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thebratqueenI'm tired. I should nap. I might even, since it's too hot out for me to pack up my old, non-ACed apartment. The good news is that in theory it should be dropping down to the 80s next week so I think I'll go gangbusters on packing then. I also need to book movers but one stress at a time.
[makes mental note to pay bills]
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enfaith's recommendation I took a look at Practical Solitary Magic over on Amazon.com. I was reading the customer reviews and saw one person who snottily says "P.S. Watson spells it correctly: "Magic," not "Magick.""
Um - honey, do some culture research, would you? I'm not saying every wanna-blessed-be has to spell the word with or without a k, but this isn't like the "e" in "child" - there's an actual reasoning behind the "k" (viz. pagans who don't want what they do to be mistaken for the slight of hand stuff that David Copperfield does). It's not like all these pagans got together and conspired to spell the word wrong because they were lazy. It was an attempt to validate what they were doing.
Again - not saying you have to use the k, just saying don't be snotty about it whether you do or don't.
In other news of things which made me roll my eyes today, whilst I was at my grandma's my aunt and I caught a few moments of that show on the Food Network where they show you people's kitchens. One was for a "bachelor" kitchen. It was kind of pretty so we turned the sound up. As the guy who lived there was talking, I had a moment of "Um, okay - kinda lispy. Are we sure he's a 'bachelor'?"
We then cut to him and his "friends", one of whom is a guy, and we get told by the voice-over that "Paul and Andy" (or whatever their names were) live in the apt together and truly enjoy their "bachelor" kitchen - as we watch Paul (for lack of me knowing the names) reach to touch Andy in an obviously familiar way, then visibly check himself and try to make it more casual.
Sigh.
If you liked the kitchen enough to show it, why couldn't you just say it was their kitchen? Why deliberately lie and call them "bachelors"? I'm not saying you had to be in your face about it (not that I, off of the top of my head, can really think of a way that would be in your face about it) but couldn't you just stay with the facts since you so obviously knew them? "Paul and Andy live together, here's their kitchen, it's very cool" end of story.
I guess it's possible the two of them were still in the closet, but I somehow doubt that if they volunteered to go on the show in the first place.
Who knows?
/me goes off to be cranky and sleepy
[makes mental note to pay bills]
Based on
enfaith's recommendation I took a look at Practical Solitary Magic over on Amazon.com. I was reading the customer reviews and saw one person who snottily says "P.S. Watson spells it correctly: "Magic," not "Magick.""Um - honey, do some culture research, would you? I'm not saying every wanna-blessed-be has to spell the word with or without a k, but this isn't like the "e" in "child" - there's an actual reasoning behind the "k" (viz. pagans who don't want what they do to be mistaken for the slight of hand stuff that David Copperfield does). It's not like all these pagans got together and conspired to spell the word wrong because they were lazy. It was an attempt to validate what they were doing.
Again - not saying you have to use the k, just saying don't be snotty about it whether you do or don't.
In other news of things which made me roll my eyes today, whilst I was at my grandma's my aunt and I caught a few moments of that show on the Food Network where they show you people's kitchens. One was for a "bachelor" kitchen. It was kind of pretty so we turned the sound up. As the guy who lived there was talking, I had a moment of "Um, okay - kinda lispy. Are we sure he's a 'bachelor'?"
We then cut to him and his "friends", one of whom is a guy, and we get told by the voice-over that "Paul and Andy" (or whatever their names were) live in the apt together and truly enjoy their "bachelor" kitchen - as we watch Paul (for lack of me knowing the names) reach to touch Andy in an obviously familiar way, then visibly check himself and try to make it more casual.
Sigh.
If you liked the kitchen enough to show it, why couldn't you just say it was their kitchen? Why deliberately lie and call them "bachelors"? I'm not saying you had to be in your face about it (not that I, off of the top of my head, can really think of a way that would be in your face about it) but couldn't you just stay with the facts since you so obviously knew them? "Paul and Andy live together, here's their kitchen, it's very cool" end of story.
I guess it's possible the two of them were still in the closet, but I somehow doubt that if they volunteered to go on the show in the first place.
Who knows?
/me goes off to be cranky and sleepy
