How does one 'Honour the Fire' anyways?

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Is there some kinda Jaz Coleman Catechism? Do I have to make a pilgrimage all the way to Iceland? Huh?

― Lord Custos, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Find an unbeliever and light him up. Use pabulum as fuel.

More seriously, I was always under the impression that this expression derived in part from Jaz's background, which I gather was Parsee. Confirm, deny?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

pab·u·lum
n.
1. A substance that gives nourishment; food.
2. Insipid intellectual nourishment: “TV... gobbled up comedy material and spat it out as pabulum” (Richard Corliss).

― David Raposa, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ooh! You cheeky monkeys!

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This isn't helping me to understand how to "Honour the Fire". So far my only lead is to watch That 80s Show, but I have no clue why that would be important.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think watching that World's Hungriest Man / Glutton / Tongue-Loving Lumberjack special on Fox this evening would be more in line w/ Honouring The Fire!

― David Raposa, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How should we fuck off, oh lord?

― Jerry, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

find your way * walk towards the new day * leave your conscience way behind * tumble tumble here we go * then you join your playmates in the street and the nightfires burning & your on your feet all the boys & girls look in their eye domestication lost overnight

push push me till i get there * i'm gonna find the human somewhere

― domestic dog, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

locate a fire * make one if you have to, there's a stack of newspapers right near the stove * say nice things about it whenever you pass it * speak well of it to your friends and family * take good care of it in its old age and overlook its more embarassing social gaffes * present it with a plaque declaring it the Most Honorable Fire in its district

hope this helps

― John Darnielle, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nine years pass...

Has no one commented on "Honour The Fire" becoming a Killing Joke song on their latest album?

― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Monday, 7 March 2011 05:48 (fifteen years ago)

You called?

― Honor de Falla (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 7 March 2011 06:11 (fifteen years ago)

9 years pass...

ouch.

Yeah, I think there was mention of it in a KJ thread around the time we were all hearing the album initially.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 March 2011 06:12 (fifteen years ago)

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