I'm trying to remember how it is that I got addicted to reading DAILY MAIL UK. It's been a while now since I started reading it. It might have been about the time I was having withdrawal from the end of Art Bell's second or third incarnation, his long awaited but brief MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT show. I believe it had to do with trying to read around EDWARD SNOWDEN and JULIAN ASSANGE. These men and those like them are important to the question we need to ask, and that is the role of journalists and journalism in society, in a time of fake news (sorry to say there really is a lot of it) and skepticism. Though sometimes DAILY MAIL UK gets it wrong, more often they get it right and their news breaks across the ocean first, meaning that by the time you get up to listen to KFI and the obnoxiously funny BILL HANDLE well, you will already know what news they are going to be mentioning on the radio as you sit in traffic on the freeway because it sounds to be right out of DAILY MAIL UK! You know that because you checked when you got up to pee at 3 am.
Currently I barely read about Snowden, who I actually feel has had his Andy Warhol Fifteen Minutes of fame over and over again and will live out his life in Russia. He raised his finger in that ayatollah kind of way and I thought, this is not good! I suspect Assange and WikiLeaks is going to be story for a long long time, unless he dies, and I think he might. He's being made an example of. Got to give Snowden credit for years of faithfulness to his pole dancing exhibitionist girlfriend; there's someone for everyone?
I don't feel so bad about the way I have to hit the DAILY MAIL UK site at least twice a day - sometimes more - sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night - yesterday every hour - when I hear that it's the second most read news media site in the world.
I don't know what media site is supposed to be number one. I kind of hope The New York Times. I read the San Jose Mercury News... I read The Guardian... I read Vanity Fair.
I currently make dog poo bags from the LA TIMES though yes, it does have some good coverage. I hear it's printed with soy based ink and I'm just so eco. I have respect for journalist Steve Lopez there, who I feel sure already has his private island estate in heaven being built by the angels.
LINK HERE TO A JOURNALIST I RESPECT STEVE LOPEZ He will not quit writing about our housing and homeless crisis.
So, about DAILY MAIL UK; I know some of you are disappointed in me for this, but I'm not alone in making my way past the Kardashians, who I knew nothing about when I started reading it, and so many other desperate-for-attention women showing off their bodies in swim suits, if you can identify these strained patches of fabric as such, who take pouty selfies of themselves using mirrors to look down their own pants, to some terrific coverage of what we used to call HARD NEWS, such as the hideous Jeffery Epstein Sex Trafficking scandal. And the Miley Cyrus scandal, a trivial bisexual fling of a scandal which, when it comes right down to it, has not an iota of impact compared to what the now dead sex addict Epstein's scandal will.
I really CAN be LITERARY and also be into POP CULTURE.
DAILY MAIL UK also promises daily coverage of VIOLENCE, from gross pimple popper videos to mass shootings, mothers who put babies they just gave birth to in dumpsters and people who put their dogs in freezers, innocent people wrongly convicted and criminals running free, boating and helicopter accidents, riots in front of movie theaters and more seriously in Hong Kong, wackos gone crazy and crazies gone wacko, every form of violence.
I'M OVEREXPOSED TO VIOLENCE.
I don't want to be ill informed or ignorant.
I want to understand.
I feel stress.
I am anxious.
I feel overloaded.
It feels hopeless.
WE NEED HELP.
Can the Republicans find ANYONE to run against TRUMP? Can the Democrats who refused to eat some form of Pig in IOWA or who actually do not have a realistic PLAN for how this Reparations thing will work (I suggest national DNA tests) please step out of the race for the Presidency.
Go Bernie Go!
Sometimes I feel like imploding or exploding.
You might too.
Just don't do it all over my blog.
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Showing posts with label Art Bell - Coast to Coast AM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art Bell - Coast to Coast AM. Show all posts
10/29/12
SUPERSTORM SANDY : CAN THE GLOBAL SUPERSTORM PREDICTED BY WHITLEY STRIEBER and ART BELL BE NEXT?
Got up this morning and put the radio on and probably will be listening to coverage of the Storm Sandy, or Super Storm Sandy, which has already sunken the HMS Bounty pirate ship, and is on the way to New York, New Jersey... the eastern sea board ... all day. And night.
