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Solo acoustic cover - "Mercy Street"
I've been playing guitar for a few months now, as well as singing more regularly after literally years of not doing so much at all, but I haven't recorded myself that much, nor have I done a ton of playing in front of other people. Been really feeling this song lately, though, for a whole ho...
The Turner Diaries: wrapup/six months later (preview)
Unlocked for general people, a clip from my much longer ramble on my final thoughts, half a year after the fact, on my Let's Read of The Turner Diaries. Specifically in here I'm talking about Turner-style extremist ideology in a post-midterms context and how we're seeing it not only in v...
A reading: "The Library of Babel"
Hello, lovely supportive people.For Christmas this year I got myself a new microphone, in part in advance of the eventual audiobook of The Hands of Maggie Fate but also just because I've been doing audio production for a while and I felt like I was at a point where I needed to level up that part...
MANOS: 2 Hands 2 Fate - prologue
(As I said on Twitter, this is a Serious Horror Novelization of the very bad film MANOS: The Hands of Fate. It is ongoing and should be considered a rough draft. Updates (probably) will be weekly and locked to supporters after this.)PrologueHe no longer remembered a time before the house, before the...
everything is changing
First two episodes drop May 3rd. Patreon supporters get the first three episodes May 1st.(Music: "Messier 45" by Stellardrone)
Soon.
Now that this is unlocked, a few points of information.Yes, this is really happening for real this time. This is not a standalone preview; this is a clip from the beginning of episode one of season two of Gone. Given that last time I previewed the second season I didn’t have much concrete complete...
"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" - a reading
Because I haven’t done one of these in a while, and because this is a writer who’s been on my mind a lot of late, here is a reading of Jorge Luis Borges’s stunning short story “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”.I want to apologize for any embarrassing pronunciation fuck-ups in here. I did look ...
On the messy nuances of "belief"
Join me (and distant children, and cicadas, and a plane) in the patio Writing Grotto for a ramble on how I've been thinking about what it means to me to believe something and why in my opinion we often think about it in the wrong way from multiple different angles.
The Turner Diaries, chapter 23: the storm is upon us
[image credit: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP](A note because this is going up unlocked: this is about the fucking Turner Diaries. It deals with some ugly shit, although I’ve tried to minimize how explicit the ugliness gets. Proceed with care.)Well, here we are.“The Day of the Rope” is probably...
The ocean is on fire
(I wrote this in about 45 minutes, read it through once, and I have no idea where to post it so I’m posting it here.)The ocean is on fire. I have seen several versions of that sentence in the last ten minutes. All of them make sense and none of them do. I scroll past each one and I read them silen...
Light of the Shore
As part of my ritual practice this Midsummer—my first Alban Hefin, or Light of the Shore in Welsh, the time when the connection between earth and sky is at its peak and the apex between one season and another—I did a number of things: stayed up all night to keep a candle burning, did sun salutat...
Zach Bush, (Con)spirituality, and the Grift of Fear
In which I talk in somewhat rambling terms about spirituality, reality denial, and the fear of death, inspired by some excellent commentary on an interview with wellness influencer and conspiritualist Zach Bush by the Conspirituality podcast.Reference: Conspirituality episode 29 - Bro Science
practice resurrection
Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica) from my walk todayAs soon as the generals and the politicoscan predict the motions of your mind,lose it. Leave it as a signto mark the false trail, the wayyou didn’t go. Be like the foxwho makes more tracks than necessary,some in the wrong direction.Practice res...
If there ever is a Sunday
Of the three days that culminate this week, I think Holy Saturday is commonly glossed over. After all, it’s the day when not much happens; it has none of the acute drama of Good Friday and we aren’t yet at the chocolatey celebration of Easter Sunday.But I feel like out of the three, it’s actua...
for God so loved the world
(The cross I made of holly wood that hangs above our door)A Crucified God is the dramatic symbol of the one suffering that God fully enters into with us—much more than just for us, as we were mostly trained to think.— Richard Rohr2020 was painful for me in ways that have virtually nothing to do ...
Fiction: This Anger’s Deeper Than Sleep
Turner Tuesday is getting postponed to next week; I have a couple of pressing deadlines in the next couple of days that are making the prospect of wading into that literary hellscape nearly unbearable. In its place, have another piece of something dark and angry and fairly hateful, not in the Turner...
