A few reminiscences of my brushes with this ancient festival of the dead, that still manages to grab our imaginations: 1957, maybe? I must have been in fifth grade, because I remember reading this in Junior Scholastic magazine, which I think we started using in elementary school that year: a … [Read more...]
“Storm Area 51” – Why It Happened as It Did
"This has a high potential of getting ugly. Please consider visiting at another time." --Website of Rachel, Nevada, quoted by Billy Cox in the De Void blog "This," of course, was "Storm Area 51," the event that was supposed to happen four weeks ago, on September 20. It didn't "get ugly," and … [Read more...]
An Alien Abductee in Israel – the Strange Story of Ariel Semmel (Part 2)
(For part 1 of this post, click here.) "'Aliens' is a code word for something that exists, something that's evidently wiser than we are or wise in a different way, and we don't know what it wants or is able to do. Really, what's the difference between an 'alien' and God? Different people give … [Read more...]
The Man Who Was a “Zetetic Scholar” – Remembering Marcello Truzzi
I hadn't thought much about Marcello Truzzi until about two months ago, when I saw a post on the Facebook page of UFOlogist Isaac Koi noting that the full archive of Marcello's Zetetic Scholar is available on the Web, with the permission of his widow Pat Truzzi. I remembered Marcello from more than … [Read more...]
The “Leopard Lady” and the Bible – The Poetry of Valerie Nieman
Valerie Nieman. Leopard Lady: A Life in Verse. Winston-Salem, NC: Press 53, 2018. I may have mentioned once or twice in the course of the past several years' blogging: I don't read a whole lot of poetry. Not that I have anything against poetry or poets. It's just that my attention normally … [Read more...]
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