The Lair of the Emerald Serpent

Today was party time in Izzieland. We saw the welcome return to civilized weather. Sunny but crisp and crunchy and a respectable maximum temperature of 27 celsius forecast and delivered
All the weeds are looking happy, lush and green. It was such a relief not needing to water them after last night’s rain
It was time for celebration. Got all snaked up and wore a most special emerald green hat for a visit to the old lurking grounds of a certain old lunatic asylum in Fremantle. It would be a day spent ruminating, plotting, planning and doing a whole pile of squiggly stuff that should have been done yesterday.

The rituals would begin with a detour to Buratti art gallery which presently has an exhibition of Aleister Crowley paintings and other esoteric art work.
Visited this place for the solstice only to find that it was closed over Christmas and would not reopen until Wednesday 2nd January 2013. So instead of gawking at assorted beastly art works had to make do with second best - a certain deck of cards.
But the lure of Wednesday 2nd being the very first opening day of the new year, I figured it was just too auspicious to resist. After all this is a day that has been devoted to matters concerning the invisible worlds for the last eleven years and that would be just the perfect entree before the main course in the Garden of Insane Delights

( The map is not the territory )

Stolen from Ozfille in LJ land.







If you take enough samples, you eventually get the results you want ;)

But as an interesting experiment - first tested this thing out on an old Izzie book review and tossed it to the Mac Monster

First test - the bit up to the quote from an Amazon book review gets rated as like James Joyce!

The second segment also obviously exluding the book review as it is written by some one else gets downgraded to Dan Brown
The quote comes from a quirky quill clone of H P Lovecraft
and the whole thing including quote and all is magically transformed to be similar to Ray Bradbury. Hardly surprising since it is partly about one of his books after all and has got a quotation from it. Interestingly - removing that quotation still resulted in another Ray Bradbury result


Other serpent snippets scored J K Rowling, more Dan Brown, Nabakov and Raymond Chandler.
Maybe it's time to abandon the serpentine incarnation and transform into a chameleon instead

With a bit more glitter and sparkles, maybe we can score a Stephanie Meyer.

(Got Mark Twain, Mario Puzo and Stephen King but still no Stephanie :( )