With bells on.

[reddragdiva]

• www.reddragdiva.co.uk works (with some pics missing), though reddragdiva.co.uk (no "www") doesn't. The server is fucked up beyond repair and will be rebuilt yet again in a day or two. Triple vodka to hawkeviper.

• Arkady and I have been dead agented by the Scientologists, and they've even mixed in slander against cadfael. What I want to know is how he pissed them off, which would mean I owe him a *pint* I was previously unaware of.

Sunday, arkady played out for the first time with her Morris side at the Havering Show in Hornchurch. (They call her "Rose" because it's simpler than "Arkady." But there's already a "Rose" so she'll be "Black Rose.") I went for moral support and documentation. We rushed to get there by ten, in time to wait around for two hours. Their first set started 11:50am and went fifty minutes, their second at 2:30pm for thirty minutes. She coped admirably with being brought on for the stick-throwing dance she'd never actually done before, let alone at a performance. But she's coordinated, can dance and can play an instrument, so she's ahead of 90% of Morris dancers already. (Like being a rock guitarist who knows a third chord.)

Local fairs make my skin crawl, but I could tolerate it for her first show. Beer tent had IPA. I bought raffle tickets for a hideously-coloured Peugeot 304 convertible. The Owl Rescue Society stall was pretty cool.

I failed to sunscreen. I saw my burnt face in the mirror and went "My God, I look English." How embarrassment!

Arkady stitching her waistcoat at the last second; Pete, the squire; Bovril, the mascot.

The Stick Chucking Dance!

The musicians; In Case Of Morrising; the weather they were up against; hankies.

Rescue owls!

Comments

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

What does it say about me that when I read the comment that you were a "speed user", I wondered whether Speed was a new MS program or Macintosh?

[reddragdiva]

In terms of the actual drug, ah, no. I already talk inane rubbish at 1000 miles per hour.

[sweh.livejournal.com]

Clearly; "How embarrassment!" indeed...

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

jealous - i must go protesting sometime - maybe leave them my card :)

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

i bet he's *so* proud of having found out who you are, too, bless his crazy little heart!

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Suppressive girls in kitty ears!

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Man - Scientology porn has to be a whole world of possibilities! Everyone knows forbidden fruit is the most tempting, right? So out-2d sex with suppressive kitty girls has to be what all these clams secretly crave!

[reddragdiva]

There's kinky and then there's BAD AND WRONG.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Oh come now, don't you think Uncyclopaedia deserves to know?

[shamus9999.livejournal.com]

Speedy Gonzales was a leech?

[reddragdiva]

I was actually outlining an article on Ninja Morris on Sunday ...

Mind you, other ideas I need to develop include Zombie Bukkake.

Scientology and Speed

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

What a strange accusation to make, given the drug use of their founder.

http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/newsherald-DeWolfe07-82.htm

[ashbet]

What the HELL is a 2-D, anyway? I mean, I'm assuming it means "Significant Other," but what's the etymology?

Also . . . HAHAHAHAH, you notorious degenerate speed-user, you!

-- A ^_^

[reddragdiva]

The "second dynamic", which is, uh, "creativity." Official outline, critical view of how it works in practice.

Re: Scientology and Speed

[reddragdiva]

LRH Jr. was, unfortunately, not a reliable source. Anything he said sorely needs corroboration from others before being useful to a critic; most of it is useful as an outline, but he was prone to exaggeration. He appeared to have gotten the bullshit gene from his father.

[ashbet]

Uhmm. Way to depersonalize your partner, there X_x

>>>It also incidentally includes sex as a mechanism to compel future survival.

Nice that they included that -- gods forbid that we consider sex for any other reason! ;P

-- A (hee, "creativity" . . . I could go so many places with that)

Re: Scientology and Speed

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

LRH Jr. was, unfortunately, not a reliable source.

That was fairly evident from the article, but given the author's rather tortured and voluminous writings I suspect there is more than a grain of truth to the claims.

Re: Scientology and Speed

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Corroboration. Apparently Jim Dincalci, Hubbard's medical officer, also claims that Hubbard was a heavy user amphetamines.

("Secret Lives: L. Ron Hubbard". Channel 4 Television, November 19th, 1997)

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

I hadn't head the term, "dead agent" before...ta for the links/info.
Looks like a text-book ad-hom attack on you...what a vindictive and nasty piece of work that was.

[webcowgirl.livejournal.com]

Cool, let's go picketing together!

[yellowrocket.livejournal.com]

What's your beef with local shows, then?
(Not all morris dancers are crap, by the way...)

[jasontheknight.livejournal.com]

http://www.royallibertymorris.250x.com/

What a horrific website :) You always know you're onto a winner when the "Skip Flash" link is part of the Flash.

I was always scared of Morris Dancers when I grew up. Clack! Clack!

[jasontheknight.livejournal.com]

s/when I grew up/when I was growing up/

[reddragdiva]

Literally by the book. It's amazing stuff.

My main reaction and response is to say "buggre thatte" and continue to live my life.

[reddragdiva]

We'll see you at the big one in December then ;-D

[reddragdiva]

I hated them from a very early age. General traumatisation with suburbia and family ...

Re: Scientology and Speed

[reddragdiva]

Oh yes. And the Xenu story, which was written on lots of "pinks and grays" (amphetamines and barbiturates). Some critics have speculated that "body thetans" are actually a crawling-insects-on-the-skin feeling from withdrawal.

Re: Scientology and Speed

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

I wonder what the clams were on.