More busy dayness

[kiya]

Threw out my back before getting out of bed today; this shall suffice to describe the state of my body, though teinedreugan gave me backrubs.

Went to Salem and poked around at things. Used bookstore going out of business, but too disorganised to find things usefully. Picked up a book on Vodou and A Natural History of Sex. Nearly picked up whatever-it-is, the foundational book on Tameran Wicca, when I saw it (I'd never seen it in a store before), but didn't want to track down teinedreugan and hit him up for cash at the time. So of course it wasn't in any of the other pagan stores we poked at. Picked up Urban Primitive on erispope's recommendation; she says that the parts of it that are too silly to be useful can be read as a Mage splatbook, so. We did not go on the replica East India Company boat, though we dithered about it. My sinuses smelled of pagan for a long time.

Then we went to Harvard Square and barely got in under the wire to get into Pandemonium before it closed. I ran into someone I know I know and can't for the life of me remember who is; local sf fandom connection I'm prrrrretty sure. teinedreugan wanted to pick up a Ravenloft d20 book. The hippie store was closed, so we wandered past the Brattle to get tickets and went to dinner. Good food, as always, I sat down a lot, very good waitress. Then movie. Movie was fucking hilarious; teinedreugan says he must get it on DVD and show it to Everyone He Knows, so local folks consider yourselves warned. Went to Tosci's, came home, watched the remainder of XXX.

And that was day. Working on reading stuff and still dithering about the next bit of the WIP. Must get narrator to the post office so the main character can break in his window.

elynne, if you haven't seen this deeply bizarre dancing Snape animation, you must. (From ninglor, but I've seen one of the images before in iced_spice's userpics.)

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[undauntra.livejournal.com]

Did you get my email? I sent it to the addy listed in your userinfo.

[kiya]

Yeah.

*rereads email* Oh, whoops, you asked for an RSVP. :} Sorry about that. I think I'm in a state of 'Maybe a regular player when you open, but my betatesting mojo is already committed'. Will see if a concept comes and hits me on the head.

Though perhaps the half-formed character that showed up while I was listening to "Poisonous Friend" earlier might be an interesting character. Hmmmm. Lilim, I imagine . . . *sets that in to stew*

[brooksmoses]

Hmm. Any idea if the going-out-of-business bookstore will still be in the process of going out of it when I get there?

[kiya]

Not sure. But there were a lot of books left.

[rainfallsautumn.livejournal.com]

Nearly picked up whatever-it-is, the foundational book on Tameran Wicca, when I saw it (I'd never seen it in a store before)

Circle of Isis by Ellen Cannon Reed? I love that book. I've seen it at Borders and the annoying Pagan store in Laurel, MD. Now that it has been reissued, it's pretty easy to find, at least around here.

BTW, my dancing Snape icon is by cdenise, if anyone wants one. :)

[kiya]

Yeah, that. I'll have to keep my eyes open -- since I'm noodling at my own weird approach to religious witchcraft and Kemetic stuff, I figured it'd be wise to see how other people have handled it.

I picked it up and read the Set section as a decent rule of thumb for it, and was impressed by two things -- the brief interpretation of the Contendings that had no, "Ahhh! Set! Killed his brother! Eeeeeevillllllll!" and in fact pooh-poohed that notion entirely, and the fact that she said, basically, "I don't understand this completely, so I'm still studying".

[ardaniel]

One of the authors of Urban Primitive is an ex-housemate of a dear friend of mine. He knows his shit.