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Upcoming Gigs for July 2009

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Phae and I are getting all packed up to attend a special all-day event in Ottawa, Ontario this Saturday, July 11th: Fire in the Hearth. Isaac will appear with Dr. Brendan Myers, author of The Other Side of Virtue, Dr. Shelley Rabinovitch, Professor of the Magic, Witchcraft and Occult Phenomena Course, at the University of Ottawa and author of An’ Ye Harm None: Magical Morality & Modern Ethics, and Linda Demissy, Senior Druid of Silver Fox Grove, ADF, and author of Linda’s Book of Pagan Chants.

The next week, from July 21st through 26th, Isaac will be presenting at Starwood XXIX, the East Coast’s largest Pagan-friendly festival, in Sherman, New York. Isaac will discuss Wiccan Ritual Design and Performance, the Laws of Magic, and Neopagan Community—Strengths and Weaknesses. He will also provide Tarot readings, sign books, sing, and otherwise carry on. Starwood is a world unto itself with scholarly presentations, powerful magical rituals, mind-blowing parties, and the biggest bonfire you’ve ever seen—if you live east of the Mississippi, go there!

From July 31st through August 3rd, Isaac will be a Guest of Honor with Philip Carr-Gomm of OBOD and John Michael Greer of AODA at the House of Danu’s Druid Gorsedd in Monterey, California. This looks to be a magnificient weekend of family-friendly Druidic disputation and entertainment—if you live west of the Mississippi, go there!

Note that we no longer haul around boxes of books, CDs, and jewelry to events, so if you’d like your book, music CD, or lecture tape signed, you’ll have to buy it and bring it with you (though some items may be on sale from ACE at Starwood).

Weekend Plans

Friday, June 27th, 2008


Visit A Totally Normal World
This is the Ning group set up for the extravaganza where I’ll be spending my weekend. On Saturday I’ll be riffing on “Magic for World Domination!” I wonder what I’ll say…

(See the blog post about The Totally Normal Event below for more info.)

What kind of bizarre mind conceives of such an event? Here is Jeff Mach’s “About Me” from the organizing site that the picture above sends you to:

Past the blasted barrens, beyond the goblin heath
Where all light is from fire, and even time has teeth,
Beyond the sight of sanity–where all things may occur,
Where smoke takes shapes which waken memories that never were,
Sitting on a medium-sized bluish rock
is a fax machine.
It works pretty well, considering that it’s plugged into a
basilisk,
but it’s very rare for a moment to go by
without it being chewed by a hydra,
stepped on by a brachiosaur,
cursed by the Warlock of the Everpain Tower,
hacked by the Cyberfreaks,
molecularly displaced by freakish atom storms,
worshiped by 13th-century Flemish knights,
dusted for fingerprints,
mind-melded,
shot at,
nibbled on,
or sliced into sushi and thrown, at random, through the
gateways of a billion pinstriped alternate worlds.
Which means that sometimes, just sometimes, the message comes
out a little funny.
So. That’s where I get my ideas.
Where do you get yours?

So now you know!