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VECTOR
On July 28th 1945, at 9:49 am, a plane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building – at that time, the tallest building in New York. On September 11, 2001, at 9:03 am, a plane crashed...
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LOVERBOY
Sultry, French princess Isabella leans down to the dying king Edward and whispers in his ear … “A child who is not of your line grows in my belly. Your son will not sit long on the throne… I swear...
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SENTENCE
In the beginning was the Word. Then came the Sentence: “LIFE” “The Defendant is found guilty of an undisclosed crime and is hereby sentenced to solitary confinement until such time as the Court sees...
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Marga, says Joseph Campbell, is a Sinhala word derived from Sanskrit. In this, its plural form, it denotes ways, methods and techniques. From the Tamil version of the word, Markangal, derives the...
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INTERVIEW
In those days Bigfoot was far from somber, in fact he was one of the more amusing characters I’d ever met – an odd idea when you think that humans claim humor as their own. He was a lot bigger than...
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INTERESTING TIMES 8: SUMMER OF LOVE
By Andrew Maben So, wait a minute… What, as they sometimes say, was I thinking? What indeed? I suppose that in a certain sense you could say I wasn’t thinking at all, simply living to my utmost, in the...
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INTENTION
The armies of Yersinia pestis destroyed more than fifty million human beings during the fourteenth century alone – more than the combined hordes of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun many times over....
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SETI
“And who amongst you,” asked one of the Aliens,” is the most revered, the most recognizable to your fellow Earthlings?” “There is one,” said the president,” who is truly revered, an athlete whose...
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EPIC BATTLES #8 CADIZ 1625
George Villiers, The Earl of Buckingham, was a ‘favorite’ of King James I. “God bless you, my sweet child and wife,” crooned James,” and grant that ye may ever be a comfort to your dear father and...
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X+WHY
In a recent interview, Richard Dawkins was asked if he would prefer to be “happy” or “right.” He felt there was no reason why he couldn’t be both, but of the two he would unquestionably opt for...
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STILL TIME
Two Englishmen walked into a bar… “Chaos mate, it’s total fucking chaos. They’re choppin’ each other’s ‘eads off… runnin’ around with ‘em on sticks. I’m tellin’ you… it’s gonna get worse and before...
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MONKEY SEE
If we accept the Hunter/Gatherer paradigm, we must also accept the very different forms of attentiveness and perception implicit in each set of behaviors. Given that sexual morphology determines...
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CLIMATE
One hundred and ninety-nine years ago in June, snow fell on Albany New York. Six months earlier, Central Italy experienced the worst snowstorms on record. The snow was red and yellow. Between the end...
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THE ALASKAN HEAT WAVE
By Jim Linderman There were thousands of anonymous women working in the smut business. Here is just one of many, and her tale represents all. An unfinished portrait of Lily Lamont, slightly gap-toothed...
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RED AND YELLOW, BLACK AND WHITE: CLARENCE HERBERT WOOLSTON WRITES A STANDARD
By Jim Linderman I’m not all about satire, and neither should any questioning soul… there were some good guys in the Jesus racket, and one of them was Clarence Herbert Woolston. A humble man who makes...
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HEINZ BRANDS A (YOUNG) WARHOL
By Jim Linderman I saw Andy Warhol twice. An empty storefront which had once been a Puerto Rican record distributor’s “one-stop” had reopened on the corner of Tenth Avenue and 45th Street as a bar....
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COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN
By dixē.flatlin3 The follow up to the first part of this column was going to continue on with social media, as it applies to promotion for the modern artist; however, the untimely death of a friend has...
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PIGGY IN THE MIDDLE
Every dogma has its day and every generation sets another flawless category among the pigeonholes. A flat earth, an earth supported by elephants, an earth around which the entire universe revolves,...
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EDNA ADAMS AND CELEBRITY GOSSIP: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CHILD ACTRESS IN HISTORY
By Jim Linderman Edna Adams was the most beautiful child star in history. Shown here several times as a beautiful child, and again ten years later already on her way to becoming a beautiful grifter?...
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NONE SHALL PASS
A few chastity belts are on exhibit in a few European museums, but they are few enough to suggest that their use was not widespread. There is also some doubt as to what that use may have been. There...
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