gods | gods
May.24.2013
May 24
Balustrade
Just because you appeared from the dark doesn’t make you a wizard. Just because you make the world safe for mankind doesn’t make you Hercules, nor does your power and foresight make you his father. Your resourcefulness and guile doesn’t...
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Nov.05.2012
I discovered mythology as a girl and was enthralled. I read Greek myths mostly, devouring mythology books almost as voraciously as I did ones on astronomy. When I wasn’t inviting friends over to look through my telescope, I was trying desperately to get them excited about Greek gods and goddesses....
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May.24.2011
May 24
Balustrade
Just because you appeared from the dark doesn’t make you a wizard. Just because you make the world safe for mankind doesn’t make you Hercules, nor does your power and foresight make you his father. Your resourcefulness and guile doesn’t...
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May.16.2011
“That’s right! Oliver Twist, pickpockets they was.” Simon says, his face lighting up, then, “’Ere you gonna get yourself a squad of posh little fuckers and lift a few wallets down Kensington? ‘Arrods mate, that’s where you wanna go.”
“You,” Beckett said, tapping the side of his head, “can be a...
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Apr.20.2011
April 20
What I Take from Laban’s House
If I have the audacity to have a problem I must provide the instantaneous solution or be the cause of world-wide panic. Additionally it is the height of rudeness to have open-ended dilemma. It makes the gods...
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Jan.05.2011
The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell Craft
I never thought I'd see the day I would review a craft book over a work of fiction or nonfiction. But here it is! Never say never. It's not that I don't read craft pieces. Or that they cause me undo pain (okay, maybe some). It's just...
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Jul.28.2009
Here's one filmmakers idea of what happens when a Greek God retires to Los Angeles.
The neighborhood just isn't the same!
http://www.babelgum.com/118994/mean-old-god.html
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Mar.25.2009
When a destructive force leaves it’s mark for history to uncover, the events and hypothetical resolves can be misleading. In this short sci-fi, the archeological facts to be uncovered in the future would reveal a story of a different nature. We will witness the true events as they happened to two...
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Jan.06.2009
A rightwing group forced an artist to withdraw a nude portrait allegedly resembling Lord Shiva from an exhibition at a Mumbai art gallery.
We are back to the same old argument about freedom of expression. The artist has gone on the defensive saying that his untitled oil and acrylic painting was not...
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Jan.03.2009
The Myth Made Me Do It
There's nothing new under the sun. What goes around comes around. If you live long enough, you can be original. Every story ever told has already been told (in other words, there are only two, or twenty, or thirty-six plots –depending on which plotters' manual you prefer--...
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