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Apparently the confusingly prolific James Jackson Toth, also known as Wooden Wand (but not for much longer), is a little tired of sloppy journalists getting their facts wrong when covering him and Vanishing Voice, the band he sometimes (but not always) performs with. Fair enough—I have no doubt that theoretical physicists and Hermetic magicians also get fed up with people who don’t realize just how crucial the difference between, say, string theory and string cheese, or the pronunciation versus mispronunciation of a particular angelic name, can be. And while the info section of the Wooden Wand Web site isn’t all that, well, informative, at least Toth mangles the truth in a more entertaining way than the writers he’s castigating. Tempting as it was to declare his latest screed, as the kids would say, “tl;dr”, that would’ve made me part of the problem, not the solution. So I read the whole thing and I gotta say, it made me “LOL”—with Toth, not at him.
