Another year older and deeper in esoterica... [30 Apr 2009|01:47pm] HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my fellow Walpurgis-nauts! Apr 29th — blessure Apr 30th — maradydd & aprman May 1st — and, of course, yours truly By the way, I am officially getting younger starting tomorrow. *begins furiously gluing his telomeres back together* Ha! Take that F. Scott Fitzgerald! ( 'Faust und Mephisto' & 'The Vision of Faust' -- fairly large images, tasteful, but possibly not work-safe??? ) devour yourself|9 pieces at a time

O NOES!!!11 TEH AVIAN-SWINE FLU [29 Apr 2009|01:29am] The monstrous, 80-meter tall pigicken, which has been pinpointed as the probable source of avian-swine flu according to Associated Press reports. World Health Organization officials warn that it is "...radioactive, breathes fire, and likes nothing better than to step on hysterically fleeing Japanese businessmen." Seriously, wtf?! The way CNN and all the other news channels have been covering this, one would think that the swine flu had just crashed a jet into a skyscraper and killed 3000+ people. Is it really that slow of a week in news? My advice -- do not let the news media fnord you. link stolen from brother-in-law (zombienought): http://shouldibeworriedaboutswineflu.com/ devour yourself|7 pieces at a time

[14 Apr 2009|09:56am] rockers to/die/for split "Finnish rockers TO/DIE/FOR have split, citing years of battles with promoters for their decision to disband..." Normally I am not one to be excessively spiteful, but in this case... HAHAHAHAHA!!! devour yourself|1 piece at a time

Saturday Morning Watchmen [10 Mar 2009|11:52am] [Hilarious, and slightly disturbing, parody-- Enjoy!] devour yourself

HPLHS's "The Whisperer in Darkness" trailer [10 Mar 2009|11:06am] The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has a trailer up for The Whisperer in Darkness, which is still in the process of being finished. [This is the same group responsible for the superb The Call of Cthulhu silent film.] "And He shall put on the semblance of men...." devour yourself|9 pieces at a time

Happy Birthday kathrynthefair! [04 Dec 2008|08:34am] Happy birthday, to my lovely wife! devour yourself|3 pieces at a time

Ron Paul speaking @ Anti-Fed rally today, Houston [22 Nov 2008|12:21am] For those who may be interested— Dr. Ron Paul, that Constitution-minded congressman straight out of my home town, is scheduled to speak at the "End the Fed" rally at the Federal Reserve Bank here in Houston today (Saturday) at 12:30pm. The rally is from 10-1pm, so it looks like he has the last speaking slot. http://www.endthefedhouston.com/ Destroy all life fiat currency?! devour yourself|2 pieces at a time

Dr. Ball, M.D. [19 Nov 2008|10:03am] Dr. Ball, M.D.: "SHE'S LOST THE WILL TO LIVE!!! What is your degree in, Poetry? You sorry buncha hippies! For god's sake, don't use the billions of dollars of medical equipment around us!" devour yourself|3 pieces at a time

Lions & tigers & people in bear suits? [18 Sep 2008|07:56am] [WTF?! x 3] Ever dream of weathering a hurricane, trapped in a church, with the water rising... with a lion?! Riding out Ike on an island, with a lion Let's assume you survived weathering Hurricane Ike with your lion friend only to be eaten by a famished tiger... Tiger reported loose on Bolivar Peninsula Apparently the Bolivar Peninsula has become a nexus of primeval madness. And last, but not least, the unexplainable man in a bear suit. Apparently even Hurricane Ike survivors cannot escape a the biblical plague of furries that accompanies natural disasters. devour yourself|4 pieces at a time

