“Have a Creepy Little Christmas”
Hyperallergic has an intriguing gallery of Victorian Christmas cards ranging from the charming to the disturbing. (Some are both)
“Totally 80s Tarot Deck”
Siouxsie Sioux is rightfully the High Priestess and Klaus Nomi drives the Chariot in the New Wave Tarot Deck by Amanda Lee Stilwell of Last Craft Designs.
Twin Peaks Tarot Deck
Behold Benjamin Mackey’s Twin Peaks tarot deck at Open Culture.
“Fool’s Journey: The Fascinating Live of Patricia Colman Smith”
At Autostraddle, Beth Maiden writes about the life of Patricia Colman Smith, illustrator of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck and an innovator in Tarot card design. “Colman Smith studied to be an artist at the experimental, avant-garde Pratt Institute in Brooklyn but didn’t graduate — nonetheless she became an […]
Old Timey Christmas Cards
The BBC and Atlas Obscura have galleries of intriguing Nineteenth Century Christmas cards. “The Victorians had a different idea to what Christmas was about – not particularly Christian, but a time of good humour. You may find a mouse riding a lobster strange – I find it funny. […]
“Piracy Gave Me A Future”
At Boing Boing, Daniel Starkey writes about poverty’s intellectual dead zones and how poverty gave him a future. “I don’t pirate games anymore, and I don’t support pirating games if you can afford to buy them. But when I needed it, piracy gave me hope. When I considered […]
The Cultural Gutter 