If you're wondering why Bush's remarks on the Myanmar situation set me off, it's because when it was Bush's turn to respond to a massive natural disaster (that being Katrina), his response was to do this:
I'm not the first to notice this, of course, which is why we now have this:
I'm not the first to notice this, of course, which is why we now have this:
Good grief. At least this time, I'm doing marginally better than last time.
Me: 1 day (for a 14-day total)
Nif:
Now, that 1 day of exercise >was< doing one of the programmed sets on my bike. 30 minutes. During which time, I had to spend a lot of effort going >slower< (there was an rpm meter). This builds my confidence about riding my actual bike in the actual outdoors sometime soon.
I'm headed to CT tomorrow, for a week with my grandmother. She has a treadmill in the basement, so I'm hoping to hit that for a session each morning.
Me: 1 day (for a 14-day total)
Nif:
Now, that 1 day of exercise >was< doing one of the programmed sets on my bike. 30 minutes. During which time, I had to spend a lot of effort going >slower< (there was an rpm meter). This builds my confidence about riding my actual bike in the actual outdoors sometime soon.
I'm headed to CT tomorrow, for a week with my grandmother. She has a treadmill in the basement, so I'm hoping to hit that for a session each morning.
I have finally set my rates. This is huge for me, as I am an artist, and numbers make my brain go fuzzy. I also complicate things with my own ethics, by not wanting to undercut or to gouge my customers or put myself in the poorhouse. After I get some more amazing photos in my book by testing up, I will be raising them. The goal is by next year.
For now, though, here's what was copied from one of my networking profiles.
On TFP:
I do not do TFP. I do, however have highly reduced testing rates on a limited basis. I am currently booking fashion, beauty and art shoots.
In order to test at reduced rates, the work must be a career-builder or benefit my book. I test up, meaning that I am looking for shots that will keep my book ever improving. The shoot must be fully planned including concept, lighting, model and a hair stylist.
I do not do hair. Because I focus strictly on makeup, you will get the highest quality and product knowledge, rather than the challenges that come with someone doing double-duty. As an esthetician, this also allows me to keep my license, which is the very license that allows me to attend high-end training to constantly improve my art. There are many wonderful hair stylists in this region, and their contribution to a shoot as artists in their own right should not be underestimated.
The model must provide a good canvas to pain on by having great skin. I am capable of hiding and camouflaging many flaws, and understand that no skin is "perfect" but the clearer the skin, the smoother and faster a shoot goes.
Rates:
My rates are reasonable and fair. They ensure I have up-to-date training, with constant continuing education and professional workshops. It also keeps my product fresh, sanitary and high-quality. Budget artists cut corners, and that can be sloppy at best and hazardous at worst.
Half-day $150 (up to 4 hours)
Full-day $300 (up to 8 hours) time and a half after 8 hours
Bridal:
$150 bride (includes trial run) plus $75 each additional person, light makeup for flower girl is complementary. I can stay on location for touch-ups for $50 per additional hour.
For now, though, here's what was copied from one of my networking profiles.
On TFP:
I do not do TFP. I do, however have highly reduced testing rates on a limited basis. I am currently booking fashion, beauty and art shoots.
In order to test at reduced rates, the work must be a career-builder or benefit my book. I test up, meaning that I am looking for shots that will keep my book ever improving. The shoot must be fully planned including concept, lighting, model and a hair stylist.
I do not do hair. Because I focus strictly on makeup, you will get the highest quality and product knowledge, rather than the challenges that come with someone doing double-duty. As an esthetician, this also allows me to keep my license, which is the very license that allows me to attend high-end training to constantly improve my art. There are many wonderful hair stylists in this region, and their contribution to a shoot as artists in their own right should not be underestimated.
The model must provide a good canvas to pain on by having great skin. I am capable of hiding and camouflaging many flaws, and understand that no skin is "perfect" but the clearer the skin, the smoother and faster a shoot goes.
