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Hrmmm.
I seem to be updating more, just lately.
It's the Equinox - very nearly - sometimes called Mabon, and it's time to gather in the harvest, lay aside the burdens you no longer need carry, and settle yourself for the new year and the winter to come.
The light is changing, the nights are cooler - summer is gone, the Sun King is dead. Proserpina finds her way into the Underworld and in her grief Dementa will strip the earth of green and growing things.
And we had a bonfire tonight and my hair and hoodie smell wonderfully of woodsmoke and i am so, so happy to be kissing the back of my hand to summer!
Also, this:
Church of All Worlds Ten Commandments
... from the CAW membership newsletter, Winter, 1993
What follows is meant entirely tongue in cheek.
1. This is the first commandment: Be excellent to each other.
Thou shalt have no first commandment but this.
2. If thou carest not for It, thou canst have none of It.
3. Playeth thou nice and avoid the reading of Vogon poetry; it
is a vexation to the soul.
4. Speaketh thou clearly and slowly and not with thy mouth full.
When laughing at sermons, blow not chunks upon the clergy, neither
woofeth thy cookies in far trajectories for, yea, robes are expensive
and dry cleaning dear.
5. Freakest thou not yon mundanes overmuch for, verily, they
whine piteously and wax sorely pissed.
6. Honor thy Planet and Her creations that thy days be long and
thy nights be worth spending at clam bakes. Cleaneth up after thyself
and turneth thou down unused appliances. We meaneth this.
7. Believeth not what thou witness on television but for Star
Trek. Verily, skippeth thou all television but for Star Trek.
8. Where applicable, maketh thou love, not war. Where not
applicable, maketh thou love noisily.
9. Shareth thy bounty with thy friends that they may wax
bountiful. Yea, then thou mayest shareth thy bountiful friends with
still more friends to create yet more bounty. Invite the clergy to such,
uh, sharings.
10. Might dost not maketh right. Nay, 'tis but truth dost maketh
right. But, by the Goddess, we shall be persuaded by all forms of beauty
and even unto the finest of celebrations thereof.
--Adam Walks Between Worlds
I seem to be updating more, just lately.
It's the Equinox - very nearly - sometimes called Mabon, and it's time to gather in the harvest, lay aside the burdens you no longer need carry, and settle yourself for the new year and the winter to come.
The light is changing, the nights are cooler - summer is gone, the Sun King is dead. Proserpina finds her way into the Underworld and in her grief Dementa will strip the earth of green and growing things.
And we had a bonfire tonight and my hair and hoodie smell wonderfully of woodsmoke and i am so, so happy to be kissing the back of my hand to summer!
Also, this:
Church of All Worlds Ten Commandments
... from the CAW membership newsletter, Winter, 1993
What follows is meant entirely tongue in cheek.
1. This is the first commandment: Be excellent to each other.
Thou shalt have no first commandment but this.
2. If thou carest not for It, thou canst have none of It.
3. Playeth thou nice and avoid the reading of Vogon poetry; it
is a vexation to the soul.
4. Speaketh thou clearly and slowly and not with thy mouth full.
When laughing at sermons, blow not chunks upon the clergy, neither
woofeth thy cookies in far trajectories for, yea, robes are expensive
and dry cleaning dear.
5. Freakest thou not yon mundanes overmuch for, verily, they
whine piteously and wax sorely pissed.
6. Honor thy Planet and Her creations that thy days be long and
thy nights be worth spending at clam bakes. Cleaneth up after thyself
and turneth thou down unused appliances. We meaneth this.
7. Believeth not what thou witness on television but for Star
Trek. Verily, skippeth thou all television but for Star Trek.
8. Where applicable, maketh thou love, not war. Where not
applicable, maketh thou love noisily.
9. Shareth thy bounty with thy friends that they may wax
bountiful. Yea, then thou mayest shareth thy bountiful friends with
still more friends to create yet more bounty. Invite the clergy to such,
uh, sharings.
10. Might dost not maketh right. Nay, 'tis but truth dost maketh
right. But, by the Goddess, we shall be persuaded by all forms of beauty
and even unto the finest of celebrations thereof.
