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Now you know I'm not all "the earth is warming! buy fluorescent bulbs or DIE!" But I just went outside to admire the lightning bugs and it occurs to me that the days and nights are very quiet for this time of year. I'm used to the crickets chirping quite loudly at night and it's now silence in the backyard. I also remember as recently as last ( Read more... )

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One nectarine daiquiri, two tuna-cumber sandwiches, two Fangorious Mojitos, and one viewing of Boondock Saints later...

We had a wonderful day in Philadelphia yesterday. It was my first time, and Mat's first time since he was quite young, in the city. We went specifically to visit the Mütter Museum and also to hang out with slate1198 but we got there early enough to visit the Liberty Bell and the historic district, including a walk through City Hall and Chinatown. We also ( Read more... )

I keep wanting to dye my hair blond and my hair keeps getting other ideas. For the umpteenth time I've put a box of blond on my hair and came out with a ginger-orange color. I quite like it as I have the skin tone to be a redhead, but I have had my hair blond once before and I know I can get there again. Next time I dye, in a few weeks from now, no ( Read more... )

Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj is definitely the best movie ever made about a first-year history graduate student.

I thought I'd raise an observation and see if other people have made the same conclusions, or perhaps spark a debate. Perhaps you've noticed it, or perhaps you don't think it worthy of consideration, but I would like to talk about cultural heathenism and its place in the wider heathen community.
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Brathalla had a contest for readers to answer the question, "How does Hel really die?" At first I was confused because this is not in the lore, literature, etc. anywhere then realized it was a creative rather than factual question. I came up with a couple different lengthy answers which were somewhat "canon" (e.g. fit in with the rest of lore) but ( Read more... )

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