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Earlier this year, I was asked to help someone find love. For some reason, this lonely soul thought I could wave a magic wand like some fictional faery godmother and get him a girlfriend. It doesn’t work that way. I’m not sure how it works. Since I haven’t had a successful romantic relationship my entireContinue reading “Everything Else Is Optional”

I.O.’s Aside: Wow, people who can do art like this amaze me. It’s imperative that we support the art we love (music, writing, film, dancing). That means we have to shell out something in exchange for the effort the artist has put into creating such beauty-such meaning. Effort counts, getting the word out counts, andContinue reading “Happy Holidays,.. from Me to You!”

I.O.’s Aside: This woman is crazy. The good kind of crazy. The kind of crazy that I would love to bottle up and sell. Read every word. It will all make sense in the end. She writes like origami, all those folds and stuff and you’re like WTH, this makes a panda??? And lo, aContinue reading “The flies are in the kitchen, the beans are in the soup”

Originally posted on sethsnap:
It’s been a long time since I’ve had you write me a story. So, I think it’s time we hear from your creative mind.  A few weeks ago, I had a meeting in downtown Columbus.  It was cold and I was short of time but I was able to get a…

Originally posted on Deborah J. Brasket:
I spent yesterday in the hospital with my son, who had overdosed on heroin.  I’d found him that morning unconscious on the bathroom floor. I can’t tell you what it felt like to see him like that, a gray shadow of himself, limp, seemingly lifeless. He has recovered.  Physically,…

Originally posted on Meat Mead Metal:
There are those bands that, no matter how much music they release, you always know what you’re going to get. If that’s a good or bad thing, that’s up to you. Then you have those that change things up as they go along and kind of keep you guessing…

I.O.’s Aside: I enjoy Dean’s poetry and his commentary is scathing and funny. Check out his blog!

I.O.’s aside: Pissing people off is an art form.

Originally posted on Meat Mead Metal:
Messy and filthy, punishing and violent. Those are really good traits if you’re describing a relatively new metal band to an audience that might not yet be familiar with the artists, and since I’m doing that today, I’m pretty comfortable with those words as descriptors for Serpent Omega. The…

Dear reader I am now working with Hermes. I read a post about him on the house of vines and I realized that he has been with me for a while. I have met him once before when he introduced me to Isis in a dream a few years ago. I always thought He was…