Sammonicus Lux

Done with it! Now let's move on...

2009-10-03T22:13:00.004-04:00

i read half the book before i got interested. Dan Brown has spent a lot of time reading William Henry's works. i guess the twist at the end should bave been stunning, moving but it was just ho hum. Brown can tell a story but without a whole lot of originality.

Quote

2009-09-16T02:53:00.001-04:00

So, like Frankenstein, we sent Igor out into the graveyard of old ideas to see what he can dig up.

-Rocky Kolb

The Gravestone in September

2009-09-15T14:53:00.000-04:00

Currently Reading: A Taste For Red

2009-09-13T23:20:00.001-04:00

Svetlana Grimm, you are fabulous! there is only one word to describe kids' books: FUN!!!

Apples

2009-09-13T22:48:00.005-04:00

today we went for a ride with the top down. it was in the high 70's and a very nice late summer day. we went to Phantom Farms first. it's an apple orchard so named because it IS haunted. the Ghost Hunters might want to check it out. i know this because i went for a hayride with our Cub Scout pack 15,000 years ago (seems like another lifetime) and we heard the whole ghoulishly fun story. today, M only bought a coffee and some kind of pastry. it was busy but not as busy as the second orchard we went to: The Big Apple. that place was packed. and some of the people there were weird looking. guess that would be because we slipped into another universe called Massachusetts.
we bought a big bag of MacIntosh Apples (my favorite all 'round apple) for only $10.95, and a bag of homemade donuts. we would have bought a HUGE bag of Paula Reds for work for 9 bucks but they only took cash or checks. who the hell carries cash around nowadays?...OR who the hell HAS cash nowadays?
even though the apples at the Big Apple are cheaper, i still like the homey-ness of Phantom Farms better.

after that, we went to the cemetery to replace the red, white and blue themed silk flowers and bunting with two simple fall bunches of silk autumn leaves (with flag and corncob pipe). this time, i left Dzadzu a cigarette from M's pack. can the dead get lung cancer??? i didn't do the tour (i.e. visit all my relatives) but we will do that for Halloween, for sure. i really, really miss my relatives at times but the one who has been bothering me the most lately is that stinky little weasel of a prairie dog. almost everyday i see a clear picture of him in my mind and feel him in my heart. i know he is unhappy being away from my sister who spoiled him rotten. it's my fault he is having such a hard time up there. i never prepared him. i never told him he was dying and that he should look for St Francis and wait for us and BE GOOD! i should have had nice long talks with him about it. now, he is just a rabid little brat who wants HIS blanket and HIS pillow and my mother's lasagna and HIS auntie. poor thing. if you believe in such things, pray for his little-self to be happy and patient and to BE GOOD!
pray for me, too. heaven looks so good.

www.phantomfarms.com
www.thebigapplefarm.com

Halloween Bathroom!

2009-08-29T14:32:00.002-04:00

redecorating the master bedroom bathroom in an Halloween theme. penguins have been around too long. they'll come back around in the winter, maybe. atleast this new project will give me something to think about and occupy my time AND i LOVE Halloween and shopping for Halloweenie things! got to watch the budget, though.

what i really want is an Halloween Tree...black tree to decorate, just like you would a christmas tree. haven't been able to find one.

Horrible Hawaii

2009-08-26T11:19:00.005-04:00

I just had another awful dream abouy Hawaii. these dreams really disturb me. Waikiki is always a washed out mess of a small beach with dark shanty-town stores and homes. nothing is ever familiar to me. it is not as i left it.
this time, i dreamed i was with my circ head (woman) and a Bishop from an African nation (i don't know which one). he was exremely nice and found everything amusing. my circ head was her usual (nice) self...she wanted to shop.

the mainland was predicting that Hawaii (Oahu) would be hit with a major blizzard for the first time in history. they were predicting many, many inches of snowfall, and worse, very, very big swells. no one acted as if they were concerned, but i was mortified. i was in Waikiki for Hurricane Iwa AND i was INRI for the Blizzaed of 78...and this weather event would be something like both happening together.

i'll finish up later. remind me about the plumeria.

Diary vs Blogger

2009-08-25T02:03:00.001-04:00

While Blogger is fun and easy to use, i still fing keeping a written diary very satisfying.

It's nearly here!

