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Along with a lot of other people I am grossly unhappy with the new TOS for LJ  This account will run out at some point in April 2018, and will not be renewed.

All of the posts have been copied to my account (also "brock_tn,") at Dreamwidth.org.  The comments here didn't carry over, but that's small ( Read more... )

As I noted a while back, the City Council here in Huntsville, AL, normally opens its meetings with an invocation, and they got a cease-and-desist letter from the Freedom From Religion Foundation asking them reasonably nicely to stop doing that, with the not-too-veiled threat of a lawsuit if the city declined to comply.

This being Alabama, of course ( Read more... )

OTHER PEOPLE get popular music:  Lady Gaga, or the Everly Brothers, or Springsteen, or the Supremes, or gawd'elpus, the Archies singing "Sugar, Sugar."

What do I get for an earworm?

The Non nobis Domine, from Brahnagh's film of Shakespeare's Henry V.

I see it's been something over a year since I posted an update here.  Sorry about that.

My health is about as good as I could expect, all things considered.  The leukemia is what it is, though as one of my doctors points out, CLL is a disease that you die with, but not usually one that you die from.   In February, Lark and I signed up for a ( Read more... )

So we’re doing it again.  Lark and I are on vacation in Europe, including a cruise on the National Geographic  Explorer that begins in Copenhagen and ends in Lisbon.  And because neither of us had ever been to Denmark before, we flew in to Copenhagen a couple of days early, got a hotel room, and went to look at interesting stuff.

So, it turns out ( Read more... )

Recap - About 16 months ago, I was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.  As I pointed out at the time, this is hardly a death sentence.  My doctors continue to assure me that I will almost certainly die of something OTHER than my leukemia, many years from now.  And there are some promising developments in developing a definitive treatment ( Read more... )

So, we have here in the Huntsville area this odd place that is entirely unlike the rest of Alabama most of the time, mostly 'cos most of the people that live here aren't originally from Alabama.  So we have two synagogues, several mosques and masjids, a Hindu temple, several different Orthodox Christian congregations, two different Buddhist ( Read more... )

I'm informed, though a reliable source, that science fiction author Anne McCaffery passed away yesterday.  That's the bad news.  Or at least it is for many, many fen of my generation ( Read more... )

Faithful readers of this collection of drivel will remember that almost exactly three years ago, I hied myself to Atlanta, six hours away from my nearest and dearest, in order to keep myself gainfully employed.  And that we have been living largely separate lives since that time.  I spent 27 months in Atlanta before taking a new (and permanent) job ( Read more... )

I seem to have acquired a student.

I went to the Huntsville Area Old Ways Association meeting on the 30th, (we meet over dinner on the 2nd and 5th Wednesday of each month, and occasionally for coffee and conversation on Sunday mornings,) and I gave a little talk on the theoretical aspects of religious and magical ritual.  The talk was well- ( Read more... )