post 160

By tuck 27 Oct 2000

you may not want to go here.

personally, i think he should keep it like that for halloween.

hit the link at your own risk. no complaints to anders about nightmares or vomit-destroyed keyboards.










post 157

By anders pearson 24 Oct 2000

for most of my childhood i dreamed in cartoon. i don’t know why, but everything looked drawn and filled in with bright, solid, flat colors rather than realistic gradients and realistic clarity.

when i was about 3 or 4 years old, i used to have this recurring nightmare wherein, i and my sister were in some small house in the woods (the kind of warm, charming place you would expect to find nestled deep in the forest in some old faery-tale with a fire in the stone fireplace, bowls of porridge sitting out on the table and the occupants (bears, dwarves, whatever) nowhere to be seen). an enormous (about a meter in diameter), endless blue caterpillar with giant barbs on every segment slowly winds its way through the house from the back door out the front and out into the dark forest outside. since the caterpillar was so big and the house so small, my sister would keep getting caught up on the barbs and carried along with it out the front door and i would have to run out and frantically disentangle her before she got dragged all the way out into the dark evil forest.

that dream seriously terrorized me on a regular basis for several years. so now i go and look at mimi’s latest drawing. i’m sure it was intended to be happy and cheerful, but it gives me the creeps on a pretty fundamental level.

post 155

By tuck 23 Oct 2000

after my thesis on asian mafias, i took an interest in secret societies. i recently remembered that a friend of mine in high school was always going on about Rosicrucianism.

it has been called the most mysterious secret society (Nataf, Andre.The Occult; W&R Chambers Ltd. 1991. p.78.)

The mystery of Rosicrucianism has never been penetrated; legend mingles closely with historical truth. The Rosicrucians are a brotherhood of scholars, alchemists and esoteric researchers who appeared in the 17th century.

in 1622, posters in Paris read: We deputies of the principal college of the brothers of the Rose-Cross [Rosae-Crux] are making our stay both visible and invisible in this town, by the grace of the All-High to whom the hearts of all just men turn, in order to draw men, our equals, from deadly error.

i was just reading around a bit and although i like the idea of secret texts like the “Fama Fraternitatis” that the Rosicrucians use/d (mostly due to the mere sound of the title, admittedly), my interest really perked up when i learned of the connection Rosicrucianism has to the Kabalah.

post 151

By tuck 21 Oct 2000

dial 1 800 888 3999 (free call.)
listen to all the options.
choose the obvious one.

more companies need an option like that.