Rates:
My rates are reasonable and fair. They ensure I have up-to-date training, with constant continuing education and professional workshops. It also keeps my product fresh, sanitary and high-quality. Budget artists cut corners, and that can be sloppy at best and hazardous at worst.
Half-day $150 (up to 4 hours)
Full-day $300 (up to 8 hours) time and a half after 8 hours
Bridal:
$150 bride (includes trial run) plus $75 each additional person, light makeup for flower girl is complementary. I can stay on location for touch-ups for $50 per additional hour.
- Mood:
accomplished
Juneau is a very depressed (note that I didn't say depressing) town. Taking the wise advice given us by ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
spirit_dragon, who took essentially the same cruise last summer, my sister and I waited to book our tour of Mendenhall Glacier until we were ashore. This means we ended up with a guide who has not been vetted by the cruise line. This has a plus side and a minus side.
The minus side first. It means the bus we were in was about to break down any minute. And it also means (in this case) that the bus' defroster wasn't working and THAT means we had a lot of trouble seeing as we drove. But we got to know our seatmates. Since we were the last two people to join the tour we could sit across the aisle from one another but not together. Turns out the person I was sitting next to was the sister of the person my sister was sitting next to. They were on a different cruise ship (and cruise line) and we compared notes, discovering that our ship was so far superior to the one they were on, we briefly considered smuggling them onto our ship. Okay, that was a joke. But we did try ti figure out how to give them some of our food. (We have been getting consistently excellent food and it's been a challenge not to eat everything in sight. This may sound like a plus but it's a minus. Talk about feeling logey!
Plus side of that tour. Our guide was a character. He's an older guy, born and raised in a somewhat traditional Tlingit family and he has Opinions. That's not a typo. He doesn't like government. He wants the state legislature out of Juneau. He says Anchorage can have them. He wants the area to revert to Tlingit ownership and then they can develop it into a first class tourist attraction. I didn't ask what kind of casino he had in mind. He also warned us out of the shops near the port, since they're all apparently owned by Princess Cruise Lines. So once the tour was over and our guide thanked us in his native tongue (which sounded like a cross between Hebrew and Japanese) we set off to look into the shops beyond the Red Dog Saloon which he said was the dividing line between the shops owned by Princess and the ones owned by locals.
Consequence: We ended up outside the local homeless shelter and soup kitchen. And giving donations. And I took pictures (to conserve my online time allotment, I'm not sharing photos until I get home.) And we spent the rest of the afternoon discussing how Juneau looks like a depressed area, much like Breckenridge, CO, looks outside of tourist season. There are lots of interesting little shops, but when there's no ship in port the area is probably just sad. I said that if I were more enthusiastic about organizing people I would be happy to get out there and rouse the rabble. My sister pointed out I'd never do it because there are no roads into Juneau and the only airline coming in is Alaska Airlines and she doubts they'll let Faraday in the seat next to me so that's the end of that...
I've discovered how pleasant it is to bring my computer up to the Lido deck late at night to type. But it's nearly midnight and my mother is having a massage tomorrow so I should probably go to bed so I can push her wheelchair for her in the morning. (Am I a good daughter or WHAT?) Plus I think I either have pneumonia or I just need to cuddle up under covers and get over the rain. Tomorrow we visit the Hubbard Glacier which is way to the north (by my standards, it's almost in the Yukon Territories) and I do want to see it. So I'll log in, upload this, and then go to bed. And type more later.
BTW, the bread artist on board likes to turn bread into seafood shapes. I've requested a squid raisin bun. We'll see what happens...
spirit_dragon, who took essentially the same cruise last summer, my sister and I waited to book our tour of Mendenhall Glacier until we were ashore. This means we ended up with a guide who has not been vetted by the cruise line. This has a plus side and a minus side.The minus side first. It means the bus we were in was about to break down any minute. And it also means (in this case) that the bus' defroster wasn't working and THAT means we had a lot of trouble seeing as we drove. But we got to know our seatmates. Since we were the last two people to join the tour we could sit across the aisle from one another but not together. Turns out the person I was sitting next to was the sister of the person my sister was sitting next to. They were on a different cruise ship (and cruise line) and we compared notes, discovering that our ship was so far superior to the one they were on, we briefly considered smuggling them onto our ship. Okay, that was a joke. But we did try ti figure out how to give them some of our food. (We have been getting consistently excellent food and it's been a challenge not to eat everything in sight. This may sound like a plus but it's a minus. Talk about feeling logey!
