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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Running Over Horses
Posted in Dreams, pointing at The Big Something on August 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Other Queen Latifah Loves You
Posted in everyday life, pointing at The Big Something on June 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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. [...]
Michael Muhammed Knight Does It Again: A Tribute to Father Allah
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, gratitude, history, mis-education vs. raw learning, pointing at The Big Something on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Where They’re Crazy, We’re Crazy
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Personal Speculation, Wilhelm Reich, but NOT The Big Something, everyday life, gratitude, mis-education vs. raw learning, pointing at The Big Something, pro-peace/pro-people, psychology, spirituality on December 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
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 [...]
Working with a Broken Door and an Open Bible
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, everyday life, gratitude, late night, magick, pointing at The Big Something, pro-peace/pro-people on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Taking Care of Yourself is NOT.
Posted in but NOT The Big Something, everyday life, pointing at The Big Something, positive aphoristics, pro-peace/pro-people on September 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
What Conspiracy Researchers/Theorists Are Missing
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Personal Speculation, conspiracy poetics, everyday life, late night, pointing at The Big Something, politics, pro-peace/pro-people on September 2, 2008 | 22 Comments »
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 [...]
The Eyes of Mr. Blunn: High School Slavery, the Civil War, and Lincoln’s Outhouse
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Mundane Poetics, conspiracy poetics, everyday life, gratitude, history, late night, mis-education vs. raw learning, pointing at The Big Something, pro-peace/pro-people on September 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Mercer and Krishna: Blade Runner & The Bhagavad Gita
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, but NOT The Big Something, pointing at The Big Something, religious history, spirituality on August 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
Necessary Pain
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, everyday life, pointing at The Big Something, pro-peace/pro-people, psychology, spirituality on August 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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 [...]
