We attended a stamp and coin show at the fairgrounds today and I was thrilled to pick up some nice specimens of ancient Chinese cash, mostly from the Southern Sung. Of course I wanted to bring it all home, but the coins I picked were pretty cool, though not of any high monetary value.
One of the […]
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Money’s Memory
Published by November 10th, 2007 in Home in the Rookery and Folklore and Myth. 0 CommentsMy First Comet
Published by November 2nd, 2007 in Speculative Science and Folklore and Myth. 0 CommentsTonight we put on our jackets and went shivering out into the cold to peer at the sky and glimpse our first comet.
Of course, even with binoculars, it still looked more like a tiny splat of pea soup than a comet, or maybe a place where someone had smudged the erasor of their pencil across the […]
Witchiest Get Rich Scheme
Published by September 14th, 2007 in The Human Condition and Folklore and Myth. 0 CommentsSo what’s the oldest-latest scheme for making money? The art of Necropants, as detailed in the Icelandic Museum of Sorcery and Witchcraft. I’ll let you read it from the source, but be warned that it involves wearing a dead man’s skin as pants.
Besides being the funniest scheme I’ve ever come across, it also reminding me that we […]
