Thu 23 Oct 2008
Daughter of the son of the Menagerie
Posted by laup under Announcements, Comic Books, Gardening, Meditations, Music Quest, Outbreak, Playtime, The Book Mine
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I’ve finished the third set of revisions, and am going down the line of my list of weaknesses to double-check if I’ve missed anything. Maybe another two weeks, and I’ll have a finished draft.
I’m considering the possibility of doing a short comic book series and posting it here. Got all the materials and the know-how, I’m only waiting for the right signs to take place and I’ll do some work on what it’ll be. For now, I’m reading and researching. Must make stuff for people or Hulk smash!
My folks have a bunch of tapes of a quirky truck-driving friend of theirs that might make for amusing listening. I may turn them into a podcast at some point, or heck, make my own weird audio show for a limited time. Must make stuff!
As Guy Caballero from SCTV said, “We need programming!”
The garden had gone weird on us. The weeds won the battle, and we have mice living in the garden now. Peppers are all a bust, and the tomatoes have gone whacko – either dying out if they are the big tomato variety, or growing all over the place and producing a handful of tomatoes if they are the small version.
The leeks are ready and good to go – they are huge! The onions have made an unexpected comeback, while the horseradish is looking not so good. One of the wildflowers went nuts and grew huge, with wonderful blossoms. Crumbs, the marigolds are doing amazing, and we were surrounded by bumble and honey bees getting busy. It was a shock.
We planted some autumn lettuce, but we’ll see how that turns out. Oh yeah, the corn turned out nice, we got about five half ears with maybe three or four to come. K and I cut up the corn and cooked it, then had it with the small cherry tomatoes. The bounty was good as a side for our dinner, but it tasted so very good.
I don’t know what to make of the garden this year, it defies my puny knowledge to the +1. I can’t explain how we got some of one thing, and nothing of most everything else. Meanwhile, the folks have tons of lettuce growing like mad, along with garlic. Pump up the jam for them!
My cool dude artistic friend Xtine has a new astrology website, so here’s the plug. I don’t actually go there as a watering hole, or it’d be in the blogroll. But I’ml placing her in the classic links section, as that may be of interest to my esoterically minded guests. I can’t wait to see what she starts putting into her studio website when it goes to the max.
I stumbled upon some interesting explorations of the Minotaur phenomenon by arctangent at this link. I especially like how she draws the distinction between a maze (a place to mess you up and keep you lost) and a labyrinth (you always meet the center and it’s occupant, because the route is inevitable).
I’ve been fascinated by the premise of the book House of Leaves, a rabbit hole beyond human comprehension, even though I haven’t been particularly interested in reading the book itself. Puzzle mystery books don’t do it for me, mostly because I’m no good at puzzles and get hung up on them trying to figure out what’s happening.
However, the idea of getting drawn into an exploration of a supernatural house to try and experience its mystery intrigues me. I’ve always been very fond of the Minotaur myth, and find the background behind it really cool. Arctangent’s analysis got me thinking about it again, and I can sense more clues to come from out there.
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