
Monday, May 31, 2010
Hellboy: Numinous Encounters in the Dark

Friday, May 28, 2010
Outer Limits: Them Ol' Post-Apocalyptic Blues Again
Post-apocalyptic and dystopian sci-fi was all the rage when I was a kid. A lot of it was inspired by the Cold War, but it was also a natural reaction to the malaise of the early stages of American de-industrialization.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
2012 Olympics: London Mascots

For casual readers not familiar with the repeating alien motifs attached to the Olympic Games, here's a nice primer from the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles...
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Sunday Matinee: God Told Me To
Seeing as how we seem to be stuck in an endless tapeloop of the 1970s, today's feature presentation is more timely than ever. Larry Cohen's God Told Me To is one of the great grindhouse/drive-in classics that seems to know a lot more than it's saying out loud.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Rent "The Box" this weekend. Seriously.
Once in a very great while, an artist comes out of nowhere and channels the most ineffably unconscious currents of an age into pop culture artifacts. Often it seems as if these artists are only half-aware of what it is they are channeling. Richard Kelly is one of these.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Psilocybin-Fueled Sci-Fi
Monday, May 10, 2010
Wyrd New Jersey: The Necropolis, or Ritual Done Right

The thing about New Jersey is that you never know what you might find hiding in plain sight. The place is so littered with arcane symbolism it's easy to take for granted.
For instance, this cemetery in the rolling hills at the foot of the Skylands caught the attention of even a jaded symbol-junkie like myself.
That strange obelisk sans capstone is particularly interesting in and of itself, given that it's oriented to the cardinal points. Even more so when placed in context with some of the other items around it.
Saturday, May 08, 2010
A Sirius Crisis in Greece?

Thursday, May 06, 2010
Inanna Montana, Revisited
"I'm not a mistake, I'm not a fake,
It's set in my DNA"
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Monday, May 03, 2010
Secret Sunday: Beltane Edition
Well, Saturday was May Day and there was chaos and confusion all across the globe, including an alleged failed IED in Times Square. There were also several protests over the new Arizona immigration law. But you can read about all of that on any old website: let's go to Edinburgh for the yearly Beltane Fire Festival, which drew 12,000 people this year.
A goodly number of them were nude and smeared in red body paint, I might add.
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