Altogether, it was not well to meddle with the Elder Ones; and if they persistently denied all access to the marvelous sunset city, it were better not to seek that city.
    -H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
I've been reading the stories Lovecraft references in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and remembering why the Cthulhu mythos ( Read more... )

Last night I had a dream ( Read more... )

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I've been playing with an idea that sleepingwolf gave me: Visual Liturgy.

It's a program (with several sister programs) developed by the Anglican Communion for liturgical work. Basically, you start with the basic Order of Services, and then you kinda pick your sermons, bible readings, prayers, hymns. . . everythingI imagine that extensive use of such a ( Read more... )

I had a series of dreams, all of them very dirty and all of them involving persons who read my LJ ( Read more... )

I know what Lovecraft heard. I heard it, too. It spoke to me on the rocks as I stood above the Atlantic, waves breaking fifteen feet below. I heard the Call.

This has been a weekend of many things: family, friends, church, dreams, fear, and regret.

( Family )

A very special thanks to creature_tamer, tesinth, and singingwren for sitting around, re-living childhood with me last weekend.

We watched ten hours of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, and it was good.

Thanks for coming by and enjoying.

Last night, I had a dream in which The Princess Bride was done by porpoises. Or maybe seals. I'm not entirely certain. While I know ( Read more... )

The first entry is from Friday, but every other entry in this LJ entry has been pieced together from other entries that never really stood on their own. Either they were the starts of entries that never got finished (the oldest is from 10/22/2004), or they didn't fit anywhere else. Most of the quotes were just picked up along the way, some being ( Read more... )

It's getting stiffer and stiffer and my entire right side is not taking this well. I can't really turn my head, I can't really move without showing an obvious stiffness, and my arm isn't getting any better. Tina commented this morning that it was pretty obvious I wasn't feeling well. I've popped more pain-relieving pills in the past two days than I ( Read more... )