Just read this and it’s a great piece of journalism. And a reminder to me that I could never be a journalist. In Derangement, he doesn’t just describe the onslaught of the Christian right, he actually becomes it – goes to prayer meetings, speaks in tongues, gets baptized, plays the part. Personally, [...]

Just finished – enjoyed it, though more like a novel than non-fiction. Premise: a faction in the U.S. government called the Collins Elite believes that aliens are demons who will be an instrumental part of the war of Armageddon. It’s actually not that outlandish – if you’re a Christian who believes in demons, [...]

I don’t have a lot to say about this book except to say…I read it.  I haven’t read Peter Bagge since Hate comics, which I read faithfully back when, which sort of paralleled my slacker life in the nineties.  So I was interested in his take on the apocalypse.  I sort of had the same [...]

I am most certainly a Daniel Pinchbeck fanboy.  I’ve never met the guy (though I’ve written for Reality Sandwich) and factoid: my brother’s college girlfriend dated Daniel Pinchbeck’s former girlfriend. I’m the kind of fanboy who finds that interesting.  So I’ll pick up anything by DP as soon as it’s released.  I think he’s one [...]

I don’t have a huge amount to review about this book, except to say: recommended, it’s a good synthesis of the ways that people have tried to contact “other worlds,” with varying degrees of success. Better, I think, than Inner Paths to Outer Space, an anthology with Dr. Rick Strassman, author of DMT: The [...]

Mirage Men is a good companion to UFOs by Leslie Kean, released at the same time.  Except it also acts as a kind of counterpoint. Leslie Kean’s research focuses on the 5% of UFOs that are truly mysterious and cannot be written off.  Mark Pilkington suggests that these 5% are actually secret government projects, and [...]

Dan Brown writes at a third grade level.  That also doesn’t matter.  All of the reviewers making fun of Dan Brown’s writing are overlooking the main purpose of a Dan Brown novel – the subject.  The Lost Symbol is a seriously transgressive book, as was The Da Vinci Code.  Putting aside the reality of the [...]

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 [...]