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EXCUSES ON THE PATH: Diary of a sword swallower (part 3)

Posted in New Old Traditions, Series, tagged , , , , , , on March 30, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Do not try this on your own. This article is for entertainment purposes only! —The Editors After a successful lesson, Adam left me with my homework, and any feeling of accomplishment was soon to be squashed by this assignment. The homework quickly proved how challenging learning the talent truly was, despite the physical simplicity of [...]

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CONTROLLING THE FIVE GAG REFLEXES: Diary of a sword swallower (part 2)

Posted in New Old Traditions, Series, tagged , , on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Do not try this on your own. This article is for entertainment purposes only! —The Editors My friends and I spent the week wondering how exactly one starts sword swallowing. Carrot sticks? Pocky? Butter knife? Fencing sword? Very curious. Adam and I arranged to hold the lesson in my lower east side apartment. After some [...]

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POSTS FROM INDIA (2/8, 2/9) [travel series]

Posted in Series, tagged , , , , on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

While in India I had intended to write “articles” about the places I was visiting. That’s not going to happen. Too much to see to bother writing it all down. Instead I’ve decided to post some short little things here and there. 2/8/2010 (Varanasi) Last night it rained. That means the already precarious allies of Varanasi [...]

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STOPPED AT THE UK BORDER: What is country, what is state, what am I but very late? by Briar (travel series)

Posted in Series, tagged , , , , on February 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Our friend and fellow Reveler, Briar, emailed this description of the hassles he encountered while trying to enter England in 2007 to tour with a vocal ensemble singing folk music from all over the world. E–, I just tried calling you but the phone here is so old (it pulses, somewhat like the old dial [...]

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WHAT TRAVEL MEANS TO ME, by Justin Moyer (travel series)

Posted in Series on February 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Travel isn’t healthy. Travel might not even be smart. The human body didn’t evolve to wake up in a different place every day, fight jet lag, hurtle down highways at 80 mph or through the troposphere at 500 mph, sleep in hotel rooms where the windows won’t open, or battle unfamiliar microbes lurking on the [...]

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THE PLEASURES OF BACKYARD TOURISM (travel series)

Posted in Series, tagged , , , on February 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Springfield, Illinois, is a tourist Mecca. There’s just that certain je ne sais quoi about a dead president that makes people flock to the schlock erected in his memory. Thanks to state and federal funds from the boom times of the bipolar economy we find ourselves in, Springfield now boasts a presidential museum and library, [...]

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NEW OLD TRAVEL SERIES: Pack your bags and check your passport, we’re off!

Posted in Series on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

While our companion in revelry, Onalistus, is off seeing distant lands we at These New Old Traditions have been thinking about what it means to travel. Though the necessity and ease of travel has evolved quite a bit, our core reasons for doing it seem to have not changed much. Ye Olde Hunter/ Gatherers moved [...]

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RACE TRAITORS, WHITE MOBS, & HONEST ABE (MLK series)

Posted in Holidays, Series, tagged , , , on January 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

1. I grew up in a very white rural area. I met a black person for the first time at school when I was sixteen. She and her mother were the only black people in our entire county. Although my family is not technically white, we pass easily enough, both culturally and with the appearance [...]

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DETHRONING A KING, by Tripp York (MLK Series)

Posted in Holidays, Series, tagged , , , , on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In this essay, Christian anarchist and professor of Religious Studies, Tripp York, discusses the co-opting of King’s beliefs and message. “A dangerous Negro, now a national hero. How shall we work with that?” —Vincent Harding In a brief essay entitled “Martin Luther King, Jr: Dangerous Prophet,” Vincent Harding (a colleague of King) reminds his readers [...]

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“MLK AS HOLIDAY” ESSAY EXTENTION: Sunday, January 17

Posted in Series, tagged , on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Some people asked for a little extra time. We can dig that. Have the weekend! We look forward to reading your pieces from now through Sunday evening. To review the original post with suggestions/guidelines click on this word: Skiddadlevitzenbergestein The rest still applies: Please send all articles for review to: newoldtraditions [at] gmail [dot] com [...]

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GIFTS & GIVING: “When the Present is the Presentation,” by Zara Bode

Posted in Making Things, Series, tagged , , , , on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Continuing our series on “Gifts & Giving” honky-tonk singer-songwriter sensation, Zara Bode, offers a suggestion on how to make even a store-bought gift personal. Get out your blinders, put in your earplugs, and (if you haven’t already) throw your TV out the window. These are the precautions we must take in order to best avoid [...]

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GIFTS & GIVING: “An Immediatist Potlatch,” by Hakim Bey

Posted in Series, tagged , , on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Excerpted from Hakim Bey’s book Immediatism. For the entire text please click here. In this section Hakim Bey gives us a taste of what a possible “Immediatist potlatch” would look like, fit with homemade gifts and performances. iv. The main purpose of the potlatch is of course gift-giving. Every player should arrive with one or [...]

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GIFTS & GIVING: “The Gift,” by Blake Seidenshaw

Posted in Series, tagged , , , , , on December 15, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Like all gifts, the gift of giving is as much for the giver as for the receiver. This paradox is especially true of homemade gifts. The modern tradition of purchasing pre-made gifts arises from our tendency to want to really give something to the receiver. Interacting through the medium of money, however, severs the giver, [...]

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GIFTS & GIVING: “Three Wise Offerings from Three Wise Men,” By KSmith Reveler

Posted in Series, tagged , , , on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The conventional telling of the Christmas story reports that three “Wise Men,” “kings from the East,” or three Magi ignited the custom of gift giving by bringing gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the Baby Jesus on Epiphany (12 days after Christmas). Most likely these three travelers were not kings at all, but rather, Persian Zoroastrian [...]

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