Gone to England, and a couple fests, and a bunch of other stuff...

 

THERE WILL BE PICTURES...  Read full post »

I've gone to two festivals this summer, with two more on the list.  They're lots of fun.

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Tree Goddess 

Don't have too many pictures from the first one, which was billed as Pagan, and people worry about having their faces put up on the internet (tho not nearly as much… Read full post »

Pagan summer traditions kept alive in PirogovoUkrainians gathered in the open-air museum of Pirogovo on July 6 to celebrate Ivana Kupala, an ancient summer holiday. Revellers jumped over the fires.(Olga Novak)

Pagan summer traditions kept alive in Pirogovo

Yesterday at 22:31 | Elena Zagrebina
It’s amazing that a pagan holiday can… Read full post »
JULY 9, 2010 12:05AM

Midnight rumbles...

I posted a video the other day of a young man named Pascal singing a Ghanaian song and drumming.  He also plays didgeridoo. 

 

JULY 7, 2010 3:22PM

What a Friend We Have in Isis

This is from the 'bardic' (amateur hour) at a Pagan music festival last weekend.  Too bad you can't fully see the sparkly sequinny decoration of the Egyptian dress (from the Sally Ann).  (Beginning not quite on...)

 

JULY 7, 2010 9:17AM

Not bad for a white boy

Oh dear, was that title offensive?  Wanted to catch your eye.  This young man, Pascal, performed at the Pagan music festival I went to this past weekend.  He spent some time in Ghana, learning the language and the drum...

 

Pascal also studied didjeridoo in Australia, and… Read full post »

JULY 6, 2010 12:11PM

Colourful Denizens of my Garden

Since I can't get my Loud Singing video to upload, I'll do flower pictures instead...

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Yellow day-lily

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Oriental lily

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 Hollyhock

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More hollyhox

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Ditto 

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Hot mess o' beebalm

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You know what...

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Delphinium

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Ditto

%IM… Read full post »

JULY 1, 2010 8:48AM

Willy Nelson oil-spill solution

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From the Wax for Oil Spills facebook page:-

William E NelsonJune 30, 2010 at 11:55pm
Subject: Kevin Costner's Machine vs. Wax Method
Kevin Costner has geared his machines for the past fifteen years to separate water form oil spills. Unfortunately the oil that i/… Read full post »
JUNE 21, 2010 11:16PM

The Highest Noon

It was solstice today.  This morning 20,000 people witnessed sunrise at Stonehenge - an actual sunrise as opposed to the gradual lightening of grey skies that is so often the case.  And the lower numbers (down from 35,000 last year) meant fewer arrests of drunks and crazies.

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I… Read full post »

I can believe it - just not this version... 

 

 Satanist Insider: "Keep Your Money Hidden"

 by Aloysius Fozdyke


(for Henrymakow.com)
 

Having just returned to Australia from London and Tokyo I thought I'd be so bold as to offer you some advice - which I appreciate that you/… Read full post »

Canadian Liquor Police Bash Dan Aykroyd's Skull

Jacob Sullum | May 26, 2010

From Reason.com 

The Liquor Control Board of Ontario has banned Dan Aykroyd's Crystal Head vodka, deeming the bottle to be in poor taste.

(The LCBO is a government-owned liquor store that is

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From the Huffington Post, where anything ridiculous about Sarah Palin can be found.

The current Newsweek cover, evidently, features Saint Sarah:

NEWSWEEK-SAINT-SARAH-PALIN

Some wiseacres at Vanity Fair suggested other possibilities...like Pagan Palin (noooooo)

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or Sssssatanic Ssssssarah -

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And (Hi Kosh… Read full post »

Oops, I realized just as the interview was over that I didn't mention Open Salon.  The intro mentioned that I had a blog, but not where it was.  Sorry - muffed my chance to publicize it to the 18 people possibly listening as they wrestled on their pants or wrestled their… Read full post »

Like, I thought updating a post reposted it.  Not so.  Okay, so a whole new post for my updates.

First, about my Y&R in Ottawa post:-

UPDATE - A Canadian Broadcasting person is a lurker here on O.S. and contacted me about this post regarding a brief radio interview. Read full post »

JUNE 10, 2010 8:53AM

What the heck does that mean?

From some entertainment site -

"Following in the footsteps of Madonna, the singer mixes pagan religious practices with passionate choreography.

"Lady Gaga with ‘Alejandro‘ aims to pay tribute to the gay community. A black and white video in which they are surrounded by muscular guys wi… Read full post »

UPDATE - A Canadian Broadcasting person is a lurker here on O.S. and contacted me about this post regarding a brief radio interview.  Which will happen at some ungodly time in the morning - I'd better have coffee handy.  I'll put in a good word for O.S.

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JUNE 6, 2010 10:12AM

232 - Gloomy Sunday

That's the number of PMs I haven't even opened.  Well, there are some duplicates, from the heavy-fingered.  But there are also some I did look at, but didn't get to.

So that's 200+ posts I haven't read!

I haven't been on OS 24/7, with time out only to sleep (eating was… Read full post »

Who's Satanic - some R&R singer or the Westboro Baptist Church, which is picketing at his memorial service ...  or, whose posturing is more entertaining ...from Philadelphia City Paper
 

No, not that Willy Nelson.  A local Ontario Willy Nelson.  Who started out making candles a few miles from here.  Enamored of, obsessed with, wax, he tried it for other things.  Eventually he got into applying wax to oil spills. He uses granular or liquid parrafin to soak up crude… Read full post »

MAY 19, 2010 9:27PM

Pad Thai, tourist-town version

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 It didn't look like this.  Unfortunately I didn't take a photo of what it did look like.

I should have said, "Hey, you call this pad thai?" and sent it back to the kitchen.  But I was polite.

The other people (daughters and son-in-law) were happy with their… Read full post »

First item from Interfax, "Religion with Smile", a Russian site:-

18 May 2010, 13:51

Barbecuers destroyed new pagans' temple as they mistook it for pile of logs

Moscow, May 18, Interfax – A family party searched for a place to make barbecue and finally settled at a… Read full post »

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who came to town for an Illinois GOP fund-raiser and to give a public address billed as "An Evening with Sarah Palin," was accompanied by nine personal bodyguards. She came to Chicago via Alabama
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The kind of item that makes you yell JESUS CHRIST!  And not in a reverent way.  P.S. - My comments in italic; upright text is cut-and-paste.

And the credit goes to


Published: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 7:34 AM PDT
So Al, tell me again about global warming. Perhaps God knowsRead full post »
MAY 3, 2010 10:37PM

Pity I already 'did' Egypt - NOT

Just got an email ad for a *mystical* trip to Egypt:-

I'd like to invite you on a very special trip this year, to Ancient Egypt.

Have you ever known that you just had to do something?  Does you inner voice urge you towards a certain path?  And more
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This is shaping up to be a Holy Land edition.

About the Sacred Semen - An Israeli has been sentenced to ten years for posing as a rabbi, convincing women that he was one of "one of the 36 righteous men in Judaism", and that it was a "religious commandment" to touchRead full post »