Vintage Whisky, 2014

2014 -- I wrestled with my inner Pagan. In fact, I committed so much public energy to the matter, I felt compelled to apologise. It's still fresh to me, so the matter gets its own category.

Prajer's Paganism:

• First of all, what's my Magisterium?
• The next word goes to "Chef" (and Stephen Marche)
• Confession: "To all intents and purposes, I conduct my life presupposing that Pagan narratives are spinning themselves out in the Cosmos"
• Christopher Hitchens, G.K. Chesterton and my inner pagan
• Introducing: TFS ("The Freaky Shit")
• TFS, and the sideways slide to Orthodoxy
• Wrestling with Chesterton's shades
• Saul's difficulty
• The woman at the water-cooler
• Inside Jack's Imaginarium
• Aromas, shades & incantations
• Re-essaying Jacob's Ladder
• Wrapping it up: Meet the "new" Magisterium

Life

• Good Writers Being Good People -- okay, just one, really: Carol Shields
• My reaction to a reaction to the terrorist attack in Ottawa

Books

• Questions of cosmic significance -- Jeff Smith's RASL
• Don Rosa enters Carl Barks' duck-blind

Movies

• Her -- why is this a movie?
• Escape From Tomorrow and Jacob's Ladder
• Super Duper Alice Cooper -- or not
• Monkeying with Gilliam's 12 Monkeys

Music

• Devin Townsend -- so smitten was I with the recorded stuff, I went and saw him live.
• Mark Heard remembered
• Steely Dan at the Sony Centre
• U2's unforgivable flyer
• Martha & The Muffins -- in three parts