2009-08-25T01:37:00.003-04:00

Time to start sewing your costumes and decorating your doors because Halloween is almost on us! Almost. And because i just can't wait for Halloween to get here, i have indulged in some tradiotional Halloween, er, TREATS!

Currently Reading: The Lightning Thief

2009-08-23T11:43:00.001-04:00

Currently Reading

2009-08-15T13:16:00.001-04:00

Music i listened to today (idea stolen from other blog)

2009-01-18T14:36:00.001-05:00

Sountrack to The Nghtmare before Christmas

This is Halloween

SHADOW
Boys and girls of every age
Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

SIAMESE SHADOW
Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween

PUMPKIN PATCH CHORUS
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

GHOSTS
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween

CREATURE UNDER BED
I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

MAN UNDER THE STAIRS
I am the one hiding under your stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair

CORPSE CHORUS
This is Halloween, this is Halloween

VAMPIRES
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

Danny Elman & the Citizens of Halloween Town

Winter weather in Ashton

2009-01-18T14:25:00.006-05:00

view between building A (left) and building B (right)

view of the Kelly House on the other side of the river (with bike paths)

along the Blackstone

View of the Blackstone

View of the fence and trees along the river side

Music i listened to today (idea stolen from other blog)

2009-01-03T22:20:00.002-05:00

Dressed to Depress

I got a snotty nose
I got nappy hair
My mommy don’t love me
And my daddy don’t care, NO!
My sister’s a slut
And my brother’s a drunk
And I’m standing in the mirror now
Getting myself all dressed up

Everything’s okay
At least that’s what they say
One foot in the gutter
The other’s in the drain
Punch the clock I’m your slave
For the rest of my life 12 hours a day
No future, no way
I was born to lose but that’s okay

Dressed to, dressed to depress
You couldn’t ask for anything less
Dressed to, dressed to depress
My whole life is a fucked up mess

Murderdolls

AND

Love Song

I hate you
I want you

But I hate you
I want you
But I hate you
But I hate you
I hate you
But I want you
I want you
I hate you

Rollins Band

Salem pics 01-03-09

2009-01-03T21:50:00.005-05:00

MM in front of the Broom Closet...the store that started us on our journey to Salem today. it did NOT live up to it's own publicity. the store did carry SOME Harry Potter stuff...including some Olivander wands, but the proprietress was the iciest shopkeeper we met. everyone else (and i mean EVERYONE) was super friendly. in one shop we met another chihuahua nicknamed 'cheeks' that looked so much like the Chica that owns one of our library staff. i think the friendliness may be due, in part, to all the incense smouldering everywhere.

that's me under the Magic Parlor sign. this was the coolest store we visited. charms, potions, statues, candles, herbs, Holy Water, voodoo candles and dolls, etc. more shit than you could shake your wand at...which would also include fake doggie poo, too.

MM in front of a super cool "so many books, so many bruised noggins" used bookstore. the books were STACKED in 12 ft tall piles and if you wanted one, you had to get someone to help you balance the rest of the books in that pile. dropped at least 30 books and the proprietor did not care.

Maniac Mike in front of the Salem directory.

pictures 01-02-09

2009-01-02T23:57:00.005-05:00

Maniac Mike in front of one of our favorite stores (still not as cool as The Armaggedon Shop

The Pillar of Truth (and shit)

my altar to Mary and Poppy

Another morning, another shot of insulin

2009-01-02T08:16:00.002-05:00

it's a real pain in the ass to have a cat on insulin. the time i picked to give her the shots is 8ish am and 8ish pm. i have an hour leeway but i like to be as consistent as possible. now 8am is not a bad time when i have to go to work. when i have the day off, though, it's a pain. i know that 8am doesn't sound early to some but my body is set for nighttime (always has been) and 3am is often bedtime. the good thing is that Angel will pester me when the first alarm goes off (because she also gets new food) and pester me and pester me until i get out of bed. these last two nights she really has been a lovable PEST...probably because i've been home from work and she LOVES that.

we have 4 alarms and a phone call and still there are days when i oversleep.

i'm going back to bed.

I did vote for Nader

2009-01-02T00:43:00.001-05:00

yep. i sure did.

Elder Ballou Cemetery photos-fall 2008

2009-01-02T00:17:00.007-05:00

three pyramids on the headstone

M walking along rock wall

Maniac Mike happy to be sitting on an old New England rock wall.

