I just blasted Tim Boucher for his review of teriel's Pop Culture Magic. I would not have done this in the case of a normal bad review, but it turns out that Boucher, a soi-disant "Occult Investigator" and increasingly popular blog pundit, wrote this review from a position of total ignorance of what modern ritual magick is about. I find that quite ( Read more... )

1. Figure out what your audience might want to know about your subject, and tell them that.


2. If you make assertions about history, traditions, myths, etc., back them up.
3. Don't pad your material just to make a book. If it's really only an article, write it that way and submit it to a journal.
4. If you are writing about Wicca, put "Wicca" somewhere in the ( Read more... )

I'm completely off of Meetup.com, and skydancerlilitu is not far behind. Their business model wasn't working, I guess, because they decided to try charging their volunteer organizers (us) a "small" fee per monthly meeting ( Read more... )

Judge Roy Moore? I do, indeed.

He is on the cover of a local weekly, "Birmingham Christian Family," which featured him because he has an autobiography out, So Help Me God: The Only Part of my Oath of Office I Followed. OK, that is what the subtitle should be.

There are no gods-damned unused icons on my desktop. If I put an icon on my desktop, I did so for a good reason, and I know how to use the delete key if I don't need it any more. And FFS, if you bug me about unused icons once, and I dismiss the popup, don't turn right around and bug me againF-- you, Bill. If I ever meet you in person, I am going to ( Read more... )

… when you post something stupid on a forum, and another member corrects it, you rush to fill in with some variation on "of course I knew that," instead of graciously accepting the correction ( Read more... )

The Catholic Church, as large as it is, must necessarily be diverse, also, unless some of its more spiteful elements1 get the upper hand again. My attention was called to this example of the current crop of young reactionaries in the Catholic clergy2Among his many other more developed screeds against the libertarian bent of Modern Times, he gave a ( Read more... )

We had a Troll Flap a while back on "Pagan LJ" (many of you know WTF I am talking about). Glad it's over for now ( Read more... )

When last I posted about our Internet connection problems, they had already been going on for over two weeks. It took Not-so-Bright House another week or so to send someone out who would actually take my suggestion and go look at the outside wiring ( Read more... )

As soon as the maintainer of a forum posts with a big fat whine about how no one is talking on his or her community, I leave. Right then. No drama, no flounce (except that posting this in my own journal is a sort of anonymous flounce, I guess). If starting topics doesn't work, and inviting interesting people or otherwise building up the forum doesn ( Read more... )