We call this the Anals, not the Annals because putties are anal. They’re always either farting, licking their behinds, or in the litter boxes going #2. Welcome to Putties for Pagans 2! We’re so glad you could make it! Do check out your other Putties for Pagans groups on other networks because there WILL be other groups on other networks. Tegwedd will be starting new groups of this franchise wherever she can. But not on PaganSpace.net and WiccanTogether because they’ve gone all fascist on us. You have to get your groups approved and they haven’t been approving groups lately so we’ll go there only to post on groups already there, not adding more groups. Our possibilities have narrowed somewhat. Tegwedd can’t go on either BlessedBeUK or Avalon because these 2 networks were the first to go fascist. It’s not a pretty sight when Pagan sites go fascist.
The putties have been extremely active this past summer. Whenever Tegwedd goes out to hang up the wash, or to take it down after it’s dry, Dr. Livingston I. (the I stands for Isis) Presume aka Princess Henrietta the Navigator wants to “help” She becomes extremely approachable and affectionate. Naturally Tegwedd has to stop what she’s doing and scritch her. It’s in the union rules. Vampirella is very funny and affectionate. That’s why we think she must’ve belonged to a family, because she is so affectionate, and when she came in, she had a flea collar on. She craves and expects human affection and attention. Of course we give it to her. She is so pretty, short white fur with beige accents. We think she’s another one of Little Boy’s progeny because she has 6 toes on each front paw. The folks at the SPCA thought she was pretty too when Tegwedd and Walt took her there to get spayed. She was very good about going into the cat carrier. She doesn’t walk; she stalks. Her eyes are blue during the day but red at night. She’s the great white huntress. She goes after butterflies and other bugs in the grass.
Who’d a thunk that Pyewacket was a secret member of the Putty IRA? Pyewacket has a game she plays; where she will cry at the door, supposedly to come in, then back away when one of us opens it to let her in. We have to coax her in. She cries to be petted, then walks away when you try to pet her. Stephen calls the crying at the door and crying to be petted the crying game which was a movie about the IRA. This could also be what the crossed paws are about. Her secret IRA name is Pyewacket O’Leary. When she isn’t plotting the demise of a country, she plays with Tegwedd’s magickal necklaces. This action is a blind to conceal her nefarious activities as secret leader of the Putty IRA.
A few days ago a stupid mouse found its way inside the house. We say stupid because that mouse had to have been able to smell that there are 8 putties living here. Putty Bear and Frakki tag teamed to catch it. They took turns grabbing it in their mouths, but that.mouse wouldn’t die. It got lost for awhile under the sofa where Tegwedd was sitting, but the tag team putties soon caught it again. Then when they lost interest in it, Stephen swept it into the dustpan, and took it to the big garbage bin outside. The mouse that wouldn’t die dropped to the bottom of the garbage bin, where it stayed, eating garbage until it either died of its injuries, or the garbage collectors picked up the garbage. Now it’s under a pile of garbage in a landfill somewhere.
Tabitha is 6 months old and funny. She barks (actually it’s more like a squeak) when you hold something above her head like a treat, her brush, or just your fingers. She squeaks most of the time, but very often, she’ll open her mouth and no sound comes out. We call it the silent miaow after the book of the same name. Right now Vampirella is playing with a dead piece of weed eater line that Tegwedd is holding with her right hand while she write with her left. All she has to do is move it a little, and Vampirella bats it around with her paws, first the right one, then the left. Suddenly Vampirella abandons it in favor of a ball, and Frakki and Tabitha have discovered the line and bat it about.
The putties teach each other things, not only behavior, but also classifying of what is a putty toy, and what isn’t. Pyewacket and Vampirella have an intense rivalry going. They’re each jealous of the other because they’re both cute. Vampirella is about 1 ½ times Pyewacket’s size, but Pyewacket isn’t intimidated in the slightest. For an adult female, Pyewacket is small, having reached her full size about a year ago. At least she’s filling out. You used to be able to feel the vertebrae on her spine, but she has flesh covering that now. She can more than hold her own in a fight with another putty. She’s a little spitfire. She also likes to bite noses. All the putties like to get into weird poses and imitate rugs. Pyewacket likes to knead people. Stephen gave her the epithet “accordion putty” because of the cute noises she makes when you gently squeeze her.
There’s a certain putty toy that Stephen, with his glaucoma” thinks is a severed Santa’s head, when in reality it’s a small stuffed Santa’s boot or Xmas stocking, Tabitha loves that toy. She bats it around, which makes it moves, which makes it alive and attractive to Tabitha. Night time lockdown is a tense time for all because they have to come in and stay in all night. It’s for their own safety and well-being but they don’t realize that, silly putties that they are, and make us call them and run around in the dark, trying to get them inside. As is almost everything for them, this is a game, and great fun. The Japanese aristocrats would understand this. At least they would have understood it during the period we round eyes like to call the Middle Ages and Renaissance. They liked to say things like “He is playing at playing music.” or “She is playing at drawing.” Tegwedd learned this about 35 years ago when she read “Shogun. Putties also like to play a game called escape. If they sense a human is going to either go outside, or come in, they dash through the open door into the great outdoors. Then they expect you the human to go around in the dark and chase them while they evade you. It can last for hours. Stephen has a tendency to tire of this game in 10 minutes. There the putties are, snug as bugs in rugs, in their small dark cozy hiding places, and Stephen is indoors, trying to catch his breath, going in and out with the inhaler, and then taking a treatment with the nebulizer.
Tell us your putty stories. The Putty Anals will continue when we do our latest installment of Magickal Familiars and their Powers.
Our friend Caitlin ni Manannan has people bringing her wood from when they prune their trees in their yards. And we are shortly going to be making Rune and Ogham sets. So if you’re local, bring us your branches. They should be at least the thickness of your thumb.
All you hard-workin’ Pagans should stand solidly with labor and against the Tea Party. As James Hoffa Jr. said, “Recall those sons of bitches! Go to your ballot boxes and vote them out.” The 75,000 Verizon workers are on strike, and we stand with them. Solidarnosc! as the Poles would say. Verizon management, all Republicans, have made 100 unreasonable demands, and refuse to negotiate, but are paying scabs to cross the picket lines, and work for them. All the workers want, is to keep what they have, a small cost of living increase in wages, their health care, and their pensions. Management wants them to pay $100 per month for health care, while they get it free. If you were thinking of getting a Verizon phone and account, don’t, and do tell them why you aren’t, that you are boycotting them. If you have a Verizon account, close it, and go to another carrier, and tell Verizon why. If you want to piss off Stephen, abuse or oppress the workers. Tell Verizon that you refuse to do business with an employer who oppresses its workers.
Soon we may be selling pendants of the lady and the tiger worked in silver. If you reading this are a silversmith please call our toll free number 1-888-611-7982, and we’ll do business. Coming soon--prints of the Lady and the Tiger by Lizet. Rune and Ogham sets worked by Stephen. Tegwedd has started to crochet cellphone holsters of her own design. They are of acrylic yarn, in assorted colors. She is obsessed right now with making holsters for the Pagan Pride Harvest Festival, but she will make you one to order for a reasonable price. She has some right now in assorted colors for just $9.95+S&H. She is working with yarn she has on hand, so a custom one will cost more because she has to obtain the yarn to make yours. It will cost $14.95 + S&H The smallest container for US priority mail is $4.95.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 10 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen has his cell phone, and we are both enjoying learning how to use our cell phones. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Why Vampires? Why Now?
Welcome to Vampires for Pagans 3! We’re so glad you could make it! Do check out our other Vampires for Pagans groups on the other networks we’re on. We like vampires. Do you like vampires? You must, or you wouldn’t be reading this. This vampire group is connected to our other vampire groups. This is a general all-inclusive vampire group, as opposed to our other vampire groups, which are for the specific shows they’re named for.
What is it about vampires that so draws us to these blood sucking maniacs? The movie a few years ago called “30 Days of Night” showed them for what they are, alien blood-sucking maniacs. Certainly there is no mystery or romance connected with leeches, wood ticks, or mosquitoes, but we attach a certain mystique to these other devourers of gore; vampires. Is it because of that biblical proverb “the blood is the life”? This group is like a trunk for all the other vampire groups the focus. This group is for all Pagans who love vampires.
“True Blood” is going to be gone for awhile. It’ll probably be back next summer. Let’s review what we learned during this past summer season of “True Blood.” First of all, there was a coven of Witches operating out of the Moon Goddess Emporium with Marnie, a Witch who was also a medium acting as the High Priestess. Now these aren’t your run-of-the-mill bloodless Wiccans. These Witches do shed blood; their own, and if you get in their way, yours too. She did something you’re never supposed to do. She invited something into her. It’s cool to invoke a deity into you, but you evoke different kinds of spirits. Invoke means call into, like a willed possession. Evoke means call out of or call out, like into a triangle outside the circle, or, as we do at Lughnasadh into the loaf of bread that represents the God Lugh. Back to Marnie. She summoned the spirit of a Witch who had been burnt at the stake in 1611 for rooting out the vampires who had insinuated themselves into the church. It was then that the fun began. A spoiler for you: it got really bloody, and several vampires became piles of ashes before the end.
The Vampire Diaries will start on the CW soon. Stephen likes to watch that show, while Tegwedd finds it to be rather jejune. She prefers more adult shows about vampires. It was also on at the same time as another show she prefers to watch, namely the original CSI. It has nothing to do with vampires, but a couple years ago, there was an episode about vampires.
Who has heard about the newest movie in the Twilight series in which Bella gets pregnant by Edward? Is it being shown yet? We had thought that Bella would become a vampire, and in the literature, vampires can neither get pregnant, nor sire children.
Wikipedia is really invaluable when finding out things about such shows as “Kindred:the Embraced. They were going to bring it back, but Mark Frankel, who portrayed Julian Luna, was killed in a mysterious motorcycle accident. From the Wikipedia: The Vampire Diaries is an American teen (see, Tegwedd was right to call it jejune because it is juvenile, being created for teens, even though Stephen doesn’t think it’s jejune) supernatural drama developed by Kevin Williams and Julie Piec, based upon the book series of the same name by L. J. Smith. The CW series began on September 10th, 2009 and finished its 2nd season on May 12th, 2011. It follows the events in the fictional town of Mystic Falls, VA, which is haunted by supernatural beings. It throws a light on the town’s mysterious past involving Elena’s evil doppelganger Katherine, who seeks revenge against the town, Stefan, Damon, and Elena. Its premiere enjoyed the largest audience since CW opened in 2006. It received average reviews, which improved over time. The 3rd season started on September 15th, which we missed. Some character changes were made from the books, but the story lines have run pretty faithfully from the books.
We have a vampire putty named Vampirella. When she walks, she stalks, and has 6 toes on each front paw. She is mostly white with beige points, a beautiful animal. We suspect she has Siamese ancestry. Several years ago there must have been a very active Siamese tom in the neighborhood. Also, her polydactyly status tells us that Little Boy our polydactyl male cat, was very active in the neighborhood before he was fixed. Her eyes are blue, but at night they turn red. Do any of you have your own Vampirella whose blue eyes turn red at night and who stalks instead of walks? Vampire putties of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your pigments! Do any of you have other vampire critters: dogs, lizards, fish, snakes, rabbits or others?
There is a children’s book series published by Scholastic Books called Bunnicula about a vampire bunny. You can get them from your friendly local public library. The Republicans are wrong. The Internet has not rendered the public library obsolete. If anything, there is more need for it now than ever. Support your friendly local library. Our library re-opens on the 26th, this coming Monday after the completion of the major renovation project they started in June.
