2025

One thing I will give this new America, book learnin’ material is dirt cheap! I have been able to snag like seven books in the past three months that just a couple of years ago were at least as expensive as MSRP cover price used, if not two to three times (one book that I recently got for ten bucks used, was $120 used last year!) more. Also I got some I-Ching dice (I am firmly a coin method guy…

My first introduction to I-Ching was about 35 years ago when a librarian in South Carolina suggested it because I was getting books on ancient religious texts like the Egyptian Book of the Dead, nordic history and eddas, Wicca, kemetic reconstructionism, Japanese Tendai Mikkyo Buddhism, and Mayan culture and just… devouring anything and everything I could about world religions and mythology. I was really into heavy metal music, science fiction television, horror movies, and fantasy books (okay mainly Red Sonja…

Okay it’s two books, but these used to be USD $ 100 (or more!) each new, and sometimes maybe half that if you’re lucky used, and I hadn’t tried to source them used in about a year… so fuck yeah I was psyched to get these! I was three years old when the first one came out in 1979, and six when the second hit shelves. Granted depending on if you go by shamanic use or first printing in it’s…

I saw this on Buddy Bezos’ Buyatorium and made a poor financial decision, well not really… I dig it, but was it necessary?The full size coins I have also in the pictures are a bit larger than and about twice to two and a half times as thick as a US Quarter.They store inside of the turtle shell which is spring loaded. I kind of love it though!