I added a new section to my sidebar this evening. "Foxfire lanterns" is a baby blogroll. Besides Thudfactor and Elfnoodles, I've never really had the time to go read other people's weblogs, but there are a few that I've stumbled upon and found amusing. Entries will probably come and go as I stumble across even more or decide I really can't stand some of the people I'm linking to.

The background picture is a cropping from a Japanese woodblock print of many foxes meeting together at a tree. Each fox has a little flame floating near it. In the legends about kitsune, this foxfire is a small ball of fire that they can make. Some times they use it as a lantern to light their way, while at others it's just a toy. But it can also be used as a weapon and as a way of luring unwary travelers.

Appropriate for a blogroll, I thought.