Friday, December 18, 2009

I am Laban Falstaff

Greetings. I am Laban Falstaff... I call this Blog "The Last Vagabond" more out of the pressing need for a header than anything...so don't get too attatched to it.
I wanted to have a place to record my stories, my memories, and my experiences from my travels around the world, and since I'm too old just to sit on a park-bench waitng for some poor soul to sit down and so get trapped in my odd tales, it seems more efficient for me to put them all here, and you can come and be trapped at your leisure...
I am just an old man...I have no insights or wisdom to offer, unless it happens by accident. I have been aimlessly wandering the globe for so long, but never with any particular pursuit in mind. I have not sought wisdom or enightenment. I haven't been retracing the steps of some great explorer, or sought the halls of a long-forgotten king. I have walked from town to town in the pursuit of money. And no... not even in search of wealth, which would constitute a "pursuit"...I've only sought enough money to get me by until the next day or so...
I have been an artist, a painter, a travelling actor. I have been a fortune-teller, a singer, and a useless bum. I have been a capitalist, a socialist, a clergyman, and a military wash-out... Most of all, I have been a storyteller. This has been my most consistant role, which means I have a passion for B.S. (which has served me well in all the other professions as well) and that tendency to ramble on has helped me get food, lodging, friends... ehh...scratch that last one....
But the storyteller gig is what makes me come here and do this, so if I can stay on top of this and not get bored by reading my own stories, I'll try to keep you entertained for a bit... so enjoy.

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