Maybe the places where many of y’all live don’t observe it, but I still do. So Happy Mardi Gras, dear readers!
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Mardi Gras 2025
Posted in Holidays, tagged carnival, holidays on March 4, 2025| 2 Comments »
Valentine’s Day 2025
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays on February 14, 2025| Leave a Comment »
As longtime readers know, Valentine’s Day is my least favorite of holidays, and I’m not particularly fond of the typical iconography associated with it, either (which is often weird or violent or creepy as hell). So every year I try to share an exception, like this sweet little kitten.
Imbolc 2025
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on February 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »
May the reawakening of the world bring with it the reawakening of good things you thought gone forever. Blessed Be!
Little Christmas 2025
Posted in Holidays, tagged carnival, holidays, Italy, witchcraft on January 6, 2025| Leave a Comment »
If you don’t understand why this witch is carrying a sackful of toys, I suggest you consult my column from this day in 2015, which also (not by coincidence) contains links to the columns for the previous four years. That should give you all the information you need to understand why I’m wishing some of my readers a Merry Christmas, some a Good Epiphany and others a Happy King Day, and welcoming all of you to the Carnival season!
New Year’s Day 2025
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays on January 1, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Happy New Year, dear readers!
New Year’s Eve 2024
Posted in Holidays, Perception, Philosophy, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged abortion, censorship, cops, holidays, hysteria, propaganda, racism, The Implosion Begins on December 31, 2024| Leave a Comment »
However destructive a wildfire may be, it’s at least possible to fight it when there aren’t hordes of fools running around throwing lit matches everywhere they go. – “New Year’s Eve 2023“
Though “sex trafficking” hysteria has imploded, that does not mean we will soon enter a new golden age of sex workers rights; as I wrote two years ago today,
When the last iteration of “sex trafficking” hysteria died in the 1920s, the laws it spawned remained and are still being used to persecute people for thoughtcrime to this very day; the laws passed over the past 20 years will likewise long outlive the moral panic which spawned them.
Furthermore, no massive structure built over 15 years disappears without leaving debris. Trumpists are still vomiting out “sex trafficking” myths in support of their anti-migrant, anti-LGBT, anti-porn, and anti-brown people agendas; cops still use the propaganda to justify raping Asian sex workers; gullible stenographers who dare to call themselves “journalists” still uncritically repeat copaganda; and even those who have finally admitted that the “trafficking” mythology is a load of dingo’s kidneys now label it a “right-wing conspiracy theory” and refuse to admit their own culpability for the society-wide toxic effects of the racist, misogynistic wanking fantasy they helped spread for so long. The ascendance of Trumpism and the re-criminalization of abortion across much of the US are the direct results of that ugly narrative, and both book-burning crusades and the widespread demonization of anything to do with LGBT people are other offshoots of the same noxious root system which, had it been dug out and burned in the Oughts, would have been neither robust enough nor extensive enough to engender such toxic growths. The moral panic is over, but its rotten fruit have burst, spewing xenophobic, anti-sex, authoritarian poison all over American society. It’s going to take many years of arduous, unremitting effort to clean it up, and that’s assuming there are more willing to do so than are actively engaged in making it worse.
Boxing Day 2024
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays on December 26, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Just a reminder of what this day is for: relaxing and sharing with the less fortunate. And they needn’t be strangers. Happy Holidays, and Blessed Be.
Christmas Day 2024
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays on December 25, 2024| 1 Comment »
A Very Merry Christmas to all my readers, and Blessed Be!
Christmas Eve 2024
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays on December 24, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Merry Christmas, dear readers, and may you all find everything you hope for under your tree!
Yule 2024
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on December 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »
The apparent path of the sun reached its southernmost point at 9:20 UTC today, the exact moment this posted; that makes this the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest day of the year in the Southern. This is a time for remembrance, renewal and rebirth; I wish for all my readers the blessings of the season, and pray that all of you get all you hope for in the new year. Blessed Be!
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