The Hermetic Library Anthology Album - Magick, Music and Ritual 3

I am happy to report that Jersey Petroleum's "As The Vessel Burns" has been released on The Hermetic Library Anthology Album -- Magick Music and Ritual 3.

Jersey Petroleum consists of Ron Bass (me) and John Stanford.

You can listen to "As The Vessel Burns" at this url:

bandcamp.hrmtc.com/track/as-the-vessel-burns

 

Cruel Women, Stupid Men

I applauded when I finished reading Cruel Women, Stupid Men. Dan Roentsch’s novel made me laugh out loud and think profound thoughts. If I happened to be Desmond Cork, one of the novel’s three group-blog writers, I would no doubt have prefaced the preceding sentence with a hipster-y: “Hey cats.” Des is a rock scholar at Belverton University (BelvU), who I’m guessing wrote his seminal work on Jethro Tull’s Thick As A Brick; a more dimwitted (yet loveable) academic is yet to be created. His fellow stupid-man blogger is Barry Fest, the director of the BelvU Press group blog. Fest is a condescending snob and sissy man par excellence who is kept literally under the thigh of his wife, the dreaded psychiatrist Dr. Victoria Wharton-Stone, who is trying to keep him away from the insidious BelvU techie Moliere, a winsome goth chick whose “female musk” aroma has Fest getting more and more progressively aroused. The third member of the BelvU group blog is cruel-woman Nefertiti Snorkjutt, an emotionally unstable dominatrix who uses her perch as Professor of Human Chattel Studies at BelvU to gratify her lust to punish and humiliate every representative of the male of the species without regard to whether or not there is consent on his part. Out of these three strands of narrative Roentsch weaves a hilarious and formally innovative whirlwind of a plot that involves: Congressman Slappy Goering, the presidential candidate of the Reformed Misogyny Party (which seems to have replaced the Democratic Party), who vows not to get an erection until after election day; the Babecat, Des’s erstwhile girlfriend, who is wooed away by the studly Bruce, who previously had topped Nefertiti Snokjutt, much to Snorkjutt’s own disgust; Moo Ridley, a notorious older woman of Belverton known far and wide for trapping young boys under her skirt, and with whom Barry Fest had an unfortunate encounter in his youth; and Mickey Snaketail, a legendary private eye who isn’t quite what he appears to be. As Desmond Cork might say: “Hey cats. Good News!! Material from the second volume of the BelvU group blog can still be grokked online at lumpenblog.com.”