If anyone wishes to catapult themselves head-on into a fascinately bizarre and beautiful piece of cinema, then I suggest you watch this. Straightaway.

(also. the Earth is pale today, and boasting of thunderstorms and rain-soaked sidewalks. I LOVE IT.)

When you are in the middle of a story, it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a ( Read more... )

"As the Mother knows what She is
and the Maiden knows what she will become,
so the Crone knows that she has been and always will be."


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Before I retreat into my three-day weekend without Internet access (but with everything else I happen to adore) I thought I'd be a nice little girl-creature (ha, I typed screature at first) and share a bit of lore that includes recipes I found whilst browsing through my Witches' Almanac. I thought these recipes might be favorable for the upcoming ( Read more... )

George A. Romero's "horrifically poetic ultimate zombie masterpiece," Land of the Dead was released in theatres all across the United States today, so do me a huge, zombie-appreciatin' favor and flock to this movie to show your extreme, fanatical love of zombie films and gluttonous gore! Go, go, go!

Zombie connoisseurs, unite!


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Happy Midsummer Solstice to everyone!

Also known as: Alban Hefin.
Deities: Apollo, Balder, Oak King, Holly King, Sul, Isis, Hestia, Vesta.
Colours: Sea green, red, gold, brown.
Incense, for spiritual cleansing: Frangipani, Violet, Cedar, St. John's Wort, Basil.
Traditional Motifs: Oak leaves, acorns, antlers, straw wheels, bees, honey, floating ( Read more... )

I am going to enable screened comment posting for this entry and this entry only. The purpose of this is to collect and read confessions. Your confessions. And I don't want you to tell me the story of how you would like to molest that intriguing stranger you saw in the bus station or how you are so selfish and vile when it comes to love. No, those ( Read more... )

"This is not easy to explain, but I will tell you. Because you are my only daughter and because we lived for so long in such isolation, you already know much more than you should. You have spent time with us in the red tent. You have even attended a birth, which is something you must never tell Grandmother. I know that you will not reveal what I ( Read more... )

I have a penchant for trashy horror novels, did you know? But the intelligence, vocabulary and wit of the writer has to interact in remarkable ways with the sexual excursions between the homosexual vampires or everything just gets ruined.

So far, I've been pleasantly satisfied.

"What man is a man who does not make the world a better place?"