Nori and Chi

King Neptune and His Court

Icycle

Dancing Faeries

Chi and Bella

RELAX

XMAS tree shopping

Evil XMAS tree

Bad Santa

http://www.examiner.com/wiccan-in-las-vegas/a-very-rare-event-winter-solstice-and-the-lunar-eclipse

Tink XMAS Tree

Our Christmas tree

Plants.

More plants.

from a Burning Man blog post

After how many shots does your blood alcohol level outweigh your social conditioning?

My MBA

At the risk of offending the Greenies

The earth does not care about what we do to it, it is a planet for Pete's sake. It is not our mother.

To paraphrase Robert Charles Wilson; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Charles_Wilson
The greenhouse effect and humans are like a cancer or plaque on the earth.
(maybe that will mitigate the ire)

For all you wordophiles out there-you know who you are

http://new.adoptaword.co.uk/

and of course A word a Day from Anu Garg, the Indian chap who learned English that because he heard that if you learn a new word every day, after a year the language was yours

Did you ever wonder what the term is for the # sign

It is called an Octothorpe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octothorpe

And the wavy thingy I use for my shark or sailboat that appears at the bottom of my email is a tilde.



~~~~~~~~~~/l~~~~~


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde

Thanx Bill.

GLu's Halloween Diorama

Royal Svenska Flag

Halloween 2010

Bottle Tree

Halloween is Coming

Bricolage Tree

Denise and Greg-older pic

My bike

Soldiers Field 10 mile

One of GLu's many man caves.

Humor

Johns of the World.

I can almost smell the grease, salt and smoke from here.

Words

Words
Anomie-absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people
Tristesse- melancholy
Frangible- fragile, frail
Spilth- refuse; trash
Chiarosco- deep variations in and subtle gradations of light and shade
Menhir- upright monumental stone standing either alone or with others
Puissance- power, might, or force
Ceremith-no definition
Tocsin-a bell used to sound an alarm
Sendaline- A type of thin silk cloth.
Formication- a tactile hallucination involving the belief that something is crawling on the body or under the skin
Lambent- softly bright or radiant, dealing lightly and gracefully with a subject; brilliantly playful: lambent wit, running or moving lightly over a surface: lambent tongues of flame
Augury- omen, token, or indication, divination
Crepuscular-twilight; dim; indistinct.Zoology-appearing or active in the twilight, as certain bats and insects.
Arête-a sharp rugged mountain ridge, produced by glaciation
Bricolage- 1 a construction made of whatever materials are at hand; something created from a variety of available things.2. (in literature) a piece created from diverse resources. 3. (in art) a piece of makeshift handiwork.4. the use of multiple, diverse research methods
Callipygian-Thomas Pynchon wrote in Gravity’s Rainbow: “Those dusky Afro-Scandinavian buttocks, which combine the callipygian rondure observed among the races of the Dark Continent with the taut and noble musculature of sturdy Olaf, our blond Northern cousin”.
Kerfuffle-commotion, disruption, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha
Flibbertigibbet-a chattering or flighty, light-headed person
Vertiginous-whirling, spinning, causing vertigo
Pulchritude-beautiful, physical comeliness

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