{"id":10979,"date":"2019-10-26T09:12:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10979"},"modified":"2019-10-27T10:15:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T16:15:02","slug":"its-october-and-you-know-what-that-means-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10979","title":{"rendered":"It’s October, and You Know What That Means: Media!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s in this issue.<\/p><\/div>\n

At The New Yorker<\/em>, they have discovered that astrology is back. In never leaves, actually \u2014 ask the people at Llewellyn<\/a> \u2014but new media interest is cyclical as the Moon. Maybe it is just astrology’s “growth” on social media that gets noticed.<\/p>\n

In July, I was ushered into a glass-enclosed conference room on the sixth floor of a building in Tribeca to meet with Banu Guler, the thirty-one-year-old co-founder and C.E.O. of the astrology app Co-Star, whose Web site promises to allow \u201cirrationality to invade our techno-rationalist ways of living.\u201d Guler is a casting director\u2019s idea of a tech executive. She is a vegan who used to design punk zines and was a bike messenger until she got into \u201ca gnarly car wreck.\u201d She has cropped hair, a septum piercing, and a tattoo of Medea on the back of one leg. Why Medea? I asked. \u201cWitchcraft,\u201d she explained. A copy of Liz Greene\u2019s \u201cRelating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet\u201d lay between us. Guler hasn\u2019t read it, but it\u2019s been on her Goodreads list forever.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is a little stomach-turning, in that Liz Greene is one of the best astrologers out there<\/a>. When I decided that I was less into astrology than in previous years, I got rid of most of my books \u2014 except for Liz Greene’s and Robert Hand’s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Maybe Guler needs a tattoo of Media, not Medea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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