Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone!

Here's a game I found that's very cute, easy, but in the spirit of things. Definitely worth looking at to see the cute little vampire :3

http://games.zeeks.com/transylmania-9008/?page=play#Scene_1

And the epic sequel http://games.zeeks.com/transylmania-2-9037/?page=play

Hope everyone had a great day!

Happy Gothic Festival of the Lights and the Mysterious to You All!

Gleetings dukes and duchesses, gods and goddesses!

Today, in Western tradition, is Halloween. So... HAPPY HALLOWEEN! May you acquire lots and lots of candy, no matter what method you prefer to use: whether mooching off your younger siblings, going out trick-or-treating even though you're 20 (or nearing 20... *shakes fist*) or going off and buying candy and eating it while curling up to your favourite horror movie.

BUT! Today is also the Gothic Festival of the Lights and the Mysterious, a traditional Mutualese holiday that is strongly associated with Twill, goddess of magic, dreams and all knowledge! Mutualese myth dictates that on this day, Twill invites all the other gods and goddesses to her Mythical Citadel to celebrate this special night. Mutualese traditions on this day include dressing up in various costumes, most notably as personifications of colours, teenage-slasher-flick-murder-victims or vampires, as well as eating copious amounts of food and placing a giant stuffed ape in the corner in tribute to Kris, god of time, space and healing.

So, Happy Gothic Festival of the Lights and the Mysterious to you all!

~!Rubin

Rubin's Pseudo Christmas Wish List

Here's my list everyone!

Books:

Colbert, Stephen. I Am America and So Can You. Warner Books, 2007.

Fox, Sue. Etiquette for Dummies. John Wiley & Sons, 2007.

Huffman, Felicity. A Practical Handbook For The Boyfriend: For Every Guy Who Wants to Be One, For Every Girl Who Wants to Build One. Hyperion, 2007.

Kelly, Clinton and Stacy London. Dress Your Best: The Complete Guide To Finding The Style That's Right For Your Body. Three Rivers Press, 2005.

Lo, Eileen. My Grandmother's Chinese Kitchen. Berkley Trade, 2006.

Sclar, Deanna. Auto Repair for Dummies. John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

DVDs:

Desperate Housewives, Seasons 1, 2 or 3

PC Games:
- The Sims 2 H&M Fashion Stuff
- The Sims 2 Bon Voyage
- The Sims 2 Pets Expansion Pack

Gift cards:
- Banana Republic
- Mexx
- Chapters
- Tommy Hilfiger
- Starbucks
- Chemistry/C'est Sera Clothing on Whyte Ave and 104 St.

Twill and Nyx: I removed Brothers and Sisters season 1". I hope it's not going to be too much of a problem, as I know you two have already started Christmas shopping.

To the rest of you all: I hope this list doesn't change much, but it's a long time until Christmas.... And like Twill, please stick to this list if you can... I too have more than enough knick-knacks lying around... especially Starbucks stuff....

~!Rubin

Wish List: OB

I have broke the internet at home, so I'm typing away at the library, the home away from home...

Movies:

Classic Disney DVDs, but remastered as in recently re-released: (Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Robin Hood)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2 Disc)
The Fifth Element (2 disc special edition)
The Mummy Collector's Set
The Shakespeare Collection (Romeo + Juliet / Titus / A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Ratatouille (2 Disc)
Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)
Horror Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection
Warriors 50 Movie Pack Collection

Tv:
Angel

Books:
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

Graphic Novels
Death of Superman
Watchmen

Miscellaneous Goods:
Something personalized, I don't care.
Something loud and pretty to decorate my room in Kingston with, but sadly no windchimes because the ceiling would cave in, and plus there is no wind.
Something to do with Spongebob Square Pants, because he is so yellow and loveable and sponge-like.

200 MESSAGES!!!!!!!!!

Fellow Dukes and Duchesses, gods and goddesses,

I just wanted to post something quick congratulating ourselves on our blog milestone: TWO HUNDRED MESSAGES AND COUNTING!

Here's a toast to WIBOM and to its continued use by the Group! CHEERS! *Swigs back my shot* (I'm not sure what you're drinking, but I'm having a shot ;-) ).

