What I Did Today (again)

Gee, we're doing a lot of those. It's like I suddenly went out and got a life.

Or, not really, since What I Did Today consists primarily of Went to the Bookstore.

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Some musings on the nature of evil things....

Evil things are very obsessive. If you scatter sand or grain across the path of some evil beings, they will be forced to stop and count it, allowing you ample time to get away. This has been used against both witches and vampires. Apparently, it even is possible to thwart vampires by stealing their socks. I thought that was a fictional joke.

If you are worried about attracting evil to you, you can trick it into thinking you are elsewhere by, for example, replying to your name with ritual phrases such as "are you speaking to me?" Or, to protect children, you can call roll by announcing that each child present is not, in fact, there. If you mention a stroke of good luck, you can convince evil that you didn't actually announce the good luck (and it therefore doesn't exist) simply by banging on a piece of wood. In extreme circumstances, simply announcing that you are about to bang on a piece of wood will convince the evil spirits to give up and go away.

Evil spirits do not wear goggles. Therefore, if you spill salt, you can deter the spirits behind you by throwing some into their eyes. If you sneeze, you can prevent evil spirits from entering your body by reciting a simple, short charm against them. They'll be wiping their snot-ridden eyes as you chant "blesyu".

In summation: Evil things are stupid. Very, very stupid. You shouldn't fear them, because they're stupid.

This post would've been better if I hadn't gotten distracted by the revelation that there actually are stories about vampire watermelons.

And a post by rpeate

Because I don't want to retype anything, I'm linking directly to my reply.

While I disagree with him, his view on criticizing people seems thought out, so I thought I'd link to it here to see what other people say. Say nicely, I mean, I did promise to be respectful and all.

And I have a question, which I didn't think to ask him directly: How does one know if something is "great"? How can you say you recognize greatness if you don't define greatness?

I don't define it at all, so I don't have this problem, do I? I even refer to Alexander the Pretty Good.