random stuff

Afro Celts aren't coming my way anytime soon - dammit! And I got their first CD only a few weeks after they were last here. I'd actually kind of like to see them live one day, but it ain't gonna happen anytime soon.

Eddie Izzard is on tour, and will be here in the fall. I'm not a huge fan, but what I've seen is funny. Maybe - it's a long way off.

More stuff to make your cat want to hurt you - hasn't this guy figured out that cats know yoga instinctively?

art of tarot

I have a thing about Tarot decks. Not that I believe that they work, or that I even know that much about how to read them, but I admire a good-looking tarot deck when I see one. I think it's the idea of variations on a theme that appeals to me, a unified set of the same design.

I just thought of this today, when I ran across links to the '80's deck and the vampire deck. Not as artistically sound, but I admire it for the cheez factor, there's the Hello Kitty deck.

I only own a few, mostly acquired as gifts over the years. I got the standard Rider-Waite when I was 12 from my grandmother (or was it my parents? At any rate, they would have had to ask my grandmother where to find such a thing), and the James Bond deck as a souvenir from my mom at some point.

The only one I broke down and got for myself was the gorgeous Vertigo deck - Dave McKean's photgraphy/artwork is lovely, and besides, the death card really is Death (the Sandman).

I only ever pull these out around Halloween.

political note

Well, duh! (similar stuff here). I will concede that maybe in this case Wolfowitz might have been taken out of context, but still, I think it demonstrates that the differences between dealing with N. Korea and Iraq depend at least in part on Iraq's oil fields.

What amazes me is that Wolfowitz says it aloud, because the war was supposed to be about Weapons of Mass Destruction (TM), right?

..Right??