NARRATIVE STORYTELLING, DIV 3 Honoring a single story told with literary flair. 🥇 1st Place: @mrdanzak.bsky.social 🥈 2nd Place: @skestenbaum.bsky.social 🥉 3rd Place: Staff, @bloombergbusiness.bsky.social 🏅 Honorable Mention: @wordbobby.bsky.social

For LA: a one-of-a-kind show this month, with demons, ghouls and much-needed deliverance… A special live reading, from my Harper’s story, with music, actors, puppetry, poetry, short film, and more Nihil & Friends present ART IS LIFE IS ART: RED HOT Variety Show! www.eventbrite.com/e/nihil-frie...

On messianic soundscapes, by @skestenbaum.bsky.social

Hollywood ugliness, a Beckett biopic, cult music, the sly devices of the English sentence, and an increasingly timely stand-up special — five Mentions from @izzyampil.bsky.social, Dimitris Passas, @skestenbaum.bsky.social, Tanner Stening, and @cryinmeehan.bsky.social www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/

A mini review from me in the new issue of @thedrift-mag.bsky.social… on a series of outré musical soundscapes made by a pyramid-loving, deity-channeling New Agey shaman www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...

I trekked up a crumbling California hill to sit under a crystal-studded pyramid and bask in the spacey, far-flung soundscapes of a New Age shaman… a (very) short culty music review of mine in the new issue

More storage digging

Going through the storage

Headed to San Diego? I’ll be at the American Academy of Religion meeting this weekend, speaking on three panels

Many have written about Mt. Juliet pastor Greg Locke's emerging mass deliverance ministry. But only @skestenbaum.bsky.social immersed himself in the Locke Media/Demon Slayers apparatus and came out with this eloquently written narrative for Harpers: harpers.org/archive/2024...

Headed to my alma mater (!) next week to deliver the annual Martin Lecture in Religion ✍️ If you’re in the Wheaton area, info here