3-2-1 Countdown for Equality: No Bittersweet Victories
3-2-1 Countdown for Equality: No Bittersweet Victories Help WA, ME and Kalamazoo Win on November 3rd: Spread the Word About the Campaigns Today Progressives are closer than ever to a victory on health care reform. As 2009 comes to a close, we've moved forward on other issues. But what's looming up ahead could be a disappointment. On Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009- less than a week away- there will be critical votes on on LGBT equality in three states: Washington State, Maine, and Michigan. With so much attention devoted to other issues in the political realm, bloggers have banded together to ensure we don't forget the on

Witches and Halloween
At our weekly programmer meeting, one of my co-workers (who is very much into Halloween) mentioned that she had been a witch all weekend. I softly said that some of us did it year round. ;) The Beast make up came off fairly easily on Saturday night. Actually, it was more of a problem keeping it on. However, I felt an itch in my ear this morning and ended up with a blue smeared Q-tip. Still waiting to get some photos from James, but some folks have already posted photos at Facebook. Check out one here. See the album

Demonic Halloween Candy
What a whack job!!! Has anyone done the math about how many of us Pagans there are and how much candy is produced in the US. (And duh, if we are going to curse candy, it would make far more sense to get those chocolate bunnies at Easter which are more likely to be consumed by Christians.) Standing around a bonfire is occult/demonic?? Really? Wow, how odd that people might stand around a source of warmth when they are outside and the weather is starting to get chilly. I guess the only reason that folks might want to do something like that must be Satanic. And, how exactly do we do a time-released curse? Is it timed from when the spell is cast? From when the object is handl

Upgrading from a floppy disk to a hard disk
Oddly enough, this is NOT a computer-related post. One of the women in the coven I belong to just went through back surgery. They first thought it might be 6 hours worth of surgery, but the procedure ran to 10 hours. Afterwarrds, the surgeon was explaining that one of the disks in her spine was sort of flopping around, but he had put in some hardware to firm it up. Her daughter law then observed that he had just upgraded her from a floppy drive to a hard disk. It got a laugh! The recovery is expected to take 6 months to a year. We just had a lovely chat, and she is glad that things are going better.

Heus Abbas from Ermine Spot (July 1996): [Ermine] Latin anyone?
I found this online and it brought back many fond memories of when this was first performed at a Society for Creative Anachronism  (SCA). I think it was the very late 80’s.) Alfredo and his lady did this for the 2nd princess of Aethelmearc. Around 1990, the local Shire of Stormsport put on a demo at the South Erie Turners. I seem to recall that Cerise did Abbot and my friend Paula did the Costello lines. It went over okay. (Memo to self: comedy schtick with half the lines in Latin may not have as wide appeal as one might hope.) I seem to recall that Alexander Caithnes