Do any of you know of any new vampire series coming up in the future? Inquiring minds want to know. Wikipedia, as was mentioned above is great, and if you get the Mind-n-Magick toolbar on your browser, you’ll get the Paganopedia. Tegwedd was very fond of encyclopedias as a girl. She read the World Book Encyclopedia during the summer between 4th grade and 5th grade. She even tried to sell Encyclopedia Britannica door to door after graduating from college. But she isn’t a sociopath, so she can’t sell anything.
Our friend Caitlin ni Manannan has people bringing her wood from when they prune their trees in their yards. And we are shortly going to be making rune Rune and Ogham sets. So if you’re local, bring us your branches. They should be at least the thickness of your thumb.
All you hard-workin’ Pagans should stand solidly with labor and against the Tea Party. As James Hoffa Jr. said, “Recall those sons of bitches! Go to your ballot boxes and vote them out.” The 75,000 Verizon workers are on strike, and we stand with them. Solidarnosc! as the Poles would say. Verizon management, all Republicans, have made 100 unreasonable demands, and refuse to negotiate, but are paying scabs to cross the picket lines, and work for them. All the workers want, is to keep what they have, a small cost of living increase in wages, their health care, and their pensions. Management wants them to pay $100 per month for health care, while they get it free. If you were thinking of getting a Verizon phone and account, don’t, and do tell them why you aren’t, that you are boycotting them. If you have a Verizon account, close it, and go to another carrier, and tell Verizon why. If you want to piss off Stephen, abuse or oppress the workers. Tell Verizon that you refuse to do business with an employer who oppresses its workers.
Soon we may be selling pendants of the lady and the tiger worked in silver. If you reading this are a silversmith please call our toll free number 1-888-611-7982, and we’ll do business. Coming soon--prints of the Lady and the Tiger by Lizet. Rune and Ogham sets worked by Stephen. Tegwedd has started to crochet cellphone holsters of her own design. They are of acrylic yarn, in assorted colors. She is obsessed right now with making holsters for the Pagan Pride Harvest Festival, but she will make you one to order for a reasonable price. She has some right now in assorted colors for just $9.95+S&H. She is working with yarn she has on hand, so a custom one will cost more because she has to obtain the yarn to make yours. It will cost $14.95 + S&H The smallest container for US priority mail is $4.95.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 10 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen has his cell phone, and we are both enjoying learning how to use our cell phones. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.
What is it about vampires that so draws us to these blood sucking maniacs? The movie a few years ago called “30 Days of Night” showed them for what they are, alien blood-sucking maniacs. Certainly there is no mystery or romance connected with leeches, wood ticks, or mosquitoes, but we attach a certain mystique to these other devourers of gore; vampires. Is it because of that biblical proverb “the blood is the life”? This group is like a trunk for all the other vampire groups the focus. This group is for all Pagans who love vampires.
“True Blood” is going to be gone for awhile. It’ll probably be back next summer. Let’s review what we learned during this past summer season of “True Blood.” First of all, there was a coven of Witches operating out of the Moon Goddess Emporium with Marnie, a Witch who was also a medium acting as the High Priestess. Now these aren’t your run-of-the-mill bloodless Wiccans. These Witches do shed blood; their own, and if you get in their way, yours too. She did something you’re never supposed to do. She invited something into her. It’s cool to invoke a deity into you, but you evoke different kinds of spirits. Invoke means call into, like a willed possession. Evoke means call out of or call out, like into a triangle outside the circle, or, as we do at Lughnasadh into the loaf of bread that represents the God Lugh. Back to Marnie. She summoned the spirit of a Witch who had been burnt at the stake in 1611 for rooting out the vampires who had insinuated themselves into the church. It was then that the fun began. A spoiler for you: it got really bloody, and several vampires became piles of ashes before the end.
The Vampire Diaries will start on the CW soon. Stephen likes to watch that show, while Tegwedd finds it to be rather jejune. She prefers more adult shows about vampires. It was also on at the same time as another show she prefers to watch, namely the original CSI. It has nothing to do with vampires, but a couple years ago, there was an episode about vampires.
Who has heard about the newest movie in the Twilight series in which Bella gets pregnant by Edward? Is it being shown yet? We had thought that Bella would become a vampire, and in the literature, vampires can neither get pregnant, nor sire children.
Wikipedia is really invaluable when finding out things about such shows as “Kindred:the Embraced. They were going to bring it back, but Mark Frankel, who portrayed Julian Luna, was killed in a mysterious motorcycle accident. From the Wikipedia: The Vampire Diaries is an American teen (see, Tegwedd was right to call it jejune because it is juvenile, being created for teens, even though Stephen doesn’t think it’s jejune) supernatural drama developed by Kevin Williams and Julie Piec, based upon the book series of the same name by L. J. Smith. The CW series began on September 10th, 2009 and finished its 2nd season on May 12th, 2011. It follows the events in the fictional town of Mystic Falls, VA, which is haunted by supernatural beings. It throws a light on the town’s mysterious past involving Elena’s evil doppelganger Katherine, who seeks revenge against the town, Stefan, Damon, and Elena. Its premiere enjoyed the largest audience since CW opened in 2006. It received average reviews, which improved over time. The 3rd season started on September 15th, which we missed. Some character changes were made from the books, but the story lines have run pretty faithfully from the books.
We have a vampire putty named Vampirella. When she walks, she stalks, and has 6 toes on each front paw. She is mostly white with beige points, a beautiful animal. We suspect she has Siamese ancestry. Several years ago there must have been a very active Siamese tom in the neighborhood. Also, her polydactyly status tells us that Little Boy our polydactyl male cat, was very active in the neighborhood before he was fixed. Her eyes are blue, but at night they turn red. Do any of you have your own Vampirella whose blue eyes turn red at night and who stalks instead of walks? Vampire putties of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your pigments! Do any of you have other vampire critters: dogs, lizards, fish, snakes, rabbits or others?
There is a children’s book series published by Scholastic Books called Bunnicula about a vampire bunny. You can get them from your friendly local public library. The Republicans are wrong. The Internet has not rendered the public library obsolete. If anything, there is more need for it now than ever. Support your friendly local library. Our library re-opens on the 26th, this coming Monday after the completion of the major renovation project they started in June.
Do any of you know of any new vampire series coming up in the future? Inquiring minds want to know. Wikipedia, as was mentioned above is great, and if you get the Mind-n-Magick toolbar on your browser, you’ll get the Paganopedia. Tegwedd was very fond of encyclopedias as a girl. She read the World Book Encyclopedia during the summer between 4th grade and 5th grade. She even tried to sell Encyclopedia Britannica door to door after graduating from college. But she isn’t a sociopath, so she can’t sell anything.
Our friend Caitlin ni Manannan has people bringing her wood from when they prune their trees in their yards. And we are shortly going to be making rune Rune and Ogham sets. So if you’re local, bring us your branches. They should be at least the thickness of your thumb.
All you hard-workin’ Pagans should stand solidly with labor and against the Tea Party. As James Hoffa Jr. said, “Recall those sons of bitches! Go to your ballot boxes and vote them out.” The 75,000 Verizon workers are on strike, and we stand with them. Solidarnosc! as the Poles would say. Verizon management, all Republicans, have made 100 unreasonable demands, and refuse to negotiate, but are paying scabs to cross the picket lines, and work for them. All the workers want, is to keep what they have, a small cost of living increase in wages, their health care, and their pensions. Management wants them to pay $100 per month for health care, while they get it free. If you were thinking of getting a Verizon phone and account, don’t, and do tell them why you aren’t, that you are boycotting them. If you have a Verizon account, close it, and go to another carrier, and tell Verizon why. If you want to piss off Stephen, abuse or oppress the workers. Tell Verizon that you refuse to do business with an employer who oppresses its workers.
Soon we may be selling pendants of the lady and the tiger worked in silver. If you reading this are a silversmith please call our toll free number 1-888-611-7982, and we’ll do business. Coming soon--prints of the Lady and the Tiger by Lizet. Rune and Ogham sets worked by Stephen. Tegwedd has started to crochet cellphone holsters of her own design. They are of acrylic yarn, in assorted colors. She is obsessed right now with making holsters for the Pagan Pride Harvest Festival, but she will make you one to order for a reasonable price. She has some right now in assorted colors for just $9.95+S&H. She is working with yarn she has on hand, so a custom one will cost more because she has to obtain the yarn to make yours. It will cost $14.95 + S&H The smallest container for US priority mail is $4.95.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 10 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen has his cell phone, and we are both enjoying learning how to use our cell phones. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Long Time No See, 93!
Do check out the other Great Wild Beast Furtherment Society groups on other networks! Sorry to have been gone so long, but for a few months we had computer issues. Now Tegwedd has a new computer and Stephen has his laptop back. We also have cell phones that go on the Internet, but Tegwedd prefers to use her computer.
It’s very appropriate that this is number 11 because it was Uncle Al’s favorite number. He had 3 more favorite numbers, 93, 56 (which adds up to 11), and 156, the number of the Goddess Babalon. Tegwedd likes the number 11 because it occurs in so many places in her life, in her height (5’6”), in the last 2 digits of the year she was born (47), in her Social Security number, and when she lived with Fat Boy, the number of the mobile home space was 47. Eleven and 22 are master numbers. Babalon is her favorite Thelemic Goddess, and at one time, she and a friend started the Daughters of Babalon because she was born nine months after the Babalon Working by Jack Parsons.
When Tegwedd passed her 4th and PI degrees (Perfect Initiate or Prince/ss of Jerusalem) which is all about the death of the ego, she realized that her ego wasn’t about to die. It was too strong. Those around her who claimed that their egos had been killed or annihilated were either bsing or fooling themselves. So she made a decision. Since her ego wasn’t about to just curl up and die the way that a good little ego should, maybe she could make use of it. So she made it into a tool. She would use her ego to make sure she did the best job she could of whatever she turned her mind to. Something just occurred to her as she is writing this; the true meaning of a song by the Police in the 80s, “Wrapped Around Your Finger.” Part of the lyric goes ”I will turn your face to alabaster when you realize your servant is your master.” Sting is singing this, not to his teacher of arcane knowledge, as we at first thought, but to his ego. The song is about making your ego your servant, not letting it be your master.
We want to do Crowleymas in some form on October 12th, either in person, for those of you who are local, or online for those of you who are not. Stephen started the practice of celebrating Crowleymas 38 years ago in 1973 when the Great Wild Beast Furtherment Society was started as a physical real life group in Berkeley. There was great food, a large attendance, and live music. Tegwedd joined the group in 1974. It was at a Crowleymas party that she met the late not-so-great Grady McMurtry, and took an almost instant dislike to him. She thought he was a disgusting old drunk. He was way too handsy for her taste, and treated his Scarlet Woman, her friend Shirin in a most shameful manner. If she had known then what she knows now about Thelemite men, and how they treat their women, she would never have joined either the group or the OTO.
We have got to get to house and grounds shipshape for the inspection sometime this month, so chances are we’ll both be able to be on our computers in October so we can have a virtual Crowleymas, anyway, even if no one is here to help us celebrate it in real life. Sorry to cut this short, but neither of us can think of any more to say. But hey! You guys can post too, you know. It doesn’t have to be just us two. , .
Our friend Caitlin ni Manannan has people bringing her wood from when they prune their trees in their yards. And we are shortly going to be making rune Rune and Ogham sets. So if you’re local, bring us your branches. They should be at least the thickness of your thumb.
