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Or maybe I’ll go with this t-shirt.
La razón por la cual algunos retratos no se parecen a la realidad, es porque algunas personas no hacen ningún esfuerzo para lucir como en sus pinturas.
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If you can’t beat ’em join ’em.
As I said to comrade Generalissimo Wildermuth: My friend, you may very well have inspired me to form my own political party. One part Dadaism, one part random hooliganism, we’ll go around shouting...
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And that’s the last I’ll be saying on the matter.
Got to keep the organizers – and Security – guessing. Mark my words, though. In years to come, people will speak of the Red Lion Hotel in Olympia as ground zero. NEVER REMEMBER! Muahahahahahahahaha....
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Join the Bacchic Underground
Are you interested in serious study, discussion and developing a shared Dionysian practice with other like-minded souls? Then the Bacchic Underground is the community for you! I’ve created a dedicated...
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The Tragic Consequences of Comedy
I need to make an apology. To Niki Whiting, to the organizers and attendees of Many Gods West, to Rhyd Wildermuth and to all of my readers. Last week I made a series of posts that crossed a line and...
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Τετέλεσται
After several days of grave deliberation the members of Bakcheion have reached a decision and are releasing this formal statement: “Due to unforeseen circumstances, Bakcheion will not be putting on a...
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The rest of the story
When making our formal announcement that Bakcheion would not be attending Many Gods West to host the Chthonic Dionysia we intentionally refrained from going into the specifics to help de-escalate a...
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A joyous Liberalia to you all!
In happier news, my next book What Flowers in the Dark: A Poetic Journey Through Anthesteria is now available! How felicitous that a work on my favorite Greek festival of Dionysos should be released on...
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the sensation of escape toward a disconcerting strangeness
“With Dionysos, the music changes. At the heart itself of life on this earth, alterity is a sudden intrusion of that which alienates us from daily existence, from the normal course of things, from...
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the stinging swarm flies forth and the kite falls downward on this joyous...
Listen to this song as you read Ovid’s Fasti Book III: March 17: The Liberalia There’s a popular festival of Bacchus, on the third day After the Ides: Bacchus, favour the poet who sings your feast....
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Why does the vigneron hawk cakes?
Apotropaic Dionysos by Δ the Dionysian Artist and Wayne I really do love Ovid’s account of the origins of the festival. I mean just sit with this isolated bit here and really think about what each...
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Buzzzzzzzed
Haw, kind of like this part too: He was travelling from sandy Hebrus, accompanied By Satyrs, (my tale contains a not-unpleasant jest) And he’d come to Mount Rhodope, and flowering Pangaeus: With the...
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not without reason said Pythoness to men a good proverb that every gold (that...
Which reminds me. What was the name of the Starry Bull’s brother? Oh yeah: But Glaukos, while he was yet a child, in chasing a mouse fell into a jar of honey and was drowned. On his disappearance...
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And we bring our Liberalia to a close.
Euripides’ Bakchai trans. by Anne Carson Don’t Let it Bring You Down … It’s Only Castles Burning by Sarah Fimm
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let the wise bee wise
Hope you enjoyed the performance at this year’s Liberalia. Next year’s will be even better.
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follow the thread back; remember
Hail to Polydeukion, to the Trophimoi, and to the Tetrad++. May your hearts overflow with joy! May you bring plentiful blessings and protections to your people! May you race in the hunt with the...
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What order should my books be read in?
Poetry * What Flowers in the Dark: A Poetic Journey Through Anthesteria * End to End * THIS IS NOT AN EXIT: Strange Spirits Volume II * Strange Spirits Volume One * Thunderstruck with Wine Bacchic...
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