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The Flaw in Paganism

Drink and dance and laugh and lie.

Love the reeling night night though.

For tomorrow we shall die!

(But, alas, we never do.)

Dorthy Parker

"Do not meddles in the affairs of Dragons, As you are chewy and taste good dipped in chocolate."

Jen Miller - taken from an unknown source

"It is intirely possible to put out the sun by heaving a large enough fish at it."

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"Cats will invariably blink when struck in the head with a ball-peen hammer."

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"Tas's Song of Courage"

Even the night must fail

For light sleeps in the eyes

And Dark becomes dark on dark

Until darkness dies.

Soon the eye renders

Complexities of night Into stillness,

where the heart

Falls into fabled light.

 "Dark Queen's Reply"

 Even the night must fail

When light sleeps in eyes,

When dark becomes dark on dark

And into darkness dies.

Soon the eye dissolves,

Perplexed by the teasing night,

Into a stillness of the heart,

A fable of fallen night.

Dragonlance Cronicles

-Margaret Weiss & Tracy Hickman

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"If you have pennys, they will find you." (see Tad)

A story Tad was fond of telling about an appearent bum/homeless guy who wandered it to the pizza place where Tad was working. This guy proceded to dump a couple of double handfulls of pennies on the counter and asked to have silver change instead. During the whole process of sorting and counting the change, the man chanted "if you have pennies they will find you" like a mantra.

Something there is

   that is not like a wall

was thoughly and totaly 

  Stoned.

Nonesense - S. Kenedy & H.Hurlock

Excerpt from a freeform poem that Steve and I composed many years ago sitting in a local dive bar.

And what cats have to tell

on each return from hell is this:

that dying is what the living do,

that dying is what the loving do

and that dead dogs are those who do not know

 that dying is what, to live, each has to do.

Curiosity - Alastair Reed

"It is not the pouring, It is being poured."

Mike (on Muddy's)

When asked: "Whats it all about?".

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 I have been carrying this poem in some form or another since the first time I read it when I was 8. It still reminds me that to find the adventure in life we must take the first step.

Roads go ever ever on,

Over rock and under tree,

By caves were never sun has shone,

By streams that never find the sea;

Over snow by Winter sown,

And though the merry flowers of June,

Over grass and over stone,

And under mountains in the Moon.

Roads go ever ever on,

Under cloud and under star,

Yet feet that wandering have gone,

Turn at last to home afar,

Eyes that fire and sword have seen

And horror in the halls of stone,

Look at last on meadows green

And trees and hills they long have Known.

 The Road goes ever on and on

Down from the door where it began,

Now far ahead the Road has gone,

And I must follow, If I can,

Pursuing it with eager feet,

Until it joins with some larger way

Where many paths and errends meet.

And wither then? I can not say.

The Road goes ever on and on

Out from where it began,

Now far ahead the Road has gone.

Let others follow it who can!

Let them a journey new begun,

But I at last with weary feet

Will turn towards the lighted inn,

My evening rest and sleep to meet.

Still round the corner there may wait

A new Road or secrect gate;

And though I oft have past them by,

A day will come at last when I

Shall take the Hidden Paths that run

West of the Moon and East of the Sun.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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"A toast to Absent friends, lost loves, old gods and the Season of Mists, and in which we all give the devil his due" (Dew). -Neil Gaimen, Sandman Graphic Novel

Grave marker at an corn maze.

"Gumby was bored to death"

So I realized that have been blogging for about 20 years now. (for those of you with math skill and a memory of computer history who now are thinking that im insane, just wait a moment.) My origianl blog consisted of strange images I found, Bits of writing that appealed to me some of my own and some by others), as well as other odds and ends that caught my attention. Well now I have begun the process to transfer all that old paper and ink to an electronic format. 

This is a warning sticker of some kind that someone meticulously painted. I found it on a construction barrier during the remodel of the Tabor Center for the Cheesecake Factory. I stuck it to a notebook that i carried for writing and journaling, thus the Gumby Book was born.

Various stickers. The three beer ads are not terribly interesting, but the other is for an art project. I men the artist at Dreamtime and he showed me this sculpture and described the current one to me (12:12 Emerald Portal). I regret that I did not get to see it on the playa but hope to encounter it at another festival.

11:11 Diamond Portal

Various Stickers. The Q-bert was in a pack of collector cards and gum I picked up at a convention for use in a new RPG I was playtesting.

Sticker. I love the triple aspect of this one. People will say "There are two side to every coin." Sometime they seem to forget that every coin has an edge that is just as important.