I had a strange dream last night...

[msfledermaus]

I dreamt that Leslie and I were running around this forest, following some hikers. (I think our plan was to yell, "Boo!" giggle, an run away.) The forest was hazy and full of fog, so sometimes you couldn't see the ground at all, or your hand in front of your face. I nearly went off a cliff trying to figure out how to get down, when this arm came down and lifted Leslie and I out in one smooth move. It was a smallish man dressed in ragged but shiny and translucent robes and he carried a flute in his had and smiled a lot. (He looked a lot like my friend Shaun, and had the same limp he does.) He said he was a poacher, But Leslie and I both knew that be was a Buddhist monk, and follwed him back to a small temple set in an old warehouse with a wodden floor and strange filmy curtains everywhere. I didn't go through them at first, because I thought it might be inappropriate since I wasn't Buddhist myself. But I immediately found myself past the curtains anyway, in front of a small altar. In front of the altar were 3 bowls of clear water given as gifts, and a small box full of sand. (for incensce, like the ones I had seen when I went to Nara.) I emptied out a bag full of malachite and hematite and quartz and little gold charms into the sand as a gift, but I wanted some of them back.
(In a kind of muddled dream logic, I had hoped the Buddha would tell me which ones he liked best.) But the ones I fishd out were much more interesting than the ones I put in--little jointed golden seahorses and fish, and other srange little things in plastic bags. I lined them up in the box and realized that it looked like a jewelry display and was embarrased by it, but didn't really know what to do--I wanted to keep them, but felt it would be wrong and bad manners besides to take them with me.
then on the side of the altar, I noticed a small bamboo flute. I picked it up, and found another piece to it lying on the floor, which I attached. It was awkward at first trying to play it. (I got that broken whistle noise you get when you first try to play a flute:) But eventually I got a lovely note out of it, and realized there were instructions on the back--from the Church of the Subgenius!! And it seemed be enchanted. It looked like the flute of the monk who brought us here.
(Who had an outrageous French accent, BTW. I kept calling him Jean-Pierre, though it wasn't his name.)
Very very strange...I know Leslie's a Buddhist, so maybe that's a subconcious part of me saying she likes me. (Or that the Buddha likes me. Or that I had too much homemade chili for dinner the night before. Or something.)


Anyway, time for this little Pagan girl to hew wood, draw water.

Love, the Ms, hoping your dreams were as odd and beautiful as mine...

Comments

A flute from Bob...

[ex-ilona40.livejournal.com]

You were in my dream last night.
I don't remember very much, but we had an awefully good time. I remember laughing.

Re: A flute from Bob...

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Hail BOB!!!

And I bet we would giggle our asses off in a dream world full of church of the Subgenius flutes!!!
Wonder if that sucker had a "Frop" compartment?

Ms Eff, almost sorry to be awake...almost...

Church of the Subgenius

[banana.livejournal.com]

I like your church - how do I convert?

8~)

Re: Church of the Subgenius

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Wa-ell, I am certified Pope Kiki BigBootie of the Temple of Jello-Twister, subsidiary to the Church of the Subgenius, and as such are liscenced to do conversions, deflowerings, exorcisms, collecting of monies, jihads, righteous smitings, etcetera...:)
Oh,and being the Officail officiary for the ritual of the Jello-Twister...(I spin the little wheel.)
I hereby, by the power invested in my by the Temple of Jello-Twister, do herby and forthwith induct you into the BIG RED CIRCLE of JELLO!!(tm)
Stand in the middle, state your name, and become...one of us!!!

(As for the church of the Subgenius, send them $30 and get your ticket on the Big Alien Space-saucers...um, sometime. they'll send you cool stuff, too. I'll look up the address in Dallas if you need it.)

Love, Ms Fledermaus, aka High Priestes Kiki Bigbootie...like you needed to know all that:)

Re: Church of the Subgenius

[banana.livejournal.com]

hehe - I thought you'd made up that church, but now I know better.

I might be persuaded to be deflowered by you and your big booties   8~o
but I can't find my flower at the moment. I know I had it about 17 years ago...

Jello Twister fun...

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

*Blush* Pity you've lost your poor flower; we'll have to get you another one, won't we?

Ms Fledermaus, getting out the cat-o-nine tails, the olive oil, a giant pumpkin, a small schnauser,
and a carton of Trix cereal....

*Stifles Ming the Merciless-style laughter*

buddhism and subgeniusness

[(Anonymous)]

As much as I think "Bob" is okay, and the fact that I gave him $30 makes him okay with me, I don't hang with SubGenii anymore. A great portion of them are as hypocritcal as some fundie Christians I've met.

Don't get me started on SubGenii.

***

That dude you met... that was my pal Fu Xing. Heh.

Luv,
syzygy

Re: buddhism and subgeniusness

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

You know, it's funny...I like the idea of the Subgenius, signed up, etcetera, but you're right, they ARE annoying..the very few I've met, anyway.
It's funny they popped up in my dream.

Fu Xing..That sounds a very little but familiar.
Isn't he some kind of spirit of laughter or something? (I honestly don't know, do tell!)

Ms Eff, thinking the Subgenius part was possibly chili-induced...:)

Fu Xing

[(Anonymous)]

It's the name of a restaurant over in Shoreview. It's been commented that they'd make a killing if they ever sold teeshirts with the name emblazoned on it.

Heh.

Luv,
syzygy
(I'm a fux0r, baby...)

Re: Fu Xing

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

d'ohhhhhh.....I am SUCH a stupidhead!!!!:)

Ms Eff, getting the joke now, dammit!!