Things that ROCK!

Club Skye. Our very own homemade night club for the cool kids. My beloveds in Austin, who throw an amazing and civilized party, and let me do home improvement projects! Mud on walls, with hay and mica, a trowel... how could I not be happy?? Lioness and IROC, you are blessings. Lizard Princess, you too, my dear, with your love and smarts and good Virgo sense to be born on Labor Day weekend so that I can always come see you for your day. And Dylan, and H, and Ben, milles bises a vous aussi! You rock so hard the black hole at the center of the Milky Way will never mess with you.

And, yes, Lioness, we will never, ev-ver have Apples to Apples at a party again. No matter how much crazy fun that game is. We know too many word freaks. Do, please, please, burn me that party mix. That rocked in the grooviest way.

Also, the Irigaray Circle Conference at Stony Brook, totally rocks. I'm on a panel with a woman who writes about Irigaray and ... KATHY ACKER!!! Ohhhh, yehhhh! So, Iris Murdoch, Luce Irigaray, and Kathy Acker, all in one hour. Melange, melange, oh Postmodernity you pastichey monkey. Keynotes: Penelope Deutscher and Tina Chanter (i sooo adore TC). Could I be more pleased? Yes, I could be more pleased if Irigaray would write me back. But, this, these two days, this rocks my brain happy like a good love buzz.

And then, lots of hanging out in the Apple. Which .... rocks.

Fabu-rock-ulous: My friends in Dallas who are finding all their good send off mojo! Collegues at the Institute, at WordSpace, my students who are kicking butt this quarter and making me oh-so-proud... I am humbled.

Bonus Rockage: upon my return to D from Manhattan, I will officially be an Independent Scholar and Unemployed Writer, who will, someday soon, Rock Your World.

As you can clearly see from this weeks Koan-scope (thanks Free Will):SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Recently, less than five percent of the world's astronomers voted to demote Pluto from a planet to a "dwarf planet." Some Scorpios were alarmed, since Pluto is the heavenly body that traditionally rules your sign. My opinion? Don't worry. I agree with mythologist Roxanna Bikadoroff, who says there's poetic justice in calling Pluto a dwarf planet. In fairy tales, dwarves are often magicians who possess hidden storehouses of riches and act as agents of creative transformation. They typically live beneath bridges, which are symbols of transitional thresholds, and are masters of in-between states. They bestow blessings on anyone who is able to pass their demanding tests. This is an apt symbolic description of you at your most potent, which I expect you to be during the coming weeks.