PANIC!
The situation has become dire. Confusion, darkness, and the unknown surround you. You dig deep into your bag, hoping for something useful, knowing that the bag will give you whatever fate decides.
Will you find help?
Will you find confusion?
Will you find glazed nuts?
This is the chance you take with BOTTOMLESS BAG!
Close your eyes
Reach inside
FROM WITHIN
This grouping was selected at random from a communally generated master list of four hundred. It is my hope that these ten items can be used as a forecast or guide to your week ahead. Whether you choose to take these items literally or metaphorically, it’s up to you to find how these things may help. For a more thorough overview go to Introducing Bottomless Bag and Bottomless Bag 01.
A special note-reader and BOTTOMLESS BAG contributor Ryan Ryzome suggests that you could roll a ten sided dice with each new set of items and use it as a miniature disposable oracle every week. I truly love this idea. Maybe give it a try? Thank you Ryan for this awesome idea!
Item 031
#72: KNIFE
An implement of severance
Item 032
#256: FLOOD LIGHTS
Harsh illumination
Item 033
#341: TEN POUND STEEL MACE
Blunt trauma
Item 034
#41: FLASK OF BOURBON
Sometimes a little is all you need
Item 035
#241: SPEAKERS
Audible emanations
Item 036
#312: A ROCK SIGNED BY AN ACTUAL VILLAIN
A small monument to evil
Item 037
#340: AN ANTIQUE GO BOARD
Playful complexity
Item 038
#209: A TIGERS EYE RING
A bauble of balance
Item 039
#240: GUITAR AMP
Music made louder
Item 040
#263: FLASH CARDS
A learned memory
DIGGING DEEPER
Because of time constraints and a strong desire to give y’all good content, DIGGING DEEPER will be slightly different this time around. I still plan on this being a weekly feature but it will be mutating as we go.
This week, I have a couple recommendations for stuff that I thoroughly enjoy. As I mostly loathe most occult books and don’t really dig the idea of wearing my practice on my sleeve, my recommendations will almost never be “occult” with a capital O. I find them to be highly magical without having to be labeled as such. Your mileage may vary.
Beyond being one of the best pieces of sequential literature I’ve ever read, this slab of a book (it clocks in at over 600 pages) is so chock full of allegory and mystery that you’ll want to read it over and over to suss out all it has to tell you. On it’s face it might just look like a book about birds but it wanders so far off from there by the end. Worth tracking down.
I love electronic music and few bands have hit me as hard as Fuck Buttons. TAROT SPORT is possibly the best album I’ve found for visualizing and getting myself to different states of mind. This thing just slaps me right into a trance every time. It’s glitchy and grindy but feels like an ocean rushing through my brain. I used to listen to the song Olympians on repeat for HOURS.
That’s all for this time. I hope you return next week for another 10 items from BOTTOMLESS BAG.
As always:
SEE WHAT’S INSIDE
DIG DEEP
AND
HAUNT ON
ABOUT ERIC J. MILLAR
Eric is the artist and writer behind Outlet Press. He has published over 20 books over the last four year with VACA: Outlet Illustrated, Volume 5 being his most recent publication. He is also the creator of The Disruption Generator, the randomly generated bibliomantic oracle, and The Impossible Game, a cleromantic oracle, both published in partnership with We The Hallowed.
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