{"id":1000,"date":"2008-03-29T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2008-03-29T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T20:20:00","slug":"gallimaufry-to-fill-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"Gallimaufry to Fill Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back from a week on the road to a full inbox and a desk covered with bills to pay, I offer a few links for your kind attention:<\/p>\n

¶ Attention Kemetic reconstructionists<\/a>: Don’t let your temple-builders become anemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

¶ A list of things that offend Muslims<\/a>. Anyone want to try the Pagan equivalent? I think it would be a lot shorter. Piggy banks and Easter eggs don’t bother me. Can you imagine Pagans rioting in the streets over the crappy remake of The Wicker Man<\/em><\/a> and giving director Neil LaBute the Theo Van Gogh<\/a> treatment? I can’t either. We prefer to just make fun of it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

¶ This will go onto my must-see list: Jason Pitzl-Waters notes an upcoming movie about the philosopher Hypatia<\/a>. An uncompromising Neoplatonist<\/a>, from what I understand, she was murdered by a Christian mob after some bishop put out a fatwa against her.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back from a week on the road to a full inbox and a desk covered with bills to pay, I offer a few links for your kind attention: ¶ Attention Kemetic reconstructionists: Don’t let your temple-builders become anemic. ¶ A list of things that offend Muslims. Anyone want to try the Pagan equivalent? 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