A PLATYPUS AND SANDRA DERMARK WALK INTO A BAR...
A PLATYPUS AND SANDRA DERMARK WALK INTO A BAR...PLATYPUS: (Makes platypus noises)SANDRA: Have you got this drink they call loneliness?BARMAN: What's this... some kind of meta-joke?SANDRA: Did you just...
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In a previous post about druglore, I wrote a little more about Swedish postmodern legends in which leading characters were drugged. Here is my discussion on the topic:Not to mention all the cautionary...
View ArticleISO 8601
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_dateThis standard is issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) since 1988 (last revised in 2004)...
View ArticleA DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTRÖM
The depth in the centre of the Moskoe-ström must be immeasurably greater; and no better proof of this fact is necessary than can be obtained from even the sidelong glance into the abyss of the whirl...
View ArticleEL INFIERNO DE DANTE - SEGÚN SANDRA DERMARK
Para Dante Alighieri, la Tierra es hueca y es como un juego de matriushkas, muñecas rusas. Infiernos dentro de infiernos dentro de infiernos, cada uno un mundo diferente para castigar unas faltas...
View ArticleINSTRUCCIONES PARA SUBIR UNA ESCALERA
Julio CortázarNadie habrá dejado de observar que con frecuencia el suelo se pliega de manera tal que una parte sube en ángulo recto con el plano del suelo, y luego la parte siguiente se coloca paralela...
View ArticleONCE...
Once, my dear,I was young like you.I was hopeful like you.I dreamed like you.Once, my dear,I thought I had it all -oh, so happily,the light of my lifeheld my hand as we danced,clutched me at...
View ArticleSWEET NAIAD OF THE PHLEGETHONTIC RILL
Unless when qualified with thee, Cogniac ! Sweet Naiad of the Phlegethontic rill ! Ah ! why the liver wilt thou thus attack,and make, like other nymphs, thy lovers ill ? George Gordon, Lord...
View ArticleLÜTZEN (THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE-DOWN)
Now when was the last time I posted something 30YW-related?And the last time I wrote some filk lyrics?Well, right now I got the bunny for the filk to end all filks. And yes, it's 30YW-related.And it's...
View ArticleRIGHT, SO WHAT NEXT?
So I kickstart the year's creative achievements with a baaaadaaass Yorktown/Lützen filk. Reasons why? Read the start of Lützen (The World Turned Upside Down) to find out there's more than one...
View ArticleTHE NOVICE LIGHTBEARER'S COMPANION I
THE NOVICE LIGHTBEARER'S COMPANIONadapted from reliable sources byDOUCELINE DE RABUTIN,akaSASHA MARGRAVIATICHAPTER ZEROor,ON THE POWER OF DREAMINGNo matter how old we may be now, all of us were once...
View ArticleTHE NOVICE LIGHTBEARER'S COMPANION II
THE NOVICE LIGHTBEARER'S COMPANIONadapted from reliable sources byDOUCELINE DE RABUTIN,akaSASHA MARGRAVIATICHAPTER THE SECONDCORONATIONSorYOU HAVE STILL GOT TIME TO BACKStep One: The Story SeedA story...
View ArticleTHE NOVICE LIGHTBEARER'S COMPANION III
THE NOVICE LIGHTBEARER'S COMPANIONadapted from reliable sources byDOUCELINE DE RABUTIN,akaSASHA MARGRAVIATICHAPTER THE THIRDMERITS AND INVOCATIONSorOF MERITS, INVOCATIONS IN GENERAL, AND SPECCHIO IN...
View ArticleTHE NOVICE LIGHTBEARER'S COMPANION IV
THE NOVICE LIGHTBEARER'S COMPANIONadapted from reliable sources byDOUCELINE DE RABUTIN,akaSASHA MARGRAVIATICHAPTER THE FOURTHTHE COURT OF MIRRORS: THE WHOLE STORYOR,OF THE QUEEN OF MIRRORS, CRYSTAL...
View ArticleTHE NOVICE LIGHTBEARER'S COMPANION V
THE NOVICE LIGHTBEARER'S COMPANIONadapted from reliable sources byDOUCELINE DE RABUTIN,akaSASHA MARGRAVIATICHAPTER THE FIFTHCHARMSor,SPELLS, SPECCHIO OR OTHERWISE, FOR ALL CASESDancing in Twilight(This...
View ArticleALBRECHT VON WALLENSTEIN
One thing about bunnies is the fact that they tend to spawn at an alarming rate.This idea rose at about the same time as the Lützen filk of yesterday. I murmured it in bed this morning before rising up...
View ArticleDEN NYA STAFFANSVISAN
DEN NYA STAFFANSVISANSandra Dermark(avsedd för min försvenskning av Othello, som dryckesvisa i stridsscenen)Staffan var en stalledräng;han vaktar sina fålar fem.Den förste är som snö helt vit;dess...
View ArticleMADE DRUNK; THE VOICE SHALL BE HEARD NO MORE (REVELATION)
(4) The inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of adulteries;and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of fornication. REV 17:2... (4) The inhabitants of...
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