Gwenn got her picture on the front page of the Citizen-Times today, full color and everything… the article seemed to concentrate on the “fact” that a city ordinance hasn’t “stopped panhandling”… the problem isn’t panhandling, but homelessness!  Gwenn has been organizing an “Asheville Homeless Alliance”, with lots of good ideas about lending or giving things like tents and bicycles to people who are NOT expected to pawn them for drug money…  I helped her work on a couple of things.  Current Asheville Police Dept. policy upon finding a homeless camp in the woods is to shred and destroy everything!  These people don’t have anything except the tent and sleeping bag that the cops find, and the cops destroy that!  If a car breaks down on the highway, the cops don’t bust out the windows and shred the upholstery!!!!!  But that is about what they do to the homeless.  Gwenn has been working with the local police to try to change these customs.  I wish her every success.

I LOVE YOU MY WILLOW!!!!!!   My Willow hasn’t been feeling well lately .

I saw a movie on TV called “John Norman’s Gor”.  Well, hey, I read all the Gor series when I was younger… well, most of them, there were too bloody many and after the first 20 or so they were all the same.  Still, there were a few good ideas in them…  The movie deleted all the good concepts but kept the name of the main character and the “counter-Earth” (although there was zero discussion of where it was), and made the character’s transportation to and from Gor a magical rather than physical one… other than that, and the scantily-clad babes, there was very little relation to the books.  Almost at the end of the movie they threw in a shady character played by Jack Palance, seemingly in the hopes that the movie-viewing public would suddenly get interested in the movie and demand a sequel.  No dice.  TV Guide rated the movie 1-1/2 stars — they were WAY too generous.  I only hope they paid John Norman’s royalties… although there is some chance that “John Norman” is a franchise, rather than an actual author…

John and I watched a video of “P.S. Your Cat Is Dead”.  I never knew they made a movie of it, that’s one of my favorite books!  Well, they changed a bunch of stuff in the movie, including totally cutting off the ending, and Steve Guttenberg WAY overwhined throughout the movie, but it wasn’t all that bad overall.  (They changed the name of the cat and the burglar, downgraded Jimmy Zoole’s acting credits, and moved the whole thing from New York City to Los Angeles, but otherwise it was OK.)

I wrote a new page on my website tonight, and tweaked it until I got it right, having to do with the meditation practice I’m doing.  Apparently the guy who developed the practice doesn’t want anyone to know how to do it, and that ain’t right.  So I fixed it.  It can be found at http://moss.witchesgathering.com/meditation.html if you wanna see.

Guess that’s it for now.

Hugs,
Moss