WV going once, going twice...

State of West Virginia auctioned on eBay! "By Tuesday evening, with five days to go in the sale of item number 2372779353, 'Entire State of West Virginia,' bidders had bumped the ante up to just $1 short of $100 million."

WV going once, going twice...

State of West Virginia auctioned on eBay! "By Tuesday evening, with five days to go in the sale of item number 2372779353, 'Entire State of West Virginia,' bidders had bumped the ante up to just $1 short of $100 million."

Icon roll call!

(cambot! tom servo! gypsy! croooow!)

Last seen in penguinboi.

For the most part, none of my user pics are associated with any particular mood. When I am feeling amused or making a humorous post or comment, I am somewhat more likely to use the "goth buttercup" pic, but not always. I am more likely to use the "purple sevenstar" on magic- or otherkin-filtered posts, but again, not always. ( Read more... )

Icon roll call!

(cambot! tom servo! gypsy! croooow!)

Last seen in penguinboi.

For the most part, none of my user pics are associated with any particular mood. When I am feeling amused or making a humorous post or comment, I am somewhat more likely to use the "goth buttercup" pic, but not always. I am more likely to use the "purple sevenstar" on magic- or otherkin-filtered posts, but again, not always. ( Read more... )

poem

I was thinking of this for some totally other reason, but the more I stare at it, the more I'm impressed by it, so I'm posting it here for all to see.

Our Mysteries (9/24/01)

Unbind thy hair and let it fall,
answer Beauty's starlight call;
cry out my name like poetry
and I shall cry out thine to thee;
I serve thy wants, thou servest me.
Speak your words as though they're sung,
let blood and wine flow o'er the tongue;
let soft lips meet and hands entwine
and pleasures be returned in kind;
thou art my love, and I am thine.
Drink of me, then drink to us,
and drink once more to holy lust;
then let the cup be flung aside
and lay thou naked by my side;
thou art my husband, I thy bride.

poem

I was thinking of this for some totally other reason, but the more I stare at it, the more I'm impressed by it, so I'm posting it here for all to see.

Our Mysteries (9/24/01)

Unbind thy hair and let it fall,
answer Beauty's starlight call;
cry out my name like poetry
and I shall cry out thine to thee;
I serve thy wants, thou servest me.
Speak your words as though they're sung,
let blood and wine flow o'er the tongue;
let soft lips meet and hands entwine
and pleasures be returned in kind;
thou art my love, and I am thine.
Drink of me, then drink to us,
and drink once more to holy lust;
then let the cup be flung aside
and lay thou naked by my side;
thou art my husband, I thy bride.

random crap posting re: Eris

This is the text of a paper I did in college in the one womens' studies class I ever took, titled something like "Women and Spirituality". Given my still-emerging Pagan identity at the time (mid-1998), it was great. Now, a class in Goddess worship seems a little silly. Still, the point of this project was to research a specific goddess, and this was me trying to be different, doncha know. (Please forgive slight errors of formatting - I'm trying to translate Word doc to HTML while slightly intoxicated, here.)( Read more... )

random crap posting re: Eris

This is the text of a paper I did in college in the one womens' studies class I ever took, titled something like "Women and Spirituality". Given my still-emerging Pagan identity at the time (mid-1998), it was great. Now, a class in Goddess worship seems a little silly. Still, the point of this project was to research a specific goddess, and this was me trying to be different, doncha know. (Please forgive slight errors of formatting - I'm trying to translate Word doc to HTML while slightly intoxicated, here.)( Read more... )

the galaxy

Vaguely on the subject of the last post:

I dunno how many of you out there have been in the habit of starting essays/papers with quotations. Myself, I picked it up from my high school mate Maggie Lee. Obviously, the paper in the last post quoted the Principia, which I think is a fairly 1337 reference; the one I'm looking at in Word currently quotes the Monty Python "Galaxy Song", which may be more or less 1337, depending on one's perspective. But what I'm curious about is... how many of you tend to follow the same practice, of putting a quotation at the beginnings of your "formal" works such as essays, etc.? And if so, can you give me any kind of history as to what/whom?

Aside from the Principia quote just mentioned, the one in question at the moment is:

"The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know--
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is."

...tacked on to a paper about the Hubble constant and how we can infer the size of the universe from red-shift. (Astrophysics is teh r0x0r.)

the galaxy

Vaguely on the subject of the last post:

I dunno how many of you out there have been in the habit of starting essays/papers with quotations. Myself, I picked it up from my high school mate Maggie Lee. Obviously, the paper in the last post quoted the Principia, which I think is a fairly 1337 reference; the one I'm looking at in Word currently quotes the Monty Python "Galaxy Song", which may be more or less 1337, depending on one's perspective. But what I'm curious about is... how many of you tend to follow the same practice, of putting a quotation at the beginnings of your "formal" works such as essays, etc.? And if so, can you give me any kind of history as to what/whom?

Aside from the Principia quote just mentioned, the one in question at the moment is:

"The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know--
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is."

...tacked on to a paper about the Hubble constant and how we can infer the size of the universe from red-shift. (Astrophysics is teh r0x0r.)