I am still snowed under with October work: Bridging the Invisible this weekend and How Tarot Became Magic next week, but I want to pause to recommend some reading to you that will give you 1) power 2) political resistance and most importantly 3) joy. Okay, some pain, too, just to acknowledge where we are…
Recommended *Free* Reads
I have a bunch of things to post — including certain tarot exhibits! — but trying as ever to do many things all at once and not wanting to neglect things here for too long, I thought I might share a few new reads that are free and interesting. If you’re following my witterings, chances…
How The Tarot Became Magic
HOW THE TAROT BECAME MAGIC with Dr Kate Laity Saturday, October 24, 5:00-6:30 pm Of course you know that Tarot is full of magic — but that wasn’t always known. The card game invented in fifteenth century Italy only developed an occult tradition in eighteenth century France. Why then? Who started it? What kicked it…
Monsters & Gentlemen
Quite at random — because we seldom agree on anything to watch — Bertie and I watched Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story after we finished the second series of The Gentlemen. Both have a lot of blood flowing, or rather spattering. The screen and characters are frequently awash with red. Very wince-worthy! Ryan Murphy and…
Vicarious Tarot
There’s still a little over a week to see “Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions” at the Morgan Library in NYC; if you can get there, I strongly recommend that you do if you have even a marginal interest in tarot. It’s a fantastic exhibition with both the original fifteenth century cards from the Visconti-Sforza deck…
Finding Balance at Equinox
I’m not really much of one for balance; I tend toward obsessions. I wouldn’t say I either love something or loathe it. But I am more than happy to put my blinders on and ignore a great many things as long as they need not have an impact on my life. Unfortunately, there’s a lot…
Spooky Sunday: The Drummer
Joseph Addison: THE DRUMMER, or THE HAUNTED HOUSE A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty’s servants: 1715 I believe I hunted this play down because of Doug Skinner’s Music from Elsewhere which I have been reading for a while and quite enjoying but progress through it has been…
Review: Practical Magic 2
Peg and I went to see Practical Magic 2 at the Spectrum on Thursday. She had a professional obligation (her review here!) but we both knew well the original film and have read some of the novels Alice Hoffman wrote about the Owens family, though not the most recent — though I’m pretty sure a…
Women of the Fall
The Women of The Fall Weekender 5 – 6 September Music • Film • Conversation The Women of The Fall Weekender is a two-day celebration bringing together artists who played with The Fall alongside special guest artists from the wider independent music community for a programme of live music, film, conversation and collaboration. Taking place…
DCA: The Charm Offensive
Glaswegian France-Lise McGurn has filled the Dundee Contemporary Arts with a big, colourful exhibition that hums with energy and an infectious sense of playfulness. It masks slightly the serious explorations of women’s depictions in art and culture, but that’s part of the point. Lure you in, make you think. There’s such a quiet confidence in…