Month: November 2021

The Ancient Near East by Harry A. Dawe The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion by Thorkild Jacobsen Poetic Edda: A Heathen Study Edition by Thorstein Mayfield Hellenic Polytheism: Household Worship by LABRYS The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey...

Jesus fucking Christ… that Blackhawks sexual abuse thing is shocking. Well, maybe not. I mean, there have been stories about such abuse at the juniors level, but in the NHL? My God. The shit with the injuries, I guess, isn’t as surprising. These guys get hit hard, as hard...

I forget what year this was from, somewhere in the 90s when Phil Lewis had left L.A. Guns and a dude named Chris was the new singer. Since the hair metal days were over, when L.A. Guns came to Vancouver, it was actually a dive bar in the suburbs...

New episode of The Zamo the Destroyer Show: A Google war between Zamo and Technical Support Monkey about whether or not her Irish ancestors worshipped a rain god leads to Zamo finding out some rather more amusing (and disgusting!) information about Chimpette’s ancient ancestors. Subscribe to The Zamo the...

cold wind blows from the north sending me shivering running south to winter rose bounty and palm-tree lined streets and warm ocean water pounding sandy beach there are snakes in these hills; that much is sure. but could they ever possibly be worse than before? run south run south...

The rain continues. My backyard is pretty much a sponge at this point, and I opted to not get drenched for any pics of the garden, not that there’s much to see. I need to get out there and put up some Christmas lights, but it looks like Monday...

Finally onto the bind-off edging on “Interlude” by Shannon Dunbabin: It’s gonna take a while to bind it all off, but at least it’s getting there. For stitching, I wasn’t too strict with the daily themes, lol… but for last Friday’s “floral and fauna” theme, I got a little...

Hellenic Polytheism: Household Worship by LABRYS Irish Paganism: Reconstructing Irish Polytheism by Morgan Daimler The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey...

I posted a little bit already, but let’s get it all in one post, eh? First, the kitchen sideboard: Next, the woodsy scene with all the cabins and lodges: The huge bears are toys I guess I had as a little kid, though I don’t remember them from that....

Well, aside from rock memorabilia, I have a small collection of American right wing political memorabilia, mostly from the 70s and 80s when such things were still fun and didn’t take themselves too seriously. This ties those two together rather nicely: So, Elvis shaking hands with Nixon. I actually...