Film director Mel Brooks shared his survival trick in his memoir: “say yes and never do it.”...
Professor Oddfellow
Hailed by the art world as the most unusual scholar working today, Craig Conley fled academia to author Weiser Books' Magic Words: A Dictionary, HarperCollins' One-Letter Words: A Dictionary, and The Young Wizard's Hexopedia. Even more esoteric publications include Books of the Dead, Magic Archetypes, The Care and Feeding of a Spirit Board, Seance Parlor Feng Shui, How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook, Heirs to the Queen of Hearts: Tracing Magical Genealogy, Astrogalomancy, The One-Minute Mystic, and Divination by Punctuation. His work has been profiled in the New York Post, the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, Publishers Weekly, The Associated Press, and dozens of others.
One Weird Trick For Telling If the Second Stanza Got Moved Up It almost seems impossible, doesn’t it?...
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Weird science in the world of music? From the ridiculous to the sublime, let’s briefly consider holograms used...
“Light me, and I’ll burn for you” is a lyric from the INXS song “Burn For You.”...
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A musician’s unique handle popped up in a Discord group, and I’ve rarely clicked on a profile...
