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Nov. 13th, 2002 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
noahgibbsFrom the most recent Skotos Article on MUDs:
"Sure, you might run into an idiot. Then again, you also might run into me, and I rule. So it’d be, you know, worth it."
Ah, modesty.
And this week's Brezsny Horoscope:
In the wake of the alienating experiences you've had recently, Gemini, I think you need to reunify yourself. Here are a few ideas, drawn from an anonymous author's unpublished manual called "Self-Love without Apology." 1. Have two trusted companions simultaneously whisper sweet praise, one in each of your ears. 2 Write "I am complete" with your dominant hand as you use the other hand to draw a picture of yourself wearing a crown. 3. Surround yourself with mirrors and kiss yourself on the lips 11 times while singing your favorite lullaby. 4. Visualize two versions of yourself, one male and one female, holding hands as they gaze into a reflection of the moon on a river.
I find that to be a very interesting last image. Almost an in-joke.
"Sure, you might run into an idiot. Then again, you also might run into me, and I rule. So it’d be, you know, worth it."
Ah, modesty.
And this week's Brezsny Horoscope:
In the wake of the alienating experiences you've had recently, Gemini, I think you need to reunify yourself. Here are a few ideas, drawn from an anonymous author's unpublished manual called "Self-Love without Apology." 1. Have two trusted companions simultaneously whisper sweet praise, one in each of your ears. 2 Write "I am complete" with your dominant hand as you use the other hand to draw a picture of yourself wearing a crown. 3. Surround yourself with mirrors and kiss yourself on the lips 11 times while singing your favorite lullaby. 4. Visualize two versions of yourself, one male and one female, holding hands as they gaze into a reflection of the moon on a river.
I find that to be a very interesting last image. Almost an in-joke.
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Date: 2002-11-13 05:29 pm (UTC)It is a conspiracy, I tell you!
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Date: 2002-11-13 05:32 pm (UTC)Either that or you're planning on holding hands with Dragon, gazing into a river under the moon and I just don't know about it yet.
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Date: 2002-11-14 11:53 am (UTC)::runs screaming in the other direction::
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Date: 2002-11-13 05:34 pm (UTC)Are you sure this guy knows what he's talking about?
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Date: 2002-11-13 05:47 pm (UTC)As for whether Brezsny knows what he's talking about... Nope. But I've had great luck with his advice in the past. It's why he's the only astrologer I pay any attention to.
Granted, he's probably pulling it all out of his ass. That would bother me more if I'd never met a therapist or other mental health professional. As far as I can tell they're all ad-libbing, often with minimal interference from the actual subject of their discourse. Brezsny's pretty open about that fact, plus he's clever and uses phrases like "while amorous tigers boink below." That puts him beyond rebuke in my book :-)
Re: van down by the river
Date: 2002-11-13 06:02 pm (UTC)For those who haven't seen this classic SNL skit, Matt Foley is a motivational speaker hired by parents to motivate their troublemaking children to straighten out before they, too, end up living in a van down by the river. What often happened after his speech is the kids would remain apathetic and Matt Foley would end up clumsily crashing out of the family's front window.
Audio clip for context: http://www.dailywav.com/0499/livevan.wav
(script available at http://www.fiu.edu/~cjaner01/farley.html)
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Date: 2002-11-13 06:20 pm (UTC)Must... not.... mock.....
::explosion::
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Date: 2002-11-13 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-13 06:24 pm (UTC)