~!Rubin

Pseudo Christmas Wishlist: Twill

Might as well start things off, right? :)

DVDs
- Firefly, complete series
- Disco Pigs
- Breakfast on Pluto
- Blades of Glory
- Transformers
- Meet the Robinsons
- Shrek The Third
- Spider-Man 3
- Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians

BOOKs
- Stork Naked by Piers Anthony
- Air Apparent by Piers Anthony
- God Debris: A Thought Experiment by Scott Adams
- Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! (Cartoonist Ignores Helpful Advice) by Scott Adams
- Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources by Timothy Gantz
- A Genealogical Chart of Greek Mythology by Timothy Gantz (this one is of particular interest)

CLOTHEs
- A zip-up hoodie/sweatshirt like the one I have (for those who have seen it) but a different colour (I have light blue). Also doesn't need to have a hood. But I like zippers. Nothing fleece because that collects hair and lint like crazy. Just regular ol' sweatshirt material is good. I'm a size XL usually.

MISCs
- Gift cards to Safeway
- Gift cards to Futureshop/Best Buy (some coordination would be nice, not too many)
- Gift cards to HBC (again, not too many)
- Cold hard cash :)
- Crystal Lite singles (strawberry kiwi, pink lemonade, lemon-lime, etc)


There we are. I would appreciate if everyone could stick to the list, more or less. Items of a similar nature are fine, or things with practical uses, but knickknacks I have enough of. I know some things are a bit expensive, so if you want some other ideas feel free to give me a shout via email or something, or leave a comment.

Now it's your turn!

Pseudo Christmas Wishlists

So, like Twill said, it would be good to start thinking about or to start sending out wishlists.

I am already picking out gifts. I have an extra idea that might pan out and be a good surprise, but I'll need some info. from you guys:

- Your favourite TV show(s)
- Your favourite actor(s)/actress(es)

Your list doesn't need to be too detailed (like, 3 or 4 names is fine). Comment or send me an email ASAP.

*fingers crossed*

Pseudo Christmas

Alright, so... I'd love to host Pseudo Christmas this year, and somehow work my birthday into it because I didn't have a birthday last year =\

I'm giving you lots of notice so you can make arrangements and heckle over dates. Yes, I do live out of town still. It will be awesome, because how many of you have actually been to a farm with little animals running around? It shouldn't be too hard to get there, it's only about half an hour out of town, and carpooling is possible.

Dates? Activity suggestions? Potluck or what?

-Nire

The Revival of Mutualism!!!!

Hey everyone!

It's good to see that the blog is being used once again! Oh glorious WIBOM! Praise! Praise!

But yes! On a semi-related note, I was looking for some old notes the other day and I found the Lord of the Rings-inspired story that I was attempting to write in High School! And I re-read it... Oh my... the number of obscure high school/The Group references in there... it was glorious! GLORIOUS!!!!

But yes, I have re-discovered my once passionate love for Mutalism and our "faith". AND, since I'm taking History of Drama and we just finished Ancient Greek Theatre, which is filled to the brim with oh-so cool Greek mythology AND because Twill explained and entertained me with her versions of tales from Greek mythology, I've created a few accessory mythical beings for Mutualism. Starting with:

Menrye, Zowen and Lorna, the Three Fairies of Art, Music and Literature: My version of the Greek Muses. They are servants to Starwing (godess of movement, awareness and creative expression and Scorpio (godess of art, utensils and prepardness).

Hideous, the Demonic Hound of Vengence: My version of the Eumendies/Furies from Greek mythology. My inspiration for Hideous was kinda out of no where: I was watching Family Guy, in the episode "Stewie Kills Lois", and it was right after the part where Stewie suceeds in killing Lois and I was like: "BEWARE THE EUMENIDIES, STEWIE! BEWARE THE EUMENDIES!!!" (I had just finished reading "The Libation Bearers" and "The Eumendies" by Aeschylus where Orestes kills Clytaemestra). But no Eumendies came... so I was like "I'm going to create my own verion of the Eumendies!" And that's how Hideous was born...

