Daily Archives: December 11, 2013
Sunset, 12/11/13
Posted on December 11, 2013 26 Comments
Complete with a sun pillar giving the sunset a nice, Mordor-like glow.
Don’t Live For Your Obituary
Posted on December 11, 2013 53 Comments
Via Nick Mamatas,this article about writer Colin Wilson, who passed away in the last week, which begins: How dismayed the late Colin Wilson would have been if, through some of the occult powers in which he believed, he had been able to read his own obituaries. The man whose first book The Outsider caused him to be […]
Francis and Snowden (and Time Magazine)
Posted on December 11, 2013 29 Comments
Time has named Pope Francis its person of the year, and I have to say that I’m down with that; the only other person I would slot in the position would be Edward Snowden, and Pope Francis is at least the more optimistic choice between the two (and also admittedly the safer choice, in terms of […]
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