Welcome to Pagan Spawn. We’re very glad you could make. Spawn. What a lovely word. It means offspring. When I saw Stephen for the first time in over two years back in ’97,, practically the first thing I said to him was “You’ve spawned!” That was our code phrase for “You have offspring!” A lot of the things we say to each other may make no sense to anyone else, or may be shocking, but we get what it means. Our spawns (we each have a daughter) are both brilliant. They’re both mutants (in the best way possible). They’re both smarter than their parents. I had some idea what to do with and how to handle my spawn. I don’t think Stephen and Debbie had any idea what to do with theirs.
James’ parents let him watch things like Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard. One night he was staying up late watching the Necronomicon and a movie about Simon Magus. Instantly he was hooked on the whole Lovecraftian mythos about the Old Ones, Cthulhu. Now he is convinced, and has convinced Stephen that Alhazred really lived, and that the Necronomicon is real. I say that many of the rituals may be real, in that they were ancient Sumerian, but Simon Magus could easily have copied them from somewhere. Maybe he knows Sumerian cuneiform; who am I to know? Both Abramelin and Alhazred were sages. Stephen gets the same vibe about both of them. I think both of them are mythical. That’s okay because we’re individuals, and individuals often disagree.
I first got involved with H.P. Lovecraft when I returned from L.A. in 1978, and was reading Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft so that I could sleep at night. My 10 months in L.A. we so horrific and traumatic that I found King and Lovecraft to actually be comforting reading. Later, much later, when I was with Doc, we watched movies on the SciFi channel (now the SyFy channel) about Dagon, and other Lovecraftian classics. I had also acquired both the Simon Magus and the Donald Tyson Necronomicons. I also have copies of the Dark Grimoire and the Secrets of the Necronomicon Tarot decks. We have the NecronomiconNetwork.ning.com network. “All Cthulhu All the Time”, the sister network to this one. We want to play “Call of Cthulhu” on PaganSpace.net’s chat facility.
Don’t forget to stop by our 16 Yahoo groups and post to them. But please make sure that what you post is pertinent to the group. Somebody by the name of Kristin Harris is posting to all our Google groups asking if we can identify a song for her. People: none of our groups is about identifying a stupid song for anyone. If you want to do that look and see if there are any song identifying groups in either Yahoo or Google groups. We lost nine of our Yahoo groups because nobody posted to them for more than 6 weeks. People these groups are your groups not just ours. We need to show Yahoo that these groups are going concerns.
Stephen really wore out the putties this afternoon. We have this putty toy that is a plastic ring with a ball in it that a putty or a human can spin around. The puttiettes were chasing the ball and batting at it as Stephen pushed it around, and then Dr. Livingston I. Presume started batting the ball around himself. Frikki and Frakki the pseudo-Siamese kittens also batted the ball around. They got so worn out that Frikki is now crashed out on Stephen’s leg. They have three other toys they like to play with. One is the Dreadful Headset: that is, one of two telephone headsets that developed shorts, so they are useless to Stephen as headsets. There is also the Deadly Fatal Watch Chain that the putties love to play with because it moves and is shiny. Then there are the Baneful Beads. The puttiettes run all around trying to get hold of one of these three. It is hilarious and we laugh our heads off at them. These are goofy cats. But their toys are also our weapons against them in the Putty Conspiracy. We have a bit of a controversy on how putty and putties should be spelled. You see how it should be spelled, but Stephen spells it puddy and puddies. I spell it the way I do because of “Silly Putty” and Tweety Bird’s “I tot I taw a putty tat! I deed! I deed!” I found the word “Putty” on a leaflet from the place where I get most of my clothes. Of course, it described a color, a kind of light taupe, light khaki shade, not a cat, but still putty is putty. Today while I was gone, Dr. Livingston stole Stephen’s watch you know, the Deadly, Fatal Watch Chain, and took it under the table where the plastic bags containing his drinks are. Dr. Livingston I. Presume tangled up the chain into the handles of the plastic bags. It took Stephen several minutes of patient untangling before he could wrest his watch free. He didn’t have to do this just once but twice. Stephen’s got Dr. Livingston I. Presume chewing on his own tail. He calls it “putty-ouroboros”.
