April 22, 2007

• blog salad

  This is mostly old business, but I’m going to deal with some newer stuff now before it becomes as old as some of these other items.

  The Washington Post has an article about what Seung Cho’s former roommates remember about him.  It seems to me that Cho’s roommate might have been a wee bit naive, or he was being disingenuous with a reporter.  Or maybe I’m just reading something in here that others don’t see.  The roommate says that Cho had an “imaginary girlfriend” named Jelly, and he told his roomies that Jelly called him “Spanky.”  Once, when they found the door locked, Cho refused to let them in, saying he was “making out” with Jelly.  All of this brings to my mind K-Y Jelly and “spanking the monkey,” and suggests that Cho had a wry sense of humor.

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  Several times I have mentioned that I made a list of blog topics during the time of our latest computer hardware problems.  We were only down for a few days, but the list was a long one.  Since I got back to blogging again, sometimes posting more than one entry a day, I have scratched some items off the list and have added more.  The notepaper is filled with scrawls and scratches, some in my hand and some in my son Doug’s from times when I’d think of something while he was at the keyboard and I would ask him to write it on the list for me.

  That filthy, stained, increasingly illegible list must GO!  I have more or less resigned myself to leaving a few of the items unblogged, because I don’t recall quite what I had in mind when I made the notes:

  “You can’t believe anything!”
  “If only someone would ask….”

  Okay, scratch them.  If they were worthy ideas maybe they will come back around again.

  The passing of Robert Anton Wilson was already on the list when Kurt Vonnegut was added to it.  Perhaps I can cover both of them in one entry.  With a little bit of effort, I might be able to cram Robert A. Heinlein and Timothy Leary in, too — four of a kind, but I doubt if all of them would have seen it that way.  Okay, so “dead heroes” goes at the top of the new list.

  “Paranoia” is certainly getting a place on the new list.

  I might end up scratching off Benedetto Supino because I’m not finding any recent information on him and everything I found is from suspect sources.  If I can’t get an essay out of Benedetto, maybe I can get one out of the difficulty of finding credible sources on certain topics.

  I was gathering info on Druids a few days ago when I interrupted that quest to cover breaking news.  That one stays on the list, too.

  I suppose it would be worth the effort to do something about what it’s like being an old soul, if only for the value of venting.

  Narcissistic Personality Disorder keeps getting in my face.  It’s time for an update/expansion on that, I suppose.  Okay, it stays.

  hmmmm… it says here, “Shroud of Turin,” and that’s close to the other thing, “You can’t believe anything!”  I do believe those two might be related.  I still need to track down some supporting sources on that one.

  Huitzilopoctli… What was I thinking there?  He’s really just one aspect of Tezcatlipoca, whom I’ve already covered.  But then again, I covered Tezcat’s other aspect, Quetzalcoatl, so I might as well do the dark side too, or maybe not that but Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli for something different.  I definitely want to cover at least one Aztec deity again soon.

  It says here, “cats (bistro).”  I can get that one out of the way quickly, right now.

  The late, great, gone but not forgotten Pidney was a talker.  She used to call out plaintively for Raoul and ask us for a map and a motor scooter so she could take off to Krakow and Rio looking for him.  (It’s true… follow the link, and also this one.)

  Tabby, one of the two females from Hilary’s last litter, whom we had spayed this winter along with her mother and her sister Fancy, turns out to be another talker.  She is even more vocal than Pidney (pictured here) was.  Tabby’s vocalizations run into several syllables, where Pidney’s tended to be just one or two.

  Tabby’s English is heavily accented and a little hard to understand, but she apparently has a traveling jones just as Pidney did.  Tabby (I want to get some pics of her, but she won’t sit still), however, is not content with a motor scooter.  She has asked for a map and a Ferrari.  She also mentioned something about a barrista at a bistro in Barstow, but I didn’t catch his name.

  She has mentioned Hanover several times, but I couldn’t pin her down on whether she means the one in Germany or one of several in the U.S.  Perhaps she means the one in West Virginia, in Wyoming County, since “Wyoming” is also one of the things she says repeatedly.  Updates on this topic are undoubtedly upcoming.

  Also on my list is something about Felicitas Goodman’s research on, and Greyfox’s and my experiences with, various postures for meditation and/or shamanic journeying.  The short version of this is that the position your body is in when you enter an altered state affects your experience, but I  want to expand on that.  This might become a series of essays, and probably properly belongs in the FAQs at KaiOaty.

  TSOG:  our Tsarist Occupation Government, the Thing that Ate the Constitution, could provide ample material for a fine rant.  It goes onto the new list.

  The old list has now been crumpled and tossed into the trash.  The final entry on it was, “fibro,” as in fibromyalgia, AKA M.E./C.F.I.D.S.  Unless something else pops up to distract me before I get it done, that will be my topic for today.

  Okay, if you’ve read this far I might be safe in assuming that I have your attention.  If you have any feedback for me or input for my new list, such as a topic you’d like to see me add or subtract, you have my attention.
  

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