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Ahoy, dear Brethren! It was my birthday, so I am later in posting than I planned, but alas, the All-Seeing, All-Knowing, Almighty ICONOMICON! has delivered a fresh batch of arcane and esoteric iconography! BEHOLD!
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( The people of Paris, fearful that they and their representatives would be attacked by the royal military, and seeking to gain ammunition and gunpowder for the general populace, stormed the Bastille, a fortress-prison in Paris which had often held people jailed on the basis of lettres de cachet, arbitrary royal indictments that could not be appealed. Besides holding a large cache of ammunition and gunpowder, the Bastille had been known for holding political prisoners whose writings had displeased the royal government, and was thus a symbol of the absolutism of the monarchy. )
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Holy shit, you guys! I mean, Brethren of the ICONOMCION! It is a glorious day, the most holiest of holy days for the followers of the All-Seeing, All-Knowing, Almighty ICONOMICON! It has been three years, count them, three years since the ICONOMICON! graced the beloved internets! That is 3 years, over 4000 members, over 10,000 icons, 4422710 monthly hits, and 150GB in monthly bandwidth! HOW FAR WE HAVE TRAVELED, HOW MIGHTY WE HAVE GROWN! Thank you, dear Brethren, I could not have begged, prayed, and pleaded for a better bunch of supporters. YOU PEEPS ROCK! ENJOY!
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( When the tall European ships first approached the early Native Americans, it was such an ‘impossible’ vision in their reality that their highly filtered perceptions couldn’t register what was happening, and they literally failed to ‘see’ the ships. Their shaman stared out to sea and by imagining what he was looking for, was finally able to make out the ships. He was then able to point them out to others, until at last everyone could see the ships. The shaman could do this because he alone was open to the possibilities of strange things from other worlds. )
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Brethren, oh Brethren! Another winter has seized the land! Yea, but such frozen demons can not hold back the fiery power of the iconic! Behold and bewilder! The bounty of the ICONOMICON! is plentiful and pouring pizazz! Behold, another sentence with an exclamation point!
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( The Star represents hope, meaning, and faith in one's life. On this card is Pandora, who in myth opened the chest which Zeus had maliciously given to mankind, and released all the Spites. Upon opening the chest, the terrible afflictions Zeus had gathered - Old Age, Labour, Sickness, Insanity, Vice and Passion - escaped and spread over the earth, infecting the whole of mankind. Hope alone, which somehow got locked in the chest with the Spites, did not fly away. The image of Pandora and the Star of Hope symbolizes how even during times of depression, disappointment, loss, etc. we can still cling to hope. Pandora's eyes are not fixed on the unhappiness of the human condition, but rather on hope that there will soon be a dawn. The appearance of this card in a spread augurs a time where hope and faith are useful in overcoming adversity. )
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Oh, dear Brethren! Your outpouring of support has been amazing, stupendous even! Words cannot begin to express my gratitude, so I will let icons do it for me! In this batch are two icons made for those who have donated so far. Your Donation Reward graphics will be done after I return from my surgery, but in the meantime, please enjoy this plentiful bounty, which will be the last ICONOMICON! post until I return. Again, thank you so much, dear Brethren! This truly is the best icon community on LiveJournal, and it's all you! I feel humbled and privileged to have such excellent members. If you haven't been able to donate, you can still do so here. Thank you!
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( The vein graft is brought into approximation with the right atrial appendage. The appendage is isolated by vascular clamp. The tip of the appendage is excised. )
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Greetings dear Brethren,
Yours truly, Jack Shoegazer, Keeper of the Almighty ICONOMICON! is undergoing a very invasive surgery on July 21st. Basically, my superior vena cava (the main veint hat brings blood back to the heart) is obstructed and I need a rare spiral-vein bypass in order to correct it. You can read about it in more detail in this post, and see the actual procedure here. I will be in the hospital for five to seven days, depending on how things go, and then I have to stay in a hotel afterwards for a few days, the doctors tell me, before I will feel strong enough to travel home.
Luckily, I have excellent insurance that is going to cover the surgery. However, I live in Madison, Wisconsin and the only doctor that performs this particular surgery is in Salt Lake City, Utah. (My doctor's father invented the procedure.) Unfortunately, My insurance will *not* be covering my travel expenses in order to get to Utah. So, after much consideration and suggestions by antarcticlust and dakini_grl, I've decided to ask the Brethren of the Almighty ICONOMICON! for help.
If every member donated just $1, that would more than cover my travel, food, & lodging expenses to Salt Lake and back. I am not asking for blind handouts though. I will make custom icons for anyone who donates $10. Donations of $25 or more can receive a header or friend's only banner. Donations of $50 or more will receive an ICONOMICON! mood theme. $100 will get you a custom or personalized mood theme. I can also make other arrangements and take other requests.
When donating through PayPal, please put your LJ name in the comments here and a way to identify you so that I know who you are. Thank you in advance to anyone who is able to help. I appreciate this more than words or icons can express, but I'll try.
Thank you, Jack Shoegazer (P.S. I am discovering that for $1 donations, PayPal takes 33 cents of it as a fee, but for $10 donations, only take 59 cents, so I guess bigger donations are better as more money ends up in the fund. I don't want to discourage you $1 donors though :) Thank you again. You are wonderful.)
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Hear ye, dear Brethren, as we enter the First Iconomic Posting of the Third Year of the ICONOMICON! Enjoy the random babble, the multitudinous cacophony, the mystic megalomaniacal musings of your favorite iconteur, the All-Seeing, All-Knowing, Almighty, ICONOMICON!
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( The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called 'model agnosticism' and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself. Alfred Korzybski, the semanticist, tried to popularize this outside physics with the slogan, 'The map is not the territory.' Alan Watts, a talented exegete of Oriental philosophy, restated it more vividly as 'The menu is not the meal.' )
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The All-Knowing, All-Seeing, Almighty ICONOMICON! has turned TWO this week! It has been an amazing two years and every day we move closer to our goal of taking over LiveJournal, one icon at a time.
We can boast of our 2800 members, of the 13,000 comments received, of the thousands of icons available here, of the 500,000 hits per month and 17.7 GB of monthly bandwidth we're getting from PhotoBucket. Oh yes, we can boast!
I say 'we' because this isn't about me. I am a mere servant of the holiness that is the ICONOMICON! The ICONOMICON! would not be without you, my faithful Brethren.
So, thank you to all who have commented, those who have left suggestions, made requests, those who have tithed generously to pay for my account time and PhotoBucket account, to those who have gifted me through Amazon, and thank you to those who use these icons, giving them a life outside of these hallowed halls.
Much love to you, dear Brethren.
Sincerely,
Jack Shoegazer
Keeper of the ICONOMICON!
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