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So I'm still in this disturbing entropy zone, a long run of horrid luck. It's like being bewitched. One visitng qigong master, who I think is a charlatan but my boss thinks is a master sorcerer or some rot, he tells me I have this waterfall of qi running from my face. He says he hasn't seen anything like it before and doesn't have any advice. I should mention that his main schtick is qigong facelifts.
Yesterday I visited grandmaster Tu, aka Mr. iron crotch. I've had this nasty cough since Stacy and Tara have both been sick. I also have this fat zit on the center of my nose. It's part of the bewitchment, I'm sure. Tu says that a zit on my nose means I'm going to lose money. He says I should focus on bring my qi down to my dantian (my center). He writes out this prescription for Chinese herbs on a scrap of paper that I'm supposed to get filled (and I would, but I don't have a fucknig car now, do I?). He tells me I should eat Korean stewed pears. He also gives me this hand painted red gourd that's about 4" high. Tu painted some taoist glyph on it himself during some mudra laden secret ritual. He told me to hang it above my front door and clap three times when I see it. So I'm trying that. What the hell? It can't hurt.
Meanwhile, my boss thinks the remedy is to burn moxa, which smells a bit like skanky mexican brown pot and exacerbates my cough. Moxa is used a lot in Chinese medicine. The first time we burned it, all the warehouse guys got excited and tried to get us busted. They called the boss, my boss's husband, who came running over to our office all in a huff. Moxa is better smelling then the foam from the masts and sparring gear that permeates our building and is probably giving me lung cancer.
I'm waiting for some feng shui taoist exorcist next to cast counter spells on me next...
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Why not just pop the zit? It works for me and gives me a little squishy thrill.
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I popped it the next day. Now you can barely see it. Or maybe it's the effect of the magic gourd.
I got this big old mosquito bite on the right side of my nose in Hawaii. It has left a dark blemish scar which will take a good tan to disappear. It gave me a double zit nose when I had the zit.
There's more work weirdness, but I'm posting it on the architecture feng shui thread:
http://brotherhoodofdoom.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=25
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Is it only good for zits and face-gushing qi or can it do other stuff too? I'd be happy hang and clap at a gourd if it'll convince my bosses to pay me what I'm worth or get me a decent job.
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Don't get me wrong. I love the gourd. Tu has this feng shui student who travles all over the USA doing high profile arranging. Lately he's been buying up Tu's gourds and other odd arcanery and reselling them for hundreds of bucks. It's caused a bit of an uproar amongst Tu's other students, since Tu is struggling to keep his school doors open. His school is literally two doors down from a Tae Kwon Do school....
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At least it would round out the Doom swag list. I don't know how well it will help the qi gushing, but it will do wonders for the bottom line here at Doom, ltd. Keep those product ideas coming. It's still not too late to sell out. Just make me an offer.
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You wrote and article about the building? Informative but shouldn't we get to it after we've discussed the Tai Chi and Kung Fu for awhile?
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writing about architecture is a much needed break for me.
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They are filming down the street and it involves gunshots. It's very odd to have the morning silence broken by hundreds of rounds of automatic gunfire.
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... a day without shrapnel, is like a day without sunshine. Isn't that what they say?
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Over Chinese New Years, some of the warehouses blew off some huge strings of firecrackers this year. The funny thing is there's nothing out here but tracts of cement warehouses, so it had this weird echoey effect. We never did figure out who blew those off. There were a lot tho - it went off for several minutes.
NOTE to Greg: you could probably score some swag (non-DOOM, I'm afraid) by reading the Feng Shui article, then going to the thread on the kungfumagazine.com forum and answering the quiz question.
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Okay. I read the article two or three times. I'm just slow. I'm not up on my Feng Shui. I don't know. I don't know dammit. And now I feel bad.
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I worked stupid hours last week. Fourteen and sixteen hour days. But I only did four of them. I felt like someone hit me with a board upside my head. I entered the fugue where time was only a concept that I had once hear of.
But I got to skip the Friday though Saturday shift. The production company was going to be shooting on Stage 6 all night and wouldn't get to my stage, Stage 2 until Saturday morning. My boss took pity on me and said I wouldn't have to go in. I hadn't done a thing all week on stage, why waste another day.
They did return. They shot their final shot. The final shot of the movie. Hooray. Let's celebrate. When I came to the stage on Monday, there were wine glasses and empty champagne bottles. Vive Cliquot, no less (I'm sure I've spelled that wrong.)
Now after working sixteen hours for the day, possilbly 72 hours for the week in just five days, don't you think the crew would be a little tired? Maybe it was a hair irresponsible to give them liquor before they drove home?
I'm just asking.
Producers are supposed to supply hotel rooms to the crew if they work them sixteen hour shifts. I know of two deaths in the industry that happened because people fell asleep at the wheel after long shifts, hence the edict to give out hotel rooms. But they didn't offer rooms, they offered liquor. Long Live Hollywood
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Well Gene, I tried to read the article about your office, and right when I got to the part about the door being askew, Internet Explorer crashed. Did it have anything to do with your Qi? Do I need to burn moxa?
And of course I have to ask - have you smoked the moxa? Of course that would only be for research, naturally.
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