Article 27 of the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights reads: In those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities exist, persons belonging to such minorities shall not be denied the right, in community with the other members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Je Recueille de Beaux Objets
March 27th, 2008
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Just watched The Science of Sleep. Yeah, it was a bit difficult to work through, to be honest, but it was still one of those perfectly strangely wonderfully beautiful films that I like so well. It occurs to me that a lot of my “art life” has been spent adoring films like this, or music [...]
4000
March 27th, 2008
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4000 today in the Fertile Crescent From Laurence Binyon’s For the Fallen: They went with songs to the battle, they were young.Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,They fell with their faces to the foe.They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow [...]
Scattering of Authority
March 20th, 2008
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My old discussion about the Empire Superstructure has come back to me during a presentation about heterarchy. Yes, it is what it sounds like. I am now quite enamored of the idea. What was not discussed during the lecture is how the nature of power shifts. Some actors have a monopoly on power or advice [...]
Sleeping In
March 17th, 2008
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The plan: Wake up at 3 a.m. MST. Get showered and finish packing the few things left outside my bags. Eat the rest of my bread, a banana, and some ricecakes. Spend 20 minutes worrying about what I’m leaving behind. Head out to the bus stop and catch the 15 – Billings at 4:28. Head [...]
Emelius Browne’s College of Witchcraft pt. 2
March 14th, 2008
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Seriously, the accordion work in that song is great. Call it a squeezebox, call it a concertina or a flutina, but the thing has got a real sound to it, doesn’t it? YEAH! ACCORDION!
Emelius Browne’s College of Witchcraft
March 14th, 2008
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I was meandering my way through London a few years ago and had the great fortune of visiting a place that had up until then only existed in my head and on VHS. Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the 1971 Disney musical based on Mary Norton’s book, had been an oft-viewed part of my childhood. It had [...]
Ανάργυροι
March 13th, 2008
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The title of this post is Ανάργυροι. In Roman letters, it’s anargyroi. We are presented with the root of arg, which near as I can make sense of, relates to silver. The an on the front of it denotes a negative, or withoutness. The bit at the end, oi, means that we’re talking about a [...]
Iblis
March 12th, 2008
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I really do prefer to use the name “Lucifer” when referring to the Prince of Darkness. It has such a sinuous ring to it: LOOS-IH-FURFor being the “epicenter of evil,” the name itself means “light-bringer.” The name Lucy is directly related. In the original Greek, it’s heosphoros, or herperus, or Ἓσπερος, which translates to “dawn-bearer.” [...]