Plus side of that tour. Our guide was a character. He's an older guy, born and raised in a somewhat traditional Tlingit family and he has Opinions. That's not a typo. He doesn't like government. He wants the state legislature out of Juneau. He says Anchorage can have them. He wants the area to revert to Tlingit ownership and then they can develop it into a first class tourist attraction. I didn't ask what kind of casino he had in mind. He also warned us out of the shops near the port, since they're all apparently owned by Princess Cruise Lines. So once the tour was over and our guide thanked us in his native tongue (which sounded like a cross between Hebrew and Japanese) we set off to look into the shops beyond the Red Dog Saloon which he said was the dividing line between the shops owned by Princess and the ones owned by locals.
Consequence: We ended up outside the local homeless shelter and soup kitchen. And giving donations. And I took pictures (to conserve my online time allotment, I'm not sharing photos until I get home.) And we spent the rest of the afternoon discussing how Juneau looks like a depressed area, much like Breckenridge, CO, looks outside of tourist season. There are lots of interesting little shops, but when there's no ship in port the area is probably just sad. I said that if I were more enthusiastic about organizing people I would be happy to get out there and rouse the rabble. My sister pointed out I'd never do it because there are no roads into Juneau and the only airline coming in is Alaska Airlines and she doubts they'll let Faraday in the seat next to me so that's the end of that...
I've discovered how pleasant it is to bring my computer up to the Lido deck late at night to type. But it's nearly midnight and my mother is having a massage tomorrow so I should probably go to bed so I can push her wheelchair for her in the morning. (Am I a good daughter or WHAT?) Plus I think I either have pneumonia or I just need to cuddle up under covers and get over the rain. Tomorrow we visit the Hubbard Glacier which is way to the north (by my standards, it's almost in the Yukon Territories) and I do want to see it. So I'll log in, upload this, and then go to bed. And type more later.
BTW, the bread artist on board likes to turn bread into seafood shapes. I've requested a squid raisin bun. We'll see what happens...
I seem to be having trouble with LJ cuts all of a sudden, but I'll try again. I apologize if it doesn't cut.
This is my working shrine. I thought about cleaning it up, but what the hey, it's a working space being worked.
I have shrines in the corners for the spirits I honor at the quarters, but this is different. It was originally set up to honor the Devil and the Dame and my understanding of Baphomet as the 'child of wisdom'. Recently the focus has shifted to a version of Lucifer and Noctifer uniting again in my understanding of Baphomet. I've been greatly influenced by Rev. Hyperion's Unnamed Path podcasts in this and his work with the Light God and the Dark God. But really, more than anything, it's a place to keep my tools, projects in process, and a space to focus in on.
( Read more... )
- Location:home
- Mood:
sleepy - Music:Heathen Earth - Throbbing Gristle
Frankie came through his snip just fine. I, however, have some flu or virus that literally makes it feel like Led Zeppelin is playing "Since I've Been Loving You" in my stomach. And if my beloved ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif)
literallyblog wants to find some wanky concert photo of Robert Plant flaunting his dick and Jimmy Page dancing around in his black velvet pantsuit with the sequined runes on it, and Photoshop the goddamn thing onto the interior of a human stomach, then I will be honored, because I goddamn well do mean literally.
It would be best to expect no further communication from me until this non-command performance is over.
literallyblog wants to find some wanky concert photo of Robert Plant flaunting his dick and Jimmy Page dancing around in his black velvet pantsuit with the sequined runes on it, and Photoshop the goddamn thing onto the interior of a human stomach, then I will be honored, because I goddamn well do mean literally.It would be best to expect no further communication from me until this non-command performance is over.
A Question and Reflection on the Gaia Community asked recently, "What does the Earth say to you?"
