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Yes, Colleen, it is indeed rewarding to personally know someone who appreciates Thomas Ligotti's work. This extra dimension is indescribably, uh, indescribable in its richness and surprises. I still envy your first reading of Ligotti's stories... Your next recount of a read will no doubt include a "Colleen word." Three guesses on my part.

Part of the lunch conversation, 2/2/06: The meat nonsense of BEEF-PORK-GOAT from "The Clown Puppet." Colleen had pizza with sausage and pepperoni, while I had spaghetti with meatballs. Stomach-filling nonsense.

Welcome, Colleen.

I invoke the chant from "Freaks": "One of us, one of us, one of us...."

Phil

welcome, richard and colleen!

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Hello, Richard and Colleen! Welcome to TLO.

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I am Noel. I am "Swans-- ." Live in Washington, D.C., am 46 years old. I can't get enough of TL. There's just no getting around him -- even philosophically he's a force to be reckoned with. I do love it that I can post things here, esp. the poetic profusion leading to noetic confusion.

Had to get that one in...

Yes, I still like Osho. Most engaging intellect/personality I've ever encountered. Saw him in India 1987. But all's in flux right now, and I've been depressed for eight months. I plan to quit my job in about 7 months and then take a year of "retirement" because I do not feel cut out for the world of work. When the money runs out, so might I, into the freezing cold w/ a bottle of vodka. And my Bose.

Oh yeah, P.S. I am related to my Avatar. Boris Karloff, aka William Pratt.

How? Cool.

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It's either distant cousin or uncle, probably cousin. His name growing up in Merry Ole was "Billy Pratt," and that was my childhood nickname too. A kindly gentleman he was, I'm told...died in 1969.

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Very cool, Swans. I can't compare with that story, but my father shares a birthday with Wilbur Whateley.

That explains a lot about him, come ta think....

Welcome to all new members. Candy, nice to have you here, and any friend of Phil's, etc. He's quite the capitol fellow in my books.

Best to all,
Aether

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Greetings all TLO fellows,
First off again I want to salute TLO's creators, I can't say thanks enough.
Well, here's some bio on myself.
I'm 32 and float between South Carolina and Georgia, USA.
I'm a freelance digital media designer/ photographer and kitchen manager.
(I actually have a degree in Commercial Graphics, go figure right!)
In my off time I seek out new strange areas to shoot photos and handle equipment, sound, and effects/lighting for a synthpunk industrial band.
I listen to a wide array of music as far back as Screamin' Jay Hawkins to industrial, punk, rockabilly, and Lovecraft-inspired experimentals.
Noctuary was given to me by a friend who didn't know what to think of it five years ago. As a Lovecraft enthusiast, this was a natural fit.
I look forward to adding any knowledge or expertise here...
plus I've some nagging questions of my own someone may be able to help with.
Here's to it,
-Maskwith7eyes

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i'm not sure why i put off visiting the "who are you?" thread, but i'm glad that i'm here now...

i pretty sure that i'm 31 years old, honestly i could be wrong. the concrete facts escape me at the moment. i was born on 11/25/74, math is my least favorite subject followed closely by science.

since always, i've been into dark and weird stuff. (this feels like deja vu - maybe this is my second post here? i'm too lazy to go back and check though). as a child i loved roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons, monster coloring books, 80's metal, and video games to exploring Lovecraft's stories, Satanism, horror movies, and dark ambient music as an adult.

i write and paint for relaxation and because i have a constant need to "be productive" and to "become better". kinda like an unhealthy obsession. this required productivity and self improvement only concerns things that i enjoy - dark and weird things. i feel the need to create a black, transcendental universe that's a lot less crummy than the one society gives us.

i have an English degree and fell into the family real estate business soon after receiving my diploma. i've always hated school, which is why i never became a teacher or continued my education. now i own a third of the 12 story Aberdeen student apartment building in Madison, WI. i used to live at the Aberdeen as well as manage it, but now i live 6 blocks away in a nice, high ceiling condo. i still manage the building though.

hand in hand with my productive and improving obsession, frolics my desire to accomplish as much as i can before i die (upon which time i will conclude my metamorphosis into a slimy, tentacled, and fiendish monstrocity). these drives have forced me to organize a Cthulhu Mythos convention in Madison, WI (Cthulhu Two will be May Eve weekend 2007); start my own Lovecraftian and Satanic religion: the Cult of Cthulhu; create a website of the same name; persue an art career; self-publish a much maligned dark fantasy roleplaying game called Empire of Satanis; and self-publish a poetry/short prose book called Alien Demons, Swords and Magic.

Lovecraft and Ligotti are my two favorite authors. i watch more movies and TV than read. i have a girlfriend but have never married or had children. one day perhaps... i enjoy my freedom too much at the moment.

darrick AKA
Venger Satanis
Cult of Cthulhu High Priest