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LUDIC LOG
07.29.2004
BORN. To Janet Corbett, 31, a convenience
store clerk in Puyallup, WA, and Satanachia,
6008, Grand General of the Infernal Spirits, a man-child who shall be
named Enoch. The father
came to the mother on the moon of a sixth day of a sixth month at the
sixth hour in the form of a black cat. Baby and mother are
reported doing well, and father is planning to arrange for the child to
have a career in nuclear physics or pornography.
DIED. Arturo Sandoval, 61, of Guadalajara,
Mexico, eaten by a nameless gibbering thing that appeared after he
unsuccessfully attempted to summon Berich,
6008, a winged demon of gluttony. The imperfectly cast summoning
spell resulted in Sandoval's gory consumption by the horrid thing from
some long-forgotten sludge pit in a fetid and dank cranny of Hell so
remote that Satan Himself knows it not, but Berich claims that Sandoval
would have died soon anyway as his cholesterol levels were dangerously
high. Berich released a statment urging all those who would call
forth and bind the great devils of the eternal realms of torment to
follow directions exactly and to consume less red meat and alcohol and
lead a more active lifestyle.
ENGAGED. Terry
Jackson, 24, third baseman for the Detroit Tigers professional
baseball franchise, to Jeh,
6008, demon-whore of lust and debauchery, chief of mating demons, and
seducer and polluter of perfection. The two met when Jeh was
employed as a hostess in the Champagne Room of Squeezums, a
Detroit-area gentleman's club. Jackson plans to purchase a home
for his new fiancee in the suburb of Farmington Hills, while Jeh plans
to slowly suckle at the soul of her new fiance until his batting
average sinks below the Mendoza Line. To that end, she has left
her full-time position at Squeezums and is now working only part-time
at Twos, near the airport.
ENGAGED. Vepar, 6008, the mermaid-demon,
bringer of storms, bane of battle, conjuror of seaborne mirages, to
consume with maggot-infested wounds the pitiable and tormented soul of
media magnate Ted Turner, 65,
soon after his death from a massive coronary six years from now.
MARRIED. Olivier, 6008, Fallen Archangel of
the Fourth Power and Tormentor of the Poor, to Hine-Nui-Te-Po, 6008, Queen of the
Underworld of the Bold Maori. The two began dating in the late
1980s when the bride mistook him for the shade of recently deceased
actor Sir Laurence Olivier; the romance survived its rocky start when
the groom fell in love with Hine-Nui-Te-Po's gargantuan clitoris, with
which she squashes the bodies of rogues and sinners into a bloody
paste. The two plan to honeymoon in the First Round of the
Seventh Circle of Hell, where they will hurl stinking viscera at the
homicides and makers of war as they bob to the surface of the rivers of
hot blood in which they forever thrash.
PROMOTED. Lt. General Adrian McArdle, 52, to
the rank of Major General and Chief of North American Command for the
United States Army, after sacrificing a dark-skinned virgin boy at
blackest night to Furcas,
6008, the Old Man of the Horse and Spear, Demon Overlord and Teacher of
War. The name of the virgin boy has not yet been released, but
Furcas reports that his soul tasted of sweet date wine.
PLACED IN A BARREL OF
MOLTEN PITCH WHICH WILL SEAR AND CHAR HIS EVER-REGENERATING SKIN,
EMERGING ONLY ONCE EVERY HUNDRED YEARS IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT BE TORN
TO TATTERS BY THE KNIFE-SHARP BEAKS OF HUNGRY VULTURES AND THEN WASHED
CLEAN BY POWERFUL BLASTS OF BRACKISH SALT WATER: John Hyland,
72, a recently deceased former automobile mechanic from Sioux Falls, SD.