Secret Sun DogDay Rerun: History's Latchkey Kids, Remixed

Ah, Generation X. The forgotten and discarded cohort that everyone loves to simultaneously imitate and ignore. The first online generation, and the last generation to contribute anything of value to the culture. 

Those people.

Memeday Monday: Can't Trust that Day

If only, Homer. If only.

Apocalypse-Synching: Babylon is Drowning

Another wild week in our ongoing apocalypse, no? It turns out that it was all preceded by some of the usual shenanigans from some of the usual suspects.

(Egyptian) Girls Gone Wild

BALTIMORE - Today, it sounds like a spring-break splurge on the order of "Girls Gone Wild": Drink huge quantities of beer, get wasted, indulge in gratuitous sex and pass out — then wake up the next morning with the music blaring and your friends praying that everything will turn out all right.

But back in 1470 B.C., this was the agenda for one of ancient Egypt's most raucous rituals, the "festival of drunkenness," which celebrated nothing less than the salvation of humanity. Archaeologists say they have found evidence amid the ruins of a temple in Luxor that the annual rite featured sex, drugs and the ancient equivalent of rock 'n' roll.

Amazing- you mean to tell me that the Baby Boomers didn't invent sex 'n' drugs 'n' rock 'n' roll at Woodstock? I'm shocked. Some hippies must have built a time machine and introduced these practices to the Egyptians.

Let's Warp the Timeline Again.

It's been a very, very strange month, particularly the past week or so. I don't know about you, but I'm sensing a powerful dislocation, some kind of massive disturbance in the Force. Concurrently with that is a sense that the Spy vs Spy War that's dominated our politics for the past three years has taken a decisive turn.

In Which the New Age Yields to the Schizoid Age

The New Age Movement (NAM) seemed really exciting and refreshing - for about eighteen months back in the mid-Eighties, that is. Then came Out on a Limb and the Harmonic Convergence and it all got super-cringe, super-fast.

Power to the Steeple, Right On.

From Genesis to Revelation. On Earth as it is in the Heavens. As Above, So Below. 

Persephone, the Strawberry Girl

As Secret Sun readers all realize, the old gods are back at their desks after a long vacation. Well, call it a working vacation. 

Literally Meme.

Canada, I love you. I really, truly do. You are a great, great country with a warm, wonderful people. 

That said, please toss this preening little clownsock out on his ass, post-haste. Jussie is an embarrassment to Canada, North America, Anglophones, Francophones, and Y-chromosomes in general.

Desperate Housewitches: Eastwick on TV

 

Here's a surprise: I expected the TV adaption of The Witches of Eastwick to be a Point Pleasant-type cringefest, or at best, "Desperate Housewitches." It's actually pretty entertaining, for what it is. 

Another Shepherd Swims to the Siren

History repeats, most especially so during the Apocalypse. Just as we saw in the wake of Heaven Upside Down or Las Vegas, another talented but extremely troubled Shepherd has swum to the Siren. I strongly suspect there'll be more to follow before the year is out.

Watcher Worship Watch: She-Demons Take Manhattan

Why is there a hideous, chimeric, golden she-demon lurking atop the Appellate Court in Manhattan?

Because there's no better place than a temple of law to prove Knowles' Second and Third Laws.

Esoteric Exhaustion Syndrome: When Ritual Becomes Rote

Siren Christ Pose?

There's a reason rituals fall out of favor: they really get to be exhausting after a while. 

There was such a spate of mass rituals following on the Gotthard Tunnel production -- or the 2012 Olympics, if you want to trace it back to when things really started to get out of hand -- that it's just becoming a chore to keep track of them all.

Vegas Rising, or Babylon on the Colorado

Wow, the hits just keep on coming. For reasons I'm not entirely comfortable acknowledging, we're seeing more and more focus placed on Sin City these days. We're going to be seeing a lot more besides, so gird your loins.