Being raised by hippies who met in a cult — not the horrible kind, but still — I have generally avoided getting too invested in pagan holidays and astrology in favor of my own more traditional religious practices that I won’t elaborate on here for a variety of reasons, one of which is a desire […]
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Lazy Calm
By the time you read this, we might be headed into another week of shifting rains drowning the recent glow of sunshine in clouds and downpours. Fine by me; I’ve always been the type to comment on the weather rather than complain about it. Credit that to spending most of my life in places where […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Dec. 13
Here’s an unusually and fittingly outré gig for the final Friday the 13th of 2024. Visiting from Spain, the enigmatic, masked (and possibly haunted doll) LA NEUTRA is presenting a DJ-curated, mixtape trip called “March of the Trolls, Dance Exorcism.” Expect a wide range of globe-spanning music, including remixes of Indian and Arabic music, as […]
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Dead Flag Blues
For obvious reasons, I’ve been thinking lately about the more headline-grabbing political violence expressed by solo actors, rather than the steady, deadly wall of daily violence enacted by our domestic and foreign policy. As I write this, it looks like the cops have someone in custody for allegedly killing a health insurance CEO in the […]