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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[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

Sex and Rockets is worth the read about Jack Parsons.

[timesygn.livejournal.com]

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Welcome to the club!

SEX AND ROCKETS is fabb-o. Also, Check out:

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/rscarbonneau/parsons/toc.php

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/rscarbonneau/JACKSDOCS.php
(includes the BOOK OF BABALON and the BOOK OF ANTICHRIST)

http://liberbabalon.gydja.com/about.html

http://liberbabalon.gydja.com/birth.html

"What is the beauty that flames so bright
athwart the awful dawn?
She has taken flesh, she is come to judge
the thrones ye rule upon."

Love is the Law, Love under Will.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I would very much like to hear a song called "The Crow Knows Where All the Little Children Go."

So BE GOOD! FOR GOODNESS SAAAAAKE! WOAH! SOMEBODY'S COMING!

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, Jack. Some point I have to lend you the book that introduced him to me. Rumor has it that he put together a ritual designed to bring about the end of the world (and now it looks like it may just happen! ...erm... Sorry that part was Egon Spengler). I should haul out the book (Book of Lies from Misinformation Press) that introduced me to him and lend it to you.

Also...

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

NEW PJ HARVEY!

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

All of this. 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. And yeaaaah, more PJ!

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

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm also glad it wasn't in person, much as I'd have to say it would be interesting. ;-)

Glad to've introduced you to the historical character of him, in any event.

Has someone alerted Tim Powers?

I'd be surprised if he's not heard of Parsons. Perhaps you could write the secret history, yourself?

The vampire burial article is interesting--I've seen the story before, but that's a bit more detail than the previous ones I've read. I wish Borrino had cited his source for the brick-in-mouth thing--is that a commonplace of Italian vampire lore?--even though I understand that he might well have done and the journalist could have left it out.

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

Yay, PJ Harvey! I loved Uh-Huh Her, and of course her earlier stuff, too.
There's a Hal Hartley movie called "Book of Life" in which she plays Mary Magdalene. I highly recommend it.