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...
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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...
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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...
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Do you wonder if anybody cried for the blacksmith? Not the first blacksmith, the last blacksmith… Because the last blacksmith is not romantic in the way the last eskimo or the last orange-dicked soprano monkey is romantic. The last blacksmith is the one that -despite his wife’s plea- refused to build railroad spikes or...
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When my father came to visit recently for my birthday, the topic of his AIDS hospice work in the 1980s came up in conversation somehow. (To be clear, this wasn’t actually at the party because, you know… downer.) This was the terrifying dark ages of a genuinely horrible disease. A lot of medical professionals...
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Here’s the biggest thing about advertising that I can relay with some considerable confidence… it works. Even on you. Even when you are sure it doesn’t. And spending trillions of dollars globally over three generations is a recipe for an extremely effective campaign. With that kind of money, what you say goes. In order...
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A really fun, enjoyable movie. You should see it. When I was at film school we studied the first ever serialisation of the Ramayana on Indian television in the 1980s. At the time the country was a long way from becoming the next global economic powerhouse like it is today. It was still extremely undeveloped....
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The magical community -and newly minted witches in particular- can be a dreary bunch when it comes to fantasy films or television. “That’s not how magic happens! That spell wouldn’t work! There’s no such thing as thaaaaaat!” As previously mentioned, my father is a doctor. I remember when ER first appeared on Australian screens...
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Last night was spent catching up with a journalist friend who is rather involved in the whole UKUncut movement. We were joking about how neither of us expected the End of Days to be quite so entertaining. Now, that’s being a bit glib but there is no avoiding the terrifying dark side of those...
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Do you believe in magic? Please. If I ask you at the right time of day or in a room set to the right temperature you won’t even believe in racial equality. Ever wonder why it’s so difficult to articulate your beliefs? Because it’s like nailing vomit to a wall. Ask a black kid...
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