Happy Birthday Aleister Crowley!

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

                                                                   --Aleister Crowley

I'd like to take a moment to offer a memorial to a very strange man. Although considered by many to have been a Satanist and one of the worst people ever, he's exactly the sort of bad role model modern people could use. I tend to think he was exaggerating a tad about his depravity, but what do I know? Anyway, he was a bisexual lit major with occult proclivities who attracted dysfunctional women and wrote poetry. For some reason, I find that all dead fascinating. He also played chess, climbed mountains, and was also probably some kind of spy. He influenced plenty of very heavy music, and promoted sexual libertinism, drug use, meditation, yoga and seeing things for yourself.  He was probably the most interesting man in the world at one point, as well as a hot ballistic mess. And yes, some of the occult stuff is a put-on with a bunch of jokes about masturbation. 

I kind of recommend reading Uncle Al, though. He either believed in his own schtick or didn't. The point was the journey, anyway. (Go, do likewise. Or don't.)

(It was pronounced to rhyme with "holy", though.)