Archive for May 2008

I hadn't actually posted to specifically advertise my upcoming talk at The Moot With No Name on June 18th (though you may have noticed it on the calendar). But, here's a post to let y'all know it's had to be rescheduled to September 24th (blame this strange work/money/rent system we've... More »

Dale Pendell's highly-lauded trilogy of works on plant allies escaped me for far too long, and it's great fun catching up. I've just posted my review of the first book, Phamako/Poeia, and I'm well into Pharmako/Dynamis. Pharmako/Gnosis beckons on the other side of this weighty middle tome. I'll see how... More »

Two very different albums of brooding, sometimes delicate, sometimes monstrous noise are currently soundtracking my world. Lyrics are nowhere to be seen, and would probably feel lost in these relentless sonic landscapes. The new "proper" Nine Inch Nails album, The Slip, sounds great so far, and is a free CD-quality download.... More »

Image by KATEIMI After a period of finding computers and the web terminally dull (a strange state of mind which some would label "sanity"), I've been enjoying tinkering with WordPress. Specifically, I discovered a great plugin: Rob Miller's Now Reading. It's basically what I had in mind to write when I... More »

It's lazy blogging to just throw a quote out. But this is too long for my random quotes in the sidebar, and really, it deserves a post. This is from James Hillman's Inter Views (p. 191): You can call this healing, you can call it transformation---there are all sorts of names.... More »