Sometimes I wonder if the ancient Gnostics weren't the first Geeks. Their cosmologies and tautologies were just as complex and overwrought as any superhero fan's, and their Apocalypses and Gospels can seem like fanfic, endlessly reimagining more prominent works and adding layers of sometimes impenetrable jargon and buzzwords.
In 1960, the powerful Washington think tank The Brookings Institute released a white paper which included a section on UFOs and ETs, outlining a number of various scenarios for poltical and military leaders should contact ever occur.
Synchronicity is a wonderful and powerful thing. If you work with it, it works with you.
Jack Kirby would have been 95 today. This has been a banner year for "The King of Comics," with The Avengers and Prometheus (heavily based on his 70s epic The Eternals) cleaning up at the box office. Other films, video games and comic books continue to recycle his work, as they have for decades now.
Most people have a stereotype of "conspiracy theorists" as wild-eyed hysterics, who theorize first and maybe-- maybe-- ask questions later. Unfortunately, there's an entire population of conspiratainers and their followers who are hellbent on proving that stereotype right, and then lowering the bar as far as possible.
I have a terrible confession to make-- I'm a writer. I'm always stuck inside my head, chasing reveries and obscure connections hither and yon, running down side-streets in my mind. So mastering the podcast format is a challenge for me. I had the same problem when I was interviewing- when I was warmed up and got in the rhythm, I was on fire.
Maurice Masse's passport to Magonia, July 1, 1965
Max Ernst, The Twentieth Century, 1955
Forming is one of those webcomix that I'm not sure I'm not hallucinating. it seems to have emerged from my unconscious, or perhaps your unconscious, or yours. Or even you back there.
We've looked at Jack Kirby several times in the past here, most notably in his startlingly accurate (if not often allegorical) predictions of the Face on Mars in 1959, 9/11 in 1984, and the Gulf War and Iraq War in 1974 and 1975.
One thing I had failed to realize about The Eternals was that Kirby's depiction of the Deviant invasion of Manhattan wasn't quite the exercise in 50s nostalgia I had originally taken it for.
I like to play picture association games-- you show me a picture and I tell you what I see, you know, that kind of thing. So since the Republican Primary reality show is the talk of the town these days I thought I'd do one based on the
I was just reading that Fringe is not only in danger of not being renewed for a fifth season, but there is serious concern that Fox might cut its losses and cancel it before it ends its fourth.
This doesn't surprise me.
