super-nature

La Sloth: So, you gotta go to Coney Island with some white flowers and a bottle of white rum, and offer them to Yemaya, and hope that she accepts the offerings, for a good year.

me: let's go tonight!

apropos: maybe we could do it in the East River or the Hudson River. [To La Sloth] "Do you think Yemaya is also in charge there?"

me and La Sloth in unison: no way!

apropos: "So who is the entity in those waters?"

me: Cthulu!

La Sloth: in the East River definitely.

It is beyond doubt that today I have been the victim of witchcraft, or possibly sorcery! Who did I make angry/envious/jealous? I need a chicken oracle!

Also I am afraid my dreams tonight may involve the Babalon Working.

a CFP that puzzled us over here on 112th street

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

•Changing narrative “technologies” in Victorian/neo-Victorian fiction
•markets and economics of the Steampunk universe
•science and environmental politics
•Steampunk and the myths of the Industrial Revolution
•redefining the human: intersections with cyberpunk
•Steampunk and old/new/lost world empire(s)
•the terrors of Steampunk in a post-9/11 world

Dear livejournal, please suggest how steampunk is related to 9/11, aside from both of them being important symbolic categories in my brain, but even I am not apopheniac enough to assume that this CFP is All About My Referential Mania.