'Appone mulieri super mammas bufonem,
ut ablactet eum, & moriatur mulier,
sitque bufo grossus de lacte.'
Emblem 5 of Atalanta Fugiens

This is where I feel my geek gene is dominant. I had a nap today on the train home from work (Ah, weird New Jersey). I was boiling a head to get the brains out (I'd already saved the eyes and tongue, and gone in and found the three ears bones - very important). I was burning cinnamon and lemon grass on a brass brazier. I was crushing lapiz lazuli in a mortar, and had called a friend to ask how to make it suspend right in the vehicle/ liquid part of the paint I was making. I was painting a bear on my ceiling, and I was using a lapis paint with yew salt added (who knows if this is possible). He (Khem, who knows if you'll ever read this) told me that it was because my nahuatl was slipping because I'd forgot the proper use of tonality [but Nahuatl is not tonal- which spurned a lucid dreaming event] and that the proper incantations had to be said after my tongue had been cut by this obsidian that he had a couple extra pieces of and would come down and show me what to do.

I turned, realized I was dreaming at this point, and asked the head what advice it had for me. She then sang, with overtones abounding (at least three, perhaps four) quotes from Atalanta Fugiens. When she sang the fifth emblem, I started vomiting. Toads came out. Five of them. I caught them, licked them, and threw them in the pot with the head. They gathered around the head, still singing, and joined their little hands and looked up at me from the fairy ring they'd created. I asked, "What can I do to complete what you've come here for?" They told me that my colors were muddy and the angels would stop listening if I forgot them. Remember how to call them, remember how to sign them, remember how to stain them.... (Runes, much? Why is there Havamal reference here?)

Then I sneezed.
And woke up.
Newark Penn Station, time to go to the PATH train and go home.

I like it when sleep is interesting and not a blackout.

The First Annual Gypsy Wedding!

Benefit for Theatre Group of DZIECI
(www.dziecitheatre.org)


Saturday, First April, 2006
Seven until Ten in Evening


St. Jean Baptiste School
173 East 75th Street
(between Lexington and Third)
New York, New York


$250 Friends & Family
$100 Liars & Thieves
$50 Gadflies & Layabouts
$25 Tourists


Food, Drink, Music, Food,
Spells, Stolen Goods & Food


Must to RSVP ASAP, or send donations (ask me how!)
718 638 6037 or dzieci@dziecitheatre.org