Review of Hoax: The Philadelphia Experiment Unraveled, by P.J. Dowers. Pandora's Press, 2012. Available from TheBookPatch.com, $15.95. Hoax is an odd title for a book so committed to the reality of the Philadelphia Experiment--invisibility, teleportation, and all. This is a rather odd book in … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2013
Drawing Dirty Pictures – Philadelphia UFO, January 1974
A little boy goes into a psychologist's office. The psychologist gives him an inkblot test, telling him "These are some pictures I've drawn. What do you see in them?" What the little boy sees is sex. Sexual organs. Couples engaged in sex acts. In picture after picture. After the fifth or … [Read more...]
Thomas Jefferson, Meteorites, and Lawrence Anthony’s Elephants
" ... it was easier to believe that two Yankee Professors could lie than to admit that stones could fall from heaven." -- Attributed to Thomas Jefferson So (allegedly) said our third President on the subject of meteorites. The UFOlogists will never let him live it down. I thought of … [Read more...]
“The Color of Electrum”–Ezekiel Visits the 60s
Novelist and poet Valerie Nieman, author of Blood Clay, did me the honor last month of "tagging" me for a writers' blog hop on the theme of "My Next Big Thing." Val posted on her current project, a gripping, suspenseful novel called Backwater, about a young girl’s coming of age and her encounter … [Read more...]