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A SubGenius, Discordian Pope (aren't we all?) and FreeThinker (define your terms)
I have written various pieces for the Maybe Logic Academy magazine, Maybe Quarterly. I also contribute routinely to the group blog, Only Maybe, which I helped set up. I have probably written several thousands of words, contributing to the related forums and online courses for the MLA.
 | I really enjoyed writing up an idea of Bobby's (that he illustrated for me) - Magical Means - a meeting of mind |
| Different Kinds of Magic got posted in the blog, whereas the following appear in the more permanent magazine: |
| Believe That, and You'll Believe Anything (an appreciation of an online course on the book Illuminatus! with the author Robert Anton Wilson as tutor). |
| Falling on Deaf Ears - a collaboration with an artist and fellow student, Bobby, relating to what we had learned about Vico's theory of cyclic time when reading Finnegans Wake. |
| Time Piece - my own compilation of material on different ways of perceiving time - as linear or cyclic, etc. |
| I Wouldn't Want to Play Cards with Him - a piece bringing together my obsessions with randomness, games and cheating, conjuring and the history of playing cards and Tarot, and printing, and... |
| Always Assuming - a deliberately brief piece, about how assumptions can lead us up the garden path... |
| God-Free Zone - my take on Buddhism and a god-free respect for the world |
| MacGuffin and the Holy Grail |
| Vico's (the student bar at the Academy) |
| MLA courses - and Bogus MLA courses (accept no substitute) |
| Deception Detection ... which I expanded from the blog into a piece for the permanent magazine, and called it... |
| The Mind Playing Tricks On Itself |
| A Way With Words - related to RAW's material on the Ideogrammic Method |
| Hilaritas, Surrealism and Duchamp - a quote from one of my heroes, Marcel Duchamp. |
I also update an incomplete Imperfect Index to both Only Maybe and Maybe Quarterly, which you might find an amusing way to browse through the kind of subjects we find interesting, and discuss at the Academy.
| Most recently I finished writing a 50,000 word novel in a month, as part of the NaNoWriMo marathon - called Foolproof. |
| Material written for juggling and arts magazines, when I was performing, teaching and generally promoting circus skills. To find these click here. |
| Writing about my friend Mick Swain, and the edited work I did on his papers after he died. Click here for work in progress. |
| Also a few bits of my own writing that came out of Mick and me writing to each other. I was quite into film noir (lone white knight and all that). Like "Suspended Animation" (we were both desperately poor and 'stuck' - you can tell). And, after a conversation about Mick's lucid dreaming, I tried to explain how I hardly ever remember dreams, just shut my eyes, and then open them again hours later "Coming Round Again". And "Intimations of Mortality II", about my early years, getting grounded with archaeology. |
| My own favourites of my photos - often from old prints, etc |
| Miscellaneous other stuff - ecology research papers, etc. Click here. |
Passing Thoughts (these used to change all the time, but not for a long while now!)