At least, it's written by people with more formal education
Normally I don’t like to make blog posts consisting of a title, an image, and nothing else, but in the case of explaining Tumblr, that’s pretty much all there is to it besides: slutty Alice in Wonderland retreads and photographs of tattoos.
PS: here is my Slutty Alice in Wonderland and Tattoo-free Tumblr.
So there I was, minding everyone else’s business on 7 different social media platforms as one does, when suddenly I saw it. And it’s a good thing I did, because I can’t even find it now, but there it was at the time, right there in front of me in black and white or, as we “in the biz” say, in 000000 and ffffff: a tweet about Julian Assange‘s tarot cards.
Now, I don’t know about you. I only know about me. Do we have to go over this again? But one thing I do know about other people, and particularly people who pride themselves on being mathematically/computorially/autodidactically inclined is, the very existence of things like tarot cards offends them on some level.
So, naturally, I forwarded the information about Julian Assange‘s tarot cards to the head of the JulianAssangeFanciersGuild. And who among us would not have done the same, I asks yez? Eh?
Quite.
Some time later I got chatting with the tarot card reader (a tarot card reader who does readings via Twitter: welcome, in one perfect swoop of fellage, to the Twenty-First Century) and she offered to do a reading for me, for free. And as I’m inordinately fond of that particular F Word, I accepted, and that with what I believe is called alacrity. And while you’ll have to do without Julian’s reading, for lo I cannot find it, you can read mine, and it is VERY entertaining, particularly if you know anything about tarot.
Now, you can argue whether or not it “works,” but the one thing you cannot argue is that it is very, very, VERY, and did I mention VERY unlikely that any person’s reading will consist entirely of Major Arcana, ie facecards, over multiple readings and, indeed, multiple readers.
But.
Somehow, it always works out this way for me. Al. Ways.
And so it was this time, mathematically impossible as it was.
http://twitter.com/#!/NYC_TarotReader/status/95938100647309313
To everything, turn turn turn, there is a seasoning WAIT THAT'S NOT HOW IT GOES!
http://twitter.com/#!/raincoaster/status/95937120891441153
http://twitter.com/#!/raincoaster/status/95939359014006784
http://twitter.com/#!/NYC_TarotReader/status/95939865031622656
There's a big yellow thing in the sky and I think it's giving off radiation WHAT DO I DO???
http://twitter.com/#!/NYC_TarotReader/status/95940251993903104
http://twitter.com/#!/raincoaster/status/95939147805626368
http://twitter.com/#!/raincoaster/status/95941368962228224
http://twitter.com/#!/NYC_TarotReader/status/95942274445344768
http://twitter.com/#!/raincoaster/status/95941470657318912
http://twitter.com/#!/NYC_TarotReader/status/95942431429758976
http://twitter.com/#!/raincoaster/status/95943988221194240
http://twitter.com/#!/NYC_TarotReader/status/95945119831818241
http://twitter.com/#!/NYC_TarotReader/status/95945873439207424
http://twitter.com/#!/raincoaster/status/95945828996362240
http://twitter.com/#!/NYC_TarotReader/status/95946238322679808
http://twitter.com/#!/raincoaster/status/95945760771817473
http://twitter.com/#!/NYC_TarotReader/status/95946984938147842
What can I say? He made me do it!
Hang it all, Houdini!
http://twitter.com/#!/raincoaster/status/95946603814322176
http://twitter.com/#!/NYC_TarotReader/status/95947885811740672
http://twitter.com/#!/NYC_TarotReader/status/95948034923442177
Well, can’t disagree with THAT now, can we?
http://twitter.com/#!/raincoaster/status/95948421407584256
http://twitter.com/#!/NYC_TarotReader/status/95949146032312320
and some further remarks I got via DM:
they follow each other. Resurection 2 regeneration/gestation
I read both neg and pos as part of the read. Positive if best happens. Neg if u fuck up! Either possible according 2 ur actions. Open future….
Freedom…reads situation and best and worst outcome…depends on how u handle it,,,,
So hanged man is the persecuted or the Ego B4 tranSformation. And Death is Transmutation or Inertia/Slow Change. Either can happen..
It a Eyes Wide Open Conscious Choice.,free 2 choose….the old free will thing…it says choose w caution…here’s situation and ur CHOICES
And I choose: to take this as an easy blog post! So, I’m ahead on that whole “productivity” thing already!
and now, for a musical interlude…
what did elise ever do fur this?
Which reminds me of the time I lived in a basement apartment, underneath the living room of a woman who was practicing hard for the extremely, extremely, Southern girls you’re not even in it; you don’t have Tiger Mothers, EXTREMELY competitive Miss Chinatown contest.
Every night, she would play the piano; just one piece, over and over, loudly, with an oompah beat and great gusts of ambition, although apparently no past history of experience with the instrument. She practiced this bouncy Germanic tune nightly for about six weeks before my roommate looked up from her book, turned to me with tragic spaniel eyes, and said, “It’s the Moonlight Sonata.”
And so it was.
As if that weren’t soul-killing enough, here are your celebrity gossip links for the day:
because up here the sun does not set this time of year until about 1:30 am and then only in a sort of curtseying manner, bobbing back up again in an hour or less. So you can actually read a newspaper by the daylight at midnight here in Yellowknife.
Which is why the market for spooky stories is somewhat depressed, locally. We’ll see what happens when the 24 hour darkness sets in, and to judge by some of the Inuit Art, whatever sets in then, it ain’t equanimity.
Shaman Drum Dancer by Nelson Takkiruq
See?
So, the market for ghoulies and ghosties and things that go bump in the night appears to be at a minimum now, yet somehow I still managed to drum up a squeal of morbid joy when I saw that the slow-grinding wheels of film production had, at last, released this:
Edgar Allan Poe-ster
for lo, opening night cannot come fast enough for those of us here at Operation Global Media Domination HQ. We are indeed looking forward to watching our old Twitter buddy bring to (unsteady, morbid, doomed) life one of the greatest of American Writers. Ah! If only I had my copy of Closed on Account of Rabies with me, and perhaps a bottle of Amontillado (they don’t sell it at the liquor store, but I bet Chef Pierre could rustle me up some) I could set the mood. For now, these small talismans, the poster and this YouTube of Christopher Walken reading The Raven from that very album will have to do.
Cheerful, isn’t it?
Snooki is the Rocking Horse Loser
What do you get when you take two actors currently starring in The Importance of Being Earnest and give them transcripts from the Jersey Shore and instructions to stay in character?
This:
via EmilyGracey
and part two:
Really? With TAMPONS???
and part three:
and part four:
Seriously, what IS it about grilled cheese that makes people like this?
and five:
You’re welcome.
raincoaster 