Vampires in Boston...and other stupid things

Why are kids so stupid these days? Remember back when vampires were confined to the freaky old house down the block? Or the cemetery near your uncles house? Thems were the days. But now, that school we all took that test to try to get into...you know...Latin Academy...it's invested with idiots. Pardon me. I meant to say, vampires. Which is worse? Really. Kids reporting on each other, " Judy... she wears Urban Decay eyeliner in Venom, and she rocks Doc Martens and never goes out when it's sunny. I think she's a vampire." Seriously. If this is the future we are in for some serious disappointment. These kids aren't going to find cures for cancer, aids and MS. Nope. Instead they're going to spend their adulthood picking on each other, making lame shit up about each other and oh, before I forget...hunting vampires. Or atleast selling them out.

The meaning of the 3 dots in symbology and other things...

I've been watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles since its first episode. I like it enough. I mean, what's not to like when you've got kickass female leads in a show about robots and time travel? Plus, SHIRLEY MANSON! Anyways, recently Sarah found herself totally immersed in this mystery about 3 DOTS. I have three dots. On my forearm to be exact. Three equidistant freckle-looking things. They've been there forever. They've been there so long I don't even pay them much mind. But now I find myself looking up the symbology of the 3 dots.



This is how they connect (w/ MSPAINT...gah.)...



This is how they appear on my arm (w/ my blackberry camera)...



I found something about a MOON ILLUSION, and that group of dudes who think they're the ILLUMINATI and like to recruit
idiots from YALE...

I better not be an alien. That would be such a cop out. JK

Strange photo of the day...

I've got giants on the brain.

Andrew Barnes and Paul Taitt @ BOA

I used to be the Queen Mother of sleep paralysis. At first I thought I was
an abductee. Then some years later, I started to delve heavily into old
biblical tales of demons overcoming humans. Now, I can say I have been
free from 'SP' for over seven years.

For those who think this sort of thing is awesome and would like to
experience it for yourselves, please don't take this the wrong way...
but...can I slap you?

You can listen to the streaming audio here.

March madness

It's that time of year when everyone and their mother has something eloquent (and mostly B.S.,) to say.
On tuesday, the creators of Battlestar Galactica and two of its stars presented at the UN.
Ron Moore and David Eick spoke about how the issues in BSG mirrored the problems we face today.
But it was the passion with which Eddie Olmos spoke against racial divide that really resounded with those in attendance.
Mary McDonnell, infinitely smart and graceful, reminded us all that the leaders decisions were made in desperate times; that being the President doesn't make you exempt from having a conscience.
They spoke about real world problems. Problems no one wants to think about. Because we all like to believe the world is capable of great change.
BSG is a science fiction show. Perhaps one of the last great tv shows ever. It takes its final bow on friday, March 20th, 2009. With it, the many issues regarding war, torture, human rights and equality may fade from the last medium to address these problems. Science ficiton television.
Why didn't they address the UFO/ALIEN agenda? Perhaps it's because BSG is not a show about Aliens. It's a show about humans. About machines striving to be human. If the UN is going to address the ALIEN problem, doesn't it make sense to address the human problem first?

Rethinking Teleportation

Everytime the question of what superpower I'd wanna have if I were a superhero comes up, I always pick the same thing: Teleportation. Frak flying. That's so 1972. Same goes for superstrength, because I can just see myself shaking someone's hand and accidentally snapping their arm in half. Anyways, teleportation (and time travel), has always been a favorite subject of mine. Everytime a new book comes out, explaining some new way of possibly going about the transference of photons from one destination to the next, I buy it. Everytime Scientific American or Discover magazine publishes an article on teleportation, I buy the entire issue. I wouldn't say I am obsessed, but I would say that I know there is some element missing in all the theorizing and it's driving me bat shit. For instance, why does teleportation have to work on the principle that an object emerging on the other side is a fascimile of the original? How come I can't teleport my original self from, say, here in Boston Massachusetts, to Honolulu in the exact molecular composition that is ME and not some copy? How come there isn't a theory to express the possibility that it could be the space in which a teleported object travels that may shift and have to reconstitute itself and not the object itself? I mean, rather than me dividing into a zillion pieces and then coming back together on some beach in honolulu, why can't the space between boston and honolulu shift and break apart and expand enough so that I can come through? I admit, I am NOT a scientist. And perhaps a science major or two will come across this post and go, "My god, this girl has no idea what the heck she's talking about." But what if I do have a point? I mean, I'm not stupid and I do love science. I did once fancy myself being a scientist. I think that I'm just as aware as the next enthusiast. So I say, there has to be another way. Someone's not looking into this with all eyes open. Teleportation can very be the simplest way to move through space, but people are so caught up trying to make it sound so scientific and perhaps, in some way, re-invent the wheel, that they don't want to entertain other possibilities.