All you hard-workin’ Pagans should stand solidly with labor and against the Tea Party. As James Hoffa Jr. said, “Recall those sons of bitches! Go to your ballot boxes and vote them out.” The 75,000 Verizon workers are on strike, and we stand with them. Solidarnosc! as the Poles would say. Verizon management, all Republicans, have made 100 unreasonable demands, and refuse to negotiate, but are paying scabs to cross the picket lines, and work for them. All the workers want, is to keep what they have, a small cost of living increase in wages, their health care, and their pensions. Management wants them to pay $100 per month for health care, while they get it free. If you were thinking of getting a Verizon phone and account, don’t, and do tell them why you aren’t, that you are boycotting them. If you have a Verizon account, close it, and go to another carrier, and tell Verizon why. If you want to piss off Stephen, abuse or oppress the workers. Tell Verizon that you refuse to do business with an employer who oppresses its workers.
Soon we may be selling pendants of the lady and the tiger worked in silver. If you reading this are a silversmith please call our toll free number 1-888-611-7982, and we’ll do business. Coming soon--prints of the Lady and the Tiger by Lizet. Rune and Ogham sets worked by Stephen. Tegwedd has started to crochet cellphone holsters of her own design. They are of acrylic yarn, in assorted colors. She is obsessed right now with making holsters for the Pagan Pride Harvest Festival, but she will make you one to order for a reasonable price. She has some right now in assorted colors for just $9.95+S&H. She is working with yarn she has on hand, so a custom one will cost more because she has to obtain the yarn to make yours. It will cost $14.95 + S&H The smallest container for US priority mail is $4.95.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 10 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen has his cell phone, and we are both enjoying learning how to use our cell phones. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.
It’s very appropriate that this is number 11 because it was Uncle Al’s favorite number. He had 3 more favorite numbers, 93, 56 (which adds up to 11), and 156, the number of the Goddess Babalon. Tegwedd likes the number 11 because it occurs in so many places in her life, in her height (5’6”), in the last 2 digits of the year she was born (47), in her Social Security number, and when she lived with Fat Boy, the number of the mobile home space was 47. Eleven and 22 are master numbers. Babalon is her favorite Thelemic Goddess, and at one time, she and a friend started the Daughters of Babalon because she was born nine months after the Babalon Working by Jack Parsons.
When Tegwedd passed her 4th and PI degrees (Perfect Initiate or Prince/ss of Jerusalem) which is all about the death of the ego, she realized that her ego wasn’t about to die. It was too strong. Those around her who claimed that their egos had been killed or annihilated were either bsing or fooling themselves. So she made a decision. Since her ego wasn’t about to just curl up and die the way that a good little ego should, maybe she could make use of it. So she made it into a tool. She would use her ego to make sure she did the best job she could of whatever she turned her mind to. Something just occurred to her as she is writing this; the true meaning of a song by the Police in the 80s, “Wrapped Around Your Finger.” Part of the lyric goes ”I will turn your face to alabaster when you realize your servant is your master.” Sting is singing this, not to his teacher of arcane knowledge, as we at first thought, but to his ego. The song is about making your ego your servant, not letting it be your master.
We want to do Crowleymas in some form on October 12th, either in person, for those of you who are local, or online for those of you who are not. Stephen started the practice of celebrating Crowleymas 38 years ago in 1973 when the Great Wild Beast Furtherment Society was started as a physical real life group in Berkeley. There was great food, a large attendance, and live music. Tegwedd joined the group in 1974. It was at a Crowleymas party that she met the late not-so-great Grady McMurtry, and took an almost instant dislike to him. She thought he was a disgusting old drunk. He was way too handsy for her taste, and treated his Scarlet Woman, her friend Shirin in a most shameful manner. If she had known then what she knows now about Thelemite men, and how they treat their women, she would never have joined either the group or the OTO.
We have got to get to house and grounds shipshape for the inspection sometime this month, so chances are we’ll both be able to be on our computers in October so we can have a virtual Crowleymas, anyway, even if no one is here to help us celebrate it in real life. Sorry to cut this short, but neither of us can think of any more to say. But hey! You guys can post too, you know. It doesn’t have to be just us two. , .
Our friend Caitlin ni Manannan has people bringing her wood from when they prune their trees in their yards. And we are shortly going to be making rune Rune and Ogham sets. So if you’re local, bring us your branches. They should be at least the thickness of your thumb.
All you hard-workin’ Pagans should stand solidly with labor and against the Tea Party. As James Hoffa Jr. said, “Recall those sons of bitches! Go to your ballot boxes and vote them out.” The 75,000 Verizon workers are on strike, and we stand with them. Solidarnosc! as the Poles would say. Verizon management, all Republicans, have made 100 unreasonable demands, and refuse to negotiate, but are paying scabs to cross the picket lines, and work for them. All the workers want, is to keep what they have, a small cost of living increase in wages, their health care, and their pensions. Management wants them to pay $100 per month for health care, while they get it free. If you were thinking of getting a Verizon phone and account, don’t, and do tell them why you aren’t, that you are boycotting them. If you have a Verizon account, close it, and go to another carrier, and tell Verizon why. If you want to piss off Stephen, abuse or oppress the workers. Tell Verizon that you refuse to do business with an employer who oppresses its workers.
Soon we may be selling pendants of the lady and the tiger worked in silver. If you reading this are a silversmith please call our toll free number 1-888-611-7982, and we’ll do business. Coming soon--prints of the Lady and the Tiger by Lizet. Rune and Ogham sets worked by Stephen. Tegwedd has started to crochet cellphone holsters of her own design. They are of acrylic yarn, in assorted colors. She is obsessed right now with making holsters for the Pagan Pride Harvest Festival, but she will make you one to order for a reasonable price. She has some right now in assorted colors for just $9.95+S&H. She is working with yarn she has on hand, so a custom one will cost more because she has to obtain the yarn to make yours. It will cost $14.95 + S&H The smallest container for US priority mail is $4.95.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 10 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen has his cell phone, and we are both enjoying learning how to use our cell phones. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.
Friday, August 12, 2011
We're Tantrists, Are You?
We’re sorry we’ve been gone for so long, but for 4 months we’ve had computer issues. Tegwedd has a new computer, which she doesn’t let Stephen near, because he kills computers. He’s killed 5 so far. Even the computers in the library went bonkers on him, and the library is closed until September 26 for remodeling. Stephen now has a go-phone that goes on the Internet. He tried to join a sex group on Facebook, but couldn’t because it costs money.
Stephen wants to tell you what happened to the original Abbott’s Inn’s Fine Art of Passion Magick group on IMVU, which he calls IMFU (guess what the F stands for). “We wound up with about 150 members, then IMFU killed it, claiming we broke their rules.” Stephen followed the 2 rules that it was adults only, and and by invitation only. IMVU claimed he didn’t. He’s still very angry about it. Since it’s been 3 years, he’s going to try again. It’s going to be labeled “Adults Only, By Invite Only, No General Access need apply.”
Tantra is a system of sex magick and sacred sexuality found not just in India or Tibet, but all over the world. The Wikipedia article quoted at the end of this discussion says it dates only from the early centuries CE, but we’re sure that’s just when it was written down, that it was passed down for millennia, and came west when the Indo-Europeans took over Europe 3500 years ago. According to Tegwedd’s ex-husband, the Mayans and Aztecs, probably also the legendary Toltecs and Olmecs, had systems of sacred sexuality and sex magick. The secret supporters of Tantra are in the high echelons of government and finance. Many high ranking members of the American government are trying to pressure President Obama to mount a special mission to free Tibet from the oppressive Chinese. Tantra is seeing a renaissance as many books on it have been published recently. You can find many of these books at Llewellyn Worldwide. Subscribe to New Worlds.
Stephen recommends that you Google “Tantra”, “Sex Magick”, and “Sexual Occultism.” There are many writers on the topic we recommend: Dr. John Mumford, Donald Michael Kraig, Louis T. Culling, Frater U:.D:., Denning & Phillips, Nik Douglas, and Penny Slinger. There are also Tantric Tarot decks published by Llewellyn. It wasn’t published by Llewellyn, but you might look on Amazon.com for the Secret Dakini Oracle, created by Penny Slinger. Tegwedd has a copy, whose box is well worn, which illustrates the amount of use it’s seen over the years. It’s great for both meditation and divination. It’s one of Tegwedd’s favorite oracles. It has 64 cards, so it’s not a Tarot deck. The art is by means of photographic collages. One of Tegwedd’s favorite cards for meditation is “Maya--How She Spins!”. She has been striving to control the illusion that is life for decades, it seems.
One of the most famous Tantric techniques is retention of the orgasm, which goes along with the masculine retention of the seed. You hold off on the orgasm for as long as you can to increase both the energy and pleasure of the experience for both you and your partner. Another Tantric technique used in both ritual magick and Wicca is assumption of the godform. This is what’s known in Neo-Pagan circle as aspecting. It’s a form of light voluntary possession by the Mighty One of your choice. Taking on the godform means that you do mudras and asanas (gestures and body positions), mantras (syllables, phrases, and short chants), and pranayama (breath control), and sexual poses. There are many different poses. They can be found in the many different books on Tantra and sex magick. You can check Mind-n-Magick .com, or Sacred-Magick.com, or Wikipedia. There is a bibliography at the end of the article on Tantra, so you can check its sources. Speaking of Wkipedia, last night Tegwedd looked up Tantra in it, and learned quite a bit. Tantra isn’t just about sex magick. It’s a whole system of rituals and practices with a particular world view that she agrees with, so she guesses that she is a Tantrist, even though she’s presently celibate. It’s an entire sudra of Hinduism and Buddhism that runs parallel to the Vedas.
Tantra: Loom or warp hence principle, system, doctrine from tanoti stretch, extend, expand and trayati liberation. “Radically positive world embracing vision of the whole of reality as an expression of a joyous Divine Consciousness (example as the divine play of Shakti and Shiva). Tantric spiritual practices and rituals aim to bring about an inner realization of this truth, bringing freedom from ignorance and rebirth in the process. Though not in the case with most Tantric practices, in some schools of ‘left-handed’ Tantra (vamachara) ritual sexual intercourse is employed as a way of entering into the underlying processes and structure of the universe.”
There are a number of different definitions of Tantra, that are not always mutually consistent. Robert Brown notes that the term tantrism is a construction of western scholarship, not a concept that comes from the system itself. That makes its independence questionable though it is generally recognized by Tantrics as different from Vedic tradition. David Gordon White suggested that its key principle is that the universe we experience is the concrete manifestation of the divine energy that creates and maintains it. Tantric practice seeks to contact and channel that energy within the human microcosm by means of ritual to achieve creativity and freedom.
The article says that Tantra originated in the early centuries CE and developed into a fully articulated tradition by the end of the Gupta period, whenever that is. Tegwedd’s grasp of indian history is sparse at best. Tantric movements led to the formation of many esoteric schools of Hinduism and Buddhism. It has influenced the Hindu, Sikh, Bon, Buddhist, and Jain religious traditions, and spread with Buddhism to East Asia and southeast Asia. Rather than being a single coherent system, Tantra is an accumulation of practices and ideas, characterized by ritual that seeks to access the supra-mundane through the mundane, identifying the microcosm with the macrocosm (in the West, we know this as “As above so below”). The practitioner seeks to use the prana; an energy which flows through the universe (including one’s own body) to attain goals that may be spiritual, material or both. Space and copyright law don’t permit us to to quote more of the article here. Look up Tantra yourself. But suffice it to say that it greatly resembles the Craft of the Wise in many respects. Tantra resembles the Craft so much that one wonders whether Uncle Gerry might not have picked up Tantra and brought many of its principles with him when he returned to the UK from India to form Wicca.
