September 12, 2004

• Teaser–new Melody episodes coming!

  
  

  In 1989 or so when I started The Shaman Papers, a newsletter on (surprise!), shamanism, I included an on-going humor column called the adventures of Melody Andrewsdottir, a spoof of Lynn Andrews, a then-popular rich pretentious white woman who passed herself off as a shaman.  Some of the episodes are  on this site but way back, maybe a year or so.

  
  

  Anyway, I recently found parts of two previously-unpublished  episodes, in which I had written in myself (I became Swayed Greyface) and Kathy ( Dingo Juju, after her “real” spiritual name of Coyote Medicine).  They had been used as packing material in a box of rocks, which somehow seems appropriate.  But I digress. 

  
  

  Also featured were Mother Charisma (from Mother Teresa) and  Golden EaglebreathRavenBadger (after Silver RavenWolf, a Wiccan author of my acquaintance).  Kathy said she knew where the rest of the drafts were, but for the nonce, here is a little sample:

  
  

  “With that, she strode down the road with dignity and aplomb, pausing only to toss  the plomb at a passing moose who plucked it out of the air, gulped it down, and turned into a unicorn.”

  
  

  And:

  
  

  “Just then, Dingo Juju appeared.  “Did anyone see that amanita baklava I just baked?’

  
  

  ‘Yup.  Ate it,” Greyface said, his eyes starting to roll in different directions.

  
  

  ‘The WHOLE THING?  That was supposed to last all of us all week!’

  
  

  Stay tuned.

  
  

   

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