2021 Shitshow, er, Year in Review
I think I said I’d do a year in review type post. I’ll skip some stuff that’s been going on (eg, personal and family stuff), and won’t do a full blow-by-blow since I’ve had the weekly blog posts on Saturdays to cover more detail, but here’s some of the...
Beavers and stream restoration
I’ve been going down internet/YouTube rabbit holes about riparian restoration, especially in deserts but other places too. Here’s an interesting little piece on the reintroduction of beavers and how that benefits local ecosystems both in terms of biodiversity and flood mitigation. It’s a bit surface-level, but still:...
Weekly Reading List: December 28, 2021
Ogam: Weaving Word Wisdom by Erynn Rowan Laurie Konx om Pax by Aleister Crowley In Defense of the Princess: How Plastic Tiaras and Fairytale Dreams Can Inspire Smart, Strong Women by Jerramy Fine What A Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses by Daniel Chamovitz The Philosopher and...
Monday Memorabilia/Collections: Jolly Toys
And the last of this year’s Lemax posts is this one: “Jolly Toys”: Nice little animated piece here. I picked it up last year. Here’s a video from Lemax showing the animations:...
The Zamo the Destroyer Show #229
New episode of The Zamo the Destroyer Show: Santa didn’t bring any of the stuff Zamo asked for this year, just a bunch of snow, which Iggy hates. In other news, Technical Support Monkey got Zamo a man-Barbie statue of the Greek Sun God Helios… as well as a...
Poem: Scrawl
distant echoes, voices of ancestors? or new-found whims call me to ancient paths obscured by the cobwebs centuries scrolls and tablets as yet unread Ogham, runes, or cuneiform? Nay, take all and lead me through today’s fog clearing tomorrow’s forgotten future of olden ways...
Christmas, etc.
How does that wretched John Lennon steaming pile of shit go? “So this is Christmas and what have you done?” How people claim to like that depressing dirge is beyond me… I would have once said the only thing worse than “Merry X-Mas (War Is Over)” is that wretched...
Friday Arts & Crafts Day Update: December 24, 2021
Not a lot done this week, but I did some stitching on 2018 Santa by Prairie Schooler: Might get it finished this weekend, we’ll see....
Weekly Reading List: December 21, 2021
Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way by Steven Pressfield The Ancient Near East by Harry A. Dawe Taliesin: The Last Celtic Shaman by John Matthews Ogam: Weaving Word Wisdom by Erynn Rowan Laurie Konx om Pax by Aleister Crowley...
Monday Memorabilia/Collections: Lemax The Candy Cane Works
This week’s Christmas Lemax piece is “The Candy Cane Works”: This was the first major animated Christmas Lemax piece I got. A bunch of others I’ve admired online seem to sorta be the same but with different housing, which is fine but it means I’ll be looking for sales...