Soon we may be selling pendants of the lady and the tiger worked in silver. If you reading this are a silversmith please call our toll free number 1-888-611-7982, and we’ll do business. Tegwedd has started to crochet cellphone holsters of her own design. They are of acrylic yarn, in assorted colors. She is obsessed right now with making holsters for the Pagan Pride Harvest Festival, but she will make you one to order for a reasonable price. She has some right now in assorted colors for just $9.95. She is working with yarn she has on hand, so a custom one will cost more because she has to obtain the yarn to make yours.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 9 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen has his cell phone, and we are both enjoying learning how to use our cell phones. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.
Stephen wants to tell you what happened to the original Abbott’s Inn’s Fine Art of Passion Magick group on IMVU, which he calls IMFU (guess what the F stands for). “We wound up with about 150 members, then IMFU killed it, claiming we broke their rules.” Stephen followed the 2 rules that it was adults only, and and by invitation only. IMVU claimed he didn’t. He’s still very angry about it. Since it’s been 3 years, he’s going to try again. It’s going to be labeled “Adults Only, By Invite Only, No General Access need apply.”
Tantra is a system of sex magick and sacred sexuality found not just in India or Tibet, but all over the world. The Wikipedia article quoted at the end of this discussion says it dates only from the early centuries CE, but we’re sure that’s just when it was written down, that it was passed down for millennia, and came west when the Indo-Europeans took over Europe 3500 years ago. According to Tegwedd’s ex-husband, the Mayans and Aztecs, probably also the legendary Toltecs and Olmecs, had systems of sacred sexuality and sex magick. The secret supporters of Tantra are in the high echelons of government and finance. Many high ranking members of the American government are trying to pressure President Obama to mount a special mission to free Tibet from the oppressive Chinese. Tantra is seeing a renaissance as many books on it have been published recently. You can find many of these books at Llewellyn Worldwide. Subscribe to New Worlds.
Stephen recommends that you Google “Tantra”, “Sex Magick”, and “Sexual Occultism.” There are many writers on the topic we recommend: Dr. John Mumford, Donald Michael Kraig, Louis T. Culling, Frater U:.D:., Denning & Phillips, Nik Douglas, and Penny Slinger. There are also Tantric Tarot decks published by Llewellyn. It wasn’t published by Llewellyn, but you might look on Amazon.com for the Secret Dakini Oracle, created by Penny Slinger. Tegwedd has a copy, whose box is well worn, which illustrates the amount of use it’s seen over the years. It’s great for both meditation and divination. It’s one of Tegwedd’s favorite oracles. It has 64 cards, so it’s not a Tarot deck. The art is by means of photographic collages. One of Tegwedd’s favorite cards for meditation is “Maya--How She Spins!”. She has been striving to control the illusion that is life for decades, it seems.
One of the most famous Tantric techniques is retention of the orgasm, which goes along with the masculine retention of the seed. You hold off on the orgasm for as long as you can to increase both the energy and pleasure of the experience for both you and your partner. Another Tantric technique used in both ritual magick and Wicca is assumption of the godform. This is what’s known in Neo-Pagan circle as aspecting. It’s a form of light voluntary possession by the Mighty One of your choice. Taking on the godform means that you do mudras and asanas (gestures and body positions), mantras (syllables, phrases, and short chants), and pranayama (breath control), and sexual poses. There are many different poses. They can be found in the many different books on Tantra and sex magick. You can check Mind-n-Magick .com, or Sacred-Magick.com, or Wikipedia. There is a bibliography at the end of the article on Tantra, so you can check its sources. Speaking of Wkipedia, last night Tegwedd looked up Tantra in it, and learned quite a bit. Tantra isn’t just about sex magick. It’s a whole system of rituals and practices with a particular world view that she agrees with, so she guesses that she is a Tantrist, even though she’s presently celibate. It’s an entire sudra of Hinduism and Buddhism that runs parallel to the Vedas.
Tantra: Loom or warp hence principle, system, doctrine from tanoti stretch, extend, expand and trayati liberation. “Radically positive world embracing vision of the whole of reality as an expression of a joyous Divine Consciousness (example as the divine play of Shakti and Shiva). Tantric spiritual practices and rituals aim to bring about an inner realization of this truth, bringing freedom from ignorance and rebirth in the process. Though not in the case with most Tantric practices, in some schools of ‘left-handed’ Tantra (vamachara) ritual sexual intercourse is employed as a way of entering into the underlying processes and structure of the universe.”
There are a number of different definitions of Tantra, that are not always mutually consistent. Robert Brown notes that the term tantrism is a construction of western scholarship, not a concept that comes from the system itself. That makes its independence questionable though it is generally recognized by Tantrics as different from Vedic tradition. David Gordon White suggested that its key principle is that the universe we experience is the concrete manifestation of the divine energy that creates and maintains it. Tantric practice seeks to contact and channel that energy within the human microcosm by means of ritual to achieve creativity and freedom.
The article says that Tantra originated in the early centuries CE and developed into a fully articulated tradition by the end of the Gupta period, whenever that is. Tegwedd’s grasp of indian history is sparse at best. Tantric movements led to the formation of many esoteric schools of Hinduism and Buddhism. It has influenced the Hindu, Sikh, Bon, Buddhist, and Jain religious traditions, and spread with Buddhism to East Asia and southeast Asia. Rather than being a single coherent system, Tantra is an accumulation of practices and ideas, characterized by ritual that seeks to access the supra-mundane through the mundane, identifying the microcosm with the macrocosm (in the West, we know this as “As above so below”). The practitioner seeks to use the prana; an energy which flows through the universe (including one’s own body) to attain goals that may be spiritual, material or both. Space and copyright law don’t permit us to to quote more of the article here. Look up Tantra yourself. But suffice it to say that it greatly resembles the Craft of the Wise in many respects. Tantra resembles the Craft so much that one wonders whether Uncle Gerry might not have picked up Tantra and brought many of its principles with him when he returned to the UK from India to form Wicca.
Soon we may be selling pendants of the lady and the tiger worked in silver. If you reading this are a silversmith please call our toll free number 1-888-611-7982, and we’ll do business. Tegwedd has started to crochet cellphone holsters of her own design. They are of acrylic yarn, in assorted colors. She is obsessed right now with making holsters for the Pagan Pride Harvest Festival, but she will make you one to order for a reasonable price. She has some right now in assorted colors for just $9.95. She is working with yarn she has on hand, so a custom one will cost more because she has to obtain the yarn to make yours.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 9 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen has his cell phone, and we are both enjoying learning how to use our cell phones. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Nyarlathotep Lives!
Sorry we’ve been gone so long but for 4 months we had computer issues. Now Tegwedd has a computer, but won’t allow Stephen near it because he has a negative psychic field around him that kills computers. He’s killed at least 5 so far, and the ones at the library kept going down for him too. He denies it, but why should the library computers keep going down for him? Those computers can take a lot of punishment. Welcome to Cult of Nyarlathotep 7! We’re certainly glad you could make it! Do check out the other Cult of Nyarlathotep clones on other networks.
There are a lot of new Cthulhu type groups that we’d like to connect with. Some can be found on Twitter. Stephen is known as abbottsinn on Twitter. You can also find him on Facebook, where he has 2 accounts:Stephen Abbott and Stephen W. Abbott. Or you can get in touch with Tegwedd. On both Twitter and Facebook she’s Teresa Reitan. You can also find these groups on Googlegroups, Hi5, PaganSpace.net, and WiccanTogether. If you’re reading this, and have an H.P. Lovecraft/Old Ones/Cthulhu type group, we want to hear from you and hook up, not in a sexual way, of course, unless you happen to be a hot female, and then Stephen will want to hook up with you in a sexual way.
Stephen has an offer for you. Once he gets his computer back, for just $32, he’s do a reading for you, no set time limit, with both the Dark Grimoire and The Secrets of the Necronomicon Tarot. decks. His laptop has a builtin webcam, so you can see the cards. If you have a headset, you can talk to him over the computer, or call him at the number at the end of this post/discussion. We’re still looking for the Call of Cthulhu computer game. If you know where to find it and send Stephen a copy of it, there’s a reading in it for you. We’d also like to find Call of Cthulhu miniatures. He does paint them. If you live in the Sacramento area, Stephen will run Call of Cthulhu campaigns for you as gamekeeper. If you prefer, we can also play the Arkham Horror board game. “My copy is long in the tooth, but still usable.” Once he has his computer back, we can play both games on IM.
We have a goal to shoot for in September: upgrading the network to Ning Plus. We’ll have live chat. That means many things for the network. 1) We can play Call of Cthulhu-like games. 2) We can openly discuss our Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep research. 3) We add pizazz to our Dark Grimoire and Secrets of the Necronomicon Tarot readings, plus for those who have your own pages on the network, you’ll have your own music on your page, will add to the enjoyment of having your own page. We give you freedom on how you want to tweak your page, but be aware that this is a Pagan-magickal site, so no spamming please. All payments are done through our PayPal accounts abbotts_inn@yahoo.com and tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We highly recommend that all of you join Llewellyn Worldwide at llewellyn.com. This way you’ll be able they produce. It costs $2. This way you can get your own copies of the Dark Grimoire and Secrets of the Necronomicon Tarot decks. The reason we mention this is that Llewellyn is Donald Tyson’s publisher, and he is constantly coming up with new Necronomicon /Lovecraftian stuff. Not only that, but there are other Necronomicon books coming out from Llewellyn by other authors besides Tyson. It’s considered one of their best selling lines.
Yesterday afternoon Tegwedd went to Chaosium.com and opened an account there. It’s free. They are celebrating Call of Cthulhu’s 30th anniversary. To celebrate, they are bringing out a special edition of Call of Cthulhu bound in red leather. They are also bringing out a new game which sounds to be Lovecraftian from the brief glimpse Tegwedd got of it. The name of the new game, which takes place in the future in outer space, is Ullyses. Stephen owns many scenario packs to Call of Cthulhu, one of which is devoted to Nyarlathotep. Call of Cthulhu is the next group we will be discussing in our reconnaissance. We urge all of you to join Chaosium and make Call of Cthulhu as popular as it was 30 years ago.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 9 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen is getting a new cellphone which should be arriving any day now. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.
Sorry we’ve been gone so long but for 4 months we had computer issues. Now Tegwedd has a computer, but won’t allow Stephen near it because he has a negative psychic field around him that kills computers. He’s killed at least 5 so far, and the ones at the library kept going down for him too. He denies it, but why should the library computers keep going down for him? Those computers can take a lot of punishment. Welcome to Cult of Nyarlathotep 7! We’re certainly glad you could make it! Do check out the other Cult of Nyarlathotep clones on other networks.
There are a lot of new Cthulhu type groups that we’d like to connect with. Some can be found on Twitter. Stephen is known as abbottsinn on Twitter. You can also find him on Facebook, where he has 2 accounts:Stephen Abbott and Stephen W. Abbott. Or you can get in touch with Tegwedd. On both Twitter and Facebook she’s Teresa Reitan. You can also find these groups on Googlegroups, Hi5, PaganSpace.net, and WiccanTogether. If you’re reading this, and have an H.P. Lovecraft/Old Ones/Cthulhu type group, we want to hear from you and hook up, not in a sexual way, of course, unless you happen to be a hot female, and then Stephen will want to hook up with you in a sexual way.
