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We're getting snowed on too. It was cold, snowy, and windy all day. I didn't get warmed up all day. I wore my green trenchcoat with the wool liner and I was still cold. Most people can't handle commas, anyway. I use as many as possible. Once you get them figured out, you'll be ahead of the game. Preach on! |
Do you guys mind if I mention that it is SUMMER here. SUMMER. SUMMER. HEAT. BBQ's.. hehe |
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your toilets still flush the wrong way and that will never change |
First thing I do when I get to the US is to laugh at your wrong way flushing toilets. |
don't be surprised if there is an chrous of Northern Hemisphere laughter greeting you at the gate. |
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They have no literary merit whatsoever. You havent produced a decent writer since F Scott Fitzgerald - and he was a pastiche of the English writer Firbank Knowles. |
a English fucknut calling us Americans STIFF!!!! yeah your totally right though.....we haven't produced a decent writer since Fitzgerald. TOTALLY right not that it matters, but we know who you are. no matter how many names you use on sorabji we know who you are. |
the secret boards, right, Patrick? |
yeaness! |
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actually last night i watched this frontline show about hackers, and i started to get paranoid that all of you are hackers....and Im the big non-hacker joke. i considered never coming here ever ever ever again. i think fitgerald was over rated. I just finished reading Tender is the Night. A decent book...but not mind blowing. |
how funny would that be? |
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ozzo. guess what. i am starting a band. i got a keyboard a couple weeks ago and i am trying to find other people who are willing to get to my house to play music (how do you fit a 66-key keyboard on a bike?). i am moving upstairs/allison moved out this week and i get her room in the southwest corner of the house on the second floor. it was an upstairs kitchen at one time, so there is a ton of cupboards and a sink with a big ol' piece of wood on top. i put all my books in the high cupboards, put my loom on the very top next to an old lantern and i've got my teapot and pez dispensers over the sink. i put all my wicca stuff on more shelves and i'm going to start doing daily rituals so i can be a good little pagan. there are tons more cupboards below the counter and i'm filling them with my office supplies and sewing stuff. my mom is giving me her typewriter and a dried grass rug to put over the red tile floor. i am so excited i have a closet a closet now i can put all my clothes away and close the door. i am going to hve it all nice and clean so i can film an animated movie on the countertop with paper and pipecleaner characters. |
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equipment, so it is ok. |
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but i have a keyboard and my flutes and microphones and somebody left a mic stand in the basement which means i might use it in the future. i was in my room, sitting at my keyboard looking at sheet music when i realized that i have a recording of debussy's arabesque #1, which i'm trying to figure out the fingerings for. so i played it on the player that's on my shelves that are right behind my back when i'm at my keyboard and cassandra comes in and thinks i'm actually playing that good! it was pretty cool. i got my first fan mail today. i threw copies of my zine onstage when i went to see kittie a month ago and some guy picked one up and took it home. "All I have to say is that you rock. You rock massively. Like big HUGE massively. You get the idea." he emailed me today and it is a great big ego boost i might even finish those reviews i was supposed to do for mister ridiculous back in september. |
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school. Your writing and spelling are on par with most adults as far I know, |
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i think in the idea of jobs versus educating, i'd rather be educating. particularly homeschool. right now i'm sorta educating myself, i'm working on alphabets. i started last nightand i'm working on the hebrew alphabet with meanings and sounds. "the fist letter of the hebrew alphabet is aleph. which is the equivalent of the roman letter "a". it means cattle or wealth, and the number one which also means that it symbolizes the father, the head of the family in ancient israel. it is connected with taurus and orion." always ask questions. |
I'm a geek. I admit it. I'd rather hang out with a stack of books than with most people I know. Studying Hebrew is good for you. Be sure to take up studying Qabalah while you're at it. Mysticism is as good a pasttime as any. |
reading your post pilate...some sort of subconscious alarm went off. i had to repost. thanks for the 30-45 sec of entertainment. |
Education is generally more interesting when you can direct your own course of learing. But sometimes its hard to stay motivated on your own, at least for me. Sometimes want to go faster than what i'm learning in school, but sometimes it goes faster than me. Thats what keeps me learning the stuff though. Thats how public schools have been for me anyhoo. Oswald + Pilate, how does your homeschooling situation work? I am curious. |
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for hebrew i draw out the letters on graph paper and then type the definitions (on my mom's old college typewriter that she gave me) alongside. it goes into things like "the number one signifies the father in patriarcial societies such as ancient israel" and i have to laugh because the author tries to sound so highbrow despite his poor grammar. after hebrew is done, i'll move on to greek, runes and ogham, and i've begun some work on ideographs. i'm going to make various charts about the symbolism of the letters (there are several astrological and numerological connections involved... ogham has a tree for every letter) and work on using them in everyday writing. i'd like to do a deck of tarot cards, similar to the thoth tarot by aeliester crowley, only a little more in-depth and tailored to my tastes. i am also working on my room because i've moved upstairs and i have lots of cupboards. i don't want anything under my bed anymore because it's always my yarn or something else i want to use. i finished my hat today, i knitted it way back in october but today i sewed up the seam so now i have a hand-knit beanie to wear under my bycycle helmet. i need to cook on saturday afternoon. i work all day tomorrow and i have two parties to attend on saturday night but i'm one of the hosts for a potluck on sunday. we are having tons of people over i hope and we're going to begin planning the 2002 portland zine symposium. it'll be great and everyone should come, by the way. take care, oswald and pilate. don't wear out the archbishop's nose. |
travel out to PDX after I told him about Powell's. I may go with him, but I would much rather do a NW grand tour, starting in Seattle with My old friend Carole and getting a new tattoo from her husband, then perhaps seeing cyst and Agatha and dave., then coming down to PDX and hanging out with pez, who is pretty cool. plus we could go to Reading Frenzy and load up on our respective fav zines. |
i just got the urge to say something else, but i can't. |
When I stayed in Limerick, Ireland, we wandered our way into a farm that had some Celtic standing stones near a well. One of the stones had a hole carved into it, and Ogham letters carved into the sides. It was really cool. Ben Franklin was something of a lech. Come to Philadelphia, Oswald. You can learn a lot about him there. When I was a kid, every year we'd get a visit from a guy dressed up like Franklin who would talk to us about his life and his inventions. |
i am making some fabulous vegan beans, with pineapple and ketchup and hoisin sauce. i laid aside my hebrew for a few days, i need to cook and clean for the potluck, and put some things away in my bedroom (i'll want it fairly neat if i'll be showing it off. ogham is pretty cook because it was both a written and a sign language. |
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