Department of WTF?

Scott has inveighed against Stalinist aesthetics many times here and elsewhere, so I offer this up with some trepidation — but I must say that as fond as my memories are of listening to Blue Oyster Cult as a teen (years after their last decent album had been released), the fact that Donald Roeser is evidently a reader of Powerline and Instapundit gives me great pause. Scott Johnson writes:

We’ve had a lot of highs over the past five years in writing for Power Line, but hearing from the composer of “Don’t Fear the Reaper” in response to this post stands with the best of them. Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser has kindly written:

I’m Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser from Blue Oyster Cult, lead guitarist and the author and vocalist of “Don’t Fear The Reaper.”

I’m a longtime frequent Power Line reader, and I’m enjoying the play BOC and The Reaper have recently gotten on the Power Line blog, in the “Don’t Fear the Professor” and “More Cowbell” posts.

Keep up the good work. You folks, Glenn Reynolds and others are some of my prime news aggregators these days. Heck, I’ve even got the t-shirt.

Rather than immediately trash my copy of Secret Treaties, I’m going to apply the Wingnut Sourcing Standard (WSS) most recently perfected by Malkin, Confederate Yankee and Flopping Aces throughout the Jamil Hussein “scandal.” Unless “Donald ‘Buck Dharma’ Roeser — lead guitarist and the author and vocalist of ‘Don’t Fear The Reaper'” — shows up on the comments thread to explain why he spends his time reading these hacks, I will only be able to conclude that PowerLine is relying on imaginary sources.

Meantime, I will continue to hold steady in my view that “Godzilla” is the second-greatest song ever about a giant creature who destroys things: