Mac Tonnies death hit me hard.  I’ve been blogging since 2004 and have gone through waves of disinterest – finding new blogs to read, sometimes forgetting about them.  But Posthuman Blues was a constant.  Even as my interest in UFOs and Forteana sometimes waned, I would always come back to his blog, as MT had [...]

Darryl Sloan has a post up about the Cremation of Care ceremony at Bohemian Grove – a singularly weird occurrence where a bunch of rich white men get together and have a pagan ceremony to clear away their worldly cares at the foot of an enormous wooden owl: Not a joke – but not necessarily [...]

Interesting post on Mysterious Universe about cases of novelists inadvertently predicting the future: One of the more startling instances of such “psychic novelist” activity involved Edgar Allan Poe, who managed to predict with frightening detail an exact series of events that later transpired at sea aboard a seagoing vessel called the Mignonette. In his longest [...]

It’s like watching my guitar teacher when I was nine – his fingers could do things mine couldn’t do.

It’s music Friday. Love this song from the extra tracks on “My Aim is True.” This is bizarre – Stephen Colbert singing the same song. Nice, earnest voice: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Elvis Costello www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care reform Colbert had a really tough life: [...]

This whole record rules. And it’s Friday. I’m going to start a band called Metadeth.

Recent discoveries from my favorite (living) songwriters. I suppose I could say Paul McCartney, or David Bowie. Does it count if they’re still alive but no longer listenable? Harsh. The girl in the story by Rw Hedges Beautiful, beautiful. Second is http://koneklo.com by Steven Brent, who I used to be in a band with.  Like, [...]

There’s an interesting piece on Disinfo that is also a bit too critical of its subject – Michael Lewis’s book, The Big Short, and the concept that people in the financial sector were propelled by a kind of “mass delusion.”  The poster’s argument is that this is a kind of insanity defense  and absolves them [...]

Is it any wonder why I love UFO lore?  Who needs fiction when you’ve got real live stranger-than-fiction unfolding in real time (says the novelist). Share International, the organization that proclaimed Raj Patel as Maitreya, say UFOs signal the coming of Maitreya. More on the Space Brothers: Q. What is the purpose of the Space [...]