I’ve been to a lot of “spiritual centers” in my time — strip mall palm readers, candle-lit séance parlors, roadside UFO museums complete with homemade aluminum hats — but few have been quite so aggressively adorable as The Divination Station in Mystic Grove. For starters, it’s housed in a repurposed gas station. Somewhere around 1962, … Read more
Your Dog Is not that Deep Just when you thought humanity’s desperation for meaning had scraped the bottom of the barrel, someone lifted the barrel and found an even slimier layer underneath: pet psychics. These are self-proclaimed “animal communicators” who, for a modest fee — usually something insultingly close to your grocery budget — will … Read more
Scam Artists in Sweatpants Once upon a time, you could call a 1-900 number, fork over five bucks a minute, and some stranger wearing pajama pants and fuzzy slippers would tell you that “great changes are coming” to your love life. Ah, the good old days, when hope was expensive and delivered in fifteen-minute increments … Read more