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So we had Lupus, Maelstrom and Wednesday in the GOlden Obscenity Diner
(don't ask) pontificating matters of silly Pauly Shore movies for some
reason or another that really makes no sense so you just don't want to
know that part. Maelstrom comments, as regards the dropping of the
grenade: "There's only three steps to throwing a grenade. I don't see what
the problem is."

Wednesday pontificated that there should be a twelve-step program for
grenade throwing. After all, it would make the process safer and more
nurturing.

1) We admitted that we were powerless over the explosion of the grenade;
that, once the pin was removed, the grenade had become unmanageable.

2) Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore
us to our component parts.

3) Made a decision to turn our limbs and our head over to the care of
the Medical Profession as we understood It.

4) Made a searching and fearless physical inventory of ourselves.

5) Admitted to Blue Cross, our remains, and our sargeant the exact nature
of our dismemberment.

6) Were entirely ready to have the grenade remove all our defects of
corporealism.

7) Humbly asked the Pin to allow itself to be removed.

8) Made a list of all body parts that we had possessed, and made arrangements
to deliver them to our enemies.

9) Made deft physics equations to calculate the trajectory of all remaining
body parts.

10) Continued to take physical inventory, and, when we were wrong, promptly
obtained prosthetics.

11) Sought to remove the pin and improve the trajectory of the limbs as
we understood it; and prayed only for one thing -- for our eyeballs to
land in the general soup.

12) Having been blown to smithereens as the result of these steps, our
ghosts try to carry this message to the soldiers, so that they might
also follow this path (and that path, and that path...)

* + * + * + *
e m p o w e r m e n t  r i t u a l  f o r  t h e  g r e n a d e
(warning: adepts need not apply)

The grenade is an essential part of our destruction, and, thusly, our
healing and eventual renewal. To strive for safe space within the blast,
and so as to better face our shadows as they are outlined in chalk,
we must honour and cherish the sacred Grenade.

The Grenade is the manifestation of Kali, both mother and warrior, who
nurtures/protects and destroys/blows to all hell. It is sacred, as the
womb and the tomb (and the boom) all are.

1. Create sacred space. This can be done by invoking the Four Bugles
(Nacho, Barbecue, Ranch, and Regular) (*N.B.: Of course, nothing in
this world is truly -regular-, as we are all distinct and individual
in the eyes of the Divine).

If your personal faith and/or cosmosymbological belief system
does not make you uneasy, you might also choose to invoke an appropriate
archetypal figure to assist you in confronting your Chalk Outline(s).
Some nurturing options might include Eris, Osiris, (and, if you truly
wish a jovial familial setting, why not invite Set over for tea that day
as well?), Isis, Nephthys, Artemis, Hastur (I only said Hastur once!)
(Don't say Hastur more than once!) (Come on, this Hastur work!) Canasta,
Shasta, Hasta, Vista, Isla, Bonita (best invoked in a spanish lullaby),
Fresca, Al Fresca, Al Dente, Al Fredo, Al Franklin, (but you can call them
Al), Albania, Hulkmania, Tasmania, Transylvania, Romania, Romaine Lettuce,
The Jolly Green Giant, The Incredible Hulk, The Sensational She-Hulk,
The X-Men, The Y-Men, THe I-Don't-Know-Why-The-Hell-Did-You-Ask-Me-Men,
The Go-Away-Men, josh geller, tyagi mordred nagasiva, Tzimon Yliaster
(for counterbalance), K!b0, Xibo, Xanadu, Xanax, and a partridge in a
pear tree.

2. Ground and Center.

3. Center and Ground.

4. Ground Your Center.

5. Ground Coffee. Ground Beef. Ground Round. Ground Zero.

6. Visualize world peace. Now that you are completely depressed, it is time
to unpack the HGoly and Sacred Grenade.

7. Unpack the HGoly and Sacred Grenade. It should be kept in fine camouflage
silks, scented with cordite.

8. Raise the HGoly and Sacred Grenade to the sky, and chant the following
Empowerment Chant: "Yabba Dabba Yabba Dabba Dabba Doo Now!"
This will help you channel and focus your personal energies into your
goal of self-annihilation.

9. As you weave your Personal Cone Of Power [TM, foreign and domestic
patents pending], dance the Charleston, (or the Achy Breaky for you zany
modern Chaotes), visualize whirled peas, and throw all of your being into
the mantra: "Drop the Pin and Throw The Grenade. Drop the Pin and Throw
The Grenade."

10. At the climax of the dancing and chanting, Throw The Pin and Drop
The HGoly and Sacred Grenade.

11. Blow yourself to bits and become one with the Goddess.

12. Do not worry about devocation. This should be automatic.

(See, this is what you get for saying Ha........)

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w h a t  t o  d o  a f t e r  t h e  r i t u a l
        (or, picking up the pieces)

Well, nothing. Come on. You're kinda dead.
You are now riding the Great Ferris Wheel. No, this does not mean that
you should save Ferris. Bueller has nothing to do with it. [Anyone? Anyone?]
This is the Wheel Of Life And Death (And Cool Parting Gifts). Your Karma
may or may not have provided you with a life's supply of Rice-A-Roni.
This is not available as a home game.

Now then, this is where cool mystical shit might come in reeeeeeally
handy if you were alive to think about it.

Oops.

Wednesday Ashkevron and Tina Sikorski