

Movies:

The Lord of the Rings, Classic Universal Horror Films (Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, etc.), Master and Commander The Far Side of the World, Pirates of the Carribbean, Kingdom of Heaven, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The 13th Warrior, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, The Magnificent Seven, uhh...and a bunch of other stuff.

Television:

Millennium, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, House, Mash, Scrubs, Corner Gas, uhh...and a bunch of other stuff.

Books:

The Lord of the Rings, Neil Gaiman, David Gemmel, Parick O'Brian, Richard Bach, the original Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser stories by Fritz Leiber, the original Conan stories by Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, uhh...and a bunch of other stuff.

My Blog

That faire quiz thing

Okay, this was making the rounds on Myspace a couple of days ago. I resisted it then (didn't really think the questions were all that interesting). But I finally fell for it... 1. T...
Posted by Roger on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:24:00 PST

Aloha, Part Two

Here are a few pictures from Hawaii. Yes, eventually these and others will get posted on Pbase. But for now, here’s a "preview": From the luau that was going on the night I a...
Posted by Roger on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:20:00 PST

Aloha

Several people have asked about the trip to Hawaii. There’s no way I’m gonna write a blog about that whole trip, it would be far too long. But what I have done is grabbed my si...
Posted by Roger on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:34:00 PST

Luminary

Imagine for one second you could drop in on a past life. What would you like to find yourself doing there? What would charm you, make you proud? Ask yourself that, and the question o...
Posted by Roger on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:26:00 PST

End of the Season

"Whoever has createdAn abiding friendship,Or has wonA true and loving wife,All who can call at least one soul theirs,Join in our song of praise;But any who cannot must creep tearfullyAway from our cir...
Posted by Roger on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:26:00 PST

Lost a friend today...

Most of the people who will read this knew Jed, my 11 year old golden retriever. Today was his last day in this world.About two weeks ago he started to walk slowly and rest often. Monday n...
Posted by Roger on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:20:00 PST

The Way Out is the Way In

I saw Rush for the 4th time in my life last night. Jon, Jamie, Ernesto, Dave, and I (along with a few thousand other people) met at the DTE Energy Music Theater to hear my favorite ban...
Posted by Roger on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:03:00 PST

Sup?

"Blogging" is always a bit of a challenge for me. I'm a pretty private person, but once I get started here I tend to "spill it". Then, sometime later, I look it over and am a little dismay...
Posted by Roger on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:10:00 PST

Silver Leaf, Sirens, and Stupidity

A lot of people have been asking me "the story" behind what I wrote about Silver Leaf on Pbase http://www.pbase.com/rogerwiedyk/click_to_enter. I don't want to go into great detail here; but,&n...
Posted by Roger on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:11:00 PST

Interesting weekend

Saturday was Barbarian Badass Day at Silver Leaf. I'd have to call it a complete success. We had a gang of 10 to 12 (depending on the time of day) dressed in their best and acting...well.....
Posted by Roger on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:27:00 PST