&tc.

*nibbles sushi*

Spiiiiiicy Mayo!

:: Neil and Beckie came out with me to 'Charlton History Day' and the Rider Tavern open house. We got fed nicely by my folks. (They always put out a good spread.) I snapped a few photos of the 19th century milita recreationists and bought a homemade lemon verbana-thyme soap.

:: Last Monday I saw Tony 'fighting styles creator for the LotR trilogy' Wolf of NZ at Tufts (a stop on a teaching/workshop tour). Was good talk. In the hothouse of NZ's relative isolation over the past few decades, he developed his own eclectic knowledge of basic human movement, a system that he now finds makes an excellent baseline, ready for elaboration into any sort of stage movement/fighting. And which Jackson had him use to create a fighting style guide for the trilogy (Wolf's contribution to LotR was completed by 2000).

Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology - week of October 16th

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

The science newsletter, "Mini-Annals of Improbable Research," did a poll of its readers on the question, "Does reality exist?" Forty-two percent answered yes, while 31 percent asserted that it most certainly does not. The remaining 27 percent were undecided. A few of the latter believed that their reality exists but no one else's does. Two people said, "Yes, reality exists, but you can't get to it." According to one respondent, "Reality exists only when it is really necessary." Remember that line, Scorpio, because it will be quite necessary for your reality to exist in the coming weeks. Here's another response to the poll that you should make your own: "Reality especially exists right after a thunderstorm." I predict that your reality will become vivid and deep once your metaphorical tempest ends in a few days.