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Here's version one of the Crane Divination I mentioned a couple of weeks ago:


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Today, while giving a talk on Druidry at a Unitarian Universalist church in Reynoldsburg, I got quite the surprise:

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Journal Entry 11

04/12/07
Athens War Museum

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Would anyone with a bare modicum of artistic talent be willing to draw me something?

I need a picture of "a barrel of shoggoths"

Over the weekend, I went to the ballet with Maggie. I don't really feel it necessary to try an explain again why I thought this was such a good idea: folks mostly aren't interested. But the ballet was about as confusing to me as I expected, though I had a good time doing that whole "grown up, dressed up date" sort of thing I enjoy doing.

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MJD: So, for Valentine's Day, I'm apparently going the the ballet.
Tina: Does she know you hate ballet?
M: I don't hate ballet. I hated Dracula. I don't mind the classical stuff, and can even get excited about it. I don't necessarly get it, but there's good music and nifty things going on. I just can't wrap my head around the more modern styles at ( Read more... )

Ah, my art teacher.

A conversation with singingwren reminded me that I haven't really talked about her, crazy woman that she was. Some people will think that my views on art were shaped by this amazing bitch, but really, they were simply reaffirmed ( Read more... )

I'm looking at a few Etruscan reliefs today. The first has intrigued me since I first saw it: two young men wrestle a stag to the ground, the first with his arms around the animal's muscular neck and the other with one hand on an antler and the other on a back leg. The scene amazes me with action.


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