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I had a chance to try the Urban Moonshine bitters yesterday, and they are *yummy*.  The Maple was particularly interesting, as I didn't get much of a maple flavor initially -- then there was this sort of instant, lovely, well-balanced maple flavor as an aftertaste;  then it was gone.  I had to taste it again to make sure that it wasn't a fluke (it ( Read more... )

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Today is National Pie Day!!!

Also, from the link:  In 1644 Oliver Cromwell banned eating pie, saying it was a Pagan pleasure and it wasn't [un]banned until 16 years later.

Pagan Pleasures!!!  Now you're talking! (and let's face it; Oliver Cromwell had, shall we say, issues)

What's your favorite?
(mine is whatever just came out of the oven, and is ( Read more... )

At the Unitarian Jihad Name Generator, I received the name:

Brother Cutlass of Warm Humanitarianism.

At the First Reformed Unitarian Jihad Name Generator, I received the name:

Brother Joyous Broadsword of Tranquility.

Of course what's playing in my head right now is the Life of Brian scene where they're enumerating the various factions....

"Splitter!!!"

There's been a lot of noise on the interwebz, especially the pagan sites, about the latest Cameron extravaganza.  Here's my $0.02 on the subject.  Hopefully this will get it off my chest and then I can move on to better things.

I'm probably going to get myself in trouble here; I don't really care what the Vatican thinks about a movie, just as I ( Read more... )

This looks like a metric ton of fun!! There's even a lot of material online, and you can read some of the works here.
...there's even a T-Shirt...
Very cool!
(thanks to Hecate)

The other day, I was having dinner at Lindy's, reading the new Terry Pratchett (Unseen Academicals), and enjoying my dinner of Eggs Benedict.  Lindy's is the kind of place where  conversation between people, especially if you're sitting at the counter, is practically expected.  So there I am, soaking up egg and hollandaise on my home fries and ( Read more... )

Driving home last night from a lovely, sweet Yule ritual -- and a wonderful time afterward with friends, laughter, stories -- a couple of lines from this were wandering through my head.  Those lines are still there this afternoon, so I decided to post this.

Blessings of Light and Love to all of you!

In a Tree House

Light
Will someday split you open
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...from Ploughshares

by Meredith Stricker

What if we could look at language as matter

[as real and outside our imagining as granite or cedar trees]and move inside words, the way particle physicists break ( Read more... )