Like I said, I don't know much about it all. I do enjoy reading about it. I do enjoy thinking about it. But damn it...can some genius get on the ball already so I can actually DO it?!

Richard Freeman's global monster template

Richard Freeman's monster list reads like a who's who of cryptocreatures, and it's a dang good list too. But then he goes on to explain that many of these *things* could be thought forms or tulpas...and that's when I have to disagree.

First of, here's the list:

1. Dragons: The most ancient, powerful and widespread monster archetype. These giant reptiles, or analogues of them, occur in every culture on earth. They are reptilian, elongate and associated with the element of water.
2. Hairy giants: Yeti, Yowie, Yeren, Sasquatch, Di-Di, Troll, Almasty, the list goes on. Big, man-like, powerful and hair covered.
3. Little people: Goblins, Pixies, Bush Men, Junjudee, Ebu-Gogo the list is nigh on endless. Small, sometimes hairy often considered dangerous.
4. Monster cats: Out of place panthers, American ‘lions’, cigau, singa ect. Uncatchable felines.
5. Monster dogs: Werewolves, Black Dogs, Waheela, Mirrii dogs ect Usually huge, spectral hounds.
6. Monster Birds: Thunderbird, Roc, Tengu, Guruda, Owlman ect. Giant, often aggressive, birds.

*ahem* Mermaids and Unicorns are NOT on the list, however, people rarely see them
these days, so I'll just let it go for now.

But seriously, this Tulpa thing rankles my ass. Everytime someone mentions tulpa I can't help but think, "Yeah okay, maybe all of us together are strong enough to create a thoughtform, but seriously, are ALL OF US THINKING ABOUT THE EXACT SAME THING?" One man's YETI is not another man's SASQUATCH. Hence the variation in names. Some people see an upright monkey, other's see Harry Henderson. It's not all relative and so it annoys me that it can be so easily explained as such.

My theory is this: If people are invoking the same being, it's only because they've been conditioned to believe in or be aware of that particular kind of being. Whether it be a DRAGON, YETI or BIG CAT. And the only way people are conditioned is through folklore or oral tradition or hollywood or books or all of the above. And the only way that happens is when someone, somewhere back in time saw something and told someone else. Now, does that mean that only THAT one person's sighting happened to become everyone else's manifestation simply through the re-telling of the story? It could, if only some other person, 5000 miles away didn't start telling the SAME story about the SAME creature. And therein lies the dilemma. How is this a thought form from two independent sources so far removed from one another?

Tales of every creature on that list are world-wide and traditional. They've been told across the globe for ages. There is NO WAY that collectively, our ancestors got bugged out on peyote, ayahuasca or coke and started thinking, "Hey, a really huge, scaley lizard thingie that flies ate my whole village," if there's no one to corraborate...like the whole dang village.

Tulpas. No. I hate that explanation. I really wish people would stop using it. It leads nowhere. Seriously.

Can we for once consider that this world is not built just for humans? There could be all kinds of things living all around us that don't spend entire lifetimes questioning their existence. They just are. And we need to start excepting them as such, because trying to own them all up to a simple explanation like mass hysteria isn't going to make them go away.

Cryptozoology toys!

The MOTHMAN looks cheesy.

Oh, who am I kidding. I'd put every single one of them on my desk.
And I'd probably play with them too.
Maybe make some stop-motion-animation shorts with them. Like
Robot Chicken.

Mothman: I'm blue, om-da-da-da-di-om-da-do-dah
Sasquatch: I'm do for a waxing. Got a date with this hot Abominable snow-girl.
Chupacabra: Tu quiero taco bell.


Yeah, I'm lame.

Did Black holes form before galaxies?

Um. After reading this article, my head spun a few times and then I thought: "Black holes must spit sh*t out more than suck things in. So...um...what if black holes are giant teleportation devices?" ---Sucking in galaxies and spitting them out on the other side?

Or am I just too dumb to get any of this?

The Natural History of Unicorns

I can't help but wonder if there were UNICORNS (cuz there are!), that perhaps they may have been hunted to extinction by stupid people who believe stupid things. I mean, you see a strange creature in your back yard and you kill it, and then you drink some water from its horn because you're weird. Next thing ya know, your canker sores are gone, so you tell the neighbors. Now, this creature has relatives roaming the backyards of all your neighbors, so it gets easy for your neighbors to kill one of their own, and so on and so on. Until every dumb, gullible person kills off every little fabulous, weird creature.

Yup. I think that's how it went down.

Loren Coleman interview @ The Phoenix

I don't care what anyone says...I still believe in Unicorns and Mermaids. I'm still waiting for someone to prove to me they DON'T exist. I won't hold my breath.

