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A Visit To Tolkien’s Grave
My father has two favourite stories about me growing up, both from around my sixth or seventh year. And by favourite I mean two thirds of all the stories he tells about me as a child. (The other being the time I harassed an unfamiliar woman in the supermarket for buying cigarettes.) The first was [...]
How To Play A Wizard At Parties
We were all washing up after the Christmas Eve meal. (Have the ham on Christmas Eve, cook the turkey on Christmas Day and serve it with the leftover ham. Works every time.) Enough booze had flowed and enough Annie Lennox had been played that the atmosphere was convivial and the discussion loose. This year the [...]
Two Planes Over London: A Christmas Moment
Two planes fly across the night sky, their contrails form glistening parallel lines -like a pair of skis in wine dark snow. I stand in my yard below, breath billowing, watching them fly. It’s Christmas Eve. I’m taking some air after ten hours in the kitchen. As the planes fly past Orion’s Belt I think [...]
Are You Solving Wicked Problems With Magic?
Steam billows from my mouth as the pealing of the bells from the fairest, goodliest and most famous parish church in England reverberates around the Georgian architecture of the square. The vibration makes it through my coat and gently rattles my ribcage -like speakers at a really polite concert. Sunday morning. It’s a ghost town. [...]
“Occupy” As A Phased Enchantment
My first cloak-and-dagger business meeting was in the foyer of a Michelin starred restaurant attached to a casino in Auckland. It was late and we could be sure we wouldn’t be kicked out if it got later because the casino is open twenty four hours. The only other people around were a few Japanese tourists [...]
Happiness Requires Repeated Disruption
There’s a faint air of frustration around me at the moment. I missed another Crucible. Granted, it’s not exactly a local event in the strictest sense but my absence is entirely down to a lack of organisation and nothing else. There’s still a week of leave left on my payslips to burn through this year [...]
Chaos Magic Is Enough For Me
You could probably say this most days, but there’s a fantastic post over at the Secret Sun at the moment regarding re-enchanting every day life. This hits me right where I live. Over the last twelve months, some popular threads of magical discourse have become a bit too baroque for my tastes. No reason for [...]
Volume Is The Best Magical Strategy
In August I came within a single day of being fired. If the CEO hadn’t been on holiday in Tuscany at the time I probably would have been out the door. (His first question to my boss when he came back to Hamburg was “why is Gordon still working for the company?”) And part of [...]
Magic’s Straw Men
This post was originally going to be about markets. You see, I followed back from Ryan’s fantastic post about clients (I’m in a client facing career) to another post by ConjureMan Ali justifiably railing at unscrupulous and/or downright crap conjure practitioners. It was going to be a post about markets because hoodoo -or Tarot or [...]
What Riots Smell Like
It’s already kicked off up the road. I’m playing phone tree with various friends and loved ones, getting them to their respective destinations by feeding them updates found on twitter. Last night, a couple of hours after eventually nodding off over the sound of helicopters and sirens, I stirred to the smell of smoke. Unfamiliar [...]
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