Professor Harbinger's School for Villains

Stop everything! We have a trailer for the new Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie. And it looks good! I mean we don't have Jeremy Irons devouring metric shit tons of scenery. But also don't have any of the other rubbish from the first Dungeons and Dragons movie. We have a black dragons spewingContinue reading "Nerd Alert!"

I really appreciate the Pixar film Inside/Out. The film points out effectively that depression can be something other than feeling sad. Riley distinctly lacks Sadness during the primary events of the film. She is withdrawn, hostile, unable to interact effectively, but she isn't sad in the traditional sense. I have bipolar depressive disorder. And theContinue reading "Depression isn’t (Necessarily) Sadness"

Danial Quin suggested that societies turn to messiahs when they have lost hope. When a culture or a religion is facing destruction with no apparent way out, they frequently turn to a magical deliverer. Christianity formed under just such circumstances. The Ghost Dance did so as well. And I am struck by the fact thatContinue reading "Emperor Norton"

The time is two minutes to eight in the evening as I write this. This is much later than I prefer to post. But life does not always work out the way I hope. And I adapt. I am still posting to this blog. I am meeting my other goals for the day. I didContinue reading "Good Enough"

I was listening to Troy the Devil Man (of Scholomance.ca) speaking about esotericism in Freemasonry. Now I am not a mason. But I was struck by the six features of esotericism: Correspondences, Living Nature, Imagination and Mediations, Experience of Transmutation, Practice of Concordance, and Transmission. When it comes to understanding the occult and esoteric traditionContinue reading "Esotericism"