Stephen has an offer for you. Once he gets his computer back, for just $32, he’s do a reading for you, no set time limit, with both the Dark Grimoire and The Secrets of the Necronomicon Tarot. decks. His laptop has a builtin webcam, so you can see the cards. If you have a headset, you can talk to him over the computer, or call him at the number at the end of this post/discussion. We’re still looking for the Call of Cthulhu computer game. If you know where to find it and send Stephen a copy of it, there’s a reading in it for you. We’d also like to find Call of Cthulhu miniatures. He does paint them. If you live in the Sacramento area, Stephen will run Call of Cthulhu campaigns for you as gamekeeper. If you prefer, we can also play the Arkham Horror board game. “My copy is long in the tooth, but still usable.” Once he has his computer back, we can play both games on IM.
We have a goal to shoot for in September: upgrading the network to Ning Plus. We’ll have live chat. That means many things for the network. 1) We can play Call of Cthulhu-like games. 2) We can openly discuss our Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep research. 3) We add pizazz to our Dark Grimoire and Secrets of the Necronomicon Tarot readings, plus for those who have your own pages on the network, you’ll have your own music on your page, will add to the enjoyment of having your own page. We give you freedom on how you want to tweak your page, but be aware that this is a Pagan-magickal site, so no spamming please. All payments are done through our PayPal accounts abbotts_inn@yahoo.com and tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We highly recommend that all of you join Llewellyn Worldwide at llewellyn.com. This way you’ll be able they produce. It costs $2. This way you can get your own copies of the Dark Grimoire and Secrets of the Necronomicon Tarot decks. The reason we mention this is that Llewellyn is Donald Tyson’s publisher, and he is constantly coming up with new Necronomicon /Lovecraftian stuff. Not only that, but there are other Necronomicon books coming out from Llewellyn by other authors besides Tyson. It’s considered one of their best selling lines.
Yesterday afternoon Tegwedd went to Chaosium.com and opened an account there. It’s free. They are celebrating Call of Cthulhu’s 30th anniversary. To celebrate, they are bringing out a special edition of Call of Cthulhu bound in red leather. They are also bringing out a new game which sounds to be Lovecraftian from the brief glimpse Tegwedd got of it. The name of the new game, which takes place in the future in outer space, is Ullyses. Stephen owns many scenario packs to Call of Cthulhu, one of which is devoted to Nyarlathotep. Call of Cthulhu is the next group we will be discussing in our reconnaissance. We urge all of you to join Chaosium and make Call of Cthulhu as popular as it was 30 years ago.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 9 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen is getting a new cellphone which should be arriving any day now. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.
There are a lot of new Cthulhu type groups that we’d like to connect with. Some can be found on Twitter. Stephen is known as abbottsinn on Twitter. You can also find him on Facebook, where he has 2 accounts:Stephen Abbott and Stephen W. Abbott. Or you can get in touch with Tegwedd. On both Twitter and Facebook she’s Teresa Reitan. You can also find these groups on Googlegroups, Hi5, PaganSpace.net, and WiccanTogether. If you’re reading this, and have an H.P. Lovecraft/Old Ones/Cthulhu type group, we want to hear from you and hook up, not in a sexual way, of course, unless you happen to be a hot female, and then Stephen will want to hook up with you in a sexual way.
Stephen has an offer for you. Once he gets his computer back, for just $32, he’s do a reading for you, no set time limit, with both the Dark Grimoire and The Secrets of the Necronomicon Tarot. decks. His laptop has a builtin webcam, so you can see the cards. If you have a headset, you can talk to him over the computer, or call him at the number at the end of this post/discussion. We’re still looking for the Call of Cthulhu computer game. If you know where to find it and send Stephen a copy of it, there’s a reading in it for you. We’d also like to find Call of Cthulhu miniatures. He does paint them. If you live in the Sacramento area, Stephen will run Call of Cthulhu campaigns for you as gamekeeper. If you prefer, we can also play the Arkham Horror board game. “My copy is long in the tooth, but still usable.” Once he has his computer back, we can play both games on IM.
We have a goal to shoot for in September: upgrading the network to Ning Plus. We’ll have live chat. That means many things for the network. 1) We can play Call of Cthulhu-like games. 2) We can openly discuss our Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep research. 3) We add pizazz to our Dark Grimoire and Secrets of the Necronomicon Tarot readings, plus for those who have your own pages on the network, you’ll have your own music on your page, will add to the enjoyment of having your own page. We give you freedom on how you want to tweak your page, but be aware that this is a Pagan-magickal site, so no spamming please. All payments are done through our PayPal accounts abbotts_inn@yahoo.com and tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We highly recommend that all of you join Llewellyn Worldwide at llewellyn.com. This way you’ll be able they produce. It costs $2. This way you can get your own copies of the Dark Grimoire and Secrets of the Necronomicon Tarot decks. The reason we mention this is that Llewellyn is Donald Tyson’s publisher, and he is constantly coming up with new Necronomicon /Lovecraftian stuff. Not only that, but there are other Necronomicon books coming out from Llewellyn by other authors besides Tyson. It’s considered one of their best selling lines.
Yesterday afternoon Tegwedd went to Chaosium.com and opened an account there. It’s free. They are celebrating Call of Cthulhu’s 30th anniversary. To celebrate, they are bringing out a special edition of Call of Cthulhu bound in red leather. They are also bringing out a new game which sounds to be Lovecraftian from the brief glimpse Tegwedd got of it. The name of the new game, which takes place in the future in outer space, is Ullyses. Stephen owns many scenario packs to Call of Cthulhu, one of which is devoted to Nyarlathotep. Call of Cthulhu is the next group we will be discussing in our reconnaissance. We urge all of you to join Chaosium and make Call of Cthulhu as popular as it was 30 years ago.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 9 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen is getting a new cellphone which should be arriving any day now. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.
Sorry we’ve been gone so long but for 4 months we had computer issues. Now Tegwedd has a computer, but won’t allow Stephen near it because he has a negative psychic field around him that kills computers. He’s killed at least 5 so far, and the ones at the library kept going down for him too. He denies it, but why should the library computers keep going down for him? Those computers can take a lot of punishment. Welcome to Cult of Nyarlathotep 7! We’re certainly glad you could make it! Do check out the other Cult of Nyarlathotep clones on other networks.
There are a lot of new Cthulhu type groups that we’d like to connect with. Some can be found on Twitter. Stephen is known as abbottsinn on Twitter. You can also find him on Facebook, where he has 2 accounts:Stephen Abbott and Stephen W. Abbott. Or you can get in touch with Tegwedd. On both Twitter and Facebook she’s Teresa Reitan. You can also find these groups on Googlegroups, Hi5, PaganSpace.net, and WiccanTogether. If you’re reading this, and have an H.P. Lovecraft/Old Ones/Cthulhu type group, we want to hear from you and hook up, not in a sexual way, of course, unless you happen to be a hot female, and then Stephen will want to hook up with you in a sexual way.
Stephen has an offer for you. Once he gets his computer back, for just $32, he’s do a reading for you, no set time limit, with both the Dark Grimoire and The Secrets of the Necronomicon Tarot. decks. His laptop has a builtin webcam, so you can see the cards. If you have a headset, you can talk to him over the computer, or call him at the number at the end of this post/discussion. We’re still looking for the Call of Cthulhu computer game. If you know where to find it and send Stephen a copy of it, there’s a reading in it for you. We’d also like to find Call of Cthulhu miniatures. He does paint them. If you live in the Sacramento area, Stephen will run Call of Cthulhu campaigns for you as gamekeeper. If you prefer, we can also play the Arkham Horror board game. “My copy is long in the tooth, but still usable.” Once he has his computer back, we can play both games on IM.
We have a goal to shoot for in September: upgrading the network to Ning Plus. We’ll have live chat. That means many things for the network. 1) We can play Call of Cthulhu-like games. 2) We can openly discuss our Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep research. 3) We add pizazz to our Dark Grimoire and Secrets of the Necronomicon Tarot readings, plus for those who have your own pages on the network, you’ll have your own music on your page, will add to the enjoyment of having your own page. We give you freedom on how you want to tweak your page, but be aware that this is a Pagan-magickal site, so no spamming please. All payments are done through our PayPal accounts abbotts_inn@yahoo.com and tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We highly recommend that all of you join Llewellyn Worldwide at llewellyn.com. This way you’ll be able they produce. It costs $2. This way you can get your own copies of the Dark Grimoire and Secrets of the Necronomicon Tarot decks. The reason we mention this is that Llewellyn is Donald Tyson’s publisher, and he is constantly coming up with new Necronomicon /Lovecraftian stuff. Not only that, but there are other Necronomicon books coming out from Llewellyn by other authors besides Tyson. It’s considered one of their best selling lines.
Yesterday afternoon Tegwedd went to Chaosium.com and opened an account there. It’s free. They are celebrating Call of Cthulhu’s 30th anniversary. To celebrate, they are bringing out a special edition of Call of Cthulhu bound in red leather. They are also bringing out a new game which sounds to be Lovecraftian from the brief glimpse Tegwedd got of it. The name of the new game, which takes place in the future in outer space, is Ullyses. Stephen owns many scenario packs to Call of Cthulhu, one of which is devoted to Nyarlathotep. Call of Cthulhu is the next group we will be discussing in our reconnaissance. We urge all of you to join Chaosium and make Call of Cthulhu as popular as it was 30 years ago.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 9 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen is getting a new cellphone which should be arriving any day now. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Dead Parrots Galore
This group is for all you Monty Python enthusiasts out there. How many of you joined Netflix (or Blockbuster)so that you can get all the old Monty Python episodes and movies? Who is your favorite Monty Python member? Stephen’s favorite is John Cleese, but he also likes Eric Idle. Tegwedd finds it difficult to choose one, but if forced to choose a favorite, she would say Terry Jones because he’s Welsh, and she likes the first name Terry. John Cleese has adapted very well to Hollywood, although he and Palin play off each other very well in A Fish Called Wanda.
Which is your favorite sketch? Tegwedd is torn among three: the one where they’re asking great philosophers inane questions about sports, the Upper Class Twit games, and the Lumberjack song. Stephen’s favorite sketch is the Dead Parrot sketch. It is also Dylan Cook’s favorite sketch, and the sketch this group is names after. Another favorite vignette of Tegwedd’s is the FreeMason vignette, and another favorite sketch of hers is the “Nudge nudge wink wink” sketch. Which is your favorite Monty Python movie? Stephen’s, as you might suspect, is Monty Python & the Holy Grail, while Tagwedd’s fave is Jabberwocky. You can probably get it through Netflix if you just want to view it, and Amazon.com if you want to own a copy. Why do all of you love the Monty Python? Tegwedd loves it because she loves British humor. Stephen does because the Python changed social behavior and attitudes towards controversial things. It brought the concept of being gay out in the open, because of Graham Chapman being gay.
They are one group who helped create the concept of music in comedy. Across the pond, at about the same time, the Firesign Theatre did the same. South Park was influenced by both groups. There is a South Park musical about the Mormon church on Broadway right now, and even the Mormons like it. Cheech & Chong were also influenced with their “Born in East LA.”
So far as Stephen knows, and Tegwedd’s research on the subject bears this out, Yellowbeard was Graham Chapman’s last movie role. He portrayed King Arthur in Monty Python & the Holy Grail, and Brian in Life of Brian. What is your favorite Monty Python song? Ours is “The Lumberjack Song.” Stephen’s second favorite is “Every Sperm Is Sacred” from The Meaning of Life. Dylan, we haven’t heard from you in awhile. We’d love for you to post to this group. He started the Monty Python Fan Club on Yahoo. We’re trying to kill that group because it doesn’t have an owner. Dylan changed his nick, and the name cited as owner is his old nick.
