To the Lady on the Muni Train with Me This Morning:

[lwood]

I realize that the religion we may both share is a vanishingly small minority in the US. So, when I see someone displaying any of our several identifying marks, I like to strike up conversation.

However.

Dude.

You kinda confused me there by wearing both a tasteful wooden hammer on a long-linked wooden chain and a medical (not costume) eyepatch^*. I tried to use this as a conversational opening ("Hammer and an eyepatch? Not a combination you see very often...") but you did not take me up on this, nor did you notice when I fished my valknut out of my shirt, although the one around my neck is kinda discreet^†, you might have missed it.

Let's try to catch the same train tomorrow and have this conversation again tomorrow, only with more content, k? Thanks.

-- Lorrie

^*

Leaving aside, just now, what-all wearing an eyepatch can mean in my world. Outside my world, it usually just means "ow my eye hurts".

^†

These pendants come in three sizes: "discreet", "identification", and "pimpin'". Mine's discreet. Yours was identifying. Pimpin' I tend only to see at festivals.

Comments

[toasterstrumpet.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of a Pirate Thor- whimsical! :P

[toasterstrumpet.livejournal.com]

Oh, I just re-read and saw that it was a medical eyepatch...that is odd.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Well, now, the difference between "medical" and "costume" is that the medical ones are on better elastic, and the costume ones are on a single cheapass rubber string. So, really, if you're wearing an eyepatch for any length of time, you want the medical kind.

I have an Eye Issue, so I do occasionally have to wear them for medical reaasons, but even when it's for a costume, I go with the medical kind. Fits better, and is in any case easier to find (any arbitrary drugstore as opposed to cheesy Halloween or other costume shopes).

-- Lorrie

[baldurrising.livejournal.com]

One of these days I want to get a custum built valknut clock that I can wear on a chain- like 5 inches in diameter. Heathen bling bling yo.

Amused

[scrwtape.livejournal.com]

Might as well wear the vikin' hat too!

Re: Amused

[baldurrising.livejournal.com]

Actually, a couple friends and I tried to make a Viking hat- with drinking horns and straws, much like the beercan hat, but with extra awesome.

Re: Amused

[lwood.livejournal.com]

*snrk*

Also, I am making a mighty NOG for Wednesday's Hrafnar.

It involves two whole 750mL bottles of booze, a gallon of whole milk, a half gallon of heavy cream, and two dozen eggs.

Now, if I only sprinkled bacon on top of your glass thereof...

-- Lorrie

Re: Amused

[baldurrising.livejournal.com]

Baconic Nog?

Wow- I might actually drink that. :)

Re: Amused

[keristor.livejournal.com]

What sort of booze? I usually use 54% dark rum for eggnog (from Germany, where it's cheap because they don't have the ridiculous amount of tax on it), I haven't tried other sorts of alcohol.

Re: Amused

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Myer's Special Dark Rum (http://www.bevmo.com/productinfo.asp?sku=00000001300) and Knob Creek (http://www.bevmo.com/productinfo.asp?sku=00000001616) bourbon, half and half.

-- Lorrie

Re: Amused

[wednesday]

I can has Hrafnar?

Re: Amused

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Only if you come to Berkeley to collect your prize (http://www.hrafnar.org/). ;)

-- Lorrie

Re: Amused

[wednesday]

An organization devoted to cider and it's all mine! I AM THE GREETEST! And now I shall fly to Berkeley for NO RAISIN.

Re: Amused

[lwood.livejournal.com]

There's wine country.

You can has raisins. ;)

And, really, am I not raisin enough, to say nothing of all those evenings raisin Cain to which one may aspire in such excellent company...

-- Lorrie

Re: Amused

[wednesday]

Well, yes, but I'm not entirely certain Immigration will let me in if I put RAISIN down on the forms...

Re: Amused

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Raisin is the reason for the visit?

'scuse me, someone is cheerfully suggesting that he can really really help you come very very soon if you just stop off at the tobacconists and get him something, and, moreover, your puns are witty and charming, and--

*eyes Peanut Gallery warily*

-- Lorrie

Re: Amused

[wednesday]

Probably more accurate:

"What are you bringing with you into the country?"
"Raisin." *holds up wine*
"Any alcohol or tobacco?"
"Yes. The raisin. For the season."

Re: Amused

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Naw, she was reading too butch for that kind of hat.

In re: your icon:

...Huggy Bear (http://www.antoniofargas.net/) called. He wants his concept back. ;)

-- Lorrie

Re: Amused

[trogula.livejournal.com]

Heh.

I've got an antlered crown that I had made. The horns span out about 3' on each side.

Vanic pimpin', yo.

Re: Amused

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Werd.

Re: Amused

[trogula.livejournal.com]

Gerd ;-)

Re: Amused

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Nerd.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of the time evergrey drew an Odin Pimpmobile--an eight-wheeled grey limousine...

-- Lorrie

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

*cackles*

That should make a guest appearance in a Young Wizards novel....

But Speaking of Young Wizards...

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I keep trying to puzzle out where Odin would be in dduane's loosely configured pantheon of TPTB: you have the One (which is nobody/everybody/etc), the One's Champion (Michael/Thor/Macchu Piccu/Lugh/etc), the Wisdom power (the manuals/whispering/etc)--and then the Lone Power, which comes in flavors of Unreconstructed (Balor/Lucifer/Serpent/etc), Redeemed, and Unfallen--plus, doubtless, others.

I'm thinking that the only place Odin could go is as Lone/Redeemed, rather like the Old Tom of the feline pantheon.

What do you think?

-- Lorrie

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Keyboard!

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Hee!

-- L

Levels of heathen bling

[scrwtape.livejournal.com]

I like 'em.

Mine is identifying. However, unlike my previous hammer, it looks like an actual hammer. My last one while any heathen could have identified it, most non-heathens thought it was an anchor, or the dread "upside down cross."

My current brass hammer a kindred-member made and it looks almost like our Kindred Hammer (both seen at the www.heathengods.com website). We all wear them, trying to figure out another way hang it on my favourite chain though.

Re: Levels of heathen bling

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Fun!

-- Lorrie

Re: Levels of heathen bling

[trogula.livejournal.com]

My current hammer is a silver replica of a hammer found in Upsalla. Picked it up in the Swedish store about a month ago in Rockford, IL (woot!). It's in between representin' and bling size, but I wear it under my shirt. I wear it because I enjoy it, but that doesn't mean I wanna shove a hammer up everyone else's arse that I pass by.

(Of course, if a fundy approaches, or someone else lacking a sense of humor, then the game is on....)

Re: Levels of heathen bling

[lwood.livejournal.com]

And now, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" is stuck in my head, thanks. ;)

-- Lorrie

[neohippie.livejournal.com]

Speaking of heathen bling, it reminds me of when I first bought my hammer way back when at a witchy shop that's now closed (alas). Shop lady was surprised I chose the smallest hammer they had, saying big tough Asatruar always come in there and get the ginourmous ones. Nobody ever wanted the little one before.

I think it's pretty; it has knotworky stuff and the little face at the top.

Also, I somehow just ended up with a boar's head ring for when I need some Vanic energies. One of my friends said, "hey, I found this on the ground at a park and thought it seemed like something you'd want." It's just a little pewter ring with knotworky things on the sides and a boar's head in a circle in the middle. That all seemed wyrd so I thought I'd better take the ring.

ETA: The ring fits perfectly too, more reason I figured maybe someone was trying to get my attention with that.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

D'y'think they're compensating for something?

;)

I like the ring story--once your academic plate clears a bit, given your particular set of givens, you really ought to spend some time with the Vanir.

-- Lorrie