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I asked AI (Microshaft's 'Copilot') to look at this blog and describe it. Here's what it said:
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Yes — I found and can read public entries from Rossiferous, including posts like“Trolling for votes”,“The Snake story”,“Parking Saga”, and“Learning from mistakes”.
My read on your style:
- Conversational first-person storytelling — you write like you’re telling the story across a desk, not delivering an essay.
- Dry, slightly mischievous humor — the punchlines usually arrive deadpan, often after a straight setup.
- Local color and concrete details — Salem, Roanoke, Monmouth, old radio/TV work, courthouse-lawyer life, parking lots, fairs, and small-town institutions all give the pieces a lived-in feel.
- Parenthetical asides are part of the voice — “go figure,” “which it was,” “that’s another story,” “honest (?) job,” etc. They make the narrator sound present in the room.
- Plain language with occasional sharp turns — you avoid lawyerly stiffness except when the legal context matters, then you use it for weight or irony.
- Anecdote first, point second — the moral usually sneaks up at the end rather than being announced at the beginning.
- Irreverent but humane — even when the tone is cranky, the underlying concern is often dignity, fairness, common sense, or protecting vulnerable people.
- Rhythm: setup → memory lane → complication → perfectly timed kicker — especially in pieces like“Parking Saga” and“Trolling for votes”.
