If you only have enough space in your brain for one new blog this week, that one blog should be Paracelsus Rambles. Paracelsus is the pen name (keyboard and mouse name?) of a former housemate, Edward Whittington Gulley, better known as Ned (and occasionally Nedward or even Neodore).

Ned and I had many a silly time together, such as when we became obsessed with the Monty Python Cheese Shop Skit ("I'm afraid we're fresh out of Red Leicester"). We finally resolved the problem by throwing a party for several dozen of our closest friends where each guest had to bring a different kind of cheese (Adam Finkelstein brought Fontina)

But I digress. I am writing to tell you about Ned's blog, which is written with the genuine hail-fellow-well-met good cheer that Ned is famous for. He unleashes his wide ranging, curious and clever mind and will inform and entertain you with his essays on, for example, optical illusions, the Civil War veterans in his family tree, and the Amish. It's kind of like a one-man Atlantic Monthly, with web-bite-sized articles.

Just go read Paracelsus Rambles already. And tell him that some guy named Phil from the corner of Filbert and Fillmore sent you.