I've decided to make this journal 'Friends Only'.  For those of you new to LJ that means that only people on my friends list will be able to read the posts by default.

So, I guess this will be my last open post.

If you read my journal and either don't have an LJ or you want to be added to my friends list, you can post here and let me know where I know you from and I'll add you.

Keep in mind that I'm not online as much as I used to be, so you might be waiting a while for a response.

I do still have an open journal that feeds to my Facebook - It's on Wordpress @ phaetalon.wordpress.com/

AC

Now I have to search Threadless to find this tshirt!  lol

--Phae

What happened to brideyfearn? Where did she go? Her name isn't clickable anymore!

Ack!

--Phae

For anyone who watches the food network (like me), it would seem that Robert Irvine of 'Dinner Impossible' fame has been canned for exaggerating his resume. Turns out he didn't really help to bake Charles and Di's wedding cake (they are also hinting that he wasn't entirely honest about his training either).

I read in one of my cooking comms here on LJ the reaction, and it seems to be almost entirely composed of "OMGZ How dare he???!!!! WTFBBQ!!11!!" One person went so far as to ask who hasn't "fluffed" their resume once in a while to get a job that they really wanted and was roasted by those who have never EVAR lied once in their whole lives and clearly are all saint material (perhaps the next big religious war will be about who gets to be the Patron Saint of Cooks and Kitchens).

Now, for me, I think that it was pretty stupid to take a risk like that when your new job is going to put you in the public eye (where all specks of dirt are put under an electron microscope). But, really, part of me is wondering, if he was good at his job, then why the hell do you care now?

This situation draws a lot of parallels for me to the Pagan community past and present. People will scream about credentials and toss those who fudge the line on the bonfire ... and yet, many of the people in our history, who have done the exact same things, are forgiven because they did a good job. They proved that the value of such credentials are a relative thing.

Many have shown that you don't always need to be initiated by a witch with a line back to New Forest to find yourself as part of that line ... that it is experience and talent that make a witch more than the names you can drop at parties. These people from our past are still revered as Pagan leader and elders and all their past problems are magically forgiven, or out shadowed by their overall accomplishments.

Someone who shall remain nameless just now, used to compare the craft to cooking quite a lot. And I think it is a good comparison. And it makes me wonder why people are freaking out. He turned out to be a good chef.

I am not really sure where I am going with this, but it definitely gives me some food for thought (and an insight into a would-be article I have lying about).

--Phae

And now my journal is plain!  Oh noes!

--Phae

In case anyone cares:

I have purged a lot of excess communities from my FList.  I have been meaning to do it for a while.  Some are redundant icon comms, but most notabley, I am done with the snarking comms.

They used to be funny, but now, it's just gotten really old.  I see no reason why people can't vent in their own personal journals, and really, seeking out people online to make fun of or 'stalk and hunt' has never sat well with me. 

I have removed dot_bunnyhunt as well.  I should have done it a long time ago.  I feel a lot lighter severing my connection to that place.

Anyway, I am going to go and make myself something yummy to eat and forget how much online communities other than mine piss me off.

--Phae

You have to sign your name if you expect me to have any idea who you are.  Especially when you are commenting on 6 month old memes.  KTHXBYE

--Phae

http://phae-talon.livejournal.com/212508.html

I did it.  I made a blogger journal.  I like it so far.  I have even made a post (but only one, so don't go all expecting anything profound).  I haven't put the profile in or anything yet.  It's kind of cool - and it gives me the option to host my blog somewhere else in the future if I don't want blogger to host it anymore (which is a neat feature).

Anyway - to anyone interested, it is easy to find.  It is basically the exact same address you use to find this journal, except that 'blogspot' goes where 'livejournal' was.

phae-talon.blogspot.com

(why do I keep typing blogsport?)

--Phae

My Interest List:

1734, ale, ancestor worship, angels, anne rice, art, bean sidhe, beer, boho fashion, boho style, books, british columbia, british traditional witchcraft, canada, canadiana, candle making, candles, celtic mythology, charles de lint, clan of tubal cain, coffee, cooking, crafts, cunning folk, dark witchcraft, dean koontz, demons, discordianism, discworld, divination, diving, druidry, ecology, environment, environmentalism, fae, faeries, faery, faery faith, fair trade, faith, fantasy, feri, fey, folk magic, folk magick, folklore, food, gardening, gargoyles, gothic witchcraft, green living, green party, greenpeace, hauntings, hedgecraft, herbal magick, herbalism, herbs, heritage homes, hippie, hippy, history, hockey, home brewing, horror, interior design, kitchen witchery, knitting, legends, literature, living lightly, ljmaps_phae_talon, lower mainland, magic, magick, marian green, marion zimmer bradley, mead, meditation, mediterranean, movies, myth, mythology, myths, nature, new westminster, non-wiccan witchcraft, occult, ocean, old cities, olympians, organic, organic cotton, organic foods, organic gardening, pacific northwest, pagan, pagan religions, paganism, painting, paper crafts, pathwork, philosophy, photography, photoshop, polytheism, reading, recycling, red dwarf, religion, religious witchcraft, sabbatic craft, scrapbooking, sewing, spirituality, stephen king, swimming, tarot, terry pratchett, theology, tradcraft, traditional witchcraft, travelling, underwater photography, vancouver, victoria, victorian, victorian architecture, walking, west coast, wicca, wine, wisdom, witch, witch cult, witchcraft, witches, wort cunning, wortcunning, writing, yoga.

--Phae

I am going to spend the next few days saving my old LJ entries to my computer HD in case something stupid happens. I will probably purge my interests as well.

And after that, I am going to start looking for a new blog. I have heard that Blogger is pretty popular. I have also heard some good things about Wordpress and I think Elf mentioned GreatestJournal, which I will prolly also check out. Any other suggestions are welcome.

Everything just went all to hell all at once, didn't it? I have the Beehive software downloaded and I will be testing it out this weekend. I would have done it last weekend, but I got this damned head cold instead. At least this way we can get Wickets up and running soon. Not a moment too soon, if you ask me.

--Phae