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Your Score: Napoleon of Crime!

39 Social Standing, 18 Malevolence, 40 Self-Mastery

Others surrender to villainy through weakness, but your malevolence is
rooted in a malignant superabundance of strengths—strength of
intellect, strength of will, and above all else, the strength of your
overmastering conceit. You sneer at the decent strictures of Society,
and strive to undermine them by a thousand stratagems, petty and grand.
A loathsome spider forever spinning a web of all-encompassing
corruption, your machinations threaten the undoing of civilization
itself.

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Party like it's 1899!

Passing it on from discipuladc.

12/8/07
Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day

You must spend the entire day in costume and character. The only rule is that you cannot actually tell anyone that you are a time traveler. Other than that, anything's game.

There are three possible options:

1) Utopian/cliché Future - "If the Future did a documentary of the last fifty years, this is how badly the reenactors would dress." Think Star Trek: TNG or the Time Travelers from Hob. Ever see how the society in Futurama sees the 20th century? Run with it. Your job is to dress with moderately anachronistic clothing and speak in slang from varying decades. Here are some good starters:

- Greet people by referring to things that don't yet exist or haven't existed for a long time. Example: "Have you penetrated the atmosphere lately?" "What spectrum will today's broadcast be in?" and "Your king must be a kindly soul!"

- Show extreme ignorance in operating regular technology. Pay phones should be a complete mystery (try placing the receiver in odd places). Chuckle knowingly at cell phones.

2) Dystopian Future - This one offers a little more flexibility. It can be any kind of future from Terminator to Freejack. The important thing to remember is dress like a crazy person with armor. Black spray painted football pads, high tech visors, torn up trenchcoats and maybe even some dirt here or there. Remember, dystopian future travelers are very startled that they've gone back in time. Some starters:

- If you go the "prisoner who's escaped the future" try shaving your head and putting a barcode on the back of your neck. Then stagger around and stare at the sky, as if you've never seen it before.

- Walk up to random people and say "WHAT YEAR IS THIS?" and when they tell you, get quiet and then say "Then there's still time!" and run off.

- Stand in front of a statue (any statue, really), fall to your knees, and yell "NOOOOOOOOO"

- Stare at newspaper headlines and look astonished.

- Take some trinket with you (it can be anything really), hand it to some stranger, along with a phone number and say "In thirty years dial this number. You'll know what to do after that." Then slip away.

3) The Past - This one is more for beginners. Basically dress in period clothing (preferably Victorian era) and stagger around amazed at everything. Since the culture's set in place already, you have more of a template to work off of. Some pointers:

- Airplanes are terrifying. Also, carry on conversations with televisions for a while.

- Discover and become obsessed with one trivial aspect of technology, like automatic grocery doors. Stay there for hours playing with it.

- Be generally terrified of people who are dressed immodestly compared to your era. Tattoos and shorts on women are especially scary.



And that's it. Remember, the only real rule is staying in character and try to fit in. Never directly admit you're a time traveler, and make really, really bad attempts at keeping a low profile. Naturally, the dystopian future has a little more leeway. And for the record, I've already tried out all of these in real life, in costume. It is so much fun you want to pee yourself.

Pencil it into your calendars and pass it on! 

noodles and hats

I... am a budjet gourmet genius. Yesterday I made alfredo spinache pasta, with apple/gouda chicken sausage, black olives, a bit of curry sauce, basil and garlic. All for less than $10, and made in about 12 minutes, and it was delicious. And I'm so modest. :-P

I've decided that this year I'm going to be a witch for Halloween. Original, yes? I haven't been one since middle school, and being a full-time Pagan, it just kinda seemed anti-climactic, you know? But--and I blame Harry Potter and going to that party for the release of Book 7 for this--I seem to be in the mood to be one this year. I have plenty of clothes that could concievably be used, so all I really needed was a hat. Not just any hat would do, of course. I wanted something special. Something a little elabourate. Something that really Rodgered my Hammerstein... And I found one, today. At Volde-mart of all places. It's got a veil, and little black roses, and green iridescent feathers. Hee...!!!! ^_^

EDIT: I've looked around the Intarwebz and found a picture of

( The Hat )