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Here’s the dream:
I am on a megabus heading to Washington D.C.  There are very few people on this bus and I am half-asleep.  I am close to the front of the bus, so I notice when the bus comes upon a giant horse galloping in front of it.  At first, the bus is just clipping [...]

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The sun has set and I’ve all but forgotten the paranoid lady from earlier in the day who accused me of being a minion of Bloomberg and the nefarious THEM (whoever they are).  I’ve just gotten off the train in Harlem, a stone’s throw from my old neighborhood of a few New York lifetimes ago.  [...]

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Michael Muhammed Knight, the provocative author of Taqwacores and The Five Percenters, (interviewed on my site a couple years back) has just written a great article over at Killing the Buddha about Father Allah.  If you know nothing about this Harlem God, Knight’s piece is a great primer.  And if you are familiar, as a [...]

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Here’s a basic viewpoint I hold most of the time: people are generally good and want to do what is best.
Here’s another basic viewpoint I carry around in my brain-bag:  Although people are generally good, they are also generally mentally deranged.  I don’t mean that they are bat-shit crazy all the time or about everything, just that [...]

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I get home late to find that the front door key to the apartment building just won’t work.  The key goes into the cylinder.  I turn the key and the cylinder turns with it.  And I’m stuck outside.  This has already happened once before, about a month ago.  Buzzing the super’s apartment led nowhere.  Buzzing [...]

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In these present times, like no other, a statement by ol’ Grandpa Carl,  Korean War vet, seem very much in order. 
Grandpa Carl had just been asked if he had any advice for a newly married young relative.  He cleared his throat, took a sip of his Irish coffee, and then scanned the room.  His one [...]

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Oftentimes, conspiracy researchers/theorists (it’s so hard to tell where the line between “us” and “them” is these days) are just as much in service to the Spectacle as anyone else.
Here’s another thought from a regular reader, Ian, that makes another pretty good point:
In both mythology and conspiracy theory, people are taking facts, stories, images from the world around [...]

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I had an American Literature teacher in high school who looms large in my memory of those days, despite the fact that in physical stature he could have been a gnome.
We’ll call him Mr. Blunn.
He had the thinnest of comb overs on his pate, as well as piercing eyes that looked like onyx, at [...]

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In Phillip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which is the basis of the classic sci-fi noir film Blade Runner, the figure of Mercer looms large. He is the focal point of the universal religion of humanity in the novel, the savior and God. He is a figure that the [...]

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Come to realize something about pain: sometimes it is unavoidable to cause pain to yourself or to others. At those instances, it’s better to get it out of the way, to inflict the wound now and let the healing begin rather than trying to avoid or hide from it. It’s the avoidance and [...]

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