The new York subways are shut down, so is Wall street, so are thousands of air flights, and listening to Heraldo Rivera broadcasting from new York this morning, it sounds as if the streets are deserted, with just a few dare devil cab drivers determined to make their fares. Videos show sea foam whipped up by the wind covering beaches like snow. Millions of people have loaded up on emergency supplies of food and water, there's been a run on flashlights and other survival gear, but even with shelters open, it seems to me that the majority must simply STAY PUT. Who can even afford the gas prices and the motel rooms to flee?
I'm thinking about Art Bell, the radio host who began Coast to Coast AM and was on the air most nights for maybe a decade, and Whitley Streiber, the author of Communion and other UFO Abductee themed books, who with Art wrote a book called THE COMING GLOBAL SUPERSTORM. (I was a huge fan of Art Bell!)
I ordered this book from my library several years back and finally it came in. I settled back on the sofa to read the book on a day off, and did so cover to cover without any television or radio or phone on to interrupt my concentration. The book had short novelesque chapters between science - or alternative science - fact. I was very impressed with it.
It proposed that when the Gulf Stream and Atlantic Ocean current, which is the result of variant water temperatures reacting to each other, changes, the result is not global warming but a rapidly occurring ice age. According to this theory, snowfall would make much of the Northern Hemisphere unlivable. When I finished the book, I turned on the radio to hear, shockingly, that the Tsumani had just hit Thailand.
WHITLEY STRIEBER's UNKNOWN COUNTRY link here for a better explaination.
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All Rights Reserved including Internet Rights and International Rights.
The new York subways are shut down, so is Wall street, so are thousands of air flights, and listening to Heraldo Rivera broadcasting from new York this morning, it sounds as if the streets are deserted, with just a few dare devil cab drivers determined to make their fares. Videos show sea foam whipped up by the wind covering beaches like snow. Millions of people have loaded up on emergency supplies of food and water, there's been a run on flashlights and other survival gear, but even with shelters open, it seems to me that the majority must simply STAY PUT. Who can even afford the gas prices and the motel rooms to flee?
I'm thinking about Art Bell, the radio host who began Coast to Coast AM and was on the air most nights for maybe a decade, and Whitley Streiber, the author of Communion and other UFO Abductee themed books, who with Art wrote a book called THE COMING GLOBAL SUPERSTORM. (I was a huge fan of Art Bell!)
I ordered this book from my library several years back and finally it came in. I settled back on the sofa to read the book on a day off, and did so cover to cover without any television or radio or phone on to interrupt my concentration. The book had short novelesque chapters between science - or alternative science - fact. I was very impressed with it.
It proposed that when the Gulf Stream and Atlantic Ocean current, which is the result of variant water temperatures reacting to each other, changes, the result is not global warming but a rapidly occurring ice age. According to this theory, snowfall would make much of the Northern Hemisphere unlivable. When I finished the book, I turned on the radio to hear, shockingly, that the Tsumani had just hit Thailand.
WHITLEY STRIEBER's UNKNOWN COUNTRY link here for a better explaination.
C 2012 Christine Trzyna / Christine Trzyna Writerly Life
All Rights Reserved including Internet Rights and International Rights.
8/16/08
QUICK BOOK REVIEW : TRUE HALLUCINATIONS and THE ARCHAIC REVIVAL by TERENCE MCKENNA
TRUE HALLUCINATIONS and THE ARCHAIC REVIVAL
Tales and Speculation About the Mysteries of the Psychedelic Experience
Two Classics in One Volume by Terence McKenna
MJF Books New York (in arrangement with HarperCollins)
Copywrited by the author in 1991 and 1993 the material in these two books was written in the early-mid 1970's.
QUICK BOOK REVIEW by Christine Trzyna
I've never read Terence McKenna before, having only heard him on the old Art Bell Coast to Coast AM show being interviewed by Art, prior to his death from a brain cancer. I find that it interesting that his avocation was hallucinogens and their effect on the brain and that he died of brain cancer.
These two books reveal McKenna to be extremely sophisticated in his thinking about his hallucinogenic experiences particularly with mushrooms. McKenna seems to have suffered from not being an academic. I hasten to remember when I was taking an Anthropology course about the Native Americans and wished to produce a spectacular paper on the local Tongva and rock art and /or the use of local hallucinogens - which proved to be Jimsonweed. There wasn't enough time for the research I wanted to do, but when I mentioned the name of Terence McKenna as a possible resource to a grad student, she urged me that my research would not be acceptable to academia if I referenced him.
