voudoun category archives

“rare buddhist flower found under nun’s washing machine”

Wednesday 3 March 2010 | 2 cookies in the jar

Which may edge out “Woman, Trapped, Survives on Moisture” as best headline ever. This via Mandarin—a little human-interest story that made my MONTH. Three THOUSAND years. Holy holy-flower, that’s…that’s rare, is what that is. Kind of like me posts. For simple reasons, some previously given, some new: 1) weekend head cold that has slyly shifted [...]

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what I want for my birthday

Sunday 22 February 2009 | 9 cookies in the jar

Moments later we were dancing wildly together. There is nothing so good almost as dancing with a great girl dancer. It seems so much more natural than dancing with some stiff guy who won’t look you in the eye. If he’s shy he’ll watch the walls and if he’s an asshole he’ll ogle your tits [...]

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in which we consider ourselves warned

Monday 14 July 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar

The last straw During this time you may be much more irritable than usual and snappish with others, even though you cannot consciously recognize what you are angry about. Perhaps the most puzzling effect of this influence is that your irritability and anger seem completely irrational. They may not actually be irrational, but your anger [...]

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ruinous numinosity

Sunday 25 March 2007 | I like a cookie

The Brujo’s concert Duology was Friday night, and he played like unto one possessed—six improvisational duets, six artists with whom he’d never played piano before (one of whom he’d never even met) and each piece with its own tightly contained energy, led to its place by the fire flickering up and down the length of [...]

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how woo-woo are we

Friday 23 March 2007 | I like a cookie

Last night, a fairly hysterical dinner party— our entire DBT group met at the raw-food member’s home. Annika served beautiful raw lasagne (thin-sliced red, green, and yellow heirloom tomatoes and zucchini interspersed with tomato sauce, basil pesto and pistachio puree) and raw chocolate mousse (coconut, agave, cacao and cocoa butter), and occasionally she as it [...]

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venus opposition mercury vs. mars square ascendent! may the best transit win [jury's still out]

Friday 9 March 2007 | I like a cookie

The Brujo: The emotional consequences This is a favorable time for communication about love and relationships. It will not make the communication either good or bad, but it will help to ensure that communication happens. You will think about and want to discuss your relationships, not only love affairs but also friendships and other kinds [...]

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weird, part II

Monday 19 February 2007 | I like a cookie

Who is this flower above me, and what is the work of this God? I would know myself in all my parts. —traditional Feri prayer • Struggling through the neither-fish-nor-fowl prose of Drawing Down the Moon (because surely after all these years I should finish the damn thing), pitching and yawing through Margot Adler’s fat [...]

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weird

Friday 16 February 2007 | I like a cookie

The New Mexican provides this helpful listing of all the spiritual groups in Santa Fe—anything that could be even remotely considered a congregation has been included, from the Assembly of God to A Course in Miracles to the Wiccans. It is, quite frankly, like dropping in on a Fellini cast party. These people are weird—probably [...]

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free samhain book download for dear faithless readers—happy hallowe’en

Monday 30 October 2006 | 3 cookies in the jar

• the day boy & the night girl (the romance of photogen & nycteris) • • by george macdonald (1822) • • design & layout by yours unreliably • blessed be • (And if anyone knows how to get in touch with fellow Old Girtonian Estella Chesneau, we have her to thank for the elegant [...]

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fleeting! transient! and obviously mistranslated

Friday 27 October 2006 | I like a cookie

Personal Daily Horoscope of Saturday, 28 October 2006 for Unreliable Narrator, born 30 March 1969 A fleeting depression Weak, transient effect: This influence can indicate a period of fleeting depression. Tonight you are inclined to feel lonely and out of touch with others. Sometimes you have a pronounced sense that no one loves you, whether [...]

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