By Psyche | December 21, 2009
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@joeldey posted a TwitPic of the Flying Spaghetti Monster holiday treats he made.
They look incredible.
No news yet on the recipe, but they look awesomely delicious.
Update: Recipe found on EvilMadScientist.com (love the site’s name). Thanks Brent Friedman!
Spotted on BoingBoing.
By Psyche | November 22, 2009
Back in August I posted about My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, a new musical I’d heard about that debuted at the Toronto Fringe Festival earlier in the summer.
It had just been announced that Mirvish was going to host a production of it at the Panasonic Theatre in November, and that I simply must see it based on the name alone.
November came, and indeed I did go to see it. And I’m surprised to say it was genuinely awesome and I loved it.
MMLJWW is narrated by David Hein, the co-author along with his wife Irene Carl Sankoff, and is based on the true story of how Hein’s moms got together.
Hein’s mother Claire (played by Lisa Horner) was an atheist who came out to her son is as a lesbian after falling in love with Jane (Rosemary Doyle), a Wiccan. Claire later comes out a second time to her son, this time as a Jew. It’s funny and it’s clever, but it’s also sensitive and genuinely touching. Continue reading »
By Psyche | November 17, 2009
Hidden Publishing has just released a new book edited by Dr Dave Evans and Dave Green, Ten Years of Triumph of the Moon.
Can you believe it’s already been ten years since Ronald Hutton first published The Triumph of the Moon
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Ten Years is “a collection of researches inspired by, deriving from or just celebrating the immense impact of [Hutton's] seminal book”. From the website:
The topics cover many historical periods, many academic disciplines and it provides a wealth of information of use to academic scholar and interested freelance reader alike. Includes an extended essay by Ronald Hutton on the history of such scholarship, the state of it today and some of his thoughts for the future.
I haven’t been able to locate a contributor list, but it’s suggested that there are “big names” and “those newer to the field” who collectively bring “nearly two centuries of hands-on pagan research experience between them”. Which sounds kind of impressive.
By Psyche | October 10, 2009
Saturday Signal: sifting the signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.
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.
As always, if you find something weird, cool or otherwise noteworthy, please e-mail me about it. If you’re pro-promotion, include your name and website for extra credit. Thanks!
By Psyche | September 1, 2009
Two stories here. The first features an angry atheist who knowingly targets a group of theists and annoys them. The second features a group of animal-loving atheists willing to look after Christian pets post- rapture. (Seriously.)
Angry atheist
We’ll start with John Safran. He’s an Australian filmmaker fed up with Mormons knocking on his door who decided to do something about it: he flew to Utah to knock on doors in Salt Lake City and see how they liked it.
Apparently he made a thing of it, in an eight part “documentary” for Australian television in 2004 called “John Safran vs God“.
I spotted this five minute clip from episode five on Scott Michael Stenwick’s blog, Augoeides.
Titled “Door-to-Door Atheists Bother Mormons“, the first three minutes feature Safran, dressed in a black suit and seated in a red chair in front of a roaring fire, frothing and ranting about the indecency of Mormons knocking at his door early in the morning when he’d rather be resting, or really, doing anything other than being preached at.
Then we get into the good stuff, when Continue reading »
