a surprisingly pagan-friendly brother (plus, blood-letting)

ETA: The piercings are done. I've got pretty little silver hoops, positioned about halfway up my ears. Many thanks to the folks who recommended Irezumi's -- the piercing dude did a great job making sure I understood what and how things would happen and giving me the after-care pep talk. I'd originally wanted to go a bit higher up the ear, but he feared they'd look like floppy little antennae on my teeny-tiny ears, so I took his advice. Very glad I did. This is already a zillion times better than my experience at a Claire's-esque place about 13 years ago. I'm throbbing quite happily now and getting ready to take a bit of ibuprofen to make sure the swelling stays down. It only hurt enough for me to feel like it was a proper sacrifice, but not so much that I flinched or anything else. Yay!

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Of all my family, my brother is the one around whom I self-edit my talk about paganish things the least. He's not pagan, but could perhaps be the poster boy for pagan-friendly folks in my life. ( cut inserted because this looks longer on the screen than I thought it would )

channeling a friend

I'm having a gamera_spinning moment. On the flight home yesterday, I saw a little blip of entertainment news about a new TV series called Brotherhood, about public servants and the mafia and Being Irish in Providence, RI. Oh, and did I mention the publicity photo appeared to feature Jason Isaacs? Turns out, it's true!

::squee!::

The pilot airs on 9 July 2006. Now, if only I could find where it lists what network. (Surely it's somewhere in there, but I'm blinded by teh overhwhelming hawtness of teh Jason and cannot see it.) Between wanting to start catching BSG on Friday nights and this -- which appears to be Sunday night -- I might actually start watching television again. Please let it not suck. Please let it not suck. Please let it not suck.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0532782/

ETA: Most regrettably, I do not get Showtime. And I will be pretty well toasted from the God Auction this coming Sunday evening. I will have to rely on the kindness of strangers to record the pilot. (weeping, gnashing of teeth)