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that sounds flippant but truly, i am now finally understanding the meaning of my username. i am just now synthesizing the various mystical experiences and revelations that i have had through my life. this morning, while making my coffee, i spontaneously cried and laughed at the cosmic play and...

i am shiva

as far as his later work, I like Pattern Recognition. Spook Country was bad though it had a good idea or two in it that I think probably sounds quaint now (augmented reality). I saw him speak during a book tour for SC. He was into Japanese repros of American goods (military and denim) - I...

btw i LOVE the Invisibles, read them as individual issues as they came out. recently got all the hardbacks, reread them, and lent out the first volume to someone I KNOW HAS NOT READ IT. The first volume is the best... i haven't read this thread yet and i can't wait.

i know milquetoast from MITB/Charred Remains

i'm into this. besides etching it into my brain or carrying an analog map or getting a separate GPS device, how are we coping with not having a GPS on a phone? that's the one thing i can't figure out

A mega church MAGA drone.

dude i've been struggling because she was the coolest aunt. she wore a perfecto motorcycle jacket. she did makeup and hair. now she is the worst tunnel-visioned deluded star spangled ding dong on the planet. last time i saw her i was up until daybreak trying to reason with her. but all is lost...

it was probably opening night so i guess? i don't know about this censor.

I saw Robocop at the movie theater. I was sitting on my aunt's lap. I was nine. It may have been the same year that I saw Schwarzenegger's chair at the mall in Santa Ana, California during the filming of the opening scenes of Kindergarten Cop.

I saw OPN maybe five years ago, maybe during Garden of Delete, at a decent sized venue. He had Nate Boyce absolutely shredding on guitar. It felt like a pastiche of the big stadium rock sound filtered through the prism of Return to Forever or something. A lot of wink wink nudge nudge. I also...

Flannery O'Connor has been canceled https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/cancelling-flannery-oconnor

synchronicities, ahem :)

I am 600 pages into The Stand (Stephen King) and just dipping my toes into High Weirdness (drugs, esoterica, and visionary experience in the 70s) by Erik Davis.

I think it was in Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything that he talks about reading and rereading Ulysses. He says it is the book that first effectively communicates the psychedelic/multi-perspectival experience. He also talks about the prankster nature of Joyce and how he both courts and...

I just read Ulysses this summer. I tried about 15 years ago but I wasn't ready for it. An interview with Robert Anton Wilson encouraged me to give it another go. I also listened to an audiobook of Ulysses in between readings and that brought out inflections in the language that I missed on the...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monobloc_(chair) "The Monobloc is one of the few objects I can think of that is free of any specific context. Seeing a white plastic chair in a photograph offers you no clues about where or when you are."

i had a philosophy professor who said "imagine if, suddenly, all the denim in the world dematerialized" and invited us to look around the room to explore the implications

i remember ambient being popular with dads in the 1990s - usually post-hippie types with hi-fi stereos and full beards

Star Wars comes to mind it is a space opera, not an exploration of the consequences of a scientific innovation