Counterspell

Enchantment has called me since I was ten years old. It called me to find the spark behind the mask of things, and to doubt the ordinary. In those days I indiscriminately called it Magic, though just as often called it Imagination. Imagination was magic, but not Imagination in the way adults talked about it,...

The Terror of Initiation

Warning - contains spoliers for Color Out of Space There is a moment toward the end of Color Out of Space; reality is melting, warping, looping, all under the influence of a malignant hue saturating everything in the doomed Gardner farmhouse. Ward Phillips staggers through, trying to escape as alien landscape pours through the cracks,...

Enchanted Meetings

It is always a pleasure to spend time among brother Freemasons. Last night, my lodge hosted a Rabbie Burns night; a celebration of the Scottish Poet, and by extension a celebration of all things Scotland. The brethren of my lodge organized and hosted a warm and cheerful event, with delicious catering, artful readings of Burns'...