WHAT'S SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL YOU SAW RECENTLY?

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Internal locust of control is grumpy because my lizard brain took over for a few days and instigated some rather undignified states of mind, in its opinion. Internal locust of control needs to lighten up.

Autumn zoomies are the best (this is what I am calling my autumn-is-my-springtime energy boost now). Just when I started thinking I'm too old for that stuff, ZOOM.

saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away

WEAR YOUR FAVORITE SHINY THING.

uh-oh. Looking at thermowells, heating belts, and temp controllers. Things that will keep the kveik yeasties happy in a winter kitchen...

Portland friends, go hear some Ligeti! Maddy Ross is a superb singer and if I weren't already booked, I'd be at this show.

What's a thing that your younger self would be surprised that you're interested in now?

It's snuggly cat season and I love it. Yes, that does mean that sometimes the cat wanting snuggling has just come in from the rain and is soaking wet. A worthy tradeoff.

All is lush green and gray-cloudy out the window this morning. I'm not due at the theater until evening. What a perfect day to bottle up the blackberry melomel.

somewhat kinder than my interpretation

wow! 🧵

Just returned from my union's open house event. I volunteered to man the wardrobe & costumes table for half the day & it was energizing. Talked with applicants, impromptu demo'd 2 kinds of repair (a couple folks had damaged hoodie/shoes and I had my kit there...) Chatted with the old timers. Nice.

Speaking of things that are 🔥🔥🔥, I still have 2 drams left of the batch of Abramelin oil we made in 2002. It was mixed over the course of a month in a three operator ritual. It's got drops of other batches from other places added over time. It's blood red and packs a punch, smells fucking amazing.

In this age where opinions flow like mighty (if detritus-filled) rivers all around us it is a real gift to be sought out and asked one's views on something important to the querent. A real gift.

Going through my folder of ritual writings, I came across a ritual of severance and gratitude that I wrote in 2002 and have no memory writing. As in I have no recollection of composing it. At all. Even as an imagined thing that was never performed, it is 🔥🔥🔥

Did you know... That donations of perfume are gladly accepted by Rose Haven women's shelter and resource center? They always need essential items, but also little luxuries like perfume can really brighten someone's day. rosehaven.org

I have a big set of things to accomplish this week. I am excited to get to the other side of it, and know I will enjoy most parts of the doing. I don't know what part of me wants momentum to fizzle, though. I'm having to pep-talk myself more than expected. It's how I know these things need doing.

he goes forth dressed in the skin of his enemy inflatable frog

What would Bertie do? No, not Bertie Wooster. Bertie, our cat.

Stunning. That it’s 2020 is — very much part of the piece, I reckon.

I experienced some much-needed humor and goodwill at the march yesterday. Feeling a little better in macro-terms. However, I am not so much enjoying the pokes in sensitive spots in my personal, micro-world. Housecleaning is not always fun. I look forward to the aftereffects, though.

Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).

300 cc's of weapons-grade serotonin straight to the frontal cortex I have ASCENDED

Portland, you beautiful weirdo. What a turnout today!

Good morning bowl of hot oatmeal! What shall we get up to today?

No Kings might not “do anything” but it boosts morale and puts a bunch of likeminded people in the same place to meet each other and talk about other more useful things they’re doing. A clear net positive!

Already leaning into (near) future-me thanking (recent) past-me for making a whole lot of chicken stew for meals this week. Thank you, past-me. This stuff is so good. 100% comfort food for fall weather.

handy suggestion from one of my favorite meadmakers

Timeline cleanse: This guy hanging out with his pet kittens

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread: I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong. So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

It's a cool, crisp October day, just gorgeous. I'll finally be bottling up the sweet nutmeg and the dry meadowsweet metheglins (herbal meads). I had hoped to do it last Monday but was too zonked from vaccinations.

Hooray! Issue #9 of Fiddler's Green & Peculiar Parish magazine has arrived! Plus a few essay chapbooks. I do love a (fancy magical) zine!

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Viva la rana!

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

"The Stone Door" by Leonora Carrington is exactly what I was expecting "The Hearing Trumpet" to be. It's a rambling multi-layered mostly nonlinear dreamscape filled with intensely personal (to Carrington) symbolism. It's interesting for a few pages, but ultimately I'm just not that interested.

Now that saw someone say that ai art often has "Thomas Kinkade lighting" I can't unsee it

American English - ize -realize -organize -specialize British English - ise -realise -organise -specialise The ‘ize’ ending is the older version.

Hail, Saint Loba Diane DiPrima the only war that matters is the war against the imagination/ all others are subsumed in it www.innergarden.org/en/waronimag...

Its raining with some heft now, just started. Now I want to turn all devices in the house off and play some early Genesis and just feel the rain-breeze, stare at the clouds.

Tell you what, Seattle Rep has got their hospitality game down. What a lovely bunch of people. And their nicely detailed show documentation is going to make it so much easier for me to adapt it to our house when we do "The Play That Goes Wrong" in January. Until next time, which I hope is soon!

I am from Missouri and do politics for my job, and am just now learning of this sit-in to protest attempted RW seat-stealing.

Goodnight.

Extremely disappointing, @powells.bsky.social Portland, OR is full of skilled artists who could be hired to create much better imagery that AI crap. I mean, aren't we kind of famous for being a city full of artists? Not to mention how incredibly destructive AI is for the environment. Gross.

teeny little scarabaeid feet

Oh man, I wish I had made more of that brown sugar ginger mead (metheglin for those who are paticular) back in March of 2023. It's so good. It was alright @ 18 months, but it's all the way "done" now, after nearly 2 1/2 years aging. Noticing a trend in my brews about this 2 year aging thing & meads.