Review: Stardust and Rome
My schedule allowed me to see the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s “Stardust” during its opening weekend (a rare occurrence in my household), and since I plugged the movie on my blog earlier this week...
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My semi-regular round-up of articles, essays, and opinions of note for discerning Pagans and Heathens. SF Weekly interviews Sister Edith Myflesh from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and discusses...
View ArticleTrue Blood’s “Year of the Witch”
The sexy vampire phenomenon (as opposed to the sparkly vampire phenomenon) True Blood (based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries novels by Charlaine Harris) has grown a respectable cult audience as it...
View ArticleQuick Notes: Spartacus, American Gods, and James Arthur Ray
Just a few quick news notes for you on this Friday. Swords, Sandals, and Sex: I know I’ve been talking about Starz new series “Camelot” quite a bit lately, so today I’d like to highlight an excellent...
View ArticleQuick Notes: A Rude Aphrodite, Polytheism in A Song of Ice and Fire, and...
Just a few quick news notes for on this Thursday. Aphrodite’s Middle Finger: Der Spiegel reports that nine employees of the German magazine Focus are being ordered to appear in an Athens court for...
View ArticleReuters Discover the Witches (on True Blood)
Last year at this time the popular HBO cable television series “True Blood,” a show loosely based on a series of novels by Charlaine Harris, announced that 2011 would be the “year of the witch.” The...
View ArticleReview: “Beforeigners” brings the heathen past to the present
C. Foxnose Huling reviews the first season of the HBO Europe show "Beforeigners," which uses the premise of people from the past arriving in the modern world to explore questions of religion,...
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