Postcards From Hermes

Blog Test

2011-10-08T17:23:00.000-07:00

This is a test of my blog using Windows Live Writer. I’m hoping to do more blogging soon!

Maria Shriver?

2009-11-05T01:14:00.001-08:00

The "Let them eat cake while I disregard the cell phone while driving rule" first lady?I would *never* vote for *anyone* who has a "rules for thee but not for me" lifestyle. I don't care if she's a Kennedy, she's an SUV driving, head-in-the-clouds-I-don't-have-to-think-about-anything-but-myself rich bitch.in reference to: Calitics:: CA-Gov: Will There Be Another Candidate? (view on Google

Environmental leadership with some teeth to it...

2009-10-17T15:55:00.001-07:00

I remember when President Carter installed solar panels on the White House, and applauded the action as a forward-thinking strategy.I also remember taking notice when one of the first things Ronald Reagan did when he got into office was take those panels down. I remember thinking it was a sign that we were in trouble.in reference to: Al's Journal : Leading by example (view on Google Sidewiki)

Fight with your cubicle job! Take a blowtorch to money! Put your bills through a shredder! WTF???

2009-10-15T21:54:00.000-07:00

Young Phallon's in the fertilizer again. I tried to post this as a reply on the Steve Pavlina message board. In response to this blog post. I registered to be on the message board, but it didn't seem to want my thread entry--I think some of those boards filter out posts that are less than glowing edorsements of a blogger's wisdom.Um, I haven't read any of Steve's blog in a while, and this

Open Letter to Joe Wilson

2009-09-10T15:54:00.000-07:00

Once again, I need to bitchslap somebody...Dear Representative Wilson:I know you "apologized" to the president for your "spontaneous" remark, but I decided to show you the same amount of respect you showed for him last night.I'm from California, and I'm REALLY GLAD that you don't represent me--I would NEVER elect someone who acts like you to represent me. I know there are a *lot* of good folks

Open Letter to Yoko Ono on the 40th Anniversary of the Bed-In for Peace

2009-05-27T17:10:00.000-07:00

Happy 40th anniversary of the Bed-In! Give Peace a Chance! I was thinking today how we're all connected, I saw something about people in Haiti forced to live on cookies made of dirt (!), and that gave me pause (I live where I can eat whatever I want, and I often do, reason to be GRATEFUL!)Then I saw you say on Twitter how we're all drops of water in the same sea, and I thought, "Hey, I'm *

2009-02-26T01:27:00.000-08:00

Your rainbow is intensely shaded violet, orange, and brown. What is says about you: You are a deep thinking person. You appreciate a challenge. Others are amazed at how you don't give up. You are patient and will keep trying to understand something until you've mastered it.Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.

2007-10-15T10:41:00.000-07:00

(Approaches the blogosphere, like Bill Hicks with a third eye squeegied clean, eyes burning with conviction and comedy, imaginary cigarette between fingers--it's good for gesturing and punctuation!)Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, Stephen Colbert was on Larry King this weekend, and I got up before noon this morning. I looked at myself in the mirror and said, "Hey, I'm a witch, damn it!"You see

I Need to Come Back to the Bosom of Blogging...

2007-10-11T03:09:00.000-07:00

So let's see, just try to put the facts down...September started with the death of my cat, who was about 18 years old. He was basically the last pet we will have in this house. Things are (very) slowly winding down here, my mom wants my dad to take his junk and move upstate--she's been talking to us about it for about six months, and I guess after he has his hip operation he will be going.The

Losing a Good Journal Entry

2007-09-30T18:08:00.000-07:00

I was trying to post one of my "I don't blog often enough, so might as well make this a big 'en" , kind of entries, and I had to press a wrong button and lose everything!!! I don't know anymore, cuz folks, lemme tell ya, I've had a month, complete with deaths in the family, hospital trips (not for me, and the folks are all right, but, you know how it is.)It was a beautiful entry. I'll try to

Atheism: It's What's for Dinner!

2007-03-04T22:46:00.000-08:00

Even though I'm a pagan who can't deny their connection to Spirit, or Deity, or whatever one might want to call it, I have an affinity for atheism. I guess I just like the whole freethinking idea, and the rational thought process that many atheists insist upon. I know that I really like the part about speaking out against the rabid evangelical right-wing's agenda to frame the United States as

2007-03-01T04:10:00.000-08:00

I really don't know.You see, "niceness" is kind of a nonentity. It is the quality of nothing, it's really a meaningless word, and hence is devalued by many.I'm fresh off a, I wouldn't call it a fight, so much as the other person just really showing what an ass they were by being all smug and Libertarian and anti-Al Gore. Anyone that knows how much I loved the Clinton/Gore years knows that's a

Thanks, I'll be here all week. Remember to tip the waitstaff...

2007-02-28T02:12:00.000-08:00

You Should Be a Joke WriterYou're totally hilarious, and you can find the humor in any situation.Whether you're spouting off zingers, comebacks, or jokes about life...You usually can keep a crowd laughing, and you have plenty of material.You have the makings of a great comedian - or comedic writer.What Type of Writer Should You Be?