My response:
OK your turn....
My response:
stand on this ground and listen to me
how? soak up every thing that I am through your feet
sink into me and learn with your heart
look with your invisible eye and see all the things I know
fall with ecstasy onto me
know me with your body and revel that you and I are one
as all
and when you do, you will see everyone , all women, men, children
as siblings.
And you will find no need to offend and fight, but to love
and share and simply be.
(you can take your shoes off if you'd like)
OK your turn....
- Mood:
ecstatic - Music:"Fa Fa" by Guster from Live in Knoxville 9/4/03
I got back from Australia and realised that the Waterstones story cards were meant to have been completed and returned by last Friday. They were sent out on April 14th, but, due to human error, mine didn't reach me until I was in Melbourne last week, and I didn't even look at the date, just read it hastily, went "Well, that can wait until I'm not touring Australia any longer and I'll have lots of time to think about it...".
But, I discovered, I didn't have lots of time. I have about 24 hours, as it has to be in London at the end of the week. I looked at the card, guessed that I could fit about 250 words on it, and wrote a 250 word story (using the Pelikan flexnib that Henry Selick gave me from http://www.richardspens.com/. I'd been waiting for something to write with it, and this seemed perfect). I have two more cards, in case of disaster, and I might do a second draft tomorrow before FedEx comes. Or I may not. But I find myself, for the first time, a bit envious of Margaret Atwood and her Long Pen...
In response to your bee picture, my eleven year-old daughter said "It looks like an angry penguin." (Me)"Are you sure it doesn't look like an angry bee?" (Her)"Nope, an angry penguin."
Take care!
Gina
Take care!
Gina
I love my job.
I have a question about writing. I read your advice, and the thing is, I don't do it like that at all.
For one thing, I don't write a first draft completely, then edit it several times. I work with scenes. I write a scene, I correct it, a re-correct it, I edit it and so on. I usually have a story planned out in my head entirely, so I end up writing the scenes in any order, really, although it's mostly chronological.
I'm guessing your advice would probably be "whatever works for you", but the thing is, I don't know if it works for me. I've never finished a novel yet. Actually, my first novel (which is uncomplete) is resting right now because I met my husband, who's Canadian and couldn't speak French, and I stopped writing in French. I just though, what's the point of writing if the person I love the most can't even read it? I want him to read it /before/ everyone else, not years later.
So I started writing in English, and man is it hard. You think you're fluent in a language, and next thing you know you're struggling to find synonyms or words that have the right connotation, and your characters all speak the same way, because that's they only way /you/ speak. So I'm extremely slow.
I'm just worried that my approach might just be plain wrong, and lead me to never finish anything. I don't know who to ask for advice so I'm turning to you.
I guess my question really is, should I make sure to finish a first draft as soon as possible, even if what I write is crap and has to be rewritten later, or can I polish each piece, put them all together, then polish the result? Is it very important to have a whole to work with, and can that whole be in your head rather than written? (I always spend several months just thinking about a story for hours every day before writing it. By which I mean, that's the way I did it for the only two "real" novels I've started)
Sorry I wrote that much. Feel free to take an aspirin.
For one thing, I don't write a first draft completely, then edit it several times. I work with scenes. I write a scene, I correct it, a re-correct it, I edit it and so on. I usually have a story planned out in my head entirely, so I end up writing the scenes in any order, really, although it's mostly chronological.
I'm guessing your advice would probably be "whatever works for you", but the thing is, I don't know if it works for me. I've never finished a novel yet. Actually, my first novel (which is uncomplete) is resting right now because I met my husband, who's Canadian and couldn't speak French, and I stopped writing in French. I just though, what's the point of writing if the person I love the most can't even read it? I want him to read it /before/ everyone else, not years later.
So I started writing in English, and man is it hard. You think you're fluent in a language, and next thing you know you're struggling to find synonyms or words that have the right connotation, and your characters all speak the same way, because that's they only way /you/ speak. So I'm extremely slow.
