Must be time for another cheap shot at something. I'm running out of things to rant about. Let's see . . . how about the disappearance or "mainstreaming" of New Age bookshops? It's not just the relentless rise of Amazon; it seems to me the "blush is off the rose" more than just a little. … Continue reading “Cheap Shots” #12: Running on Empty
Non-divination
Diamond Sky (No Lucy)
No words . . . just something to feed your eyes (and your head). I know, I know . . . Freud would have had a field day with this one!
“Cheap Shots” #7 (“Unsheeping”)
I've come to view the "Christian myth" as a kind of allegory, a morality play that depicts an ethically sound and admirable way to live, rather than any kind of historical truth. Nothing wrong at all with its moral tenets, everything wrong with the patriarchal priesthood that has erected a self-serving power structure around it. … Continue reading “Cheap Shots” #7 (“Unsheeping”)
A Fundamentalist Sex-Education Fable
I think even the Shakers would have caught the satirical drift of this one! Maybe the Tea Party would endorse teaching it in Sunday School. "In the beginning were the primordial “dot” [ . ] and the “cipher” [ 0 ]. Excitation of these principals soon begat the “exclamatory” [ ! ] and the “parenthetical … Continue reading A Fundamentalist Sex-Education Fable
A Common Core Fable
My wife was an elementary school math teacher before her retirement, and deplored the aberration that is Common Core arithmetic. I decided to poke some well-deserved fun at it. The New York Times reports that President Obama has just appointed a blue-ribbon panel of musicians – headed by internationally renowned fantasy author Douglas Adams – … Continue reading A Common Core Fable
A HazMat Fable
For years I had been stewing over the fact that I can no longer buy oil-based deck stain due to environmental concerns over its manufacture. The regulations were a Clinton-era initiative (1998), and resulted in the replacement water-borne products being entirely unsatisfactory. I decided to vent my frustration in a little humor. This one is … Continue reading A HazMat Fable
I, Gadfly
I confess to being more than a little curmudgeonly when it comes to all things political; I think the only good politician is a retired one (even I'm not cruel enough to say a "dead one"), and then only if the obscene life-long retirement benefits are rescinded. My displeasure is of the non-partisan "equal-opportunity" type, … Continue reading I, Gadfly
Gematrial Heraldry
Gematria is a numerological technique whereby the letters in a Hebrew word are converted into their numerical equivalents and the resulting string of numbers is used to find other Hebrew words with the same numerical value, thus drawing symbolic parallels between them. A text like Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia is invaluable in locating meaningful matches. An … Continue reading Gematrial Heraldry
“Cheap Shots” #3
New Age? What "New Age?" I've been haunting the byways of the New Age phenomenon since shortly after its beginning - that's me as an art student in Central Park in 1967, the day I marched down 5th Avenue with the Hare Krishna people in their saffron robes and shaved pates, chanting "Hare Krishna, Hare … Continue reading “Cheap Shots” #3
And Now for Something Completely Different
I warned you some of my other passions would creep in here. Below is my recipe for an Ultimate Irish Peach Sour. While traveling back from Florida last May, we stopped at an Applebees in western Virginia. They had a new mixed drink on the menu called an "Irish Peach Sour." I put my whisky-savvy … Continue reading And Now for Something Completely Different
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 