Just before I left for the great state of Michigan, Rose informed 
     me that Paul Herrick and Phil Ballard, upon seeing the Three Libras
     site for the first time, became angry. (There is a game in which they 
     play that is called "Three Libras". I checked my e-mail hoping for some
     sort of irate babbling from them, proclaiming that we had stolen something,
     as Rose told me that this was Paul and Phil's general opinion about
     the matter. I got no such e-mail, so I can't do any kind of 
     point/counterpoint stuff that I like to do, so I'll just sum up. 
          Paul did not write the song titled 'Three Libras'. Phil did not
     invent the Three Libras Metronome. Therefore, they have no rights to
     the term 'Three Libras', and no rights to be upset that Space Monkey,
     Kathy, and I call ourselves the Three Libras. That said, however, I do
     understand their attitude, whether or not it is justified. If someone
     I knew wrote a book called Stairway To Heaven, I would be pissed. I didn't
     write the song 'Stairway To Heaven', so I really have no right to be
     pissed, but I still would be, so I understand why Phil and Paul are.
     That isn't enough to get me to change anything on the site, of course,
     but I'm not without empathy.
           And regardless of any of this; as I've said before, the title
     will change sometime soon due to Rose's arrival into our little bevy,
     thus that there will no longer be three of us, but four. 

           While in Detroit, as I was talking to my aunt and giving her
     a look at Stairway To Heaven as Rose and Space Monkey bound it for
     me, I was asked why I name everything after song titles or parts of
     songs. I've been asked this before, but I don't think I ever gave as
     good an answer. 
           The most basic answer is that the stories and images in what
     I write are based on songs, but that's too simplistic.
           A slightly better answer, though perhaps less respectable, is
     that I, being a big music lover, have always wanted to do something
     in the musical field. Alas, I have no talent for singing or playing
     instruments. My talents lie in writing. Rather than fighting a futile
     battle against this and playing the electric guitar with a terrible
     lack of skill, I decide to base my writing off of music, enjoying the
     small connection with the art of music that I get to have because of
     this. 
           The best answer, though, and the one I gave to my aunt, is that
     I can't help but do it. When I hear a really good song, my whole body
     seizes up. Sometimes I can hardly breathe. Boosebumps rise over my 
     whole body and I just want to listen to it over and over and (as Rose 
     has learned) over and over and over and over again and again and again.
     And then I start to think things and see things, and in a way, I feel
     like a prophet. I'm not arrogantly boasting as I do from time to time.
     What I mean is, think about how prophets used to be. All they really
     did was see visions and tell stories, and it was almost always just
     after intaking some drug that came in one form or another, something
     that altered their perception. I don't use drugs; I listen to music.
     And I see visions and think new thoughts, and I write the story that has
     been revealed to me (or storytell it). 
           There you have it, why I take song titles as titles for my books, 
     stories, and games.