The Viking Tower...

On saturday I saw the most curious thing: The Viking Tower. I had heard many detailed stories about it. That the Chinese built it, or the Norse, or Benedict Arnold. To tell you the truth, it looks like no Windmill I've ever seen, and I
have spent the day looking all over the web for similar ones.

It's supported on 8 pillars with 8 arcs and inside (if you can get close enough), are these curious little portholes and windows that are completely covered from the outside. Also, there appears to be a fireplace in there. Seriously.

There are also ledges on the outside that may have supported beams. That is the concensus anyway.

An excavation was carried out in the late 1940's and Colonial clues were found, like a shoe print and it was also carbon dated. Now, the carbon dating gets me because I thought carbon dating rocks was a no-no. But apparently they did the mortar. So, many of the peeps who studied the tower believe it was built in colonial times. However, there is evidence of a structure in China that looks just like it, again lending a bit of speculation in the direction of Chinese settlers in the Americas.
It has been said that there are runes on the stones, but I didn't see anything. I had I know, I would have looked harder. All I saw was a beautifully elaborate structure with no rhyme or reason to it. Let everyone else argue about it. I just enjoyed looking at it.
If you're ever in Newport, Rhode Island, go to Touro Park and check it out.

Nick Redfern and Greg Bishop @ BOA

Too awesome for words!!!

Punch hole clouds

Awesome pics of high-cloud-strangeness at DARK ROASTED BLEND.

Seeing faces

I went to profile rock two weeks ago. It wasn't a planned investigation. On the contrary, I was visiting my best friend in Fall River and happened to see signs w/ a very distinguished Native American profile everywhere. Then I saw the sign pointing the way, so while my best friend spent a good hour arguing with T-mobile about a mistake on her phone bill, I saw profile rock.
When I made it to the top of the hill overlooking the rock I was awestruck. Maybe a tad gobsmacked. My heart palpated in my chest and I was overwhelmed by the awesome. So what did I do? Being the adventurer I WISH I was, I got a closer look. I found a stone staircase leading down the hill and so I went on down and close to what became a hill of rocks, broken and graffiti'd and eventually gave way to the true profile of the rock. It wasn't the regal one used to advertise all the businesses in the area. On the contrary, that profile is an illusion. Broken rocks jutting out left and right make it look that way.

But still, there is a profile. Only it resembles a Maya and not a Native American.

I saw a long sloping forehead and a flat nose. But then again, you can see faces in anything, so I have no idea if what I was looking at was carved or made by mother nature as the rocks crumbled. All I do know is that I loved being there and seeing it and I can't wait to see something crazier or stranger or far more mysterious in the near future.

Mac Tonnies Interview w/ Richard Thomas

Mac Tonnies IS a meme all his own.

Stanton Friedman @ BOA

It's one BoA's proudest traditions, the 4th annual BoA:Audio Holiday Special featuring the "Father of Modern Day Ufology" Stanton Friedman. Coming on the heels of the publication of his self-proclaimed "magnus opus," Flying Saucers and Science, we discuss a number of elements to the new tome. We find out about Project Blue Book Special Report # 13, the mysterious "lost" Blue Book text, Stan's relationships and thoughts on legendary Ufologists James E. McDonald & J. Allen Hynek, his "feud" with Isaac Asimov, the crash of the nuclear rocket industry, plus big picture analysis like how to solve Ufology's public relations problems and Stan's thoughts on the state of Roswell in relation to mainstream media & science acceptance.

On top of all that, in the 2nd half of the program, we turn the questioning over to the members of the official BoA forum theusofe.com who had their chance to ask Friedman one question each. Via their contributions, we'll find out about his thoughts on the connection between UFOs & altered consciousness, his disagreements with Kevin Randle on Roswell, Ufology in a post-disclosure world, getting the media interested in UFOs, his opinion on what is the best abduction case ever, his feud with Paul Kimball, sabermetrics in baseball, the alleged 1969 Sverdlovsky UFO crash, why he doesn't subscribe to the Corso version of Roswell, the journal article 'Sovereignty and the UFO', Project Blue Book Special Report #14, and where the US would be in space if it kept going to the moon.

The Solstice at Newgrange

Maybe it's just me, but why's this picture look like there's a boy in it, with his head bowed down? I need some coffee.

Top Ten Astronomy pics of 2008

The pics of the universe are so dang beautiful. I wish I could just float among the stars forever and forever...or just stand over the earth, like Superman, only I'd be Superwoman...and I'd be cuter.

Understand Dark Matter

The vastness and darkness of space has always intrigued me. I don't know what it is about DARK MATTER that just causes one to stop and think about just how much about the universe we don't know...and never will.