Who do you blame when all your dreams come true?

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Fortunately not in person, ap_aelfwine just introduced me to Jack Parsons. I cannot imagine how I never heard of him before, but between the rocket science, the moonchild, and the fulminate of mercury, there's a beautiful secret history here. Has someone alerted Tim Powers?

I am so looking forward to PJ Harvey's new album, and not just because its songs are titled things like "Cracks in the Canvas" and "The Crow Knows Where All the Little Children Go."

This is merely lovely: death (and vampirism) in Venice.

"To kill the vampire you had to remove the shroud from its mouth, which was its food like the milk of a child, and put something uneatable in there," Mr Borrini said. "It's possible that other corpses have been found with bricks in their mouths, but this is the first time the ritual has been recognised."

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I kept hearing that Jack Parsons would eventually work into the extended back-story of the Dionaea House, but it never did happen; too bad.

So where does he exist in your universe?

BTW, you know when I talk about mainly sticking to people I know in RL, that certainly doesn't exclude you, right?

It is both appreciated and reciprocated. Thank you.

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Hmmm, good question...I think he'd probably be over on the mad scientist/magician side of the equation, for sure, which sort of allies him with the chicks from "Imaginary Beauties"--but they're all about the chemistry and biology, not so much the engineering.

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which sort of allies him with the chicks from "Imaginary Beauties"--but they're all about the chemistry and biology, not so much the engineering.

So a little variety never hurt anyone!

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

What I find hilarious generally about Crowleyan Magick-with-a-"k" is how close it comes to basic self-help philosophy, except with orgies and mythology attached: You know--"just close your eyes and picture your perfect life, imagine it hard enough (while drinking some goat's blood, fucking your GF and calling on Pan) and it will come true". All that. I realize I'm being reductionist, but it makes complete sense to me that this is something L. Ron Hubbard would have gotten involved with, before figuring out a better/more lucrative way to spin it, and bailing.

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You know--"just close your eyes and picture your perfect life, imagine it hard enough (while drinking some goat's blood, fucking your GF and calling on Pan) and it will come true".

*ksnerk*

Everything's better with orgies and mythology . . .

All that. I realize I'm being reductionist, but it makes complete sense to me that this is something L. Ron Hubbard would have gotten involved with, before figuring out a better/more lucrative way to spin it, and bailing.

Yeah. Although I'd still take Crowley over Hubbard any day of the week. For starters, Aleister Crowley's prose style has never caused me to wish that the two hemispheres of my brain would simply stop talking to one another and put me out of my pain.