This movie isn’t great, though maybe it’s fairly eye-opening to someone who knows nothing about the subject. They may be surprised to see that the UFO issue isn’t just believed by deranged rednecks, but smart, sober people. I like the occasional use of schmaltzy Hollywood sentimental music – because that might be able to get [...]

Saw this last night. Good. I defy anyone in the Tea Party to watch this movie and not agree with much of it. Do you get it, Tea Party? The left is just as furious with the corporate takeover of the country as the right. I shouldn’t say anyone in [...]

When conspiracy theorists collide. In this video, Alex Jones criticizes Zeitgeist for being anti-Christian and being a part of the New Age conspiracy to take over the world.

To sum up the video – it’s saying that Zeitgeist, which is anti-Christian, advocates a New Age New World Order in which Christianity is supplanted, even as [...]

Check out the long discussion on Reality Sandwich about its withdrawal from a Peru retreat scheduled for spring.  Gist is that Daniel Pinchbeck was going to lead a group to take Ayahuasca.  I entertained the thought of signing up for half a second because Pinchbeck’s writing has seriously opened my mind up, but I think [...]

Nice couple of posts about the best songs about space @ Sci Fi Songs.  But the best song about space is “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem of World Contact Day)” by the Carpenters.  It might be the best song ever recorded:

In your mind you have capacities you know
To telepath messages through the [...]

I’ve written before about how certain types of conspiracy theory have been taken over solely by the right.  I’ve been on the lookout for a forum to discuss some of these issues but find they’re now taken over by the hard right.  Case in point, a place like Godlike Productions, which last I checked (during [...]

Philip Heying, who I recently got in touch with again via a Facebook post about 2012, has a great post up on Reality Sandwich about his dispiriting stay in Kansas. I met him via a friend from Paris and we hung out a bit in New York. I remember a pretty strange birthday [...]

Two interesting interviews found recently.  One via Futurismic with the founder of Paypal and principle investor in Facebook who has a sci-fi vision of the future.
Wired: What happens if we don’t get the growth everyone expects?
Thiel: If it doesn’t happen, people will go bankrupt in retirement. There are systemic consequences, too. If we don’t have [...]

More on this later:
Joe Stack’s Suicide Note – http://embeddedart.com/

There’s a nice review of The American Book on Pod People.  In the review, Cheryl Anne Gardner writes, “The alien thing almost had a Scientology glow about it,” which I took issue with because I don’t really see my vision of UFO contact as being comparable with the Xenu story.  We got into a bit [...]