Seems to have been a broadly revelatory week out here. In honour of this fact, I’m switching up the usual wizards for this guy. His name is Nostra… Something. Leading the pack out of the gate: The Goetia falls out of favour with a one Mr Opus I hung on every word of this...
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Okay so this week I started a system so as not to mix everyone up. I say system but I’ve really just created a delicious tag. In Gordon news, at the risk of sounding like the boy who cried Paris (insert dirty joke… Into Paris. hehehehe.) I’m off at dawn on Friday morning on...
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You know a sport has some serious flaws when mass-produced, obnoxious, plastic horns pass for audience involvement and every important game so far has been a tie. The occultosphere is much more interesting. Especially this week. Time to break out the back-up wizard again. (Pictured.) So I guess we should start with one of...
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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...
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I don’t know about you but Uranus arrived with his trademark extremity this week. A new Mac I wasn’t expecting (and love), new clients, three new long term house guests from the other side of the world (that I was unaware of). Boom. Gifts. It’s going to be an exciting couple of weeks (for...
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Here’s a new collection of more awesomeness that has washed up on the shores of the internets this past week. Phil Hine has an interesting anecdote about talismanic books Phil is one of my long-time favourite authors and this is a great perspective on the alleged differences between niche publishing and mass market. St...
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Really this should be ‘what wizards taught me today’ because I have only just got back from a visit to some of the more remote corners of the UK. I couldn’t even get cell reception, let alone keep up with these internets. But it looks like I almost missed a really interesting week. Balthazar...
Read more →Anybody else think that was an insanely quick week? Quick, yet eventful. Here’s what mine looked like: Started with a gale-force bank holiday on Monday. Dashed back to the West Country for yet another work meeting. Voted in an election that resulted in a hung parliament and a crashing sterling. Fun fact: This is...
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So much awesomeness goes on in the magical blogosphere that I feel compelled to highlight some of the stuff I have learnt this week. Hopefully, I get myself in the habit of doing this every week -if only so I have a place I can look back on and ponder clever things. Conan is...
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