"Bad Things Happen When the Birds Gather"

I began writing Our Gods Wear Spandex on September 11, 2001. For some reason I can only ascribe to my Holy Guardian Angel, I wasn't in the WTC PATH station around 9 AM that morning. I actually had been for most of the summer, working in-house for a production studio on Lafayette Street in Lower Manhattan, doing storyboard work.

Star*Ships Have Landed: Interview with Gordon White

Gordon White has written a foundational text for the new millennium. Star*Ships is nothing less than a long-overdue door kicking in the halls of academic history and anthropology. But what is this book about and how did it come to be, you may ask? 

Have You Heard the News? Occultism is Dying. Again.

When I began actively blogging again I wrote a piece on the Borg-like power of the New Age movement, a movement that seemed both ubiquitous and invisible. 

Secret Sun Picture Parade: The Oscars Dream in (Solar) Gold

It all speaks for itself, don't you think?

Stolen History: The Mystery of Gold

I used to be a big fan of The History Channel, back when they used to actually show documentaries on history. The Learning Channel (now TLC) and Discovery Channel, too. My primary interest has always been in early civilizations, up to and including Greco-Roman; Sumer, Babylon, Egypt, Phoenicia and so on, but I'd pretty much watch whatever was on.