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« Previous EntriesReview: Magick on the Edge, edited by Taylor Ellwood
Thursday, February 28th, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Magick on the Edge: Adventures in Experimental Magick, edited by Taylor Ellwood
Immanion Press, 1905713053, 317 pp., 2007
Anthologies present the opportunity to catch up with familiar authors and meet new ones and allow the reader to sample an assortment of styles [...]
Stuff White People Like
Monday, February 25th, 2008Stuff White People Like is a satirical blog “devoted to stuff that white people like” in the form of short, snappy posts stereotyping “white culture”. Its about page describes it as “a scientific approach to highlight and explain stuff white people like,” concluding that “They are pretty predictable.”
I wonder how predictable its wildfire spread across [...]
News: Zombie stalks sewage plant
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Workers at Southern Water’s treatment plant in Eastbourne, East Sussex, said they have been scared to enter tunnels after being followed about by a “humanoid figure” as they went about their jobs.
DailyMail.co.uk, “Ghostbuster called in after sewage workers stalked by ‘zombie’ in underground tunnels“
Incredibly a sewage treatment worker, Mark Wey, received permission from his bosses [...]
Review: The Thoth Companion, by Michael Osiris Snuffin
Monday, February 18th, 2008The Thoth Companion: The Key to the True Symbolic Meaning of the Thoth Tarot, by Michael Osiris Snuffin
Llewellyn Worldwide, 9780738711928, 216 pp. (incl. appendix, glossary, bibliography and index), 2007
The Crowley-Harris Thoth Tarot is perhaps the second most popular tarot deck after the Rider-Waite-Smith. Conceived and executed towards the end of Crowley’s life, the Thoth [...]
The premiere issue of Tarot World Magazine is out
Sunday, February 17th, 2008Upon discovering that there were no active print magazines dedicated to tarot Heidi Snelgrove decided to remedy the situation, and thus Tarot World Magazine was born. Volume I, Issue I was scheduled for release in January 2008, though I received my copy on Friday.
There are a number of regular columns such as the Business of [...]
On Otherkin
Sunday, February 17th, 2008A decidedly odd subject: Otherkin are humans who believe some aspect of themselves to be wolves, foxes, or even fae, dragons and other fantastic creatures. This differs from totemism where a connection has been forged with an external entity, instead, Otherkin identify the “Other” as some part of their being.
Otherkin are rarely taken seriously [...]
David Rakoff and Aleister Crowley
Saturday, February 16th, 2008David Rakoff is an essayist and journalist; he’s written for New York Times Magazine, GQ, Vogue, and Salon. I bought his first collection of essays, Fraud, several years ago, but it sat unread until I picked up his latest Don’t Get Too Comfortable (2005) a week ago and made short work of both. He’s [...]
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