It is a sprout, well budded-out
Today is Alban Eiler, the spring equinox, and I found myself thinking over and over of resurrection, which is a topic I intend to return to in greater depth at Easter. But for now I’ll say that today—and for many days before now—I’m seeing it everywhere. It’s bursting from the trees and th...
A Prayer for Which No Words Exist - part three
[image by Pulkit Kamal]This will be the last unlocked installment of this book; subsequent posts will be locked to supporters at the $1 level, which is the only level. So if you like this and you’d like to support what I do and you aren’t already doing so, there’s that.(And if you‘re coming ...
A Prayer for Which No Words Exist - part two
[image by Pulkit Kamal]I posted the first part of this a good while ago, and then for some reason—as often unfortunately happens with me—I never posted more. So here we are again, because as I said in the initial introduction, I like this too much to do nothing with it.As I originally planned, I...
The Turner Diaries: unexpected hiatus (darn)
Unexpected and hopefully not long. Basically what’s happened is that I lost access to the edition of the book I was working from, which was hosted on archive.org. Apparently they took it down for being, you know, a fucking hate bible, so honestly I can’t fault them for that. It does mean that I ...
Imbolc: welcome Spirit, welcome Brigid
I wanted to write a little something for Imbolc the way I have for the other festival days, but I’m finding I don’t have much to say. Not that I’m not thinking and feeling a lot, because I am. But while my feelings for the other days were the kinds of feelings I felt compelled to get out there...
The Druid’s Prayer: a closer look
(Taken by me on a trip to southeastern Poland. Filters, obviously.)I want to talk for a second about the Druid’s Prayer, because I’ve been thinking about it since I learned it.The Druid’s Prayer is a prayer composed by the bard Iolo Morganwg around the beginning of the 19th century. There are ...
On Christmas: it’s all good
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. — John 1:14God loves things by becoming them. — Richard RohrIn Christianity, much is usually made of the notion that Jesus was born to “save” humankind through some kind of substitutive blood sacrifice. I don’t entirely share the dim view that ...
still in the darkness
Tonight I’ll keep a fire burning until dawn.Which actually requires a lot of wood, and I always underestimate how many smaller pieces and kindling sticks I’ll need, so there was I was at 10:30 PM on Yoolis Night, splitting logs and listening to Alexander Shaia talking about Advent and the Solsti...
The Fourth Sunday of Advent: all shall be well
There’s always something uncomfortably presumptuous in writing about pain.I mean, I think there should be, because pain is one of the most simultaneously universal and subjective aspects of human experience. We all feel it, and yet no one’s pain is identical and no moment of pain is perfectly id...
A Pagan holiday tree blessing
Those Pagans who choose to bring a live tree—mine is specifically a Christmas tree but this works for any winter festival day—into the house at this time of the year might want to express special reverence for it. Not only is it sacred in and of itself and a guest in your home, but if you cut it...
The Third Sunday of Advent: therefore do not worry
do you think there is anywhere, in any language,a word billowing enoughfor the pleasurethat fills you,as the sunreaches out,as it warms youas you stand there,empty-handed--or have you tooturned from this world--or have you toogone crazyfor power,for things?— Mary Oliver, “The Sun”(Note: I thin...
The Second Sunday of Advent: a little child holds sway
Deep within the still center of my being may I find peace.Silently within the quiet of the Grove may I share peace.Gently within the greater circle of humankind may I radiate peace.— Druid’s Peace PrayerDruids are peacemakers.This isn’t true only of Neo-Druidry—or we have reason to believe i...
The First Sunday of Advent: preparing the way
I made my own Advent wreath this year.It’s actually not the first time I’ve done that. I’ve bought a frame and candles and fake evergreens decorated with fake berries and balls dusted with gold glitter (which I’ve then had to place on a high shelf where my weird cat can’t get to it because...
A Prayer for Which No Words Exist - part one
[image by Pulkit Kamal]When I finished writing this in the fall of 2019 I had no idea what the hell to do with it.I sensed that it wasn’t publishable—or that I was very unlikely to be able to sell it—at least not in its draft form, but I had no idea how I could go about making it so without re...
