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The Late Shift: Dixie Fried

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04:29 / 10.08.04

The inside of a particle accelerator, a hand detailer from a car wash, and an unknownable creator.

04:30 / 10.08.04

Shit. Keggers was too fast for this lonesome dove...

04:32 / 10.08.04

Yo, Kegs, you gonna eat that cruller all day or you gonna give me a hand with this 5-D metaphorical corvette gear shift?

04:34 / 10.08.04

gearshift? I thought this was the lateshift! You may think you're cruller than me but I am capital E evil! Doughnut toy with me!

04:39 / 10.08.04

Just what I needed: a manichean mehanic!

04:39 / 10.08.04

Doughnut onto others as you would not hvae them dough to you! For I am capital bold faced L, the anti-paragon of evil. You shall not carborate my distributor with your ungreased bearings!

04:39 / 10.08.04

N E ways... Good night all. I must adieu to bed now.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

04:40 / 10.08.04

Night, keggers...

04:40 / 10.08.04

Nighty bye bye.

04:41 / 10.08.04

Well, that was fun.

G'night.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

04:49 / 10.08.04

Goodnight. I'm off home now.

04:50 / 10.08.04

Nighty-o.

04:51 / 10.08.04

So, next on the agenda:

How to Skin a Cat

We are starting a cat ranch and taking one hundred thousand cats
Each cat will have twelve kittens a year
The catskins will sell for thirty cents each
One hundred men could skin five thousand cats a day
We could be dealing a profit of over ten thousand dollars
But what should we feed the cats?
We will start a rat ranch next door with a million rats
The rats will be twelve times faster than the cats
So we can have more rats to feed each day for each cat
But what should we feed the rats?
We will feed the ratsThe carcases of the cats
After they have been skinned
Now get this!
We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
And get the catskins for nothing
We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
And get the catskins for nothing
We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
And get the catskins for nothing
We feed the rats the carcases of the cats
After they have been skinned
We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
And get the catskins for nothing
Rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
And get the catskins for nothing

04:52 / 10.08.04

See you later Stoatie!

Well, it's down to you and me Czernobog...

04:55 / 10.08.04

But who gives a hoot if we feed the cats to the rats or the rats to the cats or if they're all cat-rat fascist-anarchists; I still don't have a car.

04:57 / 10.08.04

So you were saying, the word 'iao' being associated with certain gnostic views regarding Abraxas--a godform thought to be beyond good and evil?

Which brand of gnosticism is that exactly?

05:01 / 10.08.04

Ah shit man, that's beyond my current scope. I'd have to research it...2nd Century--IAO perhaps coined by Basilides, Abraxas might be a coruption of the Hebrew Ha-b'rakah.

05:04 / 10.08.04

Okay, so probably pre-Catholic organization Christianity would be my guess.

05:06 / 10.08.04

Sure, I guess. Catholicism began roughly when?

05:10 / 10.08.04

Ooh, magickle side-note. I think the flood may have resulted in my gaining a potentially potent li'l talisman. One of the first things I found when I went to survey the damage on the morning after was a Soviet coin with 1941-1991 engraved in it. 91? The year of Soviet collapse. Something associable with the metaphorical tower. Our little flood? Something associable with the metaphorical tower.

Now I just have to figure out exactly what to do with it.

05:13 / 10.08.04

I think either third or fourth century, I think about the same time it became the official Roman religion. Most of the gnostic Christian thought was purged first the in the initial formation and later during the inquisition.

05:16 / 10.08.04

Hmm, side stepping the question, eh?

That's pretty cool--about the coin, I mean. I notice that 1+9+4+1 = 15, which is a number associated with the Tower, and 1+9+9+1 = 20, which is associated with Judgement. And 15+20 = 35 = 8, which is Strength (or Lust, if you're a OTO or Crowley sort...). Interesting.

One thing I discovered about The Tower is, although it may seem like forces beyond one's control, ultimately, those forces are one's own doing. The lightning that rends the tower is called down by one's own hand. In this manner it is similar to the rune Hagalaz.

05:19 / 10.08.04

A quick glance around shows that the word 'catholic' is derived from the Greek katholikos...I don't know if that helps or not!

05:20 / 10.08.04

Sorry about the "side stepping" comment btw...

05:23 / 10.08.04

Katholikos means 'universal'. In other words the 'Universal Church'. In other words 'The Only Church, I don't care what those assholes in Byzantium say.'

05:26 / 10.08.04

Yeah, 'universal' or 'general'. A religion for the all the people, I guess.

05:28 / 10.08.04

Yes, but if the tower represents undoing of one's own making (probably through hubris too, Aristotelian bastards)
then what represents undoing that is beyond your control. I tend to think that it covers both.

05:33 / 10.08.04

And given the atmosphere of the church in those days I doubt that their message was that friendly. This was in their power-mongering, "pay up or you don't get into heaven" phase.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:09 / 11.08.04

Is there anybody there?

Is there anybody there?

Or do I have to resort to my charlatan's paraphernalia to make this seance go with a bang?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:21 / 11.08.04

sigh...

(wearily starts up smoke machine and tape of rattling chains)

00:35 / 11.08.04

What th-?

Who the hell put wet cheesecloth everywhere? Oh, it's all sticky and-

Oh.

Hey, Stoats.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:37 / 11.08.04

Hey, how's it going? I've been amusing myself at work by emailing amusing pictures of monkeys to my colleagues and listening to Neubauten.

00:39 / 11.08.04

Oh, I've just been gazing in dreamy-eyed wonder at these Appalachian hills, listening to the rain, considering assuming the name "Suzannah Cottingsworth" and making a killing in the romance novel industry.

Y'know, the usual.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

01:15 / 11.08.04

I always wanted to get into writing romance novels, and then gradually make them weirder and weirder until an audience that normally wouldn't read that stuff was getting really into some totally mad shit.

But I didn't.

subcultureofone

01:22 / 11.08.04

hello

i'm eating toast

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