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elizabeth  ·  2113 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 11, 2018

The Speakeasy bar tours we've started with a friend are going surprisingly well! At 66 reviews, we're definitely the #1 bar tour of the city on Airbnb right now :)

I've also gone down some weird internet rabbit hole reading about Magick and the Occult in the past few weeks. I'm mostly just curious about this whole subculture I've never heard of. But the fact that there is some research that has been done around wacky stuff like mirror gazing - and it's not 100% BS is just fascinating to me right now. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4219253/





user-inactivated  ·  2113 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Go read Promethea. Alan Moore is great for that stuff, he cheerfully acknowledges it's all imaginary but thinks it's valuable anyway.

tacocat  ·  2113 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've not read Promethea but I know enough about it to be unsure if it would help me understand how serious he is in his worship of a forgotten Roman snake God. I'm also ambivalent about if that question needs to be answered

goobster  ·  2112 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So glad to hear the tours are working!! That's fantastic!!

Being a successful tour guide is also a ticket to almost anywhere in the world. Anyone can remember facts. Few people can be engaging and interesting in person, and relay those stories in a way that people like and respond to.