--Adam Walks Between Worlds
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Damn straight! That stuff can make your ears bleed. Hee!
Love these! Much better than the boring originals. ;P
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And...re the other comment....
42??
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*now you'll hate me,though*
*non-Adams-reader*
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Read him! If you understand and enjoy Pratchett you'll have just as much fun reading Adams, I promise.
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Dunno if i can.
I read a Dirk Gently, though.
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?
or
The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul?
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I looked at Teatime several times - love the title - but just never got fired up enough to read.
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Oh, dear.
Do read Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.
Really.
It's worth it for Odin and linen sheets, Thor and bath products, and the ultimate price of fangeekery.
Or, if you want Adams on a real-world serious issue, read Last Chance to See.
Only? If you don't read the first three Hitchhiker's Guide books, there's a lot of jokes you're going to miss elsewhere- sort of like not having read Alice in Wonderland.
Damn, wish I knew how to do italic markup here...
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See what my library has to offer.
Hrmmmm, the gods. Thorne Smith wrote about the gods:
Night Life of the Gods involves Hunter Hawk, a diletante-dabbler scientist who discovers a way to turn people and objects into statues. He meets a drunken leprechaun named Ludwig Turner, who introduces him to his young daughter, "a holy howling hell of a daughter" as her doting father describes her, who has the power to turn statues to flesh. After various adventures, they go to the New York Museum of Art and bring Mercury, Bacchus, Venus, Diana, Hebe, Apollo and Perseus to life and turn them loose on Prohibition era New York City.
Hee.
Italics are the < symbol, and then an i and then the > again, with an / in the closing one.
:)
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Thank gods.
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Douglas Adams was a genius. Marvin the Paranoid Android my hero. *g*
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42 what??
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42 was the ultimate answer to the Universe and everything.
*holds up Hitch Hiker's Guide to the screen*
LOOK!
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this must be answered by
'Cause i know nothing of Vogon poetry.
And less of 42.
I am a philistine.
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*gives you a nasty look for not reading Douglas Adams*
:P
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No nasty looks on my lj!!
*pppbbbbbbbt*
And i TRIED.
I just...
*sigh*
I like Terry Pratchett and Thorne Smith better.
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It's okay! Not everyone is cut out to handle the BIG words.
*pats you on the shoulder*
LMAO! Kidding! *loves you*
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I TRIED.
*flails*
I read Isak Dinesen and E.M. Forster, that HAS to count for something!
And i laugh!
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I'll get my haxor friends to make a sooper-sekrit code that turns all my fic updates into babble!
Just on your 'puter!
A babble-fish code!
Heeeeeee!
*pets you*
Not really.
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And then I will use the Babble fish to disprove the existence of God, making your ten commandments useless. :P
LOL!
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They're not BAD commandments.
:)
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Lovely stuff. I like Mr. Pratchette and Mr. Gaimen seperately, but wow - amazing shared vision!!
Hee.
*joins non-Hitchhiker club*
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Don't Panic
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Okay, I have officially gone over board...sorry! LOL!
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Overboard? Never! Tis all good fun. ;)
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Merry Mabon and HHG
It's important to be accurate.
*smack self for being smug and a big Bill and Ted geek*
Re: Merry Mabon and HHG
Re: Merry Mabon and HHG
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Good rundown of the Autumn Equinox.
Merry Mabon!
Blessed Be.
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Thanks!
Bonfire's for all!!
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I think i'm pretty enamoured of number 5, myself.
:)
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By the way, I was just thinking that in a few months I'll turn 42. Somehow it seems more palatable than turning 41, simply because I'll then be the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Not bad for a middle-aged stay-at-home mom.
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Tiny Rakes!
You're so right...
Hey, that's so - 42's not bad at all!
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Hope you had a good sabot.
*smooch*
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I like 5, myself.
:)
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nice bit of mucha in the background too, is that a paid account fandangle?
x
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Yes, the Mucha is a paid-account thingy.
Neat, eh?
LMAO
Re: LMAO
:)
Go! Join!!
Hehe.