So, Christmas is officially over, and we're celebrating the Feast of Epiphany with the availability of gâteau des Rois in New Orleans. People are taking down their lights and decorations, and they're finally almost over their New Years hangovers. Huzzah!

Twelfth Night was spent in subdued celebration of moonandserpent's birth. Congratulations to him on being ( Read more... )

I have come to the inescapeable conclusion that every single mythology has dieties who basically spend all their time having sex, with brief interludes of killing things and smiting mortals. Sometimes they don't even take a break from the sex for the other two things ( Read more... )

Apparently, now that the Vatican has made an explicit stand on homosexuality in the priesthood, Benedict might be looking to tackle the "social plague" of usury through "prevention, solidarity and education ( Read more... )

I promise.

...but: the exorcism school! (Thanks to feyangel for the link.)

For those who haven't heard, a new pope (the 265th) has been chosen.


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So I was accused of not updating often. This is true. I'm horrible about that sometimes.

In the news, people are speculating on who the Pope's secret cardinal is. My friend Alan has a whole running joke where the Secret Cardinal is clearly a Vatican superspy, and he is aided in fighting the godless heathen agents by a sexy nun in a tight- ( Read more... )

The last two weeks have been filled with packing, traveling, unpacking, packing, traveling, and unpacking again. Along side of that, there was a lot of cool stuff.

The 17th through the 19th was filled with ICFA, down in Fort Lauderdale. bneuensc and I went there with ninja_turbo, pythia_akrypta, ancientwisdom, and kitsune_den, although I arrived on the second day of the conference. To describe the ( Read more... )