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Feast of Saint Martin: Patron of Not Being A Dick
That’s Halloween done for another year. And this weekend in the UK we have Guy Fawkes Night to look forward. After that… well… pretty soon after that is November 11. 2011. If you are playing along at home, that’s 11/11/11. What? You didn’t have anything planned? Neither did I. Conveniently for us both we can [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Accidental Illuminati
It amuses me how strong the tendency is among corners of the magical world to throw the baby out with the bath water. Almost as if, should you find one idea in a book or a blog post you disagree with then the whole lot has to go. You could -and I do- make the [...]
How Meditation Is Like French Cooking
This revelation came to me as I was -comme d’habitude- stuffing my fucking face. French is, without question, the most difficult European cuisine to get right in the home. Or so I thought. You see, my culinary invasion of Europe has been quite methodical. It was a project I set myself. It started in England [...]
Checking In With Magic Rather Than Foursquare
Some place affect you… Move you. There are a number of locations around that world that -for reasons of simple geography- I don’t get to very often but remain Significant with a capital ‘S’. Mount Eden in Auckland is one such place. Much closer is the Place des Vosges in Paris -where I have just [...]
Austin Spare Exhibition: Do You Want To Be Happy Or Interesting?
It is possible that I am giving you the impression that my family is some kind of mini-Antipodean-Illuminati but my brother has just spent the last four days in the hallway of a hospital in rural Malaysia, dropping in and out of consciousness from a bout of severe meningitis. His insurance company has finally transferred [...]
Warning: Fanboy Magic
I have exactly 666 comments on this blog. Fittingly (?), lucky number 666 was Psyche and her comment on my last post was one of the more helpful ones I have received. But in honour of the number 666 I thought I might post something about Crowley. Except, to talk about Crowley, I have to [...]
Nobody Does Death Quite Like The Catholics
I guess the other highlight of the recent trip to Paris was a visit to the Peré Lachaise cemetery. Not that I’m being all emo or anything, but there’s nothing quite like a good graveyard when you want to pass some time. And given the audience my site tends to attract, perhaps some of you [...]
What Wizards Taught Me: June 6
Let me just say from the start that it has been a great week out there. Formspring was clearly built for the magical community. Please continue to spam each other with questions I never knew I wanted answered. It’s been so good I decided to switch up the wizard. The old one was starting to [...]
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