{"id":1215,"date":"2009-10-06T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2009-10-06T02:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T02:17:00","slug":"gallimaufry-with-bison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1215","title":{"rendered":"Gallimaufry with Bison"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022 I have been traveling–and writing about it at the other blog<\/a>. So for now, some links.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Raw food and Linux: Interview with two Pagans<\/a>. Raw food is fine, but it’s easy to look good if you are in your twenties and have the bone structure … As for Linux, that’s fine too, but I have no real reason to switch from Mac OS X. Just not geeky enough\u2014or you could say that I prefer to be geeky about other things.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jordan Stratford claims the steampunk aesthetic for Gnosticism<\/a>. Next, raw food and Linux.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Boing Boing is hosting guest-blogger Mitch Horowitz, author of Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation<\/a>\"\"<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Is it the pop version of Catherine Albanese’s A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion<\/a>\"\"<\/em>? I need to read it and find out. (via The Wild Hunt<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 I have been traveling–and writing about it at the other blog. So for now, some links. \u2022 Raw food and Linux: Interview with two Pagans. Raw food is fine, but it’s easy to look good if you are in your twenties and have the bone structure … As for Linux, that’s fine too, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[10,77,5],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion","tag-gnosticism","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-jB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1130,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1130","url_meta":{"origin":1215,"position":0},"title":"Wikipedia’s Gnostic Kerfuffle","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 26, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Jordan Stratford, Gnostic priest and writer in Victoria, B.C., blogs about possible prejudice against present-day Gnosticism on the part of the Wikipedia cabal.My own experience with Wikipedia is tiny -- making minor edits on three or four articles -- but I know that there are people who must spend hours\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":979,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=979","url_meta":{"origin":1215,"position":1},"title":"Review: Living Gnosticism","author":"Chas S. 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There are multiple pages.I suppose it was reading The Witches of Chiswick that made me a fan of the genre -- Her Majesty's Electric Fusiliers and all that. (Via Boing Boing.)","rel":"","context":"In \"weirdness\"","block_context":{"text":"weirdness","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=weirdness"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=chascli-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0575075457","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2488,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2488","url_meta":{"origin":1215,"position":3},"title":"Gallimaufry with Graphs","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2022 The writing process, graphed, from Boing Boing. \u2022 The \"great conversation\" lives on: University students discovering ideas that their so-called teachers kept from them because they were not \"relevant\" or something. \u2022\u00a0 Why did Borders crash? Here is one view. 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(It's an \"othercott,\" not a boycott.)This film is based on a book that wears its heresy and blasphemy as a badge\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}