I'm just worried that my approach might just be plain wrong, and lead me to never finish anything. I don't know who to ask for advice so I'm turning to you.
I guess my question really is, should I make sure to finish a first draft as soon as possible, even if what I write is crap and has to be rewritten later, or can I polish each piece, put them all together, then polish the result? Is it very important to have a whole to work with, and can that whole be in your head rather than written? (I always spend several months just thinking about a story for hours every day before writing it. By which I mean, that's the way I did it for the only two "real" novels I've started)
Sorry I wrote that much. Feel free to take an aspirin.
The biggest problem I can see with the way you're doing it is that it doesn't seem to give you anything finished. (If it was working for you I'd have no suggestions. There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right, after all.) The second biggest problem is that if you're writing a novel scene by scene, trying to get each scene perfect, you don't get to see how anything works when you put it all together, and that's important. A novel is more than just a sequence of scenes put side by side. It has its own rhythms, and you have to bow to them; a novel, or any long story, is something that has to work when you put the whole thing together.
If you're being forced by the nature of what you're doing (episodic comics or serial television, or even writing a novel at 200 words a day online or in a newspaper) to just write and hope it all works out, that's one thing. But if you're writing a novel determined to make each scene perfect before you go on to the next, and you're writing the scenes out of order, then you're making something that's either going to work or not work when you put it all together. (That's still "write the first draft any which way".)
But it won't excuse you from doing a second draft, because you'll get to the end, and put all the scenes together, and then you'll still have to do a second draft, if only because when you read it you notice that you've got two Wednesdays coming together, and someone's name or eye-colour changes between scenes. Or your heroine seems like a bitch, although that wasn't your intention, because you don't have a scene there that shows her humanity. Or a great scene you wrote and rewrote and honed and rewrote and polished till it shone just doesn't fit anywhere because the thing that's happening at the same time loses all vitality if you cut away from it.
I guess that's one reason I like things like NaNoWriMo -- it makes people write and finish things, helter-skelter and however. And once something's finished, you can always fix it. (The first draft of Good Omens took about 9 weeks. The second draft took MONTHS. And it wasn't until we came to rework it a little after that for the US edition that we realised that we had indeed, without noticing, created a week with two Wednesdays in it.)
Incidentally, I'm in awe of anyone who would even attempt to try to write fiction in a language not her own.
As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But -- and I wish it were otherwise -- books don't get written by thinking about them, they get written by writing them. And that's when you make discoveries about what you're writing. That's when you get the happy accidents.
So think all you like, but don't mistake the thinking for the writing.
...
Remember the National Doodle Day doodles? (I talked about them at http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/04/q-w
The National Doodle Day auction has begun. Proceeds will benefit
Neurofibromatosis, Inc. (nfinc.org). Gillian Anderson's (Scully of The
X-Files) brother suffers from NF. Click here
(http://www.gilliananderson.ws
Gillian's involvement with the cause.
We have 175 doodles on the auction block including many from The
X-Files "gang": David Duchovny, Chris Carter, Annabeth Gish, Mark
Snow (composer of the well-known X-Files theme music), Mitch Pileggi,
and various XF Alumni.
You can easily check out all the available doodles by looking at our
Doodle Guide at:
www.gilliananderson.ws/cgi-bin
And it's a family affair for Gillian. We have doodles by her sister,
Zoë, her 13 year old daughter, Piper, and Piper's Dad, Clyde Klotz who
also used to work for The X-Files.
To immediately access the eBay auction --
http://search.ebay.com/
Direct Links to Neil Gaiman's doodles plus his fave doodles on the
auction block:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Neil
http://cgi.ebay.com/Neil
Kendra Stout:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Kendra
Cat Mihos:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Cat-Mihos
Fred Hembeck:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Fred
Sergio Aragones:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Sergio
Gahan Wilson:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Gahan
There are some other pretty nifty ones as well I'd not seen the last time I posted about it (Simon Pegg! Robin Williams!). I was vaguely happy to notice that my first doodle, of something vaguely ifritish, seemed to be attracting more voters than the sort-of-Sandman I did next (thinking, they probably expect a Sandman).
