Goat Head Found In Brooklyn Park /// OG Mysticism Alive and Well?
Way back in 2004 a black metal band known as Gorgoroth played a show in Krakow, Poland. As Wikipedia tells it: “[T]he band displayed sheep heads on stakes, a bloodbath […]
Brooklyn Halloween Homes ¦¦ Check Out New York Shitty’s Halloween Watch Images
New York Shitty takes a crap ton of photos (pun honestly not intended, so I gots to leave it in) of street art, random visual non-sequiturs, and found objects throughout […]
Modern Day Mummifiation |:| First Midnight Archive Video Up
Well, it actually happened, and right on schedule too! The first installment of destined-to-be-cult-classic web series, The Midnight Archive, is up for your viewing pleasure. The creation of Ronni Thomas, […]
This Thursday: 19th Century Bohemian Occult Subcultures in Britain |:| Golden Dawn, Polyamory, Mysticism
Phantasmaphile is putting together this: Bohemian Occult Subculture in Britain’s 1890s: How Artists, Actors, and Writers Made the Golden Dawn* An illustrated presentation by Dr. Christina Oakley Harrington of Treadwell’s, London’s legendary occult bookshop Date: Thursday, August 25th Time: 8pm Location: Observatory, Brooklyn Admission: $8 The Order of the Golden […]
New Occult Esoteric Fantastic Web Show
Remember television? That was awesome. Television was that thing that even when it was lame (commercials) it had the potential for being insane (Zoobilee Zoo). Well, television is over. But this new thing called the intranet is going to take off like undies at a poly-friendly post-gender anarchist adult play […]
Wanna Go See Brains in Jars and Underground Crypts?
Brooklyn’s own Morbid Anatomy, which busies its beautiful self “surveying the interstices of art and medicine, death and culture,” is going on a field trip this Saturday. From Observatory Room website: On Saturday, July 16th join Observatory and Morbid Anatomy for a special field trip to New Haven, Connecticut. Our […]
NYC Atheists Hate Heaven |:| Heaven Likes the First Amendment
NYC Atheists are challenging a new sign that went up in Red Hook, Brooklyn commemorating the death of seven first responder fireman who died on 911. This is the story in a nutshell: [Ken Bronstein of NYC Atheists] calls the sign a violation of the separation of church and state, […]
My “Start Yr Own Religion” Class in Brooklyn |:| Begins Saturday July 30 |:| Sign up Now if Ya Like
It’s that time of the month again! Time to sign up for my “Start Yr Own Religion” class at 3rd Ward located in the quaint village of Bushwick deep within the greater hamlet of Brooklyn. It’s fun for the whole family and will allow you to finally organize into one […]
Vishnu Has Finally Come to Brooklyn |:| Cheeky and Cute (Digital) Avatars Follow |:| Buddha as Snake
Thanks to Not New York reader, Gary, for the tip regarding Brooklyn Museum’s recently opened exhibit Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior, which will be hanging on the walls from June 24 to October 2, 2011 in the Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing on the 4th Floor of the building. From […]
Put That Tube Top Down, Woman |:| Hasids in the Heat |:| Religious Sanctioned Clothing as Spiritual Practice
If it wasn’t true before, it’s defs true today: The news media only reports on Muslims when they’re trying to blow something up, santeros when they’re supposedly leaving decapitated animals all over the place, vodou practitioners when they’re burning things, and Jews when they freak out over the way women […]
NEW RELIGIONS: The Order of the Stone |:| Don’t Be Left Behind!
Every few months I teach a course called “Start Yr Own Religion” at Brooklyn’s ever-expanding creative arts facility 3rd Ward. In addition to getting to know the world’s religions (and cults) through visuals and documentary footage, students are asked to create deities, symbols, core tenets (beliefs), rituals, and propaganda. Always […]
NEW RELIGIONS: Motowism |:| The Church of Perpetual Potential
Every few months I teach a course called “Start Yr Own Religion” at Brooklyn’s ever-expanding creative arts facility 3rd Ward. In addition to getting to know the world’s religions (and cults) through visuals and documentary footage, students are asked to create deities, symbols, core tenets (beliefs), rituals, and propaganda. Always […]
Memory Activism in Greenpoint |:| Forgetting as Blessing |:| The Art/Ritual of Offerings
Reading this pleasant lil’ piece on New York Shitty about a weird ole advertisement from the past… …showing up in front of its former home… …got the ole curiosity box up in my skull thinking once again about that Warhol statue in Union Square and re-sacrilized space. But, what it […]
Mummification in Brooklyn |:| ‘Nuff Said
Some days you wake up without a piece in the hopper, and the past week’s been kinda slim pickin’s as far as mystic Manhattan goes, and so you open up […]
Hillary Clinton Erased from Hasidic Newspaper Photo
Not sure if you caught this a few days ago: The Brooklyn Jewish newspaper, Der Zeitung, was caught erasing both Hillary Clinton and an unnamed female White House staffer from the now famous Situation Room photo capturing the moments when White House peeps were reacting to Osama bin Laden’s (supposed) […]
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