Monday, November 27, 2006

'Vegas and Liquid Bovine Tracheal Cartilage

Brisbane is hot and sticky, it makes me sneeze, my eyes hurt and I miss Crush like nothing else.

Apart from that, it's all good*. Heading up with Mum to the "Farm" tomorrow. She calls it the "Sanctuary", because she is a dirty hippy ... 75 acres of virgin bush about 45 minutes from the Sunshine Coast in the Obi Obi valley. She bought it a few years ago as a hare-brained scheme. At first, I was a bit skeptical ... it seemed a bit silly for a 50-something woman to buy a property like that ... but eventually I realised that it was awesome ... my Mum is the sort of person to grab onto a vision and make it real.

Anyway ...

The house here is filled with all sorts of delightful hippy claptrap, including things like "StereotypeArchetype Cards" which are cards with pictures of "Archetypes" on them (Damsel, Martyr, Femme Fatale, Knight) that you use to gain insight and/or wisdom.

Um, sure.

I don't know why I beleive in things like the I-Ching and Intention Manifestation and then baulk at crystals and astrology. Maybe it's because I haven't completely abrogated my rationality?

Mum is taking about 500 different supplements with cool names like "Phytoplex". One of them is called "Cartrin" and is Liquid Bovine Tracheal Cartilage.

Yes.

Liquid Bovine Tracheal Cartilage.

It smells like rancid beefstock mixed with cod liver oil.

Delightful.


* Please picture pretending to shoot some "hand" guns as I say that.

4 comments:

elaine said...

someone gave me some native american Stereotype Cards (TM) yeeeears ago. They sound like they'd fit right in at the "Sanctuary".

ps I'm a big believer in the sub-conscious. I reckon if you can trick it into doing what you want, then it will go about doing that while your conscious mind is blissfully unaware of what's going on. Maybe that's why the I-Ching and Intention Manifestation work for you and why magic and astrology and tarot work for others.

Anonymous said...

Thinking of you, darling, up at the sanctuary.

sublime-ation said...

Don't believe in crystals, believe in astrology. And tarot. I Ching, kinda. What's intention blahdi?

mskp said...

i miss you too.

awfully.

but we have a whole new year to look forward to...