Very interesting article in today’s NY Times: “Witchy Town’s Worry: Do Too Many Psychics Spoil the Brew?,” by Katie Zezima (“National,” Friday, May 27, 2011, p. A11). The article is the latest to chronicle Salem’s recent “glut” of psychics, since the City Council let up on restrictions concerning psychic licensing. Featured are local Witches Lorelei Stathopoulos and Christian Day, famous for performing a Binding Ceremony against Charlie Sheen. Little else about the item is especially striking: the number of psychics in Salem has increased dramatically; some say this is bad; others are sanguine. The thing that snagged my attention was the sixth paragraph, which starts: “Christian Day, a warlock who calls himself the ‘Kathy Griffin of witchcraft’, thinks the competition is good for Salem.”
I’m not quite clear why the well-known Warlock Mr. Day considers himself the Kathy Griffin of modern Witchcraft. Does he customarily deliver with razor-sharp timing hilarious comic routines containing penetrating observational humor? Does he aspire to a One-Warlock Broadway show? Or perhaps his own reality-series- “Christian Day: My Life on the Wiccan D-List”? Perhaps he intends us to understand that- like Ms. Griffin- he enjoys the attention of celebrities and persons desirable to know; Christian Day: Warlock to the Stars!
Perhaps he just means to grow his hair out and dye it red.
Mr. Day may well be on to something, here; perhaps he is presaging a New Era in Wicca and Neo-Paganism, whereby not only do we adopt Deities of Veneration- we align ourselves with Celebrities, as Olympian Figures of Aspiration. Starhawk: the Cher of Witchcraft! Selena Fox: the Bette Midler of Wicca! Janet Farrar: the Greta Garbo of the Ancient Ways!
I call Montgomery Clift (cause I like that dark, intense, homo quality of his); if Christian Day gets to be the Kathy Griffin of Witchcraft- I get to be the Montgomery Clift.
Ow…lol. Please, please…white text on black background; not good for reading!
I was sent here on a recommendation, but cannot spend time reading this color combo.
Can I get completely meta and lay claim to being the Christian Day of Paganism?
I call dibs on The Melissa McCarthy of Paganism.
You *DO* realize, of course, that a warlock is an excommunicated/outcast witch, right? That a warlock can be either sex and has been banished for being considered too “bad” to be tolerated in the Wiccan community?
So, understanding that a warlock has no standing in the Wiccan community, do as you will. Just know that the legitimate Wiccan community do NOT claim such a person.
Day himself uses the term worlock, which has sparked much debate.
In regards to the color combo at The Juggler, we the bloggers have no control over the design but perhaps we can put in a good word with the powers that be.
Why would anyone want to be Kathy Griffin, eh?
Going off topic here, did anyone else notice that the office for Harold Camping’s media empire is located next to a fortune-teller’s shop in CA. Maybe if he had stepped next door to ask a second opinion on his Bible decoding….
@jr Welcome! You’re about the third person to complain about the color scheme in a year, and that’s probably just the tip of the iceberg. I can sympathize as my vision weakens with age, but I should note that most browsers do let you change the colors if they bother you. In Firefox 8, for instance, go to the tab in the upper left corner of the browser: Firefox>options>options select the content tab, click the “Colors…” button and unclick “Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above” (odd phrasing and comma, eh?) Or you can type Alt-T, O, use the arrows to select the content tab, Alt-C, Alt-A. The Juggler looks rather striking in black on white in this latest generation of browsers.
Having listened to “Hex Education” more than a couple of times, my observation is that what he is mostly, is a person who viciously lashes out verbally against anybody who disagrees with him, or whom he believes he should be looking down on. He likes to issue what he thinks of as “damning insults” to just about every kind of Pagan and Pagan organization which isn’t run by himself, or who doesn’t sit around his feet awaiting every pearl of “wisdom” to fall from his lips.
His explication for why he uses the term “warlock” has always sounded quite to be stretching things, in order to reach his desired conclusion. However, his claim that by the time the Inquisitions rolled around, that the meaning of “warlock” had changed to what he claims, works against him. Mainly because in our own time, the meaning has shifted again, and his usage is not the one common to the communities (except for a very few Trads).
And as to the white on black, one thing which would make for greater legibility (without a color-scheme change) would be to use larger sizes of fonts in the first place. Or perhaps a bright light shade of yellow for the text. Or both.
Can I be the Morrissey of Hellenism? My reasoning? I’m gay, I live in the States while maintaining a British self-identity, and I cry
and I wouldn’t be surprised if some people think I need to be punched in the face.Also, @Scott:
Firefox is only in the low 4.x-range — I don’t know where you’re guessing FF8 from. IE has recently released v9, though.
I have four active tabs. If I unclick the “allow pages to chose…,” then The Juggler is readable but the other three windows look like sh*t. Not exactly a work-around. I wonder how many people just blow you off without complaining about the print.
So who is the Charlie Sheen of Witchcraft? Christian Day is a good candidate, but then, as a self-styled warlock, that would make him his own Vatican assassin.
This guy is a selfish person whome whines about his misfortunes which all seen self inflicted most of the time he knows nothing about hardships and lives in a fairytale in his mind. Now i’m a firm believer of people who practice any form of paganism including Wicca but this guy Christian is a selfish low life that honestly should not be considered anything More than a Charleton of cheep tricks. I have no respect for him after he told me I should go die and burn well my views on him is he should go back to his home land and leave mine add I am an almost full blooded native American his lack of compassion for our soldiers and those who suffer he belongs elsewhere and does not deserve to be on this sacred ground where my ancestors have been buried since before Columbus discovered the new world. I’m sorry if my comment is found offensive but all pagans should stick together and anyone who lives on this land should be respect full of it and is people this is why i’m not for this guy cause he is unworthy of lifes gift and lifes breath…
@mishi We welcome most viewpoints here. I hope you don’t mind that I did delete one instance of your double post on this topic.
-Scott
Oh, yeah, hey Mishi- I gather you had some sort of unpleasant encounter with Christian Day. I’m sure that was very disagreeable, but the Juggler is not really the place to vent your outrage (we can’t really have folks turning this into a Christian Day Grievance Ground). My Honor to your Ancestors.
Mr Day is FAR from any type of leader in the Wiccan community. He uses his blog talk radio show to not only harrass fellow witches in his community, but slander, bash, defile & spread vicious rumors, not any leader that I would ever consider the future of Witchcraft.
Even his so called friends fear him, as once you judge, question or debate any of his ideals or actions, It will be a sad day in the city of Salem when Cabot passes on and Day takes the reign as Official Witch of Salem.
Attached is a broadcast he aired live, its contents are VERY graphic, but it proves that Mr Day is NOT who he seems…..
Many Blessings
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/hexeducation/2011/10/20/hekate-with-sorita-deste