Our President is urging Congress not to "lose heart" on health care.
His previous plan was to take people's money without asking and give them something they don't want. Heartless! Were Congress not the target, I would be optimistic about his exhortation.
::UPDATE 07.17.09 2pm EST:: We've still got some endangered bottles on the list. I'll be at the computer for the next 2 hours so I can work out orders up until then. I'll be back and ready to start ordering around 11pm EST. I can only count payments made by then towards saving the bottles! Please feel free to make orders and payments all night, if a total isn't correct, we'll fix it after the fact. Also, and this is Very Important: Double check the Summary of Deleted Comments to make sure that your order is right!! I cannot promise we'll be able to fix it after the order, though I will do my best.
The following scents are still available at the prices listed. This is our seventh successful circle so we have plenty of wonderful, recent feedback for those of you bitten and made a lil shy recently (myself included). We happily ship internationally and anyone ordering a Snake has a chance at the imp of Anaconda! Anyone ordering any CD decant can join the ~>RAFFLE<~ for a (nearly) complete set of Carnaval Diabolique pitch cards!
**'ed scents are very much in need of love as they are just an imp or two away from being cut. :( Give them a snuggle, why don't you?
THE PARLIAMENT OF MONSTERS $3.50/$10.50 - Dust, incense, wet tobacco, and a curl of opium smoke. (3 slots or one 1/2 bottle left)
ARACHNINA, THE SPIDER GIRL $3.50 - A swirling, hypnotic perfume of black currant, poppy, red and black musk, lilies, nicotiana, and patchouli. (2 slots left)
ESHE, A VISION OF LIFE-IN-DEATH $3.50/$10.50 - The perfume of life-in-death: embalming herbs, black myrrh, white sandalwood, black orchid, paperwhites, tomb dust, and Moroccan jasmine. (3 slots or one 1/2 bottle left)
**FAIZA, THE BLACK MAMBA $3.50/$10.50 - A sensual blend of twisting, exotic, serpentine oils: black amber, caraway, oakmoss, green sandalwood, bergamot, jasmine sambac, gardenia, orange pulp, vanilla, blackberry, black musk, white honey, ti leaf, and ginger. (5 slots left, 1/2 bottle still possible)**
BANDED SEA SNAKE $3.50/$10.50 - Snake Oil with oakmoss, sea moss, and olive leaf. (3 slots or one 1/2 bottle left)
COTTONMOUTH $3.50 - Snake Oil with linden blossom, calla lily, passion flower, and narcissus. (2 slots left)
HABU $3.50 - Snake Oil with ho wood, teak, black musk, and bamboo. (1 slot left)
KING COBRA $3.50/$10.50 - Snake Oil with orris, frankincense, and copal. (3 slots or one 1/2 bottle left)
TEMPLE VIPER $3.50 - Snake Oil with sugar cane, frankincense, champaca, opoponax, labdanum, and hyssop. (2 slots left)
**HOPE $3.50/$10.50 - Hope is sugared rose. (7 slots, one 1/2 bottle possible)**
**ISAAC, THE LIVING SKELETON $3.50/$10.50 - Bourbon, tobacco, dry bone, bay rum aftershave, and sleazy cologne. (4 slots left, 1/2 bottle still possible)**
KATANIYA, THE CLOCKWORK WOMAN $3.50 - Gentle flowers over hot metal, shocked to life with electricity. (2 slots left)
**MESKHENET, THE VULTURE MAIDEN $3.50/$10.50 - Frankincense, hyssop, hibiscus, river reeds, orris root, palm frond, and olibanum. (4 slots left, 1/2 bottle still possible)**
TIRESIAS, THE ANDROGYNE $3.50 - Dark, moody, and bittersweet: black currant, patchouli, tobacco, cinnamon leaf, caramel, muguet, and red sandalwood. (2 slots left)
THE WILD MEN OF JEZIRAT AL TENNYN $3.50 - Fiery, primal, and precociously diabolical: red amber, Spanish moss, Indonesian patchouli, ambergris, red pepper, two cloves, and vanilla flower. (1 slot left)
**ZARITA, THE DOLL GIRL $3.50/$10.50 - Soft, yet sociopathic: white carnation, iris, orange blossom, and sugared cream. (4 slots left, 1/2 bottle still possible)**
PRIALA, THE HUMAN PHOENIX $3.50 - Three deep, dark myrrhs, smoke, and cinnamon bark. (1 slots left)
In popular mythology, the bluebird is the universally acknowledged symbol of happiness, prosperity, good health, and the arrival of spring. The beautiful blue of its plumage is associated with the sky and eternal happiness. Traditionally, the bluebird is tattooed on one side of a sailor’s chest when he’s clocked 10,000 nautical miles. A bluebird is tattooed on the other side when the sailor has clocked 20,000 nautical miles, the pair then signifying a well traveled sailor. A tattoo of a dead bluebird is usually associated with loss of innocence and disillusionment.
My bluebird is carrying a banner that says “forever”, bringing a charm of good fortune for the wearer that they may gain eternal happiness and contentment. To dream the impossible dream. As always, don’t forget to download the line art if you want to use this tattoo yourself.
