It’s bound to happen eventually and my turn comes near Rockefeller Center. I remember the day because it is the Feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe. I am doing an errand when I come across a woman with short, curly hair who is stretching her arms out at all and sundry who pass by. At [...]
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When You Are Called “Them”
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, conspiracy poetics, end times fandango, everyday forteana, everyday life, late night on April 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Being Read
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, but NOT The Big Something, everyday forteana, everyday life, mysticcult, pointing at The Big Something, spirituality on August 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I”m standing in a botanica deep in Brooklyn half a decade ago. I’m out of my ken and more naive than I’d like to think I am now.
I’ve just asked to get a reading.
The black man behind the counter, dissuades me.
“What do you want to get a reading for?”
I explain, with a little less than [...]
The Dead Will Pull Your Leg Till You’re Standing
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, everyday forteana, everyday life, high weirdness, initiation, late night, pointing at The Big Something, requiem, spirituality on July 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Get your ass up.”
I’m tempted to drift back to sleep. I feel spent, wind blown out and gone away. It’s five a.m. and I’ve got to get up. A busy day ahead. I’m laying there, eyes open, staring at the ceiling, exhorting myself under my breath.
“Get the fuck up. Come on.”
And there it is.
A tug [...]
Here’s Where We Meet the Grays Again, Pt. 2
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, but NOT The Big Something, everyday forteana, gratitude, high weirdness, initiation, late night, pointing at The Big Something, psychology, spirituality, sub cult-sure on June 16, 2008 | 14 Comments »
First time I saw a gray, “for real,” I was in the middle of a deep meditation, at a moment in my life when I also found myself to be, willingly, though perhaps less than consciously, a gypsy’s mark.
The second (and third and fourth…) time I saw a gray happened like this.
Riding to the Japanese [...]
Wolves and Dogs and Things
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Dreams, Personal Speculation, everyday forteana, everyday life, high weirdness, history, initiation, late night, mysticcult, pointing at The Big Something, psychology, religious history, spirituality on May 31, 2008 | Comments Off
Here’s Where We Meet the Grays Again, Pt. 1
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, everyday forteana, everyday life, initiation on May 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Ball Bearings and Appearances
Ms. Vlado is behind me. So are the Lams. I think.
I’ve been hearing for, like months now, how you can get shrooms in Japan. They’re legal, see. To purchase. As “botanical specimens.” They’re not legal to eat, just to buy. They’re for the looking only.
It’s sort of like how [...]
Just One Of Those Things
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, everyday forteana, everyday life, late night, magick, mis-education vs. raw learning, pointing at The Big Something, psychology on May 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m in high school and I’m in speech class. I’m supposed to give my five minute speech on a historical figure today, only, uncharacteristically for me, I have arrived utterly unprepared. My procrastination binge the night before ended in a procrastination overdose straight into a deep, albeit short, night’s sleep.
So I’m up this [...]
Gas and Prostitutes
Posted in Mundane Poetics, everyday forteana, everyday life, late night, magick on May 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Drinking a ginger ale at an old-man bar with my friend Z, he says:
“I’m walking through the neighborhood the other night, and there are a bunch of cops hanging out across the street from a nightclub. And I overhear one of the shorter cops standing in the middle of the group say, ‘You know, [...]
Bless the Jesus of the Basement and the Backyard
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, everyday forteana, everyday life, pro-peace/pro-people on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
M. showed me the first Jesus when I visited about a year ago. It was down in the basement, in his sanctuary: the room where his guitars and amp live, the electricity coursing through the plug serving its function as eternal fire.
He’s got the Jesus taped up on the wall and he takes [...]
Rows and Rows of Virgin Marys
Posted in Dreams, everyday forteana, everyday life on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
That’s the dream I had a few nights ago. Rather, that’s all I remember of the dream, the one moment before waking.
I’m standing in front of a large store display of white candles with an image of the Virgin Mary floating above the ocean painted on each one.
Well, I came across an image in Brooklyn [...]
