He’s Just Had Coffee

I’ve told this a few times, but never written it down. Here goes. HP Lovecraft and August Derleth are sitting at an al fresco cafe on the abominable plateau of Leng. Sipping absinthe, as you do. It’d be a nice place if it wasn’t for the maddening cyclopean architecture with the obviously alien non-Euclidean geometry, but […]

I don’t quite know why I find a group of Finns whining to music as beautiful as I do… But I do! Technorati Tags: community, globalism

After a long illness, Robert Anton Wilson, died on January 11. Various people, R. U. Sirius, Fr. Jordan+, Bro. Jeremy, Bill Harryman (from whom I got the news), lvx23 and I’m certain many others offer tributes both short and long. I read “The Illuminatus! Trilogy” when I was 18… Bob is almost single-handedly responsible for the […]

Tipped off by RockWiz to the following trippy factoid: “At age 47, Bill Wyman began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother’s blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill’s 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy’s mother, age 46. That made Stephen […]

Ms Ciccone has a flair for pillaging urban city trends for video ideas (Cade and his commenter Jay document this more thoroughly than I could). The recent video “Jump” features a bunch of guys running le parkour through Tokyo. Parkour is a street art that began in France which has been bubbling along globally for around […]

As this notes, yesterday was arithmetically interesting, but it was also the anniversary of the day Phillip IV of France slaughtered the Knights Templar - Friday 13 October 1307. October 13 doesn’t come around on a Friday too often. The day is remembered by many European Gnostics as “Martyrdom of the Holy Templars” since as well […]

In his recent blog entry, Douglas Rushkoff voices a plea to lend financial help to Robert Anton Wilson who is in the midst of dying. Douglas gives a good summary of RAW’s literary contributions. I’d add that he did a lot to interpret and translate a lot of the practical material from people like Timothy […]

(Just because it’s nice to check occasionally) Googlism for: ken wilber ken wilber is a fraud ken wilber is a fraud by david deida ken wilber is the preeminent scholar of spirituality in our time ken wilber is the author of one taste ken wilber is america’s most translated academic author ken wilber is praised ken wilber is a champion of that which […]

The eerie mathematics of the family tree of humanity… Yet this was the ancestor of every person now living on Earth — the last person in history whose family tree branches out to touch all 6.5 billion people on the planet today. That means everybody on Earth descends from somebody who was around as […]

In ‘Father, can’t you see I’m burning?’ The death drive in X-Men: The Last Stand, k-punk exposes himself as, not only one of the few people of the planet who enjoyed X-Men 3 but also (correctly in my view) spots a shift from the realistic psychodrama of the previous two to the subtlety of myth. His […]

To quote Bruce Sterling, “When Lanier cares enough to write it, you oughta care enough to read it”. Jaron Lanier has a decent contrarian essay up on Edge about the stupidity of crowds, the decontextualising mess of Wikipedia and naivety of Google. Despite the fact that I have been spotted publicly raving about Wikipedia on a […]

I was just reading “Don’t Try This At Home” in Wired and the article mentioned Forrest Mims III and I recalled, with delight, the many hours I spent as a teenager reading “Engineer’s Notebook 1″ (modern edition) and tinkering with circuit designs. The book not only fanned the flames of my obsession with electronics, it […]