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  Sunday, June 15, 2008

My Former Nobodiness

Take that, spell-checker! heh

Anyway. When I was in high school, you know, back before the dinosaurs had floppy disks, there was a little pet store in the northwest boondocks of the San Fernando Valley known as Nimoy's Pet Pad. Nimoy as in Leonard Nimoy. We had our dog groomed there. But that's not the topic of this story.

Next door to Nimoy's Pet Pad, before they'd moved farther north on Topanga Canyon Blvd, was a little magic shop called "Magic World". As a teenager I frequented many magic shops around Los Angeles, especially Joe Berg's in Hollywood, but Magic World was the closest to me.

I loved both magic (illusion) and magick (the mysteries of life). I investigated astral projection, Eckankar, yoga, the secret life of plants, Scientology (run away!), gnosticism, buddhism and several other isms.

One day when I was in Magic World a woman was working behind the counter who seemed to take a shine to me. She commented on the skeleton key I wore around my neck, telling me I needed to wear a pair of them. Then she peered at me, took on a far-off look and said to me, "In a past life you were once the girlfriend of a soldier in Napolean's army, who never came home."

Everyone else who has a past life was always the Queen of England, or Joan of Arc, or Julius Caesar or some other major historical figure. Me? I was the girlfriend of a nobody. I couldn't have been Ada Lovelace or something? Yeesh.


Posted by Dave    Blog Tag: Chatter

1 Comments:

At 6/15/2008 12:30 PM, Blogger Alan said...

I think I was Charles Babbage in a previous life. However, I haven't written Ada in years.

 

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