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September 10, 2015 Trae Dorn AKA Jessica Jones, Jessica Jones, Marvel, Netflix

Netflix’s ‘Jessica Jones’ Series Gets a Premiere Date

After the phenomenal premiere of Daredevil earlier this year, most of us have been heavily anticipating the release of the

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September 10, 2015 Trae Dorn Doug Liman, Luna Park, Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise and Director Doug Liman Developing New Science Fiction Film “Luna Park”

Tom Cruise and Director Doug Liman are planning a new science fiction film entitled Luna Park according to Variety. The

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September 9, 2015 Trae Dorn Hasbro, Transformers, Transformers 5, Unicron

‘Transformers 5’ May Feature Unicron

Transformers 4 may have been so uninteresting that I actually, for the first time I can actually recall, left in

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September 9, 2015 Trae Dorn Calgary Expo, Con Scene, Conventions, GamerGate, Honey Badgers, MRAs

MRA Group ‘Honey Badgers’ File a Suit Against Calgary Expo, The Mary Sue… Maybe?

You may recall that last fall that MRA group the ‘Honey Badgers’ got booted from Calgary Expo. The Mary Sue

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September 8, 2015 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, indiegogo, Nerd & Tie Expo

We’ve Launched an IndieGogo Campaign for the Nerd & Tie Expo!

Hey, we said we would launch a crowdfunding campaign for the Nerd & Tie Expo… and we have! Today we

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September 8, 2015 Trae Dorn AnimeCon.org, Chrono LC, Con Scene, Conventions, MetaCon, PLUSH in the USA, Ryan Kopf

AnimeCon.org CEO Ryan Kopf Allegedly Attacks Vendor During MetaCon 2015

During this last weekend’s MetaCon in Minneapolis, a fist fight broke out. It wasn’t between a couple of angry teenagers,

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September 6, 2015 Trae Dorn CBS, Con Scene, Conventions, Disney, Marvel, Nerd & Tie Expo, Pokemon World Championship, Star Trek, Star Trek Renegades, TCE2, Titletown Comic and Entertainment Expo, Wes Craven

Episode 55 – Rush Job

https://archive.org/download/episode59_20160330/episode55.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSSOn this fortnight’s Nerd & Tie, we mourn

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September 4, 2015 Trae Dorn Arrow, CW, David Ramsey, Diggle

Diggle is Finally Getting a Costume on Arrow

David Ramsey’s John Diggle has been fighting alongside Oliver Queen on Arrow for several seasons, but he’s done so in

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September 3, 2015 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, TCE2, Titletown Comic and Entertainment Expo

Titletown Comic & Entertainment Expo in Financial Straits, Event’s Future Questioned

Titletown Comic & Entertainment Expo (TCE2) is a first year convention scheduled to take place October 2nd-4th in Green Bay.

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91. “Ancient” Practices
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There’s an annoying thing in the witchcraft community where every new idea or trend gets cast as an “ancient” practice even if it’s just a few years old. Time and time again, we see people constructing false narratives about the supposed historicity of ideas, spells, and rituals in witchcraft spaces, and all of it is bad for us. Why do people feel the need to lie? Why does something being a new idea make it less credible in people’s eyes? Why have we been doing this as a community from the start?

So I thought about calling this “Older Doesn’t Mean Better Part 2” or “Older Doesn’t Mean Better Redux” since this is some of the same territory we covered back in episode 17, but I think I’ve gotten more surly on the topic over the last six years, and wanted to talk about it again. Also, I kind of forgot I’d recorded an episode on this when I was prepping the episode, but I like this version better.

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