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Day 2 of the SPART ACtion Winter Games. 8th Feb 2008 Day two got off to a bit of a slow Start. I think everyone was feeling a bit tired from playing Cripple Mr Shithead the night before. When I got to the Ormeau Park bandstand I was the only one there. I then saw Sinead O'Donnell, a local Performance Artist, sitting on the benches near the bandstand. Sinead had come down for the games. It was nice to see her. We hadn't seen each other in ages so, the potential for fun was already there. I told her that on my way to the park I'd kept thinking about the occult potential of hopscotch. This is a game that interested me a lot. It was first used by the Roman Army to train their foot soldier and improve there footwork in fighting. I thought an occult version of it would be great. the first thing I did was draw out a large hopscotch board Sinead drew a small one for playing finger hopscotch. I then filled the big one with Magickal Symbols. The idea was simple: You through the stone into the square containing the magickal symbol you wanted to use in a spell. You then tried to complete the hopscotch hopping cycle and get the stone on your way back. If you succeeded you got the symbol for your spell. The first person to complete the whole spell by getting one of each symbol won the game and therefore automatically cast the spell. The spell contained in the hopscotch board was one for interesting adventures. A good prize to win I thought. I didn't tell Sinead what the spell was. we began playing.  After a while some artists who were over visiting form Finland turned up. To see what SPART was about. They were really nice guy's, one of them was called Anttia, but the others guys name I couldn't even make a stab at spelling. We stood and chatted for a while. They had been on the SPART web site and we amused by my magicakl experiments. They told me some stories about Black metal fans in Finland and how 'axing' people was fashionable among black metal fans. Axing is pretty much the same as stabbing someone expect it is done with an axe instead of a knife. Sinead took a few photos. They are the black and white ones on this web page. After a bit of chatting Sinead invited me back to hers to have a cup of coffee with them. I knew Paul was at home sick, but would be out in a while and meabh would be down to the park in a while so I figured I had time for a coffee. When I got round Sinead's my phone battery died, so I had to phone Paul and Meabh From Sinead's home phone. I arranged for them to come round to Sinead's. We hung out and chatted for a while. When Meabh and Paul came round we tested out the paintball gun I had bought for Meabh's performance later on that day. I pinged Sinead's front window a few times. It worked fine. Then it broke. Bullocks I thought. We left Sinead's and headed off to pick Luke up form school, the two Finish guys came with us. We had a bit of a chat on the way which was nice. It was a real shame though we didn't get to fully SPART together. At the end of the road we parted ways, the Fins headed for town and we went up the Ormeau We got Luke from School, passed Paul's house on the way back to drop Paul off and Pic Caroline up and then we all went back to the Ormeau park. Not long After we arrived, Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell and The Gird showed up.  The Grid (pictured above, with Caroline in the background) was still wearing his headband form the day before. He was on a mission to bring it back as some kind of fashion statement. After a bit of chit-chat and the eating of sweets, Meabh headed to the bushes and put on her rabbit outfit. When she came back we played several games that involved chasing her around. My favorite was the one based on clay pigeon shooting. Basically, each of us had a turn with the paintball gun. When we were ready we shouted 'PULL' and Meabh ran from one grass bank to the other. The person who shot her won. Unfortunately we were all a shit shot and so no body won. there is a picture of The Grid below, just before he had a go at this. Caroline is in the background. The Grid looks like a skinny Rambo with his head band on. In the end we chased Meabh around and covered her in mud. That was her idea, not our sadism. After this we played a bit of Stick-in-the-mud and some other chasing games. We ate more sweets and then wondered off to the nearby golf course to build sand castles in their sand traps. It was good fun. After this we went home and got some nice fish and chips. |
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That evening we went round to Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell's and had
a cozy night in with Parlor games. I knocked the door and The
Grid answered it dressed up like a goth. On entering the House I saw that
he had laid
out a big pentagram in sugar on the floor.
I made a mental note of it in case I wanted to do any Magick later
on. The invite to the cosy night in had asked up to bring something
that made us feel comfortable. So I had put on my dad shirt and brought
a copy of Liber Null and Psychonaut by Peter Carol.
The Grid has organized most of the Parlor games, although Gerard
had also prepared one. The games planned for the evening included
things like
Psychic Pictionary and Ouija Boggle. Gerard and I proved to be the best and Psychic Pictionary, but most people
put this down too the fact that we are brother and therefore it is more likely that we would know what each other was thinking.