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A Christmas tradition
Above: The Martyrdom of Nicholas 2, 2007, colored pixels, by Thomas Christensen and the master of Saint-Austremoine-Issoire.
Below: The Martyrdom of Nicholas, 2006, colored pixels, by Thomas Christensen and Francisco de Goya. (Last year I also listed the top ten seasonal songs that don’t mention Christmas.)
Posted: December 3rd, 2007 under alternative, art and illustration.
Comments: 6
Wiccans Are Uneasy
NYT: Wiccans Keep the Faith with a Religion under Wraps.
The gist of the article is that wiccans worry that people will think they’re satanists.
Maybe education is the answer. Maybe what’s need is a Wiccanpedia. (Unfortunately, I’m already busy with my Publishpaedia.)
Posted: May 19th, 2007 under alternative.
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My Sweet Lord
Looks like the Roger Smith Hotel in New York has caved in to demands from the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights to remove the art piece My Sweet Lord by Cosimo Cavallaro. A six-foot-tall representation of Jesus on the cross made of chocolate, the piece has apparently offended the League more by its [...]
Posted: March 30th, 2007 under alternative, art and illustration, music, offbeat.
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Amy Arbus’s NYC in the 80s
The Morning News is showing some of Amy Arbus’s images of New York City fashion, 1980s style. You know, when the city actually had a sort of alternative scene. Or, as interviewer Rosecrans Baldwin says,
Now that Manhattan is only habitable for the rich, New Yorkers love to look back to the mad ‘80s, when the [...]
Posted: January 9th, 2007 under alternative, community, history.
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Another Volley in the War on Christmas
The Martyrdom of Nicholas,
by Francisco de Goya and Thomas Christensen
Top Ten Seasonal Songs That Don’t Mention Christmas
As a public service to those who will be entertaining Muslims, Buddhists, Wiccans, Jews, and the like this holiday season, I offer this list:
1. Deck the Halls
2. Frosty the Snowman
3. Gloucestershire Wassail
4. Happy Holidays
5. Jinglebell Rock
6. Jingle Bells
7. Let [...]
Posted: December 10th, 2006 under alternative, music.
Comments: 3
“Are Editors Moribund?”
BBC NEWS | The Editors |
That’s the question the BBC is asking (link above). “What is there left when voices rise in debate without chairman or standing orders? You have babble, not Google,” they argue (an argument that is itself, of course, an editorial decision.) I don’t much care for the “chairman” analogy — I’m [...]
Posted: August 22nd, 2006 under alternative, editing.
Comments: 3