{"id":932,"date":"2007-09-25T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=932"},"modified":"2007-09-25T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T21:51:00","slug":"gallimaufry-with-horns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=932","title":{"rendered":"Gallimaufry (with horns)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oberon Zell<\/a> seems to drive some Pagans around the bend for his fondness for costuming, but who else reinvented unicorns<\/a>? The original work was done by a Maine wildlife biogist whom Zell acknowledges, W. Franklin Dove, in various articles and a book, Artificial Production of the Fabulous Unicorn:a Modern Interpretation of an Ancient Myth<\/em> (1936).<\/p>\n

¶ I always say that making movies about writers is difficult because the work of writing is not very visual. Margaret Soltan links to an article<\/a> about movies that are more about writers’ egos and screw-ups. I think that I will rent a couple of them.<\/p>\n

I would add Almost Famous<\/em><\/a> to the list, mainly for Philip Seymour Hoffman’s rants as a real-life character, rock journalist Lester Bangs, which are dead on.<\/p>\n

¶ Recently a shut-down Toys ‘R Us store in Pueblo that I pass on my way to the university blossomed with new, temporary signage as a Spirit World Halloween Store<\/a>. I had no idea that there was a Halloween chain store! Or that there was a category for warrior and god costumes<\/a>. Or that it included “outlaw zombie”<\/a>–shades of Texarcana<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

¶ Oberon Zell seems to drive some Pagans around the bend for his fondness for costuming, but who else reinvented unicorns? The original work was done by a Maine wildlife biogist whom Zell acknowledges, W. 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A Facebook commenter calls the show \"the kind of CRAP our spiritual community has had to put up with for decades!\" According to the projected TV series'\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"movies\"","block_context":{"text":"movies","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=movies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4680,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4680","url_meta":{"origin":932,"position":4},"title":"Gandalf Style?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"No, you can't fool me. 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