Long Time Gone

2009-01-01T23:53:00.004-05:00

this was taken at Elder Ballou Cemetery in October or November. a LOT has happened since i last wrote; a lot of it has not been good. M has had a lot of problems and we are actually seeing a counselor together. she's pretty sharp and is nice and i hope she will help. his problems revolve around his addiction(s) and mental and physical health.

i guess the good news would be that the Kitten Steam Engine is probably going to be part of an History Channel series and Kitten Computers now has a tripod dog and TWO cats and one more human, (plus a cat and two dogs at home). i have NO idea why Hino and Dox keep adding to the menagerie. they keep adopting these strays...and i'm sure i would have never, um, done, um, anything, um like that. well...i was partial to smaller animals. why can't they find a homeless HAMSTER behind the dumpster?

counselor (not Troi) thinks journaling is a good way for me to get out some of the anger i have but i don't know about that. i can be just as mean with the written word when i'm hurt or fuming mad.

why does the Hulk turn green when he's angry? shouldn't he turn green when he is envious? purple is more of an angry color, no? well, i guess if that were true, that damn big, goofy, Dinosaur would need anger management training.

as far as work goes...it goes on and on and on and on. we are busier than ever what with the economy so bad. this week, i have wed-sunday off and i took the tuesday before and the monday after the new year for vacation. i have used up all my sick time with bronchitis and a sinus infection that just won't completely go away.

i HAD this view...

2008-09-01T19:16:00.003-04:00

well, without the hot guy and the cool car. but i woke up every day to a view of Diamond Head, saw 3 billion-zillion rainbows (some were triples!) and every day i wonder why i am HERE INRI!

Music i listened to today (idea stolen from other blog)

2008-09-01T18:27:00.003-04:00

Unholy Roller

You know I just can't describe the feeling inside
when the music fills me with a sense of pride
that's why I can't understand how a rock and roll band
can play the devil's music without taking a stand
no, I can't abide the way they hide
that's the kind of lie that made me decide to be an

Unholy roller
A Satanic soldier
an Unholy Roller
'cause there's only one thing that's gonna save our souls, yea!

S-A-T-A-N he's our man, hey!
S-A-T-A-N he's our man, hey!

The war is on, the lines are drawn
but there's a lot of people saying that we've already won
but how can they believe that we have reached the end
with "In God We Trust" on every dollar we spend?
I'm sick and tired of stupid Christians
trying to run my life with thier superstitions
look around - it's plain to see
the reasons why I will always be an

Unholy Roller
A Satanic soldier
an Unholy Roller
and the music won't stop until the war is over

The Electric Hellfire Club

and just for the hell of it:

Shout At The Devil

He's the wolf screaming lonely in the night
He's the blood stain on the stage
He's the tear in your eye
Been tempted by his lie
He's the knife in your back
He's rage
He's the razor to the knife
Oh, lonely is our lives
My heads spinnin' round and round
But in the seasons of wither
We'll stand and deliver
Be strong and laugh and

Shout-shout-shout
Shout at the devil
He'll be the love in your eyes
He'll be the blood between your thighs
And then have you Cry for more
He'll put strength to the test
He'll put the thrill back in bed
Sure you've heard it all before
He'll be the risk in the kiss
Might be anger on your lips
Might run scared for the door
But in seasons of wither
We'll stand and deliver
Be strong and laugh and

Motley Crue

Jesus H Allah! Shout At the Devil came out in 1983?! i remember giving my high school boyfriend this RECORD as in ALBUM as in PRESSED VINYL when it was first released for a christmas present. he gave me a stuffed toy siamese cat that i think i dropped over the side of a ship in the Ionian Sea....nope...it was the Aegean Sea on the way to Ios from Athens and it was my friend who dropped a book over the side. it was a Star Trek (classic) that had a few Klingon stories in it. i might actually still have that cat.

FUCK POLITICS! Vote for The Skipper!

2008-09-01T14:31:00.006-04:00

yep, fuck it! i'm done. i don't care who the next president is because THEY have succeeded in creating one more Apathethic American...the main goal of the government. well, not sooo Apathetic that i won't vote. i'll vote. my vote will count as much as shit-on-stick (which can be very useful in thwarting evil-doing patrons) but why not? it'll be a night out AND i can taunt the fucking Dumb-o-crats with "Hillary 2012!" and "No Hillary, No Vote". aaahhh, the Kennedy's. screwing women since, since...um...just how old IS this planet?

