FEBRUARY 12, 2012 9:20PM

Fire in the mountain - Mt. Etna revisited


Mt. Etna is erupting again.  Roberto Luigi posted about it, complete with fiery photos, and it made me think about my visit there several years ago.
Here's a current photo, from the internet:
 
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When my friend and I were on the mountain, it was being quiet.… Read full post »
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FEBRUARY 11, 2012 9:32PM

The bomb in my kitchen


I got a Tassimo machine a few weeks ago and have been enjoying cappuccino, latte, cafe crema, chai and hot chocolate.  Mostly cappuccino.
 
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This is a latte, but looks the same...tastes much the same.  
 
The other day the news came out that a number… Read full post »
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FEBRUARY 10, 2012 10:25AM

How high...and how long to get there - Tr ig OC

 
Smoking-marijuana
 
I felt quite silly and inadequate sitting around in my ordinary state of mind whilst all about me people were tripping.  Must have been four or five times before something happened.
 
And when it did, it wasn't much fun...
 
Felt silly and inadequate again, only i… Read full post »
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FEBRUARY 8, 2012 2:47PM

FAIRIES! ...and gardens of death


A friend sent around an ad for a “fairy workshop”, where people would learn to do meditations to get in touch with the fairies and then make a little “door” to install on their property to call fairies in.

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From Ann Arbor, MI, where they have fairy

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FEBRUARY 6, 2012 9:09PM

Pagan Obama doesn't understand Jesus...


...according to some right-wing fundie people, whose cherry-picking of the scriptures doesn't sync with that of the prez.  The following is from The Washington Times.  (Hey, isn't that the Moonie paper?)
 
President Barak Obama tragically misrepresented a Bible verse in his spee… Read full post »
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FEBRUARY 3, 2012 10:21PM

It just ain't nat-churl


I just took off my over-sweater because I was unaccountably hot.  I checked the thermometer.  It's getting close to 40 outside and over 70 inside! That's ridiculous.  It's 9.15 at night at the beginning of February in eastern Ontario.
 
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This winter we have h… Read full post »
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JANUARY 31, 2012 9:25PM

For Art James - enlarged picture

 
Here's your picture, enlarged, so we can read the writing on the side of the building.
 
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JANUARY 29, 2012 11:19AM

GNS - Satan worship in prison (boo!)


My Google alerts brought me news of an inmate in a Maine prison who is sueing to be allowed his Satan worship.
 
This matter came up every once in a while when I was doing Pagan chaplaincy in Canadian prisons.  
 
Actually, this inmate can do it, whatever it may… Read full post »
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JANUARY 29, 2012 12:10AM

You ARE home. STOP! Get OUT of the car. GPS is never wrong.

 
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Daniel Rigney wrote about his “Hal 9000 GPS”. Very funny. Check it out.

His post reminded me that I was going to write about my experiences with GPS.

I didn't have much interest in getting one because, like, I hardly go anywhere I don't know where

… Read full post »
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JANUARY 28, 2012 1:06AM

Cream of Fetus Soup - banned in Oklahoma

 

They were kidding around about this on Bill Maher tonight.  Saw a mention here and there on the web.  But the Daily Kos did it up wonderfully:-

 

Well, it's good to… Read full post »
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JANUARY 20, 2012 12:31PM

Etta James - God's Song



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JANUARY 19, 2012 1:10AM

It was summer once

 

 

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My friend A. found and sent me some pictures we took last summer.  Ah, it was green then, and we walked around with bare legs, and it was festival season.

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This was a New Age festival being set up as we were leaving a Pagan or music… Read full post »

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JANUARY 18, 2012 10:04AM

BAY AREA MEET-UP(S)??? Mid-Feb.


I am going to be in the Bay area in mid February.  Looks like San Francisco on 16th, San Jose 17 to 21, and godknowswhere after that...
 
If anybody is interested in a meet-up at that time&place, please comment or PM.  Read full post »
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JANUARY 15, 2012 10:11PM

dumping ground - some odds & ends

 
So my fine wireless shortie Apple keyboard died, as they do all too quickly, and I happened to be in TBJ!, formerly Woolworth's Five & Dime, or something.  One step up from Dollarama.  They have keyboards!  I bought the cheapest, at ten bucks or something.  Naturally, o… Read full post »
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JANUARY 15, 2012 11:16AM

Mitt Romney is a serial killer! - Colbert

 

 

If corporations are people,

and Mitney's Bain killed corporations,

then Mitney is a serial killer....bwahaha 

Ad from Stephen Colbert's superpac: 

 UPDATE - okay, the video is just a bit ABOUT the campaign.  I can't seem to access the ad itself on account of my compu… Read full post »

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JANUARY 14, 2012 9:56PM

OF TWO MINDS ABOUT TAROT

 
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Once upon a time there was a psychology prof who handed out astrological 'readings' to his students, ostensibly based on their sun-signs, and asked for comments. OMGDZ, so right on! was the response from everyone, and he would have had a class full of *believers* had

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JANUARY 6, 2012 1:46PM

knowledgeable, articulate, experienced, of stable character

"...an admirably worthy conservative alternative to Romney."
 
Which candidate would you suppose received this description from a well-known pundit?
 
Hint - he's the one that thinks the country really should have a discussion about birth-control...and then ban it. Birth-control, that is..… Read full post »
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JANUARY 5, 2012 8:58AM

How as a blues fan did I never hear this guy before?



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JANUARY 3, 2012 8:58AM

Appalling Paul Revisited - Ronning with total freedom


This is inspired by a couple of pro-Paul people who commented on my post of yesterday.
 
I think the thing is that non-interference on the part of government would paradoxically result in (even more) interference on the part of other agencies (such as corporations - fracking anyone?) and even… Read full post »
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JANUARY 2, 2012 8:30PM

Appalling Paul

In the comments on some post or other I opined about Ron Paul - in the negative.  Someone who stumbled across my comment PMed me at length, making the case for Paul and ending with asking if Paul now had my vote.

Bwahaha, even if I wanted to vote for Paul,… Read full post »

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DECEMBER 30, 2011 11:37PM

It's never too late!!

A divorce after 77 years? One 99-year-old man is doing it

 

Story today from The Globe & Mail. 

The husband hits the new record for age of divorcees.  His wife is 96. Probable previous record was held by a British couple, both aged 98, who had only been married for… Read full post »

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DECEMBER 29, 2011 10:10PM

Eating each other - and not in a good way


Gad, I thought the Dutch were a civilized people - they like dykes and pot and speak a quaint language that, in written form, almost looks like English, except either writer or reader has spent too much time in one of those Dutch 'cafes'.
 
Anyway, get a load of… Read full post »
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DECEMBER 28, 2011 9:57PM

Winter Windows

 

After a snowfall last night, this is what I see outside. That's my daughter's place under that white roof.

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View from the other side of the house.

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White is nice.  But I like colour.

South window, living room.  Colour against snow.

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West window,… Read full post »

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DECEMBER 25, 2011 10:51PM

Christmas Dinner at the old mill


Damn, should have taken a photo of the road going into town - white, like the ground and the trees.  Now it's slate-grey again, after the snowplow and the sand and the salt.
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I went to town to a community Christmas noon meal put on by… Read full post »
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DECEMBER 22, 2011 8:35PM

Card snark (and some other stuff tossed in)


As you may have heard, Sarah Palin and others at Fox News have complained about the Obamas' holiday Christmas card.
 
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The Daily Kos commented:
 
To you or I it may look like Thomas Kinkade ate a box of candy canes and pooped out a tranquil interior… Read full post »
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