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This Ain’t Over

New year, new movies! Okay, two of these are pretty old movies, but they were new to us. SPOILERS for all three. The Lodge – When a man with two children falls in love with a new woman, his ex-wife … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Cults, Current Events, elvis presley, Holidays, Music, New Year's Day, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Television, The Simpsons, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged charles bronson, death wish, jeff goldblum, made in japan, mental illness, misognyny, new year's evil, riley keough, shadow, sonia manzano, suicide, the lodge |

Forget That Girl

Today, I’d like to talk about Meng Po, a Chinese goddess who makes an appearance in Katie Zhao’s Fallen Hero. She’s a resident of Diyu, the underworld, which combines Taoist and Buddhist traditions. Meng Po makes a magic liquid that … Continue reading →

Tagged aeneid, afterlife, death, demons, diyu, emperor qin shi huangdi, emperor shun, emperor yao, fallen hero, fan xiliang, great wall of china, hypnos, katie zhao, lethe river, meng jiang, meng po, mi hun tang, mnemosyne, myth of er, new age, nome king, orphic mysteries, plato, qi liang, reincarnation, republic, siddhartha gautama, souls, suicide, underworld, virgil, water of oblivion |

Isn’t It Nice When We’re All Afraid at the Same Time?

I haven’t written an album review since late April, and at least two of the records I discuss here were released before that. I don’t always have a lot of time to listen to music, and even when I do, … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Amanda Palmer, Beatles, Ben Folds, Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker, Drugs, Music, Relationships | Tagged abortion, beck hansen, david lowery, disneyland, guitar, in the shadow of the bull, johnathan rice, on the line, piano, ringo starr, ryan adams, suicide, there will be no intermission |

Three Birds and One Stone

I’ve been meaning to take a closer look at some of the stories in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, but my mind tends to get a lot of them mixed up. Someone does something to offend the gods, and is turned into something … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Greek Mythology, Mythology | Tagged aeolus, alcyone, apollo, artemis, broteas, ceyx, chione, chloris, cybele, daedalion, halcyon birds, hawks, hera, hermes, hubris, hypnos, kingfishers, leto, manisa relief, meliboea, metamorphoses, morpheus, mount parnassus, mount sipylus, niobe, ovid, pelops, phosphorus, suicide, tantalus, transformation, weeping rock, zeus |

The Original Suicide Girl

I can’t find much information on this week’s mythological subject, but she was just too interesting to pass up. Ixtab was the Mayan goddess of suicide, and patron deity of the noose and gallows. While many religions and cultures frown … Continue reading →