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No, I don't have Advent Children, but that's because the store sold out the day they got them in. (There you go, it happens in the UK as well as in the USA.) They may be getting some in later this week, and I've reserved one if they do.

Meeting tomorrow, and I have a nasty feeling it's my turn to take the minutes. Bother.

I had a comment from someone who'd been reading Opening the Way asking where I got my information about voodoo, as she was surprised about the amount of information I had about the rite. I feel extremely smug. (And yes, I quoted my sources. Rigaud, Maya Deren, Metraux, and Michael Scott Rohan.)

. . . and Bleachwise, I'm now staring at http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp10222004.shtml and trying to decide if it's just Generic Outfit or if the artist was an Early Fan of the series. Heh.
Probably coincidence and just Vague Asian Samurai-type outfit . . . but, still.

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Excerpts from a Father's Wisdom

Do not worry about Despair
Just comb your hair
Despair is a strange disease
I think it even happens to trees.

-- A. K. Ramanujan