Piece Of Art

"Just coincidence. That's the way it goes sometimes."  ~ Mark Mulder in The X-Files Sandy Dahl Dies News outlets are reporting that Sandy Dahl, 52, the widowed wife of United Flight 93's Captain Jason Dahl, died on Friday, May 25, 2012. Dahl was found dead in her Jefferson County, Colorado, but the details of her death were not formally released. Her charity is reporting she died in her sleep of "natural causes." Sandy Dahl had worked intensively running the Captain Jason Dahl Scholarship Fund and her death was a surprise, said David Dosch, a family friend. The scholarship fund gives money to aspiring pilots to help attend commercial flight training schools. "Sandy and Jason Dahl were my best friends," said Dosch, who also works at the scholarship fund. Jason Dahl was piloting United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, which crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It is believed that passengers aboard United Flight 93 stopped a plot by terror...

Sometimes the phrase "March Madness" lives up to its name. There was a Full Moon at 04:41:42 AM EST on March 8, 2012. One of this year's more extremely high tides called Spring Tides occurs in March 2012 from Friday, March 9 through Monday, March 12, 2012. Significant "random" human events have taken place, thusfar, during this full moon-spring tide cycle. A psychiatric person shoots up a psychiatric institute. A flight attendant disrupts a flight. A frequent court inquirer stabs a judge. An American solider kills civilians in Afghanistan. If you step back from these incidents, you will observe the unusual irony underlining each of their roles in the sites of their actions. They all actually are extreme behavioral outbursts of people merely doing what they have routinely done, but this time, abnormally and violently. (1) Oklahoma Guns in the streets: Tulsa, March 7, 2012. On Wednesday, March 7, 2012, a man shoot and wounded several people at the Tulsa, Oklahom...

Interestingly, the new series Touch (from  Heroes  creator Tim Kring ) screened their pilot on January 25, 2012. It happened to be the same day that Boing Boing, coincidentally, also decided to publish my essay, " 23 + 5: Robert Anton Wilson Again ." As I wrote, " The 23s, 33s, and yes, 11s, heighten our awareness of the twilight language surrounding us." Touch goes there too. Touch is an American procedural and science fiction television series written and created by Tim Kring and starring Kiefer Sutherland . Fox officially picked up the series for a 13-episode season in September 2011. The series premiere is scheduled for Monday, March 19, 2012, Kiefer Sutherland's old 24 spot, with a preview on January 25, 2012. Here are the characters, and their plot lines, thusfar: Kiefer Sutherland as Martin Bohm – a former journalist and luggage handler whose wife was killed in the September 11 attacks. David Mazouz as Jacob "Jake" Bohm – a mute boy who i...

Will these two buildings appear in Seoul, South Korea in 2016? What were the people that put together these plans thinking? A mere coincidence? The twilight language working overtime in a Dutch firm? What's going on here? South Korean developers may be backing down from plans to erect two luxury apartment buildings that some say resemble the World Trade Center buildings exploding as they were hit by planes on 9/11. The building design had been pitched by Dutch architecture firm MVRDV for erection in Seoul, South Korea. But according to new reports , the design is on hold now. After the uproar online and beyond, telling of the controversy about the design of the buildings, MVRDV issued apologies on its website and Facebook page. The Facebook entry reads as follows: A real media storm has started and we receive threatening emails and calls of angry people calling us Al Qaeda lovers or worse. MVRDV regrets deeply any connotations The Cloud projects evokes regarding 9/11, it was not ou...

The mystery of what Mohammed Atta was doing in Portland, Maine, on 9/10 has been compounded by the disappearance of most of the locations that Atta visited that evening. As you may recall, Atta on September 10, 2001, picked up another 9/11 terrorist, Abdul-Azzia Al-Omari (or Alomari), at the Milner Hotel (78 Charles Street South) in Boston.  They drove a rented Nissan Altmia to Portland, Maine, and arrived at the Comfort Inn Hotel, 90 Maine Mall Road, South Portland, Maine, at 5:43 p.m. The Comfort Inn, in 2001, was the nearest inexpensive hotel to the airport. Financial records and bank video show Atta and Al-Omari made two ATM withdrawals in Portland, and the men were reportedly spotted at an area Wal-Mart, allegedly purchasing box-cutters, as well as in the parking lot of a Pizza Hut restaurant. The ATM was down the road from the Comfort Inn, at a gasoline station in South Portland, and the local Wal-Mart was in Scarborough, a short 10 minute drive down that same road from the...

Bank of America, Tampa, Florida, 2002. Sam Vaknin, Ph.D., in the Global Politician on September 26, 2005, wrote, "the September atrocities [of 9/11] provoked a wave of copycats and renewed awareness of such risks." Pirelli Tower, Milan, Italy, 2002. Mentioning the January 2002-Tampa and April 2002-Milan incidents I wrote about in my "Planes into Buildings" chapter of The Copycat Effect (2004), Vaknin also cited another one: "At the beginning of May 2002, an Indian air force jet crashed into a bank building in northwestern India. Eight died in the ensuing fire." It all began with the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers. World Trade Center Complex; image of replica by InFocusTech (10% of sales to the American Red Cross) . Could a copycat event occur at the world's other twin towers in the future?  Petronas Towers are located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Image of replica by InFocusTech. Were you aware there have been other possible and actual small-planes-int...

Jared Lee Loughner, at a book fair recently.   Photo:  Business Insider Lee Harvey Oswald. Gabrielle Giffords, the assassination attempt target. Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic Congresswoman, the first Jewish woman representative from Arizona, was shot through her brain in a mass shooting at a Safeway parking lot in Tuscon, Arizona, on January 8th, 2011, at about 10:10 am, local Arizona time. Earlier in the afternoon, CNN and NPR reported that she had died. But later, the news was changed to a report that she had survived. Six other people, including a nine-year-old girl who was born on 9/11, were killed, and a total of 18 were injured. Federal law enforcement sources said that John M. Roll, the senior U.S. District judge in Arizona, was shot and killed in the incident. An aide of Giffords, a former social worker, also apparently was among those who have died. A 22-year old man was taken into custody after being tackled by people in the small crowd after the shootin...