Working in theatre is different from working in an office – and thank god! As a friend of mine said, the difference is that in theatre, you know exactly what everyone else you’re working with does. Each person’s duties and responsibilities are quite clearly defined and titled. Carpenters build things. Electricians light things. Costumers costume [...]
Category Archives: Conspiracy
The Ideal Theatre
February 8, 2010 – 10:38 am
Though they are long gone, my neighborhood here in Baltimore used to be home to two movie theatres, virtually side-by-side: the Hampden Theatre and the Ideal Theatre. The Hampden is now an upscale restaurant called Dogwood and a Bikram Yoga place, while the 1908-1963 Ideal Theatre is now an antique shop called Woodward’s. Pictured below [...]
Throw The Bones: A History of Ritual Trade, Games, Gambling, & Divination
January 18, 2010 – 2:16 pm
An entity ‘complete unto itself’ (I) is, ultimately, incomplete until it develops transactional relationships with other entities from which it derives meaning, purpose, value and context. For example: any word, when excised from the context of the language and culture which spawned it, is without meaning. Gibberish. All of existence, it can be said, [...]
Lending, Secret Societies, Canon Law
October 15, 2007 – 1:49 pm
Another set of threads to tie together out of recent conversations here:
Religious/ethical prohibitions against usury
Role of the Knights Templar and consequent secret societies in the origins of modern banking
Obviously, when it comes to secret societies, reliable information is exceedingly hard to piece together. But we could sketch out a tentative line of descent from the [...]