Welcome to the Brain-Drain

2007-02-26T23:30:00.000-08:00

Or: Worst Frickin' President EVER!Which are the four words my dad and I use when we sit in the front room and watch the news together.Seriously, I think they all need to go, his cronies, all of them...I know I have a tendency to get incoherently ranty when discussing the Bush administration. This particular pile of crap needs to be hurled at Alberto Gonzales, I think.lupabitch alerted me to

2007-02-11T22:06:00.000-08:00

It is perhaps a miscarriage of blogging justice that I haven't talked about or linked to this guy.And I say this partly because I want to talk a little bit about one of the things I was doing with myself those three months I was away from LJ. I became addicted to YouTube. I started looking at it, to find really cool Genesis videos from the seventies (this one includes Peter Gabriel as King

I just LOVE Harry Potter!!!

2007-02-02T02:32:00.000-08:00

Oh, the Christian moms won't like this one bit!That was Daniel Radcliffe in a promo from his new theater gig.And, Jarvis Cocker, doing an old Hawkwind song that always makes me wanna put on a cowboy hat and shake my moneymaker all night.

2007-01-24T03:17:00.000-08:00

Dear Change This Guys:I get it, you want to have links to essays on pdf files that work like PowerPoint presentations. One of the "Elements of Style" type things that I learned about PPoint is that it is best when you only have a couple of sentences per slide.In trying to use your site, I discovered the reason for this: having a whole bunch of paragraphs on one slide makes things unreadable. I

"...It's in the caaan!"

2007-01-13T15:37:00.000-08:00

Peter Murphy and Co. inventing Vampire Chic."Dialog dub. Now here's the rub: she's acting her reactions."Edit: Ok, it's like fricking cold now. It was nice today when I walked the dogs, but all of a sudden, brrr. Thankfully, last night I bought an electric blanket. I am probably gonna sit in bed with a bunch of books tonight, starting at like 5:30, just so I can have my blankie on.

Book Distributing Takes a Pounding

2007-01-10T02:01:00.000-08:00

So, a big distributor is running itself like Enron, eh?Rather reminds me of when I was working at SuperCrown, where I would probably be working to this day if they hadn’t gone under in 2000.One of my bosses there told me that they had gone bankrupt seven or eight times, and that this time the company was going on the auction block. It took about a year after the initial announcement for the

As It is Written, Let It Be Done...

2007-01-03T22:13:00.000-08:00

Over the past couple of weeks, I have been thinking about the fact that though I have been kicking around the periphery of paganism for many years, I have never actually joined anything, or had any kind of ceremonial ritual setting myself apart--I did when I was a Christian all those years ago, but not as a pagan. I almost had one last year with a group, but backed out at practically the last

Happy Lunar New Year!

2007-01-03T14:25:00.000-08:00

So on New Year's Eve at midnight there was a huge amount of fireworks, the kind that sound like bombs going off. It was like people wanted to kick '06 in the ass on its way out.It had been a real bitch of a year, I think, for me, for people I know, and for the US in general. A lot of goofy shit went down in '06.I'm not a numerologist, but I have heard ideas bandied about regarding 2007, which

Gerald R. Ford, (1913 - 2006)

2006-12-26T21:31:00.000-08:00

So within the same couple of days that we bid a fond farewell to the Godfather of Soul, we also say goodbye to the 38th president, a man who had something of an FDR-ish role to fill in the White House.Dad and I were just watching House when there was a newsbreak, I said, "It's probably something about flood warnings." As the words left my lips, I had a feeling I was probably wrong.Ford was

"How's Your Boy?"

2006-11-30T14:00:00.000-08:00

Because I just really hate this man.Really.From CNN's Political Ticker:After he declined to stand in a presidential receiving line or to have his picture taken with the president at a White House reception two weeks ago, VA Sen-elect James Webb (D) had the following exchange with Bush, as reported by the Washington Post:"'How's your boy?' Bush asked, referring to Webb's son, a Marine serving in

Uh, erm, yes, it's angel time!!!

2006-10-17T23:02:00.000-07:00

Interesting goings on at Weiser/Red Wheel.“Because that’s angel time!” she brightly explains. “That’s when you can connect with angels — 11:11 a.m. and 11:11 p.m. We also like to have meetings at 4:20.”Considering impressions I've gotten after having met certain people that work for certain people, that's not altogether surprising...

And the Queen said, "Fuck everything, let's talk about FOOD, you guys!"

2006-10-04T20:19:00.000-07:00

There is a street near school that has two tremendous places: the first is a produce store where EVERYTHING is at its peak of ripeness and freshness, and the prices are crazy insane cheap, like half the price you would pay at Safeway.The second, is Trader Joe's. They have these things there, stuffed grape leaves? Can we talk here? Ok, the grape leaves themselves are soaked in brine. Anything