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To those few benighted individuals who still read my increasingly irrelevant blog, I offer the following excuse for my neglect: I have been busy.
Among other things, there have been a series of great shows at Vorpal Space, with more greatness to come this summer season. Also Vorpal Space has partnered with Gowan Metalworks, who has set up a small but full featured Goldsmithing and Silversmithing operation in what used to be the bar area of the gallery. Gowan makes amazing traditional jewelry, and the highest quality body jewelry which I have ever seen. Check out her work here: www.gowanmetal.com.
I have been doing a surprising amount of antique weapons dealing out of the display cases in Vorpal Space, I have features sharp dangerous things in the cases since the beginning, not only due to my own proclivities, but also as a connection to the name and Jabberwocky poem. Some of the the current lot (mostly vintage Malaysian and Balinese pieces) are damn cool:
 
I love buying and selling sharp pretty things. . .
I am part of a proposal for a Major Consulting Project, which if we get it will make me incredibly busy for months and pay me more money than I have made since the lawfirm days of old. I am especially excited because it is working for a great non-profit whose mission is incredibly worthwhile. Wish us luck.
I have bought and sold 5 or 6 motorcycles since I last blogged on the topic. . . Apparently, I get bored easily (and the VF750c Magna was a bit heavy for around town). . . Anyway, the current bike is pretty awesome -- a 1978 Honda CB400t Hawk II. The Hawk II has damn impressive specs for a vintage bike: 370lbs, 395cc (OHC, 3-valve parallel twin), 5-speed, 43HP, tops out at 110mph, and gets 50mpg. Light and agile with plenty of power, this little guy has been restored and Cafe'd out. Cafe treatment includes: super comfy custom seat (built on the original seat pan), vintage wire wheels (instead of the ugly stock mag wheels), custom vintage TT style drag racing pipes w/ spring clip mountings (loud), an even older chrome fender w/ support bars and fabricated bracket mounts, a chrome headlight visor, lower "Super Bike" touring bars and billet aluminum bar-end mirrors, and a bomb proof "paint job" which is actually industrial grade truck bed liner (which means that I could probably lay it down without messing up the "paint"). And it runs like a top -- a 30 year old bike which starts on the first kick!
Question: should I get a little vintage Bikini Fairing for it, or leave it naked?
The various occult and esoteric projects are going well. Our new Masonic Lodge focused on esoteric research received a charter from the Grand Lodge. And, a paper which I presented to the Rosicrutian College a few months back, is being considered for publication in a national journal. Other publications have expressed interest in it, should that one not decide to publish it, so apparently my career as a writer on such topics is progressing.
Tea is still a focus -- I have found a good local source for Chinese stuff in the outer PDX. They don't speak English very well, but via pointing and pantomime we have developed something of a rapport, and I'm getting great hookups. I gave away about a third of the enormous bag of Oolong I posted about back in February. The remaining 60 or so pounds I traded for a .5 carat Diamond. No shit -- apparaised and everything. Now I have this big bling, which I am at a loss to find a use for. . . I suppose it is a good problem to have. I'll probably let Gowan make it into something.
And, Artemis, as always, is good. Apparently, I am as well.
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