Many Monty Python members besides Graham Chapman have done solo movie roles. There was A Fish Called Wanda for John Cleese and Michael Palin. Then for Palin there’s Three Men In a Boat, The Missionary, A Private Function, American Friends, Wind in the Willows, Willows in Winter, Fierce Creatures, and Not the Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy). John Cleese’s movie roles are too numerous to mention. He did Fierce Creatures with Michael Palin, and many more by himself. Eric Idle did All You Need Is Cash (the Rutles mockumentary), Hollywood Burn, the voice of Waddlesworth the parrot in 102 Dalmations, and the voice of Merlin the magician in Shrek the Third. Dylan’s favorite Monty Python movie is Monty Python & the Holy Grail. Terry Jones is known mostly for directing movies other than the Monty Python films. Wind in the Willows and Erik the Viking. Terry Gilliam is more of a director and animator than a performer. He directed several movies, among them The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Brazil. John Cleese was a star of Fawlty Towers. His character Fawlty, was based upon a real hotel manager whose rude approach to customer service was memorable for Cleese. Tegwedd didn’t care for the show, and only watched one or two episodes, but Stephen loved the show. It was cancelled after 2 seasons. Cleese is both the most prolific of the Python, and the eldest, having been born in 1939. Terry Gilliam, the only American of the Python was born in Medicine Lake, MN in 1940. His family moved to California a few years later after his sister had pneumonia. Graham Chapman didn’t die of AIDS as most people assume, but of throat cancer because he was always sucking on that infernal pipe of his. This information is from the Wikipedia.
Do any of you know of any other Monty Python groups we can hook up with. We’d like to connect with these other groups and share information, perhaps the other groups can post to our groups. Carol Cleveland was the only actual woman to play parts in the Monty Python sketches. The other women’s parts were played by members of the Monty Python themselves in women’s clothes and falsetto voices. She was in the Lumberjack sketch in the Jeanette McDonald role. Stephen believes that transvestism in the Monty Python sketches originates in the “Carry On” movies of the 50s and early 60s. Cross-dressing and transvestism are very common themes in British comedy. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were comedic partners in Bedazzled and were great friends with Benny Hill and the Monty Python. Stephen believes they played the female parts themselves because they were on a shoestring budget and want to have to pay female actors. In Monty Python & the Holy Grail, they used coconut shells instead of horses, which was hilarious. Terry Gilliam in the movie was Patsy the devoted servant who carried everyone’s luggage, and gets killed by the Trojan chicken falling on him. He was the cartoonist in Jabberwocky being chased by the Jabberwock doing these crazy cartoons when his character has a heart attack. Gilliam was the hidden Python member. He was also the wise man in the hut telling Lancelot that he must get a shrubbery. How did Terry Gilliam wind up with the Monty Python? Neither of us can figure it out. It wasn’t in the Wikipedia article. We’re both very curious about this. Help satisfy our curiosity. If you find anything else about the Monty Python that you think we’d like to know, please post, and let us know. If you have any other tidbits about the sketches or the movies, please post them as well.
The Monty Python was a direct heir to the Beyond the Fringe comedy troupe of the late 50s, early 60s and the Carry On movies of the 50s going into the 90s. If anyone knows of a Carry on movie having been released in the 2000s, please let us know.
Stephen will have no computer access after today, July 22nd, until his laptop returns. When it returns, we’ll return to preparing the 3 sample chapters to Llewellyn. The Mission statement for the Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick provides a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and specific tools of magick. As always, call 1-888-611-7982 for all your divination reading, learning class, and Pagan-magickal research needs, or go to http://abbottsinninternational.com/ , http://abbottsinn.com/ , and http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com , and our Ning network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ .
Which is your favorite sketch? Tegwedd is torn among three: the one where they’re asking great philosophers inane questions about sports, the Upper Class Twit games, and the Lumberjack song. Stephen’s favorite sketch is the Dead Parrot sketch. It is also Dylan Cook’s favorite sketch, and the sketch this group is names after. Another favorite vignette of Tegwedd’s is the FreeMason vignette, and another favorite sketch of hers is the “Nudge nudge wink wink” sketch. Which is your favorite Monty Python movie? Stephen’s, as you might suspect, is Monty Python & the Holy Grail, while Tagwedd’s fave is Jabberwocky. You can probably get it through Netflix if you just want to view it, and Amazon.com if you want to own a copy. Why do all of you love the Monty Python? Tegwedd loves it because she loves British humor. Stephen does because the Python changed social behavior and attitudes towards controversial things. It brought the concept of being gay out in the open, because of Graham Chapman being gay.
They are one group who helped create the concept of music in comedy. Across the pond, at about the same time, the Firesign Theatre did the same. South Park was influenced by both groups. There is a South Park musical about the Mormon church on Broadway right now, and even the Mormons like it. Cheech & Chong were also influenced with their “Born in East LA.”
So far as Stephen knows, and Tegwedd’s research on the subject bears this out, Yellowbeard was Graham Chapman’s last movie role. He portrayed King Arthur in Monty Python & the Holy Grail, and Brian in Life of Brian. What is your favorite Monty Python song? Ours is “The Lumberjack Song.” Stephen’s second favorite is “Every Sperm Is Sacred” from The Meaning of Life. Dylan, we haven’t heard from you in awhile. We’d love for you to post to this group. He started the Monty Python Fan Club on Yahoo. We’re trying to kill that group because it doesn’t have an owner. Dylan changed his nick, and the name cited as owner is his old nick.
Many Monty Python members besides Graham Chapman have done solo movie roles. There was A Fish Called Wanda for John Cleese and Michael Palin. Then for Palin there’s Three Men In a Boat, The Missionary, A Private Function, American Friends, Wind in the Willows, Willows in Winter, Fierce Creatures, and Not the Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy). John Cleese’s movie roles are too numerous to mention. He did Fierce Creatures with Michael Palin, and many more by himself. Eric Idle did All You Need Is Cash (the Rutles mockumentary), Hollywood Burn, the voice of Waddlesworth the parrot in 102 Dalmations, and the voice of Merlin the magician in Shrek the Third. Dylan’s favorite Monty Python movie is Monty Python & the Holy Grail. Terry Jones is known mostly for directing movies other than the Monty Python films. Wind in the Willows and Erik the Viking. Terry Gilliam is more of a director and animator than a performer. He directed several movies, among them The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Brazil. John Cleese was a star of Fawlty Towers. His character Fawlty, was based upon a real hotel manager whose rude approach to customer service was memorable for Cleese. Tegwedd didn’t care for the show, and only watched one or two episodes, but Stephen loved the show. It was cancelled after 2 seasons. Cleese is both the most prolific of the Python, and the eldest, having been born in 1939. Terry Gilliam, the only American of the Python was born in Medicine Lake, MN in 1940. His family moved to California a few years later after his sister had pneumonia. Graham Chapman didn’t die of AIDS as most people assume, but of throat cancer because he was always sucking on that infernal pipe of his. This information is from the Wikipedia.
Do any of you know of any other Monty Python groups we can hook up with. We’d like to connect with these other groups and share information, perhaps the other groups can post to our groups. Carol Cleveland was the only actual woman to play parts in the Monty Python sketches. The other women’s parts were played by members of the Monty Python themselves in women’s clothes and falsetto voices. She was in the Lumberjack sketch in the Jeanette McDonald role. Stephen believes that transvestism in the Monty Python sketches originates in the “Carry On” movies of the 50s and early 60s. Cross-dressing and transvestism are very common themes in British comedy. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were comedic partners in Bedazzled and were great friends with Benny Hill and the Monty Python. Stephen believes they played the female parts themselves because they were on a shoestring budget and want to have to pay female actors. In Monty Python & the Holy Grail, they used coconut shells instead of horses, which was hilarious. Terry Gilliam in the movie was Patsy the devoted servant who carried everyone’s luggage, and gets killed by the Trojan chicken falling on him. He was the cartoonist in Jabberwocky being chased by the Jabberwock doing these crazy cartoons when his character has a heart attack. Gilliam was the hidden Python member. He was also the wise man in the hut telling Lancelot that he must get a shrubbery. How did Terry Gilliam wind up with the Monty Python? Neither of us can figure it out. It wasn’t in the Wikipedia article. We’re both very curious about this. Help satisfy our curiosity. If you find anything else about the Monty Python that you think we’d like to know, please post, and let us know. If you have any other tidbits about the sketches or the movies, please post them as well.
The Monty Python was a direct heir to the Beyond the Fringe comedy troupe of the late 50s, early 60s and the Carry On movies of the 50s going into the 90s. If anyone knows of a Carry on movie having been released in the 2000s, please let us know.
Stephen will have no computer access after today, July 22nd, until his laptop returns. When it returns, we’ll return to preparing the 3 sample chapters to Llewellyn. The Mission statement for the Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick provides a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and specific tools of magick. As always, call 1-888-611-7982 for all your divination reading, learning class, and Pagan-magickal research needs, or go to http://abbottsinninternational.com/ , http://abbottsinn.com/ , and http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com , and our Ning network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ .
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Of Putties, Being Broke, and Art
Welcome to our latest blog on our Ning network. Sorry we’ve been gone so long. We’ve had a lot of computer issues. My HP Pavilion died on February 1st, then Stephen’s laptop had to go into the shop again for the 24th time since he’d gotten it nearly 3 years ago. On June 1st, our favorite putty, Bailee was poisoned. She died a slow agonizing and painful death all because some a__hole decided it was better to kill a few rats using poison than to let the animals (both cats and dogs kill the rodents the more natural way, the way the Goddess intended. There are certain breeds of dog, your smaller breeds that are uniquely suited to hunting down rats and killing them. The reason cats moved from Egypt to all over the world was because of their primal skills in hunting down both rats and mice. As you can probably tell, I’m still pretty angry about it. Bailee was a sweet, loving, docile cat. Stephen had her for 4 ½ years, counting out the time she was with Debbie and Megan.
I had three songs I used to sing to Bailee: “Hey there Bailee Girl,” “Bailee Go ‘Round the Roses,” and the Temptations’ “My Girl.” She didn’t care if you had an operatic voice like Pat Benatar, or sounded like a foghorn. She didn’t even care if you could carry a tune. She loved to be sung to. I guess it was because it meant you were paying attention to her. She was a love and affection sponge. She would soak up all the affection you had to give her and beg for more. Bailee meant a great deal to us. Losing her has made a big hole in our household. We considered her to be very magickal. She was the inventor of the “Hundredth Putty Phenomenon”, a takeoff from Ken Keyes’ 100th Monkey Phenomenon. Bailee would stick her paw in the food bin, take out a piece of food, and and eat it. She taught all the other putties, and soon they were all doing it. We don’t know whether the putties in the next block are doing it or not. The following is a poem I wrote to Bailee:
Bailee you were so sweet
You made the birds go tweet
Loving, you gave us two hours
To stop petting you among the flowers
You liked to stare at the roses
And bite us on our noses
Your purr was very loud
Although going out was not allowed
You were unbowed
By your weight and long fur
Very seldom did you go grrr
We love you very much
You thrilled to our very touch
You taught them all the hundredth putty
Although you were a mutty
Your crossed paws signaled danger
Known to us but not a stranger
When you’re not near us we’re blue
O Bailee we love you!
