Archive for October 2008

In the wake of his splendid Black Sheep album, inspired by the Clash's 1986 busking tour, Julian Cope's undertaking a brief, bold tour around England this week. Starting at 10am tomorrow, Monday 27th October, at the ancient law hill Swanborough Tump in the Vale of Pewsey, it sweeps through a... More »

I saw my old mucker Merrick at the Anarchist Bookfair---he has more stamina for selling wares than me, bless him. He seems to still be shifting the odd copy of Neither Work Nor Leisure here and there. He's been photocopying from old copies, so it seemed like a good time... More »

It's with a little sadness that I've decided to suspend Dreamflesh Journal. Publication of Volume 2 got pushed forward by Archaeologies of Consciousness, and now was the time I'd slated to get things moving again. As it stands, the economy's slowing (if not collapsing completely, disguised by short-term measures and wishful... More »

The Art Monastery Project, a new artistic community in Umbria, Italy, is calling for "proposals for projects and proposals from individual artists interested in collaboration from all disciplines---including dancers, instrumentalists, singers, actors, designers, directors, stage managers, theater technicians, and visual artists---to collaborate and participate in the First Annual Art Monastery... More »

So the stock markets are responding well to the vast sums of money being funnelled from ordinary people into the system that makes millions for the few, which we've been made reliant on. Phew. The world's richest people (and I'm including most "ordinary" people in the West here, too) may... More »

Via Reality Sandwich, a reminder that hardcore free-marketeers were not the only ones resisting the bailout in the States: More »

Come along to our Day of the Dead event! Music, talks, and an altar of cultural ancestors... If you want to link to the event, please use this URL. You can also reserve tickets there (we expect it to be busy); plus, it looks better on black. More »

It's a while since I published my essay and booklet on Verbeia, the Romano-Celtic goddess from Ilkley. I did a revised edition of the booklet in 2000 or so, to include new information; but now that more information has come to my attention, I decided to try and create an... More »

Still no Library RSS feed... So here's a quick roundup of my latest book reviews: Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn ‘Arabi by Claude Addas After Prophecy: Imagination, Incarnation & the Unity of the Prophetic Tradition by Tom Cheetham The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism by Henry Corbin Blake by... More »