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May 1 Plantings
Woodwardia radicans "European chain fern"
Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater
Woodwardia unigemmata "chain fern"
Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater
Farfugium japonicom "leopard plant" (2 ( Read more... ) -
Spirit of the Century Saturdays
My roommate Abraham wants to start running a Spirit of the Century game on Saturdays. I will probably also play, as I am having to drop the Sunday game for the summer (boo employment!)
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Terra (or Terror)
Proponents of the Terrific Erratum often shelter their delusion in semantics. We know our world by the name of Anti-Terra: is it rational, they ask, to suppose that such a name could arise in the absence of a Terran original? Could we conceive of anti-matter without a prior knowledge of matter, or of dis-aster without the daily mercy of a ( Read more... ) -
Terra (or Terror)
Inhabitants of Anti-Terra are occasionally winged, but it is not considered nice to notice this under normal circumstances. Players may at any time spend a fate point to achieve a fleeting state of wing-awareness, which lasts for the duration of a single declared action chosen by the player. Such actions should be on the order of "Ascend the belfry ( Read more... ) -
DOMA brief: posted without comment
Loving v. Virginia is not to the contrary. There the Supreme Court rejected a contention that the assertedly "equal application" of a statute prohibiting interracial marriage immunized the statute from strict scrutiny. The Court had little difficulty concluding that the statute, which applied only to "interracial marriages involving white persons ( Read more... ) -
dream portmanteau
I woke up this morning from a dream about a (chaste!) assemblage of people all dressed up as animals, each of whom had their own special power typed on a 3x5 card. The girl wearing cat ears was assigned the power of "frivilege" -- which meant the privilege of behaving frivolously whatever the situation. -
Bistanclac!
Kamala has discovered that excerpts of the peculiar new opera-in-progress she has been workshopping were videotaped and are on the internet. It is about the birth of the industrial proletariat! All the text is taken from the good-conduct rules for the young girls who worked in a particular French silk factory.
"Bistanclac!" represents the sound of ( Read more... ) -
I also have a scalp wound
I made it for the pancakes part of the Groundhog's Day party for the first time, but then I had to be lame and run off to do various family things all day. It was still nice to see people! -
Bye! See you Monday!
Today in the mixed-up files of my financially crooked employers, I ran across a check for three thousand dollars to the LDS church, written last October. -
Maddy Prior!
There's an album of Christmas Carols we had on cassette when I was a kid, and it's out of print and I've never been able to find it partly because I couldn't remember what it was called. Well, I just found some songs from it on imeem! Yay! The triangle-ist grooves so hard in this song!