Friday we went into Stephen’s Bunko de Amerika account, and instead of the $400+ he expected to see in his account, there was just a little more than $100. Seventy had been taken out for overdraft charges. The rest of the money had simply evaporated. The only good news is that the bank did pay the checks. The bad news is that he doesn’t have the money to pay anything on the rent. He desperately needs as many paid readings as possible. Just 20 readings, classes, and/or research gigs would get him out of this mess he’s gotten himself into. Don’t set back and think that your neighbor will do it, he needs YOUR reading now. If you’re local, the number is 916-455-2267. The toll-free number 1-888-611-7982. For donations, you can go to Paypal at abbotts_inn@yahoo.com. The stress and anxiety is taking a toll on his health. His asthma has been acting up. This afternoon we’ll be going to pick up his inhaler stuff. Stephen plans to call Bunko de America tomorrow and see if he can get one or both of the charges refunded. Will him good luck. He thinks he has a chance, as he hasn’t asked for this for over a year. As Judy Tenuda, the Goddess says, our favorite comedienne says, “It could happen!”
We were on our way last night to Gallery 14 to see the new exhibit. Last month we we were resting at a bus stop when someone came along and said, “That bus doesn’t run here anymore.” We replied “We know, we’re just resting and working.” This time I thought I’d reply with an old joke. Stephen wants me to tell it here, so here it is:
A woman went into her kitchen and opened the door to her refrigerator to discover a squirrel reclining on one of the shelves. “What are you doing here?” she askeed.
“Is this a Westinghouse?” it asked, referring to the brand of the fridge.
“Well, I’m westing,” the squirrel replied..
The art by Cynthia Parker is abstract mosaics made with broken mirrors. In a way, it’s accidental art. I interviewed her about her art. I asked that old chestnut, “Where do you get your ideas?”
You know, I used to live with a psychopath. I had all these mirrors I’d collected since I was a child, and he broke them all. I said to myself ‘I can’t get rid of them, I just can’t bear it.’ So I started to put them back together. I didn’t manipulate the pieces in any way. I did play with them a bit, and these are the result.”
My personal favorites are “Angel” because I could actually see the wings sweeping up, and “The Rose” because I could see the petals and leaves.
Stephen said of it that “It’s very unique, unusual, and self-exposing because you can see yourself in it.”
Walt said in the flyer on it, “Cynthia Parker holds up a cracked mirror for our inspection, and shows us the image of our fragmented selves--imperfect, yet perfectly fascinating.”
The exhibit is at Gallery 14, 3960 60th st. at 14th Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95820, and runs until July 2nd.
I think it’s a very creative way of using something that otherwise would be trashed. It’s kind of like found art.
Stephen said, “It takes some effort to break the pieces in such a way as to produce the desired effect.”
I said to him, “I’m surprised you’d want to see an exhibit like this. It’s a bad place for vampires.”
“They’re already broken.”
“Vampires don’t break mirrors, silly, they just don’t show up in them.”
“I’m not a full-fledged vampire, and besides, I’m adaptable.”
Ms. Parker said, “After I ran out of my own mirrors, people started bringing me their broken mirrors. She seemed anxious and nervous whether people would like it. Indeed, from the smell of her, she had armed herself with several doses of Dutch courage before coming there.
“Modern art is all about confidence,” I told her, and told her the story of the “Emperor’s New Clothes”, which is my favorite analogy about modern art.
Belisama showed up. She’s going to school with a view towards getting a degree in forensic psychology and criminal justice. She’s a Witch I met almost 2 years ago at the Pagan Pride festival in September ‘09. She had her husband Charlie and her youngest granddaughter, Aurora, in tow. The child found some drawing materials, and settled down to generating her own kind of art. Stephen first met her when she was a teen runaway in his commune back in September, ‘71.
We met Sioux, who is an activist for medical marijuana, which is a subject close to our hearts. She gave us a ride home, so I didn’t have to struggle on the long walk home. Marijuana was the only substance that helped her after the “traditional” pharmaceuticals made her sick almost to death. We discussed NORML. I got her phone number, so I’m going to call her later on.
Remember, go to http://abbottsinninternational.com/ , http://abbottsinn.com/, call 1-888-611-7982, and order a reading, a class, and or research. YOUR reading could be the one that enables Stephen to go to Walmart and get s $500 money order to send to our landlady.
I had three songs I used to sing to Bailee: “Hey there Bailee Girl,” “Bailee Go ‘Round the Roses,” and the Temptations’ “My Girl.” She didn’t care if you had an operatic voice like Pat Benatar, or sounded like a foghorn. She didn’t even care if you could carry a tune. She loved to be sung to. I guess it was because it meant you were paying attention to her. She was a love and affection sponge. She would soak up all the affection you had to give her and beg for more. Bailee meant a great deal to us. Losing her has made a big hole in our household. We considered her to be very magickal. She was the inventor of the “Hundredth Putty Phenomenon”, a takeoff from Ken Keyes’ 100th Monkey Phenomenon. Bailee would stick her paw in the food bin, take out a piece of food, and and eat it. She taught all the other putties, and soon they were all doing it. We don’t know whether the putties in the next block are doing it or not. The following is a poem I wrote to Bailee:
Bailee you were so sweet
You made the birds go tweet
Loving, you gave us two hours
To stop petting you among the flowers
You liked to stare at the roses
And bite us on our noses
Your purr was very loud
Although going out was not allowed
You were unbowed
By your weight and long fur
Very seldom did you go grrr
We love you very much
You thrilled to our very touch
You taught them all the hundredth putty
Although you were a mutty
Your crossed paws signaled danger
Known to us but not a stranger
When you’re not near us we’re blue
O Bailee we love you!
Friday we went into Stephen’s Bunko de Amerika account, and instead of the $400+ he expected to see in his account, there was just a little more than $100. Seventy had been taken out for overdraft charges. The rest of the money had simply evaporated. The only good news is that the bank did pay the checks. The bad news is that he doesn’t have the money to pay anything on the rent. He desperately needs as many paid readings as possible. Just 20 readings, classes, and/or research gigs would get him out of this mess he’s gotten himself into. Don’t set back and think that your neighbor will do it, he needs YOUR reading now. If you’re local, the number is 916-455-2267. The toll-free number 1-888-611-7982. For donations, you can go to Paypal at abbotts_inn@yahoo.com. The stress and anxiety is taking a toll on his health. His asthma has been acting up. This afternoon we’ll be going to pick up his inhaler stuff. Stephen plans to call Bunko de America tomorrow and see if he can get one or both of the charges refunded. Will him good luck. He thinks he has a chance, as he hasn’t asked for this for over a year. As Judy Tenuda, the Goddess says, our favorite comedienne says, “It could happen!”
We were on our way last night to Gallery 14 to see the new exhibit. Last month we we were resting at a bus stop when someone came along and said, “That bus doesn’t run here anymore.” We replied “We know, we’re just resting and working.” This time I thought I’d reply with an old joke. Stephen wants me to tell it here, so here it is:
A woman went into her kitchen and opened the door to her refrigerator to discover a squirrel reclining on one of the shelves. “What are you doing here?” she askeed.
“Is this a Westinghouse?” it asked, referring to the brand of the fridge.
“Well, I’m westing,” the squirrel replied..
The art by Cynthia Parker is abstract mosaics made with broken mirrors. In a way, it’s accidental art. I interviewed her about her art. I asked that old chestnut, “Where do you get your ideas?”
You know, I used to live with a psychopath. I had all these mirrors I’d collected since I was a child, and he broke them all. I said to myself ‘I can’t get rid of them, I just can’t bear it.’ So I started to put them back together. I didn’t manipulate the pieces in any way. I did play with them a bit, and these are the result.”
My personal favorites are “Angel” because I could actually see the wings sweeping up, and “The Rose” because I could see the petals and leaves.
Stephen said of it that “It’s very unique, unusual, and self-exposing because you can see yourself in it.”
Walt said in the flyer on it, “Cynthia Parker holds up a cracked mirror for our inspection, and shows us the image of our fragmented selves--imperfect, yet perfectly fascinating.”
The exhibit is at Gallery 14, 3960 60th st. at 14th Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95820, and runs until July 2nd.
I think it’s a very creative way of using something that otherwise would be trashed. It’s kind of like found art.
Stephen said, “It takes some effort to break the pieces in such a way as to produce the desired effect.”
I said to him, “I’m surprised you’d want to see an exhibit like this. It’s a bad place for vampires.”
“They’re already broken.”
“Vampires don’t break mirrors, silly, they just don’t show up in them.”
“I’m not a full-fledged vampire, and besides, I’m adaptable.”
Ms. Parker said, “After I ran out of my own mirrors, people started bringing me their broken mirrors. She seemed anxious and nervous whether people would like it. Indeed, from the smell of her, she had armed herself with several doses of Dutch courage before coming there.
“Modern art is all about confidence,” I told her, and told her the story of the “Emperor’s New Clothes”, which is my favorite analogy about modern art.
Belisama showed up. She’s going to school with a view towards getting a degree in forensic psychology and criminal justice. She’s a Witch I met almost 2 years ago at the Pagan Pride festival in September ‘09. She had her husband Charlie and her youngest granddaughter, Aurora, in tow. The child found some drawing materials, and settled down to generating her own kind of art. Stephen first met her when she was a teen runaway in his commune back in September, ‘71.
We met Sioux, who is an activist for medical marijuana, which is a subject close to our hearts. She gave us a ride home, so I didn’t have to struggle on the long walk home. Marijuana was the only substance that helped her after the “traditional” pharmaceuticals made her sick almost to death. We discussed NORML. I got her phone number, so I’m going to call her later on.
Remember, go to http://abbottsinninternational.com/ , http://abbottsinn.com/, call 1-888-611-7982, and order a reading, a class, and or research. YOUR reading could be the one that enables Stephen to go to Walmart and get s $500 money order to send to our landlady.
Friday, June 3, 2011
Goodbye, Bailee, and We Go On
Early Wednesday afternoon Bailee died. We think it was rat poison. With so man cats and dogs on this block, why do they insist on using poison? It’s better to let the animals control the rat population. Another possibility is spider bite. The vet said that it was an unusual poison, because there was no bleeding of the eyes, nose or mouth. Tegwedd thinks she might have had some convulsions. She seemed to jerk a bit while Tegwedd held her, but she thought that Bailee was just trying to catch her breath. Debbie thought it might be a spider bite. Stephen found a headless rat by where he found her. Stephen and Walt buried Bailee in the very back of the backyard. We said some words over her grave, and Tegwedd planted a small walnut seedling on her grave.
Dr. Livingston is lying on her back between the back cushion and the back of the couch. She got on the arm of the couch, then when Stephen petted her, she fell backwards into the trash can.
Bailee taught the other putties the hundredth putty, where the putty will reach in with hir paw, and take out one piece of food, then eat it out of the food bin. The hundredth putty thing is a take off from the 100th monkey phenomenon. When you get to critical mass, all the putties across the street, and across the city will be doing it.
The house seems empty without Bailee, which is strange when you consider how full of stuff this house is. Pyewacket and Putty Bear like to hang out on the stove. Tegwedd said, “Do you know which song they should be singing?” “No, what?” said Stephen. “Home...home on the range,” she sang.
We’ll missed the crossed paws. It was dangerous when Bailee crossed her paws in front of her. It was a form of communication--putty sign language. We always thought that they were plotting something dastardly and nefarious. The putties sit on the TV remote and change the channel. A lot of the time they change it to Animal Planet.
Tegwedd’s ex-hubby Andy used to steer Bailee around on her back on the carpet, and she would just buzz her head off. The putties have tag team wrestling matches. They engage in putty combat whenever possible. Just a little while ago we heard some growling coming from the stove. Neither of us got up to investigate. Stephen asked, “What’s for dinner?” Tegwedd asked, “Where’s my dinner, taking a cue from what Putty Bear said when he first came in here.
