It’s not meteorological summer here in the Northern Hemisphere yet, but it’s June. It’s hot and my a/c is on. I have been sticky with sweat and sunscreen. I have had my first Arnold Palmer of the season.(And my first Dinah Shore—lemonade with seltzer). It is summer as […]
Friend of the Gutter Kate Laity has created a meditative, divinatory short film Nephomancy: Scrying with Clouds. “Nephomancy: predicting the future by reading portents in the clouds The Old English text comes from the Exeter Book riddles 1 & 3. Filmed in the Howff Cemetery, Dundee, Scotland in […]
Friend of the Gutter Kate Laity gives a lecture on Leonora Carrington at the 2025 Occulture Conference! “How can ritual and hybridity become tools for transformation and resistance? In this lecture from Occulture Conference 2025, K. A. Laity explores Leonora Carrington’s play Judith as a dramatic ritual of […]
Smithsonian Magazine has a piece on the history of Tarot cards and you can read it here. (Thanks, Kate!)
This week Guest Star Kate Laity writes about Fritz Leiber’s Conjure Wife (1943) and two lesser known adaptations. ~~~ I’m currently writing about Fritz Leiber’s Conjure Wife and the 1962 film based on it, Night of the Eagle, AKA, Burn, Witch, Burn! (1962). It’s a pity there are […]
Everything is real and everything is possible in Latitude Zero. It is both a secret utopia beneath the sea where scientists and artists work in peace, waiting for the day when humankind will be ready to embrace Latitude Zero’s wonders, and a Japanese/American science fiction spectacle directed by […]
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