Piece Of Art

This was the week of a powerful lunar eclipse on December 10, 2011 (beginning at 6:06 am PST) followed by the deadly Mexico City to Acapulco 6.5-6.7 earthquake, which struck almost exactly twelve hours after the eclipse. Added to those events, the previous week's wave of WV, CA, MA, FL and other multiple shootings, plus the NH mall attack, and one has a general uneasy sense that it was, indeed, a weird and stressful time.  Now in the midst of all of this, the links to Garuda  and VA Tech present themselves again into our consciousness. Let's take a quick connect-the-dots detour around this landscape. An Indonesian student activist died late Saturday (December 10, 2011) after setting himself ablaze in a political protest, according to news sources :  " Police say an Indonesian student activist has died after setting himself on fire in front of the presidential palace.  Sondang Hutagalung, 22, set himself ablaze across from the palace in downtown Jakarta…. The activist...

At Fortfest 1992, John A. Keel discusses his research findings (mostly ufological & hints of the cryptozoological) keyed to "pivotal years," e.g. 1848, 1968, 1973, and 1975. In the last 30 seconds of this video, Keel talks about the interrelationship of Forteana and economic collapses. Anomalist Books Editor-in-Chief Patrick Huyghe remarked after hearing of the death, "John Keel was our Michael Jackson." After Keel's 1975 book was adapted into the 2002 film, The Mothman Prophecies , "Mothman" became a household name. However, among a select few, it was John Keel that was the star, not the monster. One of our own had crossed over and had a big tent Hollywood movie made from one of his books. In January 2002, when the film was first released, Fortean historian and http://www.amazon.com/Unexplained-Sightings-Incredible-Occurrences-Phenomena/dp/1439564965/ref=ase_cryptozoologi-20/">author Jerome Clark said that he felt a sense of sincere p...