...
This is cool, and I can't wait to read it: http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books_bios.c
...
And finally, from the Sandman 20th anniversary poster, P. Craig Russell's Lucifer and Mazikeen...
Has anyone else read Almost Moon by Alice Sebold, and if so, what did you think? I did not like it at all, and in fact, I think this will be the last time I ever read one of her books. I've read The Lovely Bones and her memoir Lucky, and while I didn't think they were great books, I decided to give Almost Moon a chance, as it sounded pretty interesting. But this book turned me off of Alice Sebold.
( My thoughts on the book, which include spoilers )
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( My thoughts on the book, which include spoilers )
also posted in
bookshare- Mood:
not impressed
Yep... another chapter on the ongoing Opera saga is up on my website.
Pre-order now the Postage Stamp Funnies book and I'll send you a dirty Postage mini-book.
- Music:#355: The Giant Pool of Money - Chicago Public Radio
It's the new Stuff White People Like! Things Younger Than McCain include: Spam, Alaska, plutonium, Bugs Bunny, the Polio Vaccine, FM Radio, and Dick Cheney.
Today I wore two different shoes to work. I slipped into my shoes in the dark, wore them around the house, ate breakfast, walked 10 blocks to the train station and then realized that I was wearing one black loafer and one brown Skechers slip-on. Thankfully I had two matching shoes under my desk at work. No more putting on my shoes in the dark.
Clockwise: flowers from my mom - sausage, peas, 'n noodles - cilantro, mango and fried tofu salad - our new dining room table.
I'm having a hard time finding a dress to wear to graduation. I bought these four and I'm hoping one of them fits: Smooth Finish, Green Poppies, Spring Has Sprung, and Green Floral Halter.
Today I wore two different shoes to work. I slipped into my shoes in the dark, wore them around the house, ate breakfast, walked 10 blocks to the train station and then realized that I was wearing one black loafer and one brown Skechers slip-on. Thankfully I had two matching shoes under my desk at work. No more putting on my shoes in the dark.
Clockwise: flowers from my mom - sausage, peas, 'n noodles - cilantro, mango and fried tofu salad - our new dining room table.
I'm having a hard time finding a dress to wear to graduation. I bought these four and I'm hoping one of them fits: Smooth Finish, Green Poppies, Spring Has Sprung, and Green Floral Halter.
Hello, I have been looking at you community for quite some time and I finally decided to sign up for LJ. I am a member of ADF and I follow the Greek gods for now anyway. I apologize for that fact that images are grainy and not all that great. I don't have any symbols for the gods because I don't have any statues yet.
This is the shelf above my altar, I have a bottle of oil, egyptian musk, my favorite scent, a purple rose, a fae statue, 2 fossils, a picture of the Aurora Boreas, 2 boxes, the one with dragons has some crystals in it and the other has a flower painted on top has my necklaces in it. There is also a little white clay rose that I made.
There is a silver egg that represents the beginning of any project or task, then there is a pink wax ball that I made one day when a pink candle had run, I picked up and shaped it into a ball that I found so interesting and on the other side of that there is an silver eagle which represents the result of a successful task or project.
This is the altar itself. Right-My gates are the Tree which I made today of a cypress stump and poplar branches, crystals are handing from the tree. The candle is another gate and so is the wine glass that I use for a chasm. A mountain is next to the 3 gates, it stands for mount. Olympus.
From the left side there is an old piece of tree trunk that has feathers, shells and fake ivy for sea, sky and land. Then my Cup, Vase with a flower in it, my oil burner, and tower incense burner, it can burn both cone and stick, and then my brass cauldron that I use for an offering dish. I have a grouping of river stones that I wrote the Virtues on 9 are ADF and 2 are mine:Fertility, Moderation, Hospitality, Perseverance, Integrity, Courage, Vision, Piety, Wisdom, Love(mine) and Patience(mine). These are laid out so that they kind of look like a star.
