“To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.” Ged -The Farthest Shore Here’s a TED talk about the pitfalls of believing in your own divinity or awesomeness. We can consider it magically relevant because, to my mind, it highlights the...
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The tour guide burst out laughing. “You know, I used to wonder about that myself,” she says. We are at the Glenfiddich distillery, one of the many happy places I have been these last two weeks. She is the third tour guide in as many days to tell me that their whisky matures for...
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Howdy from wherever I am in Scotland! Given that I’m going to be away from my internets for the next week and a bit on account of the royal wedding public holidays I thought I might whip up a daily media series for you. Think of it like holiday programming on TV. (It was...
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Like any self-respecting Londoner, I am getting the hell out of town for the royal wedding. Did you know, international readers, that if you take just three days of annual leave you get 11 days off because the wedding lines up with Easter and a bank holiday? It’s enough to make you become a...
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Seeing as it’s going to be a big week, let’s close down some tabs. Bristol’s true king, Cat Vincent, has a new website. Please go along and welcome him to the fancyness/handsomeness of using your own name as a URL. Subscribe, etc. You really should. He’s totally one of my favourite things about the...
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This is the first weekend more or less to ourselves in quite some time. I have been day-dreaming about it since Wednesday: sleeping in, cooking, reading, catching up on television, meditating, doing the monthly forecast. (Have you done yours? Sun sign astrology was the hands-down winner again this month.) Here are a few things...
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Told you I was feeling contrary. But the first two articles strike me as an excellent example of why magical target selection takes guts. Or, to borrow Jason’s terminology: “Emergency Magic”. Giving to Japan is like lighting a candle to pay your rent this month. Giving strategically to MSF is enchanting for wealth. Check...
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Piracy is back in the news. It’s certainly a polarising issue all up in our internetz. (Here and here.) From my perspective, I have always argued the existence of piracy is a creative disruption. And another way of saying that is that it’s a “global pricing problem”. Which is the conclusion more than 35...
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You may have heard the news elsewhere but the good Mr Miller has embarked on a little forced migration. His full note to readers is at the end of the post. Everyone is hereby ordered to amend their readers and blog rolls as appropriate. Also, here’s a little SEO tip for you fellow bloggers...
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Apparently exorcisms are on the rise. And there is a worldwide exorcist shortage. This seems an unusual piece of news for the developed world in the twenty first century. At first glance, exorcism -along with no sex before marriage, literal creationism and the use of stoning to dish out punishment for minor civic infractions-...
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