Season Of The Witch

The Prisoners Fighting California's Wildfires, How The Occult Saved Rock And Roll, What We Learned This Week, What's Behind The Great Podcast Renaissance?, Recreating The Shower Scene From 'Psycho' Using Pumpkins, How Muhammad Ali's Rope-A-Dope Myth Suckered America The Daily Digg Friday, October 31, 2014 IRONS IN THE FIRE The Prisoners Fighting California's Wildfires buzzfeed.com As climate change makes the role of inmate firefighters in California increasingly crucial, Americans are beginning to ask whether the type of low-level offenders who qualify for the program even deserve to be locked up. SEASON OF THE WITCH How The Occult Saved Rock And Roll pitchfork.com Peter Bebergal on his new book, which explores how ideas of the occult found such a perfect outlet in rock'n'roll and what they tell us about our own humanity. DIGG PICKS What We Learned This Week digg.com This week we learned what it's like to walk around NYC as a woman, the big problem with American bathrooms and how the economics of sugar daddy dating work. WHAT'S OLD IS NEW AGAIN What's Behind The Great Podcast Renaissance? nymag.com What's happening? And why now? The word podcast is roughly ten years old, after all, and the "pod" to which it refers has been discontinued. Still, the genre seems more alive than ever. KEEP THOSE KNIVES SHARP Recreating The Shower Scene From 'Psycho' Using Pumpkins digg.com Many pumpkins were harmed during the making of this stop motion film. WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT How Muhammad Ali's Rope-A-Dope Myth Suckered America deadspin.com Myth now dominates our misunderstanding of Muhammad Ali, who was once the most accessible celebrity in the world. The truth of the man is nearly irretrievable. Read more on Digg.com → CREATING SOME VELODRAMA Austrian cyclist Matthias Brandle rides during his attempt to break the hour record at the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) World Cycling Centre velodrome in Aigle, Switzerland, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014. Brandle broke cycling's historic hour record on Thursday after covering a distance of 51.850 kilometers at the cycling governing body's velodrome. Credit: AP Photo/Keystone, Jean-Christophe Bott Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014