Came across a really interesting six-minute documentary on the very rebellious Failed Messiah website, which focuses on day laborers in Williamsburg, Brooklyn who are often hired by people within the […]
By The Nice Jewish Girl A Jewish-American peace activist once told me that her experience coming out as a Lesbian was far easier than coming out as a supporter of […]
Riding home from a three-hour lecture on Taoist alchemy and “sexology,” I found myself uncontrollably staring at the above Manhattan Storage ad (those forever kinda sorta very clever ones) thinking […]
Over the next few days I will be reporting from here… The Abode of the Message, covering this week’s Vanishing Art Festival featuring Peter Lamborn Wilson… Carolee Schneemann… and many more…. What the hell is Vanishing Art, you ask? Check out this communique from Wilson on the first Vanishing Art […]
Trying to comprehend the ways in which people who happen to like the intimate company of others of a similar gender have had to struggle to be accepted alongside people who happen to like the intimate company of those of a less similar gender is mind-imploding. Seriously, it hurts. If […]
I was upstate the past couple of days (without internet!) and was unable to post any of the good news on the good good that is margins of NYC spirituality. I would’ve liked to report on something of the sort while in the mountains, hoping to run into a lost […]
Daisy Jane Danger and I stumbled upon this little “Donna Karan: Bunny Butcher”-esque call to action while walking through Chelsea. It’s not every day you get to see the New Age movement being publicly called out on their pooh-pooh. And yet, I’m not sure it’s fair to call Donna Karan, […]
Always a beacon of solid (like a turd) reporting (like a pooh), our very own NY Daily News is trying to paint Arizona killer, Jared Lee Loughner, as an occultist offering the above picture, along with unsourced “expert” opinions, to back up their claim, stating that the “shrine” is both […]
I picked this up, along with a pamphlet on “The Uses of Pain,” while mulling around the lobby of the New York New Church waiting to pay my $20 for a group seance. For those who don’t know, George Bush (b. 1796), biblical scholar come mystic, was a bit of […]
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