Passing along some things:

[featherynscale]

1) Robert Anton Wilson died this morning. Light a candle, ingest a psychoactive substance, or vote for an ostrich in his memory, would you? He will be missed. Sad news reported by kaidevis. For those of you who can't be arsed to click links, Bob's more or less final word on the subject was "I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd."

I'm really down about that, so here is some more appealing "news":
2) If you're in Kansas City, you'll have an opportunity to catch the film Pan's Labyrinth at the Glenwood Arts theater starting 1/19. (Thanks, gamera_spinning!)

3) There's a fairly good article about polyamory in Tikkun this month. Tikkun is a progressive Jewish magazine which runs a lot of interfaith and spirituality of peace sorts of stories.

Comments

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads up about Wilson. He will be missed.

I'm just glad Pan's Labyrinth is playing locally.

[infintysquared.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Feathery, I do believe I'll steal your linkage verbatim, since I don't think I have a better way to phrase it. I'll toss in a bit more about it, but that's a very good nutshell.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

My condolences.

If anyone happens to catch the film at the Glenwood, don't forget to say hi to twixxa!

[pete3great.livejournal.com]

RAW DIED? RAW DIED? or is this another one of those "RAW DIED" things, but he didn't?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Naw, I'm pretty sure it's actually true this time. Dude's been in a bad way for years, and was writing about how they were telling him he had between two days and two months to live, right before this announcement came around. I don't think he'd mind, though, if people chose to view it as an elaborate internet hoax.