Category Archives: Magic

Donna Summer RIP

Music critics have argued over whether the first disco song was the Hues Corporation’s “Rock the Boat”, George McCrae’s “Rock Your Baby” or”Kung Fu Fighting” by Biddu and Carl Douglas, but incontestably the greatest hit of disco was LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY by Donna Summer. Sadly the Queen of Disco has passed from the [...]

Oh No No Sex

Witches were fearsome creatures in my youth. These wanton women consorted with Satan and their roaming succubi seduced the souls of pure men. Throughout the 70s and 80s I ran into their decadent descendants finally meeting Elena, a Spanish flamenco dancer. We lived together in my East Village apartment for several months. My bed became [...]

Internet Magic

The Catholic Church hated witches. The Protestants weren’t much better. Believers in the Old Ways were burned at the stake by the tens of thousands. Twenty-eight people were hung or killed in the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. The last such case to come before a court was the 1878 American civil trial in Ipswich, Massachusetts, [...]

3 Is and a Genie

An Israeli, an Iranian, and an Irishman are walking in the desert. They discover a brass lantern in the sand. The Israeli rubs it and frees a grateful genie, who explains that he will grant a wish to each of them. The Israeli goes first and demands a wall 100 feet high around all of [...]

The 10 Unanswerables

According to the Old Testament Moses descended from Mount Sinai with two stone tablets inscribed with 17 Commandments. the ex-son of the pharoah was the only man in the crowd that could read, except Yahweh didn’t write in Egyptian. At least according to the Charlton Heston version of THE TEN COMMANDMENT. There could have been [...]