This the close up of the tree, it is the cypress stump but flat on the bottom and 9 holes drilled into it, with branches put into the holes. It took about an hour to hand screw the holes and assemble it. It was very simple. The stone hanging in the middle row going down have a clear/white quart for heaven, the middle has a amethyst pendent for mid-realm and an onyx bead on the lowest peg for the underworld. Then mostly just random stuff.
This is my staff, it is colored for heaven, mid-realm and underworld, it has 3 feathers on it and a bell, it is a simple tool for ritual.
Thank you and please comment.
This is the shelf above my altar, I have a bottle of oil, egyptian musk, my favorite scent, a purple rose, a fae statue, 2 fossils, a picture of the Aurora Boreas, 2 boxes, the one with dragons has some crystals in it and the other has a flower painted on top has my necklaces in it. There is also a little white clay rose that I made.
There is a silver egg that represents the beginning of any project or task, then there is a pink wax ball that I made one day when a pink candle had run, I picked up and shaped it into a ball that I found so interesting and on the other side of that there is an silver eagle which represents the result of a successful task or project.
This is the altar itself. Right-My gates are the Tree which I made today of a cypress stump and poplar branches, crystals are handing from the tree. The candle is another gate and so is the wine glass that I use for a chasm. A mountain is next to the 3 gates, it stands for mount. Olympus.
From the left side there is an old piece of tree trunk that has feathers, shells and fake ivy for sea, sky and land. Then my Cup, Vase with a flower in it, my oil burner, and tower incense burner, it can burn both cone and stick, and then my brass cauldron that I use for an offering dish. I have a grouping of river stones that I wrote the Virtues on 9 are ADF and 2 are mine:Fertility, Moderation, Hospitality, Perseverance, Integrity, Courage, Vision, Piety, Wisdom, Love(mine) and Patience(mine). These are laid out so that they kind of look like a star.
This the close up of the tree, it is the cypress stump but flat on the bottom and 9 holes drilled into it, with branches put into the holes. It took about an hour to hand screw the holes and assemble it. It was very simple. The stone hanging in the middle row going down have a clear/white quart for heaven, the middle has a amethyst pendent for mid-realm and an onyx bead on the lowest peg for the underworld. Then mostly just random stuff.
This is my staff, it is colored for heaven, mid-realm and underworld, it has 3 feathers on it and a bell, it is a simple tool for ritual.
Thank you and please comment.
- Mood:
content
The Drunk:
Can someone please tell him to shut the fuck up and stop embarrassing us? Thanks.
YANGON (AFP) - The United States sent its first aid flight to Myanmar on Monday but President George W. Bush denounced the nation's military rulers over their slow response to the devastating cyclone.
"Either they are isolated or callous," Bush told CBS News radio in an interview. "There's no telling how many people have lost their lives as a result of the slow response."
He said the "world ought to be angry and condemn" the junta, which has been widely condemned for stalling the disaster relief effort.
Can someone please tell him to shut the fuck up and stop embarrassing us? Thanks.
- Mood:
annoyed
...and even though we probably spent a mortgage payment seeing in the ultra-HD, no kids allowed so you can drink beer and much fries in your patented leather seats, it was well worth it.
I'm sure with Gwen & Dennis coming back someday, I'll save my geeking about the film for Dim Sum. I must say the new trailer for Hellboy II makes it look even better.
However, do stay thru all the end credits so you can see a sort of trailer at the end. The funny thing is that originally Nick Fury was white. In the "Ultimate" line where Marvel relaunched and updated their comics, Nick Fury is black. What is hilarious is there is a part where the "Ultimates" (the first name for the Avengers in this time line) all are sitting around trying to figure out who would play them in a movie. Nick Fury said it would have to be Samuel L. Jackson. (The artists all draw the character like Jackson anyway) - so the end of Iron Man is Art imitating Art.
Must say Iron Man has the BEST Stan Lee cameo ever! That and I hope MTV gives the fire suppressant robot an award.