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If you like the work and intend to use it, you’re free to download it! I’m not charging anything for the work but do please consider making a small donation as a token of your appreciation! Thanks!
For the good fortune to find a place to stay for a festival that was sold out a long time ago. For the fabulous dress that cured my feeling frumpy. On sale even! For unexpectedly being able to see friends tonight that I wasn't sure I'd see for a long while. For my wonderful English student. For the curly-girl ok hair supplies: shampoo, conditioner, and intensive conditioner all for less than $10 For the great bag. For the unlikely and amazing adventures that keep coming my way. But most of all, thanks for my friends.
The approval of gay marriages has a compromise thrown in for conservatives that no one is forced to bless gay marriages, which I think is fine, because I don't think anyone should be compelled to act against their conscience.
Earlier in the week, they also voted to allow ordination of gay bishops. There was a moratorium on ordaining any more gay bishops until the issue was decided, and now it has been decided. It was sort of a dumb issue, IMO, given the number of gay Episcopal clergy I have met.
These changes may seem sensible and inevitable to us, but what actually made it possible was that a lot of conservatives left in a huff over these issues, leaving the progressives in charge. That was a major reason I checked out the Episcopal Church after leaving the Catholic Church this year--I figured that any church that is losing conservative members could use progressive replacements.
Anyway, yay! Now we are catching up to the Unitarians, UCC, and Reform and Reconstructionist Jews, all of whom already bless gay marriages.
I'm reading a book ("Napoleon's Buttons") on chemistry and its role in history. Lots of fun chemical structures, with an emphasis on the huge differences between molecules with the same number and type of atoms but slight differences in their arrangement.
I can mostly grasp how elements are identified within molecules, but can anyone summarize in a few sentences how a scientist would deduce the structure of a molecule - i.e. the arrangement of the atoms? I've tried squinting, but no dice.
I now have a Verizon plan, a Razr on the fritz, and a book on writing iPhone apps. I will soon have an iPhone, a new Mac, and yet another hobby.
Can anyone offer 1-sentence answers to the below?
1) Can an iPhone be hacked to work with my Verizon plan?
2) If so, does Verizon have to know?
3) Is the iPhone internet plan packaged with the iPhone cell phone plan? Or can I get the regular iPhone internet plan but use another cell phone plan on a hacked phone?
i'm going to comic con with the very talented tammystellanova(.com) and i was wondering if anyone has any ideas or loaners or whatnot for a display stand (for a banner or signage)
it would need to fit into a suitcase material doesn't matter
At the Cake Shop w/ Jucifer... good times! If you are in New York, I truly hope to see you there, if you have friends in New York, please ask them to come by... I'd really like to break the Replicator curse of band New YOrk shows.
We are at the mid point of the tour and start heading home soon. Also, you can now buy the Mount Vicious record on itunes if you feel so inclined.
I wouldn't keep harping on it, but as you can imagine we need the $$$ to stay on the road and stuff. Think about it as buying me a sandwich, or Alli a pizza or something...
Summer’s here, kids! Here’s a new Inkwell Radio installment full of music and merriment to help you enjoy those hot, sunny days ahead. Clocking in at over an hour and forty minutes of music, this mix is dedicated to my good friend Kub E. Bear, Esq. who will soon be shaking the dust of our little town off her boots and moving on to brighter, better climes. We’re gonna miss you, Kubby! Enjoy the mix, everyone!
So about a year ago I mucked with my cellphone so that when anyone leaves a text message, the noise it makes is the old-school Star Trek communicator chirp.
Aside from the geekly joy this brings me, it's a remarkably perfect sound for this application.
It's short, distinctive, and reasonably inobtrusive should I choose to ignore it. But I almost never do, since the desire to flip open my phone upon hearing it is nearly reflexive.
Okay, so I've got Sotomayor on the brain today, but her personal story is important to me, because it's almost identical to that of one of my old roommates and best friends. Like Sotomayor, he is Nuyorican and raised by his single mom in a rough part of the Bronx. He went on to Princeton and then Harvard for grad school, and really did well for himself, both personally and professionally. I met his mom many times, and even though she didn't speak any English, she just radiated pride and happiness over how he and her other kids turned out. Of course, it was all because of what an amazing woman she was!
Anyway, when I saw this picture of Sonia Sotomayor and her beautiful mother, she reminded so much of my friend's mom that it brought a tear to my eye.
So here's to her, to Sotomayor's mom, and to all you awesome moms out there.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It makes me famished just to think of you there stewing in your hunger. You almost remind me of a bear that's just awoken from hibernation or a political prisoner who's been on a hunger strike. And yet I know it's not a craving for food that you're suffering from. It's not even an impossible yearning for sex or fame or power or money, either. You're starving, you're ravenous, you're mad for something you don't have a name for -- something whose existence you don't fully understand and can't quite imagine. But I predict you'll uncover a fuller truth about this thing very soon, and then you'll be more than halfway toward gratifying your hunger.
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