New witches, art, Blake and Bey

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It’s been a weird week for news from beyond our atmosphere.

NASA bombed the moon, Guy Laliberté is the first clown in space, and only fat American children know the truth: Pluto is still a planet.

It’s a strange world we live in when what’s happening at McDonalds makes more sense than with NASA.

• Eimear O’Hagan decides that Pagans, or “new witches” are “Kooky, sexy, cool” in an article for News of the World, and provides three attractive young women as examples. Though, at one point O’Hagan does call one of them bonkers. Aren’t these affectionately deranged portrayals of modern Pagans a little early? Usually they sprout like mushrooms around Hallowe’en, and this one’s from early September.

• In “Eye Exam: Perverted Tactics“, Jason Foumberg writes about paintings on view by William S. Burroughs, including his abstract portrait of Aleister Crowley.

• The William Blake Archive describes itself as “an online hypermedia environment that allows its users to access high-quality electronic reproductions of a growing portion of Blake’s work”. Neat.

• There’s a new six part interview with Peter Lamborn Wilson, better known to many as Hakim Bey, from May of this year on YouTube by redpharmacist. The series is titled “Communities of Resistance“, and the full list is posted in one place on arthur. Spotted on mutateweb.

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