The excerpts chosen below have to do with memory, a subject that I as a memoirist like to explore.
EXCERPT :
Page 135
(Re his brother Dennis McKenna circa about 1971)
..."Dennis announced a new teaching. He said that one could see any point in time by closing ones' eyes, visualizing an eight, turning it on its side so that it approximated the sign for infinity, and then mentally sliding the two closed rings over each other to form a circle,. shrinking the circle to a dot, and thinking the word "please." and target the point in space-time. Usually I knew not whence these images came to him; however, this time I was amazed. I recalled with perfect clarity that six weeks before, shortly before I left Vancouver, British Columbia, I had gone to a dentist as pat of the standard pre-travel tune up. While int he waiting room, I had read a several-months old journal of some Canadian education association. In that journal, which I had not discussed with anyone, was a very short article about teaching machines and very young children. The "Picture This" scenario with which the article opened was of a child looking at a figure-eight on a television screen, rolling it on its side, squeezing it together, etc. It was a bit of media flotsam that my brother, or something working through my brother, was lift right out of my mind weeks after I had forgotten it. Something was able to refashion and use our memories in whatever absurd way that it wished."
page 196
"...Destruction of up to 95% of the brain does not impair memory function. It appears that memory isn't stored anywhere; memory seems to permeate the brain. Like a hologram, all of the memory seems to be in each part. Similarly, one can take a holographic plate of Mount Fuji and cut it in half; when a half is illuminated, the entire image is present. One can do this again and again: the holograph is made up of a nearly infinite number of tiny images, each of which in combination with its fellows presents one image."
Tales and Speculation About the Mysteries of the Psychedelic Experience
Two Classics in One Volume by Terence McKenna
MJF Books New York (in arrangement with HarperCollins)
Copywrited by the author in 1991 and 1993 the material in these two books was written in the early-mid 1970's.
QUICK BOOK REVIEW by Christine Trzyna
I've never read Terence McKenna before, having only heard him on the old Art Bell Coast to Coast AM show being interviewed by Art, prior to his death from a brain cancer. I find that it interesting that his avocation was hallucinogens and their effect on the brain and that he died of brain cancer.
These two books reveal McKenna to be extremely sophisticated in his thinking about his hallucinogenic experiences particularly with mushrooms. McKenna seems to have suffered from not being an academic. I hasten to remember when I was taking an Anthropology course about the Native Americans and wished to produce a spectacular paper on the local Tongva and rock art and /or the use of local hallucinogens - which proved to be Jimsonweed. There wasn't enough time for the research I wanted to do, but when I mentioned the name of Terence McKenna as a possible resource to a grad student, she urged me that my research would not be acceptable to academia if I referenced him.
The excerpts chosen below have to do with memory, a subject that I as a memoirist like to explore.
EXCERPT :
Page 135
(Re his brother Dennis McKenna circa about 1971)
..."Dennis announced a new teaching. He said that one could see any point in time by closing ones' eyes, visualizing an eight, turning it on its side so that it approximated the sign for infinity, and then mentally sliding the two closed rings over each other to form a circle,. shrinking the circle to a dot, and thinking the word "please." and target the point in space-time. Usually I knew not whence these images came to him; however, this time I was amazed. I recalled with perfect clarity that six weeks before, shortly before I left Vancouver, British Columbia, I had gone to a dentist as pat of the standard pre-travel tune up. While int he waiting room, I had read a several-months old journal of some Canadian education association. In that journal, which I had not discussed with anyone, was a very short article about teaching machines and very young children. The "Picture This" scenario with which the article opened was of a child looking at a figure-eight on a television screen, rolling it on its side, squeezing it together, etc. It was a bit of media flotsam that my brother, or something working through my brother, was lift right out of my mind weeks after I had forgotten it. Something was able to refashion and use our memories in whatever absurd way that it wished."
page 196
"...Destruction of up to 95% of the brain does not impair memory function. It appears that memory isn't stored anywhere; memory seems to permeate the brain. Like a hologram, all of the memory seems to be in each part. Similarly, one can take a holographic plate of Mount Fuji and cut it in half; when a half is illuminated, the entire image is present. One can do this again and again: the holograph is made up of a nearly infinite number of tiny images, each of which in combination with its fellows presents one image."
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