The Shattered Prayer

Maybe my mother was right. Maybe I am “just tired”.

Yes, I did get another stigmata today. This one was caused by Cleto’s sharp little claws, but I think cat-induced stigmata may be even more powerful than the kitchen-accident kind.
Its also my mother’s birthday. I spoke to her on the phone today, pretended everything’s just fine here. She’s quite happy to indulge in her own […]

Ah, the letter B snapped off my keyboard, right as I was writing the sentence, “She nodded and removed her robes”. Now if she’s nodding, and removing her robes, you don’t want to stop and have to snap the letter B back on your keyboard, now do ya? But thats what happened.
And it wasn’t one […]

Which do you want first? Not that anyone cares aout either.
Got my 7th, I think it is, yes 7th, rejection from FEMA. Their reason this time: Because we can. They actually gave no reason in this letter, mainly because there is no reason. I have sent them every single piece of documentation they’ve requested. I’ve […]

Been working this weekend on adding new stuff to the site. Some of its behind-the-scenes stuff just to help me organise, if thats possible, but other stuff is for my readers. (and surfers).
There’s a new directory thats been added. If you want more traffic to your site, why not add your URL. I’m going to […]

Today is Tami’s birthday. Tami is my friend of a quarter of a century and my life has been deeply enriched by her friendship, so I just want to post a birthday message saying, Happy Birthday and thank you for 25 years of high-strangeness, of laughter, and support and love.
As is the birthday tradition at […]

Some of my favouriteDeep Thoughts by Jack Handey:
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.
We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can’t scoff at […]

Well they are…. just look at them. This is what they do all day, when they aren’t eating, shitting, or destroying something. But you know… I love’em.
I figured its been a while since I’ve posted a pic of the two little darlings, and really, they deserve to be seen more often, since they live such […]

Richard the Previous says i haven’t written a post in a billion days. It certainly feels like it. But does anyone really want to hear about how I’m getting bitch-slapped by FEMA and other sundery complaints? No, so I’ve been non-blogging lately.
I’ve mostly been trying to concentrate on my tarot readings, on my novel […]

I still occasionally feel compelled to visit the Free Will Astrology guy to see what idiotic nonsense he’s made up this week. Honestly, he’s the worst in horoscopes. Lets face it all those daily and weekly horoscopes are bad. Someone is actually getting paid to make this stuff up, but the Free Will guy goes […]

I changed the name of yesterdays post to Whats in My Vagina, in honour of the long and tangential comment-thread that ensued. Warnings be damned.
And I thought since yesterday’s post (and comments) pretty much destroyed my pristine reputation as a family-friendly blogger, I would continue the the general Vagina and whats in it theme, and […]

When things fall out of your refrigerator when you open it, you know its time to clean the thing out. Its not like there’s more than three or four items in there that are actually edible. But if I clean it out, it will look empty and cavernous, and gremlins will move in.
Its raining today, […]

Having read tarot this morning until I just couldn’t read anymore, and then updating the Noumenal News, I had a choice between two fairly brainless activities: eating falafel and playing Sodoku, or creating a new colour scheme for the Shattered Prayer.
I figured working on the colour scheme was at least mildly more productive than the […]

I’ve given recipes for two types of Mojitos of the Undead then realised a lot of people down here in the south might not know what a mojito is, and even if they do, they’ll regard it with some suspicion because it doesn’t contain marshmallows, raisins, or mayonnaise. So I’ve decided to compile a few […]

I stuck pretty firmly to my schedule today. Tarot readings until noon, a quick cleansing ritual, updated the news, and then… then I got distracted by the idea of masturbation and fantasies about tacos. Hey look, I don’t question your fantasies, you don’t question mine.
It kind of reminds me of that episode of Seinfeld where […]