If they can pull off Thor and Captain America as well as Iron Man, the Avengers movie will KICK ASS! Though it makes you wonder if the new Hulk film will have Hulk becoming that way the way he did in the Ultimate line...in that it was a failed attempt to recreate the Super Soldier Serum that created Captain America back in WW II.
I'm sure with Gwen & Dennis coming back someday, I'll save my geeking about the film for Dim Sum. I must say the new trailer for Hellboy II makes it look even better.
However, do stay thru all the end credits so you can see a sort of trailer at the end. The funny thing is that originally Nick Fury was white. In the "Ultimate" line where Marvel relaunched and updated their comics, Nick Fury is black. What is hilarious is there is a part where the "Ultimates" (the first name for the Avengers in this time line) all are sitting around trying to figure out who would play them in a movie. Nick Fury said it would have to be Samuel L. Jackson. (The artists all draw the character like Jackson anyway) - so the end of Iron Man is Art imitating Art.
Must say Iron Man has the BEST Stan Lee cameo ever! That and I hope MTV gives the fire suppressant robot an award.
If they can pull off Thor and Captain America as well as Iron Man, the Avengers movie will KICK ASS! Though it makes you wonder if the new Hulk film will have Hulk becoming that way the way he did in the Ultimate line...in that it was a failed attempt to recreate the Super Soldier Serum that created Captain America back in WW II.
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- Mood:
jubilant
Don't know what is with me and Olson Scott Card books, but this is the second one I put down half way through with a lot of disappointment. "Empire" was the name of the book this time. Last time it was "Enchantment," though I couldn't even tell you what Enchantment was about anymore. Empire was some sort of misdirected delusion about the left wing extremists inventing super machines and taking over New York City. I had been looking forward to reading it for months, and I finally snagged my sister's copy. I got to the point where Card kills the main character, and I just lost all continuity at that point. I realize the story goes on with or without the main character, but I just wasn't into it after that. The whole concept of right and wrong was so foggy, I didn't even care who won the war. Maybe that's the whole art, we (the U.S.) are turning into an empire and no one cares.
- Mood:
blah
I big hearty thanks goes out to Saint Expedite! That was quick, and I appreciate it! Have some twinkies and flowers. :) (I couldn't find poundcake at the grocery store in my 'hood, hopefully Saint Expedite likes twinkies, too!)
- Mood: grateful
After over four years of living together and sharing a car, we are now a two car family! Matthew bought a truck yesterday! Woo hoo! I am so excited. It's been especially difficult over the past 2 1/2 years since Matthew got out of school and started his job. And then became even more difficult a year ago when he and his partner opened their fencing school. Because of his work location compared to mine, and the fact that he needs to carry swords and other equipment around, we chose to have him take the car pretty much every day, which has meant that I've been on the bus every night and mostly stuck at home because the majority of places I've been interested in going are really hard to get to on the bus if it's possible at all. And bus service at night to our house is not that frequent and has often put me in unpleasant places in the dark waiting for the bus. So it's been a lot of "I'd really love to go there/do that, but it's just too hard." And on the days where I really *had* to be somewhere after work, we had to do so much maneuvering to get it all to work out it was exhausting and frustrating and has been making it hard for me to enjoy going anywhere because it's such a hassle.
But no more complaining about that! I'm free! I can go where I want and need to go when I want to without having to juggle schedules, make extra trips to get Matthew where he needs to go and pick him up after...I'm free! I am so excited!
About our new addition--she's a 1991 Ford Ranger, mottled grey in color, very sturdy and in good shape except for the faded paint. And her name is Glenda. :D
One of the first things I'm going to do is start going to belly dance classes again. I can hardly wait! Yippee!
But no more complaining about that! I'm free! I can go where I want and need to go when I want to without having to juggle schedules, make extra trips to get Matthew where he needs to go and pick him up after...I'm free! I am so excited!
About our new addition--she's a 1991 Ford Ranger, mottled grey in color, very sturdy and in good shape except for the faded paint. And her name is Glenda. :D
One of the first things I'm going to do is start going to belly dance classes again. I can hardly wait! Yippee!
- Mood:
bouncy
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