Contrary to the myth, things tend to end with a pathetic whimper, not a big impressive bang. But it’s usually best to not point that out to whatever special little snowflake is at the end of the line thinking she’s making history. Nature will make the point clear enough soon […]
Neuromancy
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Maybe it’s just my asshole planet talking [Mars in Scorpio], but I find it amusing that the guy who wrote Rent had a song lamenting how he’d love to write just one good song before he died. And then he died just before the initial opening night. [Which was really […]
Decided to take up astrology again, it’s been years since I used to study it a bit. As a refresher, I’m reading Raphael’s 1905 guide to astrology and I’m using a chart for a friend’s birth date as a reference. So, in the part about the mundane houses, Raphael mentions […]
I came home to find a aqua-green scarab sitting on the threshold. About an inch long, not iridescent as they usually are [or at least he didn’t seem to be, other than on his six royal blue feet], more like the soft understated sheen of fine turquoise – not too […]
How to change graphite’s structure back to a stronger carbon mark… This is the alchemist’s work for the quarter. Heat, pressure, break down and build up again. Catalysts or dissolution. Whatever it takes to bend graphite back to the alchemist’s Will and purposes rather than his own.
Sounds like a bullshit title, right? Aren’t those opposites? Well, kinda like how if you go to the far left of the political spectrum it starts to exhibit the same behaviors as the far right as both become totalitarian, or how the color spectrum turns on itself to form the […]
From a warning to a friend. You can burn toxic fuels if you have to and you know what you are doing. Trouble is you don’t know whether or not you know what you’re doing til long after the combustion is complete. And the combustion needs to be 100% complete […]
Three things… An old song by Andy McCoy when he had a band called Shooting Gallery for, oh, a week or so. Well, longer than that – they opened for KISS on one tour before disintegrating into the sort of thing they were named for and the singer Billy G. […]
Trumpets blare fanfare. The judges have arrived and the vibrancy of your colors comes out on display. Little things are like that.
Cato the Elder always ended his speeches, no matter the topic, with the saying “Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.” (“Moreover, I advise that Carthage must be destroyed.”) This is as relevant now as it was in Cato’s time. In every life there will always be a Carthage and it must […]
Get up and move. Pain or not, ache or not, the rest cycle is over. That is the road to reclamation and recovery. The manifestation has arrived, meet it. Morning glory is upon us.
Sometimes it’s months later that you find out whether your plans came true or not. A reconnaissance trek reveals photos of a bruised and battered enemy from a while back. Not quite what was asked for but not a bad start either. Or the way you never know your airplay […]
Between the night stars and the day sun, a soft blue glow on the transition, lit by a big soft moon. It reflects the sunlight, but in a gentle way. Slow awakening. Slow stretch before rising, testing the sturdiness of weakened legs. Purification by slow leeching out of toxins and […]