{"id":1061,"date":"2011-10-09T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/10\/09\/marlborough-musings\/"},"modified":"2011-10-09T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T07:30:00","slug":"marlborough-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/10\/09\/marlborough-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlborough Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On October 1, 2011 my husband and I hopped in the car and drove out to Marlborough, NH so I could give my presentation, “The Everyman’s Guide to Protective Magick: Religion, Folklore, and Myth” at Muse Gifts & Books<\/a>. I was excited to see the store and was nervous because Muse has hosted talks from some very well known and respected authors; such as Raven Grimassi, Ellen Evert Hopman, Dawn Hunt, and Christopher Penczak. I knew the staff and their customers were accustomed to having access to some of the best workshops around!<\/p>\n

I have to tell everybody, I’m so freakin’ jealous of the folks who have easy access to Muse Gifts & Books! They have great speakers pretty regularly and they host “Tea and Tarot” (where customers come in for a beverage and a tarot reading from a variety of readers) regularly. Muse also has an impressive selection of books and tarot decks from a wide variety of publishers and tons of beautiful trinkets (including a gorgeous statue of Kwan Yin several feet tall!). Everyone at Muse, staff and customers, were so nice and enthusiastic. I had a wonderful time there! I also did some shopping!<\/p>\n

Now originally I wasn’t going to write about my trip to Muse Gifts & Books because how boring to read me talk about, well, me talking. However I was so blown away at how fantastic Marlborough was I wanted to give you guys a bunch of reasons why you should visit!<\/p>\n

First, obviously, is Muse Gifts & Books<\/a>. What a great store! See my phat loot from my shopping trip!<\/p>\n

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Books, Kwan Yin necklace, Bloodstone, and Tiger's Eye (not shown, a bottle of Infused Oil from Cucina Aurora).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But before we went into Muse, Jim and I quick popped into a vegetarian cafe called Zeppelin & Kaleidoscope<\/a>. While there I had one of the best muffins I’ve ever tasted. It was a raspberry lemon muffin that wasn’t too sweet and was fresh out of the oven. Yum!<\/p>\n

After the event at Muse, Kevin (the owner) took myself and Jim out for a meal at Lee and Mt. Fuji<\/a>. This place had a full Chinese cuisine menu along with a full sushi menu, and I spotted some other Asian specialties buried in there too! I ordered a sushi roll I had never encountered before, a Garden Roll. It was raw tuna wrapped in cucumber with roe. It was served with a faintly sweet, slightly vinegary sauce. Because of the shape it was served on an embarrassingly long plate and I had to actually cut up the pieces with a fork and knife to eat it. Perhaps not great for one’s dignity, but it was a tasty treat!<\/p>\n

Before we left town Kevin heartily recommended a stop in at store called Inkubus<\/a>. I, and I’m sure my credit card company, are glad he did! It’s difficult to describe Inkubus. I guess at its most basic you could call it a goth clothing store, but that might make you think I’m talking about a Hot Topic store. Inkubus is what most Hot Topic stores wish they could be! There is a stupidly huge selection of men’s and women’s clothing, ranging from t-shirts (I bought one with a Day of the Dead sugar skull on it!) to high end dresses. They have loads of accessories: purses, shoes, lunch boxes, ashtrays, make-up, hat, and more, more, more! Most importantly, to my absolute shock and pleasure, they had this for sale….<\/p>\n

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Mexican Sugar Skull Mold and Meringue Powder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If I attempt to make them, I’ll be sure to let you know how it went!<\/p>\n

Marlborough, NH is a two and a half hour drive for me to get to, so a bit far to try and visit on a regular basis. With just the little bit I saw and experienced I’m envious of those who live closer than that. And if you do live close to Marlborough and you don’t visit, you’re an idiot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marlborough, NH is a two and a half hour drive for me to get to, so a bit far to try and visit on a regular basis. With just the little bit I saw and experienced I’m envious of those who live closer than that. And if you do live close to Marlborough and you don’t visit, you’re an idiot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}