Madillac

And all those lonely nights down by the river / brought me bread and water, water in / and though I tried so hard my little darling, I could not keep the night from coming in.

Definitely just spilled an entire cup of coffee into my lap.

Fuck it, I’m getting a Danish.

Friday Night

Gonna go ahead and say that all the people dancing so ardently to “What’s Your Fantasy?” are probably really boring lovers.

Rob Brezsny’s Astrology Newsletter :: September 7, 2011

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In Wiccan circles, a “familiar” is a supernatural
entity or magic animal that serves as a spirit ally. Some witches regard
their cats as their familiars. In Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy
of fantasy books, the “daemon” (very different from a “demon”) plays a
similar role: a shapeshifting creature that embodies a person’s soul. This
would be an excellent time for you to develop a closer relationship with a
familiar or daemon or any other uncanny helper, Leo. You have more
hidden power at your disposal than you realize, and it’s a propitious time
to call on it.

There are several points here to which I’d like to call attention.

• The first is that I LOVE His Dark Materials, and absolutely everyone in the world should read it. It’s YA fiction, meaning it will take you like two days to read all three books, so what are you waiting for?
• The second is that I haven’t been crazy about my Brezsny readings as of late, and I almost didn’t bother reading this week’s, but I’m so glad I did!
• The third is that this astrology is part of a special kind of coincidence that happens to me from time to time, where a very particular, very specific noun is brought to my attention. The noun in this case is His Dark Materials, and this is the third instance in a week it’s come up. The first was a Facebook status by mollymurphs announcing the species of her daemon; the second was a mention of Pullman’s series in the season 4 premiere of Weeds. I love when stuff like this happens; it’s like the universe has it’s own grand predictive text function and it keeps bringing up this book series because it knows I love it.