Oh the joys of the peoples who don't believe in ghosts.

HIM is ugly HIM looks crazy in that picture.

HIM fails at finding someone selling the overlord thing.

HIM is wearing Super Fly glasses, which makes anyone look a bit different.

HIM needs to only ask me about the silly overlord thang.

HIM has epic fail picture taking skills. Taking pictures left handed is a skill for me yet.

O rly ? You sell over lard thang.

Yep! I'm also typing one-handed, feeding Otto and cooking dinner. So, if I vanish mysteriously, it's not because the pod people swooped into town.

As long as the pod people don't come to town they don't seem like very nice people....aliens....things.

In retrospect, I am surrounded by alien creatures. Women who faux tan and have faux blonde hair... and faux bewbs. I feel like I am the sore thumb at school - I do stick out!

Radically awesome hair, HIM. 8)
Today is beautiful...

So people in the south are pretty superstitious?
I don't think ghosts are connected to the devil or demons...
Theres another aspect of 'being' that isn't understood.

I believe in aliens too... I have a friend who supposedly got abducted by aliens and he tells me the weirdest theories ever. XD He's funny... especially when drunk.

I thought sticking out was a good thing, elmira... Its good to be unique...

I thought so too, Thoth, but some of these people are incredibly backwards. There is a thin line between tolerance and hostility, depending upon who is in the room. I was told today that I was pale - like that was a bad thing. Grew up in SoCal and didn't cave in then - I ain't paying money to sit in a nasty can with light bulbs and get burned! :)

Fear has been a powerful motivator in the South - think about the history here.

Yeah, I've never been to a tanning salon either, even tho I live in cali...
I always knew it was bad for the skin... I love natural sun...
Thats true. They believe in voodoo, I thought. It still lives on today, my step dad is from the south and he's straight evangelical and believes that evolution and global warming is bs. lol.

That was what my hair looked like when I had it done a while ago now there's less pink.

It's best not to be bright orange with yellow hair which is probibly going to drop out.

There's a village in Africa I think it is that still does the whole Voodoo religion.

Still, pink hair is awesome. If I ever dye my hair again it will probably be pink. XD

Nice, africa is interesting... I was just watching the travel channel and they were talking about the "giant jars" in laos. The spoken tradition is that the huge wells or jars were carved by giants! Very cool.

Sorry about earlier HIM - my battery died.

Pink hair sounds awesome. I've always wanted to put a royal blue streak in my hair.

That thing is Africa sounds awesome! I love hearing legends like that. Legends are usually based on truth.

I'd guess that the pink would be hard to keep in your hair, plus it sounds like you need to bleach it instead of using peroxide to lift the color out of your hair before you put the pink on it. Bleaching over and over can turn your hair to mush or cause it to break off. I've even heard of people who saw smoke coming off their heads.

Yup. Tanning salons are everywhere here. I just don't get the point. You pay someone to lay down in a contraption to bake your skin and then have to find a dermatologist later to fix the damage. I'd rather get tattooed. It is quite odd living in a place where most people are members of a fundamentalist-based religion - most of whom have never heard of other religions or they assume that other people are either crazy, wrong or possessed. I have several people praying for me. Sweet, but very strange!

Voodoo is a mixture of Catholicism and African pagan/shamanic practices. There is a traditional African religion called Yoruba. In fact, there was and I think still is a community in South Carolina that has isolated themselves in order to practice the religion and reestablish African culture - it's their way of reclaiming their ancestral beliefs. I had a professor when I was in my anthropology program who studied the group that's here and brought in some footage.

I use the more expensive vegtable based dyes which last longer than 10/15 washes. I just do the roots and not bleach the whole bit.
After the story of the silly woman who had her hair bleach twice in 12 hours then wondered why it turned orange and fell out.

I once tried to explain to someone that Voodoo is a religion and they just didn't get it. I'm pretty sure they still think voodoo is the whole shruken head thing.

I think Voodoo is pretty interesting. I just wish they'd quit cursing people so much because I think it draws a lot of nasty energy to Louisiana. There's something about it that speaks to my own primitive nature - a certain familiarity - but I've never been so drawn to it that I explored it further. So, I look at it as an outsider. My old man's sister used to be into it and did something stupid because she didn't know what she was doing - and wound up getting some nasty energy stuck to her. I refuse to call stuff like that demonic, but I guess that would be close to what other people would label it as.

Religion with curses sound like my kind of religion. Paganism is evil to alot of people possibly because they've watched the film Wickerman but what they don't realize is that we have alot of carvings of the green man on signs for country parks and things.

The area I grew up in was pretty interesting. People were either Mormon or pagan. Some were Catholic - most were agnostic. I spent 25 years being Mormon - and self-excommunicated because I simply couldn't practice something I thought was nonsense - my opinion.

Anyhow, my parents' home has a ton of artwork made by people they know from the Renaissance festival they work at. Lots of Greenman images, they even have a cast iron lamp post in their backyard that has gargoyles holding the lights. Basically, I grew up seeing those images in my home and the homes of my friends - which is why I never thought twice about it. Still, I am surrounded by people who are scared of anything that is different, and that gets a bit tiresome. Not everyone, mind you, but definitely the majority of people I've met.

A little research could really dispel the fear.

Alot of people just see the green man and don't think twice about it because it's such a common image. We had the green man carved into wooden pannels in churches until the wooden pannels went out of fashion.

It's only really religious people who might not like the green man being pretty much everywhere.

I keep saying I'm going to build a wickerman just to see what the local counsel would have to say about it. My back garden I shall build a 20 foot wicker man if I do so wish to.

Do you really think people would have a problem with that? I mean, it's not like you're going to stuff people into it and set it ablaze ;)

If I burnt it I'd get into trouble for having a bonfire in the back garden. I'd just tell them it's a giant BBQ.

I'd really hate to anger you - and wind up in the wicker man!

@elmira: I've never bleached my hair before... Woah, your hair would have to be very brittle for it to catch fire that easily. I caught my hair on fire once just from smoking my pipe... it was my own fault. XD
That is strange... are they fundamentally christian or what?
Yea I don't get tanning salons either. So do you really want a tattoo? Personally I've never wanted one...Ink just isn't my thing. Plus, I don't like pain. lol.
The yoruba sound fascinating... Do they believe in multiple gods?

@HIM: I was watching on the travel channel that one show where those 2 british guys go to different native clans and try to understand their culture better... One old clan that lived on this island actually had shrunken heads... Creepy. Anyone who died, they shrunk their head and they believed it was respectful to the spirits.
I want to go to the beach and make a bonfire and than just partayyy~ lol.

W00t PAGE 69~ hahaha.

I started getting ink after my husband died - it was a way to cope - and I was 40. My instructor has seen hair smoking - no flames though. The area I live in is very Baptist/Church of God/Assembly of God. Some of the girls have family members who are preachers. The Yoruba is a polytheistic religion - and it's really interesting! I think I saw them mentioned on wikipedia if you want a quick reference.

I found out how they shrink the heads, I just randomly decided to find out how they shrink them. Now if anyoen ever wants to know how they shrink the heads I can tell them.

I haven't seen any preachers round recently not even Jehovah's Witnesses so I haven't been able to tell them I don't join religions that come to my door. I keep getting adverts to a certain group which I really don't want to join.

wow - I get too busy to come online and I miss alot - lol. I think building a wicker man is cool. Wouldn't fly here because we get fires too easily although I did used to stack the tumbleweeds to look like snowmen in the winter.

I think tatoos are awesome. I don't have any just because I can't decide just what to get and where. It's a big decision since it's permanant and I just can't decide.