post-apocalyptic Houston [16 Sep 2008|05:11pm] [ mood | mad max!!!!! ] Seeing Houston dark is hard to imagine under any circumstances, and seeing that everything but the downtown area had gone completely black the night following the hurricane was positively post-apocalyptic, the kind of thing that one would notice after a zombie outbreak or a nuclear exchange. So yeah, it has not quite escalated to the point where the city has all gone Mad Max/Road Warrior and started killing each other for gasoline, but honestly it is pretty damn close. We have seen a number of gas stations where cops were present or had obviously been called in to keep rioting from breaking out. The city of Houston proper has been trying to enforce a 9pm curfew too. HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Which is a joke, needless to say. Way to stretch your police force even thinner dumbasses. Houston does not have the manpower to try to be a police city-state. The CVS down the street was looted the first night. One lady called in to the radio station, apparently looters had stolen everything from her house not even leaving the bag of sugar in her pantry. So yeah, fuck Houston anyway. Of course the day after the hurricane authorities were whining about how everyone should just stay inside, so when Katy called her mom to tell her we were driving over to visit, the conversation went something like this: Katy: My mom says that they are saying on the radio that everyone should stay inside. me: Yeah, that rule does not apply to anarchists... Katy: With a truck! me: Exactly! I love my wife. So, yeah we drove over, and had a nice BBQ with Katy's mom and my family -- charcoal for the win. Just to update all of you, the wife, baby, and myself are doing great, in fact baby Éowyn slept through the entire hurricane. Haha! Apparently she is as fearless as her namesake. Currently we do not have power at our apartment (again, it had been restored but this morning the transformer blew,) so I am emailing you from Katy's mom's house, which had electricity/internet restored yesterday. If you need to get in touch with me the best way is through text messaging, since cell phone service is still spotty at best, and the gods only know when electricity and internet will be restored to our place. For those of you in affected areas, I hope you are all safe and well. And if you need help battling looters, just let me know -- I am bored as hell! devour yourself|10 pieces at a time

Éowyn update [05 Jul 2008|11:19am] top to bottom: Pixel, myself, Éowyn Well, as of today it will have been a week since my little shieldmaiden of Rohan came into the world. For the curious, Éowyn currently has dark hair, and steel-grey eyes. Of course, both her hair color and eye color may very well change over the ensuing months. (Apparently, eye color can change for up to six months after birth.) And she certainly has the long, thin talons, er, fingers from my side of the family and notable grip strength. Both mother and daughter are still doing great, and to quote the pediatrician that checked Éowyn over in the hospital: "I don't know what to tell you, there's nothing to say, she's perfect." Hearing that your kid is perfectly healthy is quite reassuring, by the way. She is unusually strong, much more so than I had expected, and, believe it or not, was able to lift up her head for periods of time-- from birth. Yeah, apparently that is not considered normal until about the first month. So it is just a matter of time now before she picks up a longsword and charges into the fray. ( Read more... ) devour yourself|10 pieces at a time

munchkin cat vs. baby [02 Jul 2008|05:47pm] Éowyn & Pixel, engaged in a pitched battle for the fate of the universe munchkin cat: ~ 7 lbs. baby: 7 lbs. 14.4 oz. munchkin cat: ~ 25 inches* baby: 20.5 inches ( Read more... ) devour yourself|8 pieces at a time

On scarabs & synchronicity... [09 May 2008|04:21pm] "Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables." — Werner Heisenberg A rather striking and humorous anecdote from Jung regarding an experience he had with a patient. This was simply too good not to share: "My example concerns a young woman patient who, in spite of efforts made on both sides, proved to be psychologically inaccessible. The difficulty lay in the fact that she always knew better about everything. Her excellent education had provided her with a weapon ideally suited to this purpose, namely a highly polished Cartesian rationalism with an impeccably "geometrical" idea of reality. After several fruitless attempts to sweeten her rationalism by a somewhat more human understanding, I had to confine myself to the hope that something unexpected and irrational would turn up, something that would burst the intellectual retort into which she had sealed herself... She had had an impressive dream the night before, in which someone had given her a golden scarab - a costly piece of jewelry. While she was still telling me this dream, I heard something behind me gently tapping on the window. I turned round and saw that it was a fairly large flying insect that was knocking against the windowpane from outside in the obvious effort to get into the dark room. This seemed to me very strange. I opened the window immediately and caught the insect in the air as it flew in. It was a scarabeid beetle, or common rose-chafer (Cetonia aurata), whose golden-green colour most nearly resembles that of a golden scarab. I handed this beetle to my patient with the words "Here is your scarab." This experience punctured the desired hole in her rationalism and broke the ice of her intellectual resistance. The treatment could now continue with satisfactory results." "We see here appearing clearly the main characteristics of a synchronicity event: one must be able to establish a meaningful correlation between the objective outer event and the person’s inner psychological state, and the correlation must be acausal." "The second essential feature is the lack of causal connection between the outer event and the subjective inner state... In this sense, neither the outer event (beetle) causes the inner (dream) nor vice-versa. Instead they are acausally related through meaning and not simply a chance coming together of outer events and inner psychological states." — Carl Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, p. 110 devour yourself|4 pieces at a time