Neal @ February 2, 2010 # No Comment Yet
(AS A FOLO TO THE previous post, and at the urging of sinister forces who would prefer I remain nameless, I now present a reprint from the bygone Bulletin of Obscure Research, Far Corner (v1n5, c. 1991): an interview with the late Robert Anton Wilson, who wrote about everything Dan Brown does (and much, MUCH [...]
Neal @ January 31, 2010 # 2 Comments
LONGTIME READERS WILL PRICK THEIR pointed ears at the mention of “Obscure Research Labs.” If you’re not one of them, but especially if you are, please read on:
Back around 1989 or so, I became involved with a group billing itself as “the world’s only TRUE research organization … devoted to finding out Just What’s Going [...]
Neal @ January 25, 2010 # One Comment
YOU SEE THEM CASTING FURTIVE kitchenward gazes after a good dinner of roasted chicken or perhaps beef or lamb, excusing themselves with a piece of bread and trying not to run. Shortly afterward, stifled sighs waft back to the dining room.
Did I say “them?” I mean we. The Brotherhood of the Dunk.
The Brotherhood is a [...]
Neal @ July 20, 2006 # No Comment Yet
“But the Eagle has landed; tell your children whenTime won’t drive us down to dust again.”– Leslie Fish, Hope Eyrie
One of the most embarrassing things which ever happened to me was falling asleep for the 90 or so seconds surrounding one small step.
I was seven years old and living in middle-class Matawan, New Jersey. A [...]
Neal @ July 14, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Not all mitzvot turn into ghost stories — but when doing holy work, it’s always a good idea to expect the unexpected.
Jews have always treasured the absurd, and I’m no exception. Contemplating the vast cycles of the Universe in comparison to the minutiae of daily existence often fills me with the uncontrollable urge to chuckle. [...]
