crow welcomes old crone
bringing stone and winter snow —
red and yellow winds
birdshit — 01nov26
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Links to the earlier parts of this collaborative tale written with Jolene Rice can be found: Part I, Part II, Parts III & IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII and Part VIII.
All’s well that ends well.
I’m glad Jolene was able to carry this over the finish line for us.
Never Come Back — Kas Product
I’m not sure how this band escaped my attention back in the early 80s. There were on the very early side of this particular sound, so maybe that’s why.
A stumble on, check them out if you are interested in French electropunk (song is in English).
A product, an image
Conception of the business
Identify yourself to be a perfect mistress
A model to follow
A video on the screen
You can bluff the world
when everyday is Halloween!everything falls apart — a serial
Photo by Sergei Vasilenko on Unsplash, design by michael raven AUTHOR’S NOTE and EARLY CONCEPTS
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Story time with Jolene
I was not terribly enthused to begin my workday, so I jotted this down instead.
I hadn’t intended for it to end up being Halloween-themed. That was sheer accident.
Details of the challenge on the jump; otherwise, read it below and throw sharp objects at me when you are done for having wasted two minutes or less of your life when you could be doing something with those chair legs instead.
It’s not easy being an insomniac in the best of times.
These are not the best of times.
While everyone was looking the other direction — alien invasions, zombie apocalypse, the threat of AI annihilation — the vampires were quietly working in the shadows. Literally.
(more…)Guess I’m Stuck in the Dark — Heartworms
Just uploaded a few days ago.
If I haven’t said it enough before, I just wanted to point out that I can’t explain quite what it is about Jojo Orme (aka Heartworms), but I really-really like her vibe and music. It very much has the feel of the 80s music scene with a modern twist that I can’t quite put my finger on.
Of course, her rendition of Dominion (Sisters of Mercy) sealed the deal for me. While far from my favorite Sisters song, I quite enjoyed hearing her new take on it. But Chris turned me onto her sound before that, so I was already halfway there.
Warning: here be bugs.
On carrying wooden swords
1435 FORTY-SECOND YEAR, EIKYŌ SEVEN
WOOD’S YOUNGER BROTHER, THE HAREIkkyū spent some time down in Izumi [Sakai]. Whenever he went out in the city streets, he took along a wooden sword. As he walked, he rapped his fingers on its hilt.
The townspeople argued with him saying, ‘The virtue of a sword is killing. What use does a monk have for one?’
He replied, ‘You don’t know it yet, but these days the world is full of a false wisdom that is just like this wooden sword. As long as it is kept in the scabbard, it looks as good as a real blade, but if it is drawn out from the scabbard, it is seen to be only a sliver of wood. It cannot even kill people—much less make them live.’
— Sanford, Zen-Man Ikkyū, pp. 91–92.
Part of the reason I am not a serious practitioner of Zen is the number of props that someone being serious about Zen seems to require. Incense, robes, zafu and zabuton, chimes and gongs, and whatnot, along with a meditation space and a shrine (if you lean that way), blank walls to limit distraction…
(more…)reblog: Be careful what you wish for (part VIII)
Links to the earlier parts of this collaborative tale written with Jolene Rice can be found: Part I, Part II, Parts III & IV, Part V, Part VI, and Part VII
Someone finds a rat.