1 billion years? unless you're a bible thumper, of course. then the earth would be about 6,000 years old because, well, God apparently has ADD and could not possible create and sustain anything older than a blink...no, a half...no, a quarter...no, an eighth of a blink old. poor God...somebody get him some RITALIN!

speaking of the big G: he IS getting a little long-in-the-tooth. maybe it's time for something new. listen, when was the last time Satan started a war, eh? He's not blowin' up building, God-lovers are. all in the name of God. die, sacrifice, make war, bind women, kill the killers, eat your veggies, CONFESS and then CONFESS somemore! don't do that and rot in hell...so, cut out the Middle Man and go right for the goat. i'm NOT advocating, just pondering. ponder, ponder, ponder.

BRING IN THE GOATS!!!!

okay...enough. let us now talk about Alan Hale. "Who is this Alan Hale", you ask. what! are you retarded? how could you not know The Skipper!!?? Gilligan's Island! have we not all seen every freakin' episode 44 times already? YOU haven't? well, what the FUCK have you been doing with your life? LIVING?

Alan Hale spoke with me. on the phone. yeah, i know he's dead but they somehow find ways to speak to me. the dead. they. do. weird. apparently Alan Hale is still jovial and convivial on the Otherside although he is in some sort of actors rest home. he told me Fred Astaire and another dancer (not Ginger Rogers) live a couple doors down from him. he talked about some stuff he missed, told me to tell his family he loves them and continued talking until it finally dawned on me that i should try to make conversation and ask a question. so brain dead me asked him if he had any regrets making The Giant Spider Invasion even after MSK3000 got ahold of it and he was a little perplexed but continued on happily telling me that he had no regrets and it wasn't so bad, really. he was a VERY happy guy. unfortunately, i had to cut the dream short because one of the cats in my dream (also deceased) started to bleed from the rectum. Mr Pinky was bleeding from the rectum. so, i panicked and told Mr Hale that i had to get off the phone because a dead cat was bleeding from his anus and i had to get him to a vet, FAST! this took a few minutes as Mr Hale (quite understandably) could not wrap his dead head around what i was screaming into the phone. "Mr Pinky's bleeding! i have to go! no, Mr Pinky is a CAT and he's bleeding. from his rectum! no, it's RECTAL BLEEDING! sorry, i have to go now! call me back later and bring Bob Denver!!!"

shit. i freaked out The Skipper!

PS: i hate misspelling words. if i have misspelled any words, please correct me.
PPS: misspelled is spelled correctly. i checked.

If I put on a little Blue Dress...

2008-07-06T00:41:00.004-04:00

no one better EVER say that i am not a Patriot.

for the good of my country i am willing to do the foulest act imaginable. i am willing to denegrate myself and my family; risk my job and my marriage for the good of my countrymen and countrywomen.

i would be willing to put on a Blue Dress and give W a blow job if that means we can finally IMPEACH THE BASTARD! 'cuz, folks, that's the only way we are going to get him impeached. the House fails us, the Senate fails us and the Democrats fail us YET AGAIN! (and i don't mean Kucinich).

Patriotic Women of America...it should be our duty to see that ONE of us gets into the Oval Office and down on our knees to do the deed that will OUST the War-mongerer. yes, he can kill our kids in a War for Oil. yes, he can wiretap us at will. yes, he can arrest us and bring us to Cuba without evidence of a crime and without legal representation. yes, he can search our home and NOT EVEN TELL US it was searched, EVER! yes, he can shred the Constitution and lie and lie and lie...but we can't impeach him for that. NOPE! it's a blow job (apparently) or nothing! so, ladies, let's mobilize. and let's not leave this to the Liberals, gals...infact, it would be so much more effective if a rich, white Corporate Whore did it (like, oh, ENRON. whoops! sorry, Georgie was blowin' them!)

i draw the line at Cheney, though. i am not THAT much of a Patriot.

Viruses and Politicians will always be with us...

2008-07-06T00:26:00.003-04:00

if you find a way to eradicate* a Virus, you'll win a Nobel Prize for Medicine.

so, if you find a way to eradicate** the Politicians, will you win the Nobel Peace Prize?

*this blogger opposes violence/terrorism against all life-forms

**except Viruses. i think we should really, really terrorize those damn viruses. Kill The Common Cold Now!!

please don't send your Patriot (missile) Act after me! at least have the decency to wait until You have taken ALL my rights away. thanks.