Ted Andrews, a well-known Pagan author of many books about animals and magick, lost his years’ long battle with cancer on Saturday, and passed through the veil into the Summerland. He kept the fact that he had cancer from everybody until the very last. If you know more about the death of Ted Andrews, please post here. As soon as we find out anything, we’ll post here. If you know more about Isaac Bonewits’ condition, please post here.
I’m on KEEN now, so call me. I changed the spelling of my name slightly so that the non-Welsh speakers could pronounce it. It’s spelled Teiweth ShadowDancer. My number is 8342. My extension number is 03877627. Ask for me. I’m sure it means something qabalistically, but I haven’t looked it up yet in Godwin’s. The site is www.keen.com, so go there and look me up. Stephen’s British friend Peter is threatening to call me, but he hasn’t called me yet. He has only 5 hours and 21 minutes yet tonight, before he’ll have to wait until tomorrow morning. I refuse to be a slave to the telephone as Stephen is, so I’m offline from 10 p.m. until 8 a.m. I need my beauty sleep. I don’t know whether it does me any good cosmetically, but it does my moods a world ahead, as well as my physical body.
I’m on KEEN now, so call me. I changed the spelling of my name slightly so that the non-Welsh speakers could pronounce it. It’s spelled Teiweth ShadowDancer. My number is 8342. I’m sure it means something qabalistically, but I haven’t looked it up yet in Godwin’s. The site is www.keen.com, so go there and look me up. Stephen’s British friend Peter is threatening to call me, but he hasn’t called me yet. He has only 5 hours and 21 minutes yet tonight, before he’ll have to wait until tomorrow morning. I refuse to be a slave to the telephone as Stephen is, so I’m offline from 10 p.m. until 8 a.m. I need my beauty sleep. I don’t know whether it does me any good cosmetically, but it does my moods a world ahead, as well as my physical body.
Stephen’s in big trouble this month, folks. He got defrauded again has a new card coming. He owes almost $600 on his phone bill, and is still a month behind on his rent. You can help, folks. Please please PLEASE call for readings and/or classes. For $32, you can either have a reading using your choice of deck/tool; .or a class on your choice of topic in the vast area of magick. With webcam and voice on Yahoo IM, Windows Live Msgr, or, and Stephen’s in big trouble this month, folks. He got defrauded again has a Skype, it’s almost like being there with him. You can also only have it done on the phone. For $60, you can have both a reading and a class, Not two readings though, unless they are using different methods and it’s on two different topics. Call him on 916-455-2267 (land-line) or 916-612-2504 (cell) or contact him online at abbotts_inn on Yahoo IM, abbotts_inn@hotmail.com on Windows Live Msgr, or email him at abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com. Donations of any size can be paid to his Paypal account at abbottsinn@gmail.com, or mailed to Stephen Abbott at 4909 Roosevelt Ave. Sacramento, CA 95820. These donations go to Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick, to keep it afloat. If the donation is less than $32, however, you will not get a reading or a class. Also, spread his Zodiac referral number 1-800-280-8496. You get directly to him and he gets a full dollar per minute, instead of the 32 cents per minute he gets without the referral number, and it doesn’t cost you extra., just the regular per minute charge. Also, we need staff, and those who work as hard as we do will get a year and a day’s worth of free readings and/or classes. You can be anywhere because we’re international.
In just a day I will be starting on NaNoWriMo, which is actually a misnomer, since it has gone global. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, but should be GloNoWriMo, for Global Novel Writing Month. I will finish the novel I started back this past spring. I’m writing it as an historical fantasy. It’s about La Voisin, a real 17th century witch who lived in France during the reign of the Sun King. Will me luck, folks
Saturday, October 31, 2009
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