So very shortly, it may seem that Wicca is going to be recognised as an ‘official’ religion within Australia.

At least by the Australian Taxation Office.

I’m sure many of you are jumping for joy over this, but if you are, then you really haven’t thought this through. (more…)

Believe it or not, you can now study Zombie-ism at a university level.

The University of Columbia now offers a media studies unit about Zombies.

This is, of course, in response to not being as cool as the University of Florida, which asked many of its Bio students to create an emergency scenario plan based on one of two scenarios: an outbreak of H1N1 (aka Bird Flu)… or Zombie Outbreaks.

This was a real assignment! (more…)

As a regular reader of this blog (and if you’re not, why not!?), you’d probably have noticed that I talk about depression… a lot. It’s kind of De rigueur for being a goth. “Oh, my shrink just prescribed me 50mg of Zoloft.” “That’s nothing! I have to take 250mg of Protheidan and 10mg of phenobarbital… Because I’m like totally depressed!” It’sa conversation that you’ll notice with pretty much any of the <25s sitting on the stairs and generally being a fire hazard by their general presence, as if their Robert smith hair styles weren’t enough already.

And then there’s the fucking trite response that you generally get from people outside of the whole subcultural scene: (more…)

Because there’s one religious group I haven’t made fun of yet with my Saturday morning religious cartoons – Atheists! (more…)

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