We now have a pentacle of putties. After 10 pm we turn off the porch light. Tegwedd stretched out her feet on the footstool, aka the Summer Palace, and Frakki, who was already there, sniffed at her feet then attacked them. Tegwedd had Pyewacket resting on her chest, where she likes to lie, and Dr. Livingston came over and whapped the other putty for no good reason. Frakki has created her own form of divination using used drinking straws, which she scatters all over the floor. Tegwedd is working out a way of interpreting the pattern thus formed. She thinks it’ll be similar to tea leaf reading, coffee grounds reading, or bean reading, but she isn’t quite sure. We’re going to see Bailee in our peripheral vision for quite some time. The back yard is now Bailee’s yard. She loved the yard. She liked to look at it from the back porch. She also liked to look at the roses from the window. Tegwedd used to sing “Bailee go ‘round the Roses” (a take off of the old song “Sally go ‘round the Roses) to her. Bailee loved it when we sang to her. All the putties love to be sung to. It doesn’t matter what kind of voice you have, or whether you can carry a tune. They love the attention. Tegwedd also sang “Hey there Bailee Girl” to her. Bailee was 24 lbs. of comedy and terror, emphasis on the comedy. She had many names, Bailee Beasely Beastly, Triple B Threat, 3B, Ma Bailee, and Machine Gun Bailee. But we never called her Late for Dinner. Watch your putties. Maybe get them in at 6 pm like we do. Tegwedd’s face is now being licked by Pyewacket. She’ll give you 2 hours to quit scritching her. Tegwedd is surrounded by female putties. Dr. Livingston is at her left shoulder on the back of the couch, Pyewacket is still on her chest, and Frakki is on the footstool at her feet. Pyewacket is the putty raptor. She is really aggressive when it comes to cold cuts. She’ll bite your finger if it’s near a piece of salami. Putty Bear has gotten huge, but what comes out of his mouth but squeaks. We’re seeing if Cirque de Soleil would like to have Dr. Livingston for awhile as a contortionist. But these putties can form very regal poses then they’ll lie on their backs with their paws in the air in these hilarious poses. They’re very tough putties, you know. They can lick anyone in the house, and often do. But they aren’t good watch dogs. Worst they can do to you is lick you to death or bite your nose. The closest they get to watch putties is that we watch them.
Putty Bear is very very funny. He knows when you’re getting ready to go out, and he’s right at the door to escape when you leave. Nor can he be gotten back inside quickly or easily. He’s become very predictable as to where he goes when he’s not supposed to go out. He can be found on the side of the house, curled up into a ball, forming his very own miniature crop circle. Boy is he going to be mad when Stephen weed eats that long grass. He’ll have to find another spot to press down. Since Bailee’s death, the other putties have, in our opinion, become more affectionate. Last night Pyewacket gave Tegwedd’s face a thorough bath, focusing on her nose. She spent a good part of the evening and this morning on Tegwedd’s chest. Like the others. she’s a tough putty, and can lick anyone in the house. When you’re petting her, she’ll give you about 2 hours to stop, and often does. Putty Bear used to lose their fights, but since he’s gotten so huge, he’s won 3 fights against Pyewacket so far.
The Sheriff’s Dept. is investigating the poisoning, and Stephen will contact the SPCA. Even though Dr. Livingston is a full adult, she is still a shoulder putty. Most shoulder putties grow out of it, but she hasn’t. When Stephen brought in Putty Bear, Dr. Livingston was on his shoulder. As has been mentioned before, the surviving putties make up a pentacle of putties. Let’s hear it for Magickal Pentacle Putty Power! Inky, our panther putty, is the elder now. I call him Inka Dinka Doodle Doo. The two males are not related to the three females. Inky is Tegwedd’s boy friend now. She told the Queen that her boyfriend was short and black. The Queen guessed right away that Tegwedd was talking about a putty. When Tegwedd first moved in, Inky lowered her blood pressure 11 points. Inky is 1st putty, who lived in pits and learned to use his claws in self defense. That’s an adaptation of a FireSign Theatre routine.
Here is a poem that Tegwedd wrote to Bailee:
Ode to Bailee
Bailee, you were so sweet
You made the birds go tweet tweet
Loving, you gave us two hours
To stop petting you among the flowers
You liked to stare at the roses
And bite us on our noses
Your purr was very loud
Even though going out was not allowed
You were unbowed
By your weight and long fur
Very seldom did you go grrr!
We love you very much
You thrilled to our very touch
You taught them all the hundredth putty
Even though you were mutty
Your crossed paws signalled danger
Known by us but not a stranger
When you’re not near us, we’re blue
O Bailee we love you!
To sum this whole thing up, we miss Bailee, but the rest of the putties are doing their best to console us for her loss. We noe have a pentacle of putties that keep our stress level down by making us laugh at their comical antics. When one of them tries to jump up on something like the video tape cabinet or coffee table and misses, falling down in a most undignified manner, they try to recapture their dignity while we quote the immortal words of our favorite stand up philosopher, the late great George Carlin, “I meant to do that. I’ve been planning it all week. I’ll be here till Thursday.”
Dr. Livingston is lying on her back between the back cushion and the back of the couch. She got on the arm of the couch, then when Stephen petted her, she fell backwards into the trash can.
Bailee taught the other putties the hundredth putty, where the putty will reach in with hir paw, and take out one piece of food, then eat it out of the food bin. The hundredth putty thing is a take off from the 100th monkey phenomenon. When you get to critical mass, all the putties across the street, and across the city will be doing it.
The house seems empty without Bailee, which is strange when you consider how full of stuff this house is. Pyewacket and Putty Bear like to hang out on the stove. Tegwedd said, “Do you know which song they should be singing?” “No, what?” said Stephen. “Home...home on the range,” she sang.
We’ll missed the crossed paws. It was dangerous when Bailee crossed her paws in front of her. It was a form of communication--putty sign language. We always thought that they were plotting something dastardly and nefarious. The putties sit on the TV remote and change the channel. A lot of the time they change it to Animal Planet.
Tegwedd’s ex-hubby Andy used to steer Bailee around on her back on the carpet, and she would just buzz her head off. The putties have tag team wrestling matches. They engage in putty combat whenever possible. Just a little while ago we heard some growling coming from the stove. Neither of us got up to investigate. Stephen asked, “What’s for dinner?” Tegwedd asked, “Where’s my dinner, taking a cue from what Putty Bear said when he first came in here.
We now have a pentacle of putties. After 10 pm we turn off the porch light. Tegwedd stretched out her feet on the footstool, aka the Summer Palace, and Frakki, who was already there, sniffed at her feet then attacked them. Tegwedd had Pyewacket resting on her chest, where she likes to lie, and Dr. Livingston came over and whapped the other putty for no good reason. Frakki has created her own form of divination using used drinking straws, which she scatters all over the floor. Tegwedd is working out a way of interpreting the pattern thus formed. She thinks it’ll be similar to tea leaf reading, coffee grounds reading, or bean reading, but she isn’t quite sure. We’re going to see Bailee in our peripheral vision for quite some time. The back yard is now Bailee’s yard. She loved the yard. She liked to look at it from the back porch. She also liked to look at the roses from the window. Tegwedd used to sing “Bailee go ‘round the Roses” (a take off of the old song “Sally go ‘round the Roses) to her. Bailee loved it when we sang to her. All the putties love to be sung to. It doesn’t matter what kind of voice you have, or whether you can carry a tune. They love the attention. Tegwedd also sang “Hey there Bailee Girl” to her. Bailee was 24 lbs. of comedy and terror, emphasis on the comedy. She had many names, Bailee Beasely Beastly, Triple B Threat, 3B, Ma Bailee, and Machine Gun Bailee. But we never called her Late for Dinner. Watch your putties. Maybe get them in at 6 pm like we do. Tegwedd’s face is now being licked by Pyewacket. She’ll give you 2 hours to quit scritching her. Tegwedd is surrounded by female putties. Dr. Livingston is at her left shoulder on the back of the couch, Pyewacket is still on her chest, and Frakki is on the footstool at her feet. Pyewacket is the putty raptor. She is really aggressive when it comes to cold cuts. She’ll bite your finger if it’s near a piece of salami. Putty Bear has gotten huge, but what comes out of his mouth but squeaks. We’re seeing if Cirque de Soleil would like to have Dr. Livingston for awhile as a contortionist. But these putties can form very regal poses then they’ll lie on their backs with their paws in the air in these hilarious poses. They’re very tough putties, you know. They can lick anyone in the house, and often do. But they aren’t good watch dogs. Worst they can do to you is lick you to death or bite your nose. The closest they get to watch putties is that we watch them.
Putty Bear is very very funny. He knows when you’re getting ready to go out, and he’s right at the door to escape when you leave. Nor can he be gotten back inside quickly or easily. He’s become very predictable as to where he goes when he’s not supposed to go out. He can be found on the side of the house, curled up into a ball, forming his very own miniature crop circle. Boy is he going to be mad when Stephen weed eats that long grass. He’ll have to find another spot to press down. Since Bailee’s death, the other putties have, in our opinion, become more affectionate. Last night Pyewacket gave Tegwedd’s face a thorough bath, focusing on her nose. She spent a good part of the evening and this morning on Tegwedd’s chest. Like the others. she’s a tough putty, and can lick anyone in the house. When you’re petting her, she’ll give you about 2 hours to stop, and often does. Putty Bear used to lose their fights, but since he’s gotten so huge, he’s won 3 fights against Pyewacket so far.
The Sheriff’s Dept. is investigating the poisoning, and Stephen will contact the SPCA. Even though Dr. Livingston is a full adult, she is still a shoulder putty. Most shoulder putties grow out of it, but she hasn’t. When Stephen brought in Putty Bear, Dr. Livingston was on his shoulder. As has been mentioned before, the surviving putties make up a pentacle of putties. Let’s hear it for Magickal Pentacle Putty Power! Inky, our panther putty, is the elder now. I call him Inka Dinka Doodle Doo. The two males are not related to the three females. Inky is Tegwedd’s boy friend now. She told the Queen that her boyfriend was short and black. The Queen guessed right away that Tegwedd was talking about a putty. When Tegwedd first moved in, Inky lowered her blood pressure 11 points. Inky is 1st putty, who lived in pits and learned to use his claws in self defense. That’s an adaptation of a FireSign Theatre routine.
Here is a poem that Tegwedd wrote to Bailee:
Ode to Bailee
Bailee, you were so sweet
You made the birds go tweet tweet
Loving, you gave us two hours
To stop petting you among the flowers
You liked to stare at the roses
And bite us on our noses
Your purr was very loud
Even though going out was not allowed
You were unbowed
By your weight and long fur
Very seldom did you go grrr!
We love you very much
You thrilled to our very touch
You taught them all the hundredth putty
Even though you were mutty
Your crossed paws signalled danger
Known by us but not a stranger
When you’re not near us, we’re blue
O Bailee we love you!
To sum this whole thing up, we miss Bailee, but the rest of the putties are doing their best to console us for her loss. We noe have a pentacle of putties that keep our stress level down by making us laugh at their comical antics. When one of them tries to jump up on something like the video tape cabinet or coffee table and misses, falling down in a most undignified manner, they try to recapture their dignity while we quote the immortal words of our favorite stand up philosopher, the late great George Carlin, “I meant to do that. I’ve been planning it all week. I’ll be here till Thursday.”
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