Hideous, according to Mutalese myth, appears when a dire breach of trust has occured (ie. matricide, fratricide, infanticide) and Hideous drags the body of the victim to the Altar of the gods and goddesses (us! Yay!) as evidence of the crime. Hideous then hunts down the perpetrator(s) so that they can be brought to divine justice.

The best part of this is the fact that Hideous is controlled by none other than Natrix (god of voodoo, charisma and righteousness), Obsidian (goddess of Mars, the undead and all destruction) and Melody (goddess of pain, anger and yelling/violence). I kinda imagined a Mutualese motif/mosiac with holy-Natrix holding on to a leash with a giant and vicious black dog on the other end, with holy-Obsidian stroking Hideous and holy-Melody feeding him with a bone.

Next up, the Ten Fairies of Goodness, or as Twill renamed them, with a more funky name, the Nine Fairies of Ity and Justice. The Ten Fairies are: Dexterity, Masculintiy, Femininity, Divinity, Beauty, Chivarly, Industry, Dignity, Fertility and Justice.

The Ten Fairies are essentially our errand fairies, and I created them because there were some areas that weren't covered by our god/goddess titles.

So ya! On that vein, I want to see if any of you out there want your own divine beings as your own servant deities. I've already asked Twill and she's thinking about it, and I'm in the process of thinking about mine. For me, I'm thinking about the Manizons (Thanks, Twill). The Manizons are the Guardians of Creation, and they're an army of tall, hot and sexy men... 'nuff said, lol. Ya.. I'll think about their actual role later....

So ya! I'm having a lot of fun revisting and enriching Mutalism! Next I maybe writing some actual myths invovling our holy personas and these mythical beings! Yay! So if any one you want your own sevant beings, feel free to get in touch with me!

~! Rubin

Oh btw, I've decided to do a funky name reversal thing. In my mind, our duke/duchess and god/goddess entities are two separate things. So for instance, there's Duke Windchester of Mount Concordia and Natrix, god of voodoo, charisma and righteousness. Funky, no? Imagine how funky/weird it will be:

"Oh great Twill! Goddess of Magic, Dreams and all Knowledge protect us!" said Duchess Clearwater of Riverside.

We back?

Are we using the blog again? I was shocked to see recent posts
Well it's been so long since I've heard anyhting from everyone in new york: Twill, Rubin and(Polar bear girl) sorry i forget the name offhand....are u excited that you're finally in third year...not taking anoying prereq courses?!....nervous about being done your udergrad or do u have the next 5 years already planned out?

Can't WAIT for x-mas! I can't wait to finally eat more than a boiled egg for dinner!
Classes here rock. I'm looking for another place to move into cuz i essentially got asked to get out of my current apartment....the joys of living on your own under someone else's house!
Plus it'll be good to finally be free of the roaches and mice....big rats the size of cats...or the same volume as one of those fluffy gerbels.
ooh....are any of u into graphic novels? I'm looking for some inspiration so i can illustrate my own based on a thriller i'm reading right now. So what are your favs? The library is full of animae and manga ro whatev, so that would work too.
Lova y'all

Double Dating

So my friend has herself a boy, and she is in the honeymoon stage with the squealing and the squealing and the squealing and the obsessing and the not much else. And she wants me to share in the joy by going with her on a double date. That of course would involve another boy. But she says I should just somehow get one, "like that," (imagne snapping). I just met her boy last night when he went to pick her up from my place because I made her a homemade meal and all that. From 1 minute of meeting him and fake conversation, I gave him my wholehearted approval. Let's just say he's cute as a button, and makes me want to squeeze his cheeks. Tis glorious. But back to double-dating. It is scary. I can imagine just us girls squealing with the guys rolling their eyes. I do not want awkwardness. There are candidates. But none seem terribly worthy. And sadly there are no good movies to go see, so I guess we shall be stuck eating and making awkward conversation.

This Is What I Want For Christmas

Well, this and cash. And a polar bear.



And new trailer (IAN MCKELLAN IS THE VOICE OF IOREK OMG XD)!
- Girl (Lyra) can't act
- Pantalaimon sounds dumb...All the daemons sound dumb
- Random shot of Christoper Lee, natural enemy of Ian McKellan
- It's like the cast of LoTR meets the cast of Casino Royale--awkward!
- THE POLAR BEARSSSS! <3