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On the Opening and Closing of Hellmouths
Perhaps it is the significant overlap between gamers and conspiratainment that has led to the widespread ‘alternative’ belief that the Large Hadron Collider has been built as some sort of portal to...
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There is Something to All of This
Imagine what you could achieve with unlimited money, sixty years and the capability to kill with impunity? What if your super-rich great grandfather found golf to be terribly boring but was really...
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“In Time, You Breach the Brighter Parts.”
I set a fire to the moon shape We are just shadows in the cascades of history. Sometimes it’s hard to say whether I really love Dublin or I just have my experience skewed by not really leaving D6...
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Same, Same… But Different
After a week of extremely late, debauched nights out in a foreign country, manflu was more or less guaranteed. I picture my immune system as a cantankerous, steampunk still that an old lady in a...
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Worlds Jurassic and Without Sin
Somewhat surprisingly, we only got around to watching Jurassic World last night. I say somewhat surprisingly because Jurassic Park is the film that made me realise I want to go to film school. Also I...
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In Space, Everyone Can Hear My Audio… and Scream
Here’s a conversation M1k3y and I recorded on the weekend. We talk about Star Trek, the secret space programme, Mars and its water (and nuclear bombs), cultural manipulation and generally wax space...
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Correlating the Mind’s Contents
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it...
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Seriously, though. Autumn
There must be something biological about the universal popularity of this time of year. Chalking it up to thinned veils fails to account for the fact that even the most self-involved pseudo-skepdick...
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Super-Asymmetry
The long-predicted law changes that allow for a dual speed -ie official/unofficial- internet continue to be passed around the world. Google has announced it is already using “AI” (ha!) as part of its...
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Star.Ships – A Prehistory of the Spirits. Preorder Open! (Also Happy Halloween!)
So I have to tell you about those syncs I mentioned in the last post. Waking up to Chris’s post about Childhood’s End on the day Alkistis, Peter and I were going backwards and forwards on the images...
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Empires of Ambition
Not a lot of people know that my birth country was ‘discovered’ by a secret military project masquerading as a scientific one. Ostensibly, James Cook’s Endeavour mission to Tahiti was to observe the...
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Always Go Full Wyrdo
Oh but I do love meeting new weirdos. Last night I was invited to slightly monopolise the conversation at the monthly gathering of the London Alternate Explanation Society. Which was held at Spaniard’s...
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Maintain Your Coherence
What would you like me to say? That we were going to be in Paris this weekend? It’s true. But it was the risk of refugee-caused delays to the Eurostar eating into too much of our weekend that saw our...
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Getting Their Attention
Magic is all about getting ‘their’ attention. I’ve been rolling this description around and around in my head since Chris said it during his recent appearance on THC. Because I think it might be...
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I Am Thankful For The Others
When visiting America, the conversation inevitably turns to differing cultural calendars. They cast envious eyes across the sea at the various village festivals and historical sites still available for...
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‘Flower of Cities All’
I ran down Gray’s Inn Road and ran Till I was under a black bridge. This was me at nineteen Late at night arriving between The buildings of the City of London. … Midnight. I hear the moon Light...
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‘Much have I Travell’d in the Realms of Gold’
I stand in the garden where Uranus made himself known to mankind. Sir Patrick Moore -with whom I had the pleasure of speaking once- dates the beginning of our space age; or at least scientific...
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Podcast Episode 1 – Talking Lucifer with Peter Grey
Yeah, so I podcast now. Below is the very super duper first episode of what is to be a weekly show, featuring the perennially awesome Peter Grey of Scarlet Imprint. Yes, I know we only hung out the...
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The Best Films, TV Shows and Books of 2015
It’s that time of year again. Not really. But it is still far enough out that any of these ideas can make it under your tree before that time of year comes around. I can’t decide whether 2015 has been...
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Podcast Episode 2 – Talking Animism with Sarah Lawless
Behold! On this episode we talk to Sarah Lawless about witchcraft, herbalism, animism, working with your ancestors, working with plant spirits and a whole lot more…. including when and how to drop the...
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