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Refill Your Wonderment Supply To Make For Better Magic
The colleague who sat next to me on my last flight home from Hamburg is not a confident air passenger. If you are in a similar situation the secret is to hide in the numbers rather than resort to personal experience. The is because, unless you are flying several times a week, your mind considers [...]
Eat A Prosperous 2012
Just having a look at Twitter, it seems we all haven’t clearly eaten enough over the last two weeks. So here are some food-based fortune suggestions to ring in a prosperous 2012! First, two points: One… a confession. I fucking hate New Years. Yes, that is as clichéd and obvious as saying “I really like [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Luminous Beings Can Build Dinosaurs
Our meat suits can seem really frustrating at times. The behaviour of other people’s meat suits can apparently collapse Europe into another pre-war economic superstorm that has a tendency to give rise to violent dictators. Too often our silly little monkey brains can get tripped up with conflated words or prejudices even when the comparatively [...]
The Wisdom of Refugee Totem Animals
Discovery Channel’s London office is a fishbowl. Glass everywhere. You can see an image of it here. One day, outside my window, a flock of parakeets landed in the trees. Parakeets. In West London. It turns out London is awash with parakeets. The legend is that either they escaped during the filming of The African [...]
Happy Birthday Uncle Al
It appears Jason has a similar idea for marking the birthday of the Beast. No Star Ruby for me (though I certainly rather like it). Instead it was some booze -a Sicilian Primitivo in honour of Cefalù- and a re-read of some of my favourite essays from The Revival of Magick… The Camel probably being [...]
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 [...]
Real Life Magic Artefacts: Saint Paul’s Cathedral
Brunch is definitely a New World thing. We can hazard a few speculations as to why: Firstly there’s the climate. Not for nothing are Sydney and LA front runners for brunch capital of the world. Also, here in the UK, brunch is drowned out by the grim ubiquity of the ‘all day breakfast’. The fact that [...]
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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