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Are You Publishing An Ebook In 2012? [Resources]
It wouldn’t be the end of the year in media without a twitterstream clogged with trends, predictions and ‘Top 7′ lists. Probably the biggest one to impact the behaviours and aspirations of our magical internets is to do with publishing. Basically it’s fucked. Don’t argue. we have been here before a few times. But it’s [...]
4 Apocalypse Hacks The Germans Taught Me
You have a slightly better than 50% chance of surviving a plane crash based on 2010 figures. But that’s only if you know what to do. The single best thing you can do is climb over the seats. Ignore “the row of lights” that will “illuminate the cabin in the event of an emergency.” That’s [...]
How God Is Like Antibiotics
Do you ever wonder what the historical precedent is for the magical internets? Try and cast your mind back to a time where sincere seekers from across the planet could come together to engage, swap ideas, benchmark and -every so often- go kinda completely insane. It’s the geographic diversity that potentially sets it apart in [...]
Anatomy Of A Firefly
Fun fact: Giza sits at the cross section of the most land anywhere on earth. The north-south axis (31 degrees east of Greenwich) is the longest land meridian, and the east-west axis (30 degrees north) is the longest land parallel on the globe. This post’s draft -which I have been tinkering with for a week- [...]
Be Sad Rather Than Scared This Weekend
It’s one of the benefits of magical practice, isn’t it? Among the first ‘rewards’ to come from popping the universe’s hood and having a tinker is the unshakeable understanding that life continues beyond the expiration date stamped onto the side of your meat suit. This is a wonderful life advantage. A helpful one, too. You [...]
Your Gods Will Taste Different Tomorrow
If you maintain a chaos magic blog, belief as a topic returns with the tiresome regularity of cold sores. As previously discussed, it’s not a term that greatly appeals to me. But it has returned now. It has returned because we seemingly have an innate need to narrativise disruption. (I’m only being half-ironic with my [...]
Sherlock Holmes And The Unicorn: How Ideas Migrate
It’s wonderful when you can build relationships with places that aren’t your home. Since leaving Bristol, we try to get back to it several times a year, not to see specific people but just to be in Bristol… just really soak in it like a hot tub. In New Zealand we had Queenstown and Wellington [...]
Updating Various Rants
A few things have come down the wires of late that speak to some of my pet rants. So here are a few weekend links to consume with your coffee. A rant-based link roundup. Why not? Let’s begin with my longest running whisky rant: That accidental ingestion of hallucinogens is the most likely trigger for [...]
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 I Would Say To Your Slightly Older Kids
It’s probably not babysitting if they’re eighteen. In all honesty, it’s probably grooming. Especially as they’re old enough to drink (in most parts of the world). But here in the UK it’s A-Levels season and it’s certainly an interesting one to watch. More people will miss out on a place at university this year than [...]
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