Discovery Channel’s London office is a fishbowl. Glass everywhere. You can see an image of it here. One day, outside my window, a flock of parakeets landed in the trees. Parakeets. In West London. It turns out London is awash with parakeets. The legend is that either they escaped during the filming of The...
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It appears Jason has a similar idea for marking the birthday of the Beast. No Star Ruby for me (though I certainly rather like it). Instead it was some booze -a Sicilian Primitivo in honour of Cefalù- and a re-read of some of my favourite essays from The Revival of Magick… The Camel probably...
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There’s a faint air of frustration around me at the moment. I missed another Crucible. Granted, it’s not exactly a local event in the strictest sense but my absence is entirely down to a lack of organisation and nothing else. There’s still a week of leave left on my payslips to burn through this...
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Brunch is definitely a New World thing. We can hazard a few speculations as to why: Firstly there’s the climate. Not for nothing are Sydney and LA front runners for brunch capital of the world. Also, here in the UK, brunch is drowned out by the grim ubiquity of the ‘all day breakfast’. The fact...
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It’s already kicked off up the road. I’m playing phone tree with various friends and loved ones, getting them to their respective destinations by feeding them updates found on twitter. Last night, a couple of hours after eventually nodding off over the sound of helicopters and sirens, I stirred to the smell of smoke....
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So this is a gripping book, let’s start with that. If you’re just here to skim down and see if it goes on your wishlist then yes… it does. Somewhere toward the top. The two texts that make up the bulk of Crossed Keys, the Black Dragon and the Enchiridion of Pope Leo III,...
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Brother Chris is right, of course. Urban animism has been discussed before. To my mind at least, it feels like a really nineties thing to talk about. His post is nothing of the sort. It’s a thoughtful analysis of urban animism that covers what are probably the two most important notions to consider when...
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“Rules change in The Reaches” -A Wizard of Earthsea Today was a day of catching up with some old friends I used to live with in Sydney almost a decade ago. They’re big shot lawyer-y, finance-y people living in Hong Kong now. And they’re engaged. I know precisely nothing about any of these things....
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So how was your Saturday? My mother the psychonaut and I saw a piece of the True Cross, had some brunch, then pub-crawled down the Thames drinking Pimm’s and rosé. The head is a bit sore this morning, to be honest. In fact, I don’t think I’d get through the door of the exhibition...
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So my mother the psychonaut has arrived bearing ludicrous gifts and will be here in London, then crop-circle chasing in Wiltshire, then visiting stone circles in Orkney, then back in London in the middle of next month. At the same time I have the busiest four weeks of my work life to date. There...
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