One of the reasons I’ve never believed satanic ritual abuse narratives—the ones where the supposed victims are always being “groomed” (they always use that word) to become the high priest or priestess of the group—is that their stories are devoid of normal human complications....
Thanks for the laugh, Teresa. I just did a mental checklist on my coven (Wiccan, not Satanic): Chest pains, check. Wardrobe Emergency, multiple, check. Potluck fiasco, check. High Action Multiple-Partner Melodrama You Really Want To Miss, check. Mid-ritual smoke detector goodness, check. Evangelical vegan vitamin salesman, check.
We can't be a cult, we're too normal. *chuckle*
I've had an extremely basic "bogue bag" hanging from the doorknob for years. Toothbrush and paste, sanitary supplies, change of clothes, TP, flashlight, space blanket. It needs updating, because its contents assumed I'd a) be departing in my car, which b) would have my camping gear in it (where I used to store that stuff.)
Thanks for the reminder to do that this week.
Aaaagh! I just went back and read the archived entry on hoarding, animal collecting, and OCD. I don't know whether to wilt in relief that I'm not that bad yet, or cower under the desk at what is likely to come.
Then again, I'm planning a transcontinental move in the coming months, so I have a time frame for Getting Rid Of The Junk (while keeping, of course, the books, and the fabric, and the rocks, and the houseplants, and at least *some* of the food and the clothes and.... er... never mind, I'll just get back to the mound of stuff that I got out from under the bed this week.)
Re: Magenta
After all, there is still the 20 year curse, and it's not certain if Reagan broke it, or merely ducked it by surviving his assassimation attempt.
I'm convinced Reagan died in office and it took people 20 years to notice.
What Dan Blum said regarding Orcinus' recent material on fascism; and while you're over there take a look at the post on education and the No Child Left Behind act (link in the URL spot on this comment, article posted on 15 October 2004). It speaks directly to what ... argh, somebody said and I can't find the comment now, so clearly the sanity gnomes have put my brain in the same place they hide my car keys and measuring spoons.
Education. Lessons. Sit still, shut up, do what you're told and don't ask questions. School as preparation for corporate employment as preparation for serfdom in this Bizarro-land sociopolitical structure that has somehow congealed where fluid democracy was a minute (or a century) ago.
Feh. I'm going to go drink coffee now and see if this flash of horrifying insight makes more sense and less panic when I'm firing all cylinders.
PiscusFiche -
That was Pratchett, I can't remember which novel and now I'm going to have to go thumb through them all until I find it. Damn your fishy little bones. :D
I moved to Portland, Oregon from Baton Rouge, Louisiana some seven years ago and probably the only thing I miss about the south is hurricane season.
We get our share of rain and wind in the winter, but it's just not the same...
The problem with Xanth is that the author, bless his soul, seems to have gotten bored with it after the first six or eight books, but was under contract and kept writing them anyway. That's why I so seldom read series SFF any more: I'd rather read one good standalone novel or trilogy than a series that goes on... and on... and on... long past the point where the author ought to have downed keyboard and gone off to do something he or she would actually have fun at.
That's one thing I appreciate about Terry Pratchett: he's thirty-something books along and still seems to be having fun with 'em.
I -miss- the rose-mauve axis and the "1001 words for aqua" years. I am of Western European Mutt ancestry (some Anglo-Saxon, some Mediterranean; brown hair, blue-hazel eyes, sallow to light-olive complexion) and pink, violet and aqua are the colors that don't make me look ill. Khaki is out, as is anything resembling citrus fruit, and while I love to look at the avocado-mustard-rust-chocolate earth tones they too leave me resembling something best buried last week.
Looks like this year is going to be another blue-green year. I might get lucky with the grays, too, if they don't go too yellow / orange - the sage-ey greenish and yellowish grays of the last couple of years have been DEATH. Who looks good in that?!?!
Thank $DEITY I learned to sew a long time ago. Now the challenge is to find fabric in suitable colors... and to finish sewing projects before the trends change again....
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