Posts Tagged ‘weirdness’

Hogwarts for Vampires

Maybe if I had a bookish teenage daughter I would know this, but the boarding-school-for-vampires (etc.) genre has exploded. Here is a typical cover blurb: Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir’s Academy, where one focuses on mastering [...]

The Future is Yours, Students

This speaks for itself, but I can’t remember where it came from. But if you Google “young Freemasons world domination,” you will find all sorts of interesting links.

A FedEx Delivery from R’lyeh

It lies under the sea, sleeping, waiting, until it is summoned forth. Life imitates art, again.

A ‘Going Out of Civilization’ Sale

The local weekly newspaper arrived in my post office box today. I see that a liquor store in my little mountain county is announcing a new 12/21/12 pricing plan: Bud or Bud Light six packs will cost you two chickens or a goat . . . Canadian Mist 175′s will cost you 1,000 rounds of [...]

Weirdest Google Search String Yet

This brought a visitor to the blog: “grizzly bears knowing Jesus Christ is coming.” The truth is that I did have Jesus Christ and a grizzly bear in one blog post.

1-800-SOL-EATR

Our lines are open, and Cthulhu is waiting for your call.  

What Happened to Ufology?

When people are still talking and writing books about the Roswell Incident more than sixty years after it happened, you have to wonder if the air has leaked out of ufology. In Britain, the Telegraph reports, Dozens of groups interested in the flying saucers and other unidentified craft have already closed because of lack of [...]

Gandalf Style?

No, you can’t fool me. This is just Oberon Zell on his way to the supermarket in Santa Rosa.

Pentagram Pizza: Some Good Reads and Free Music

• Finding a complementary relationship between Paganism and Tantra at The Pagan Perspective. Not this: My sabbatical led me down the rabbit hole of tantra, or rather neo-tantra, which turned out to be nothing more than a mobsterized store front for polyamory and polysexuality. Now I am the last person to dismiss sexuality or the [...]

My Son “Was No Zombie”

So says the mother of the man shot by Miami police while eating the face of his victim. But catch what the girlfriend says: ” ‘ That wasn’t him, that was his body but it wasn’t his spirit.  Somebody did this to him,’ WFOR quotes her as saying.” Isn’t that pretty close to the pop-culture [...]