Alien Dreaming and the Widening Gyre: Sidebar
Hilariously NSFWI have a lot of LA and SoCal readers- I wonder how many of them are in the film industry. And I wonder if one of them is Clerks director Kevin Smith. I did happen to notice that he titled his Batman series The Widening Gyre, quite coincidentally considering the connections I was drawing in the Alien Dreaming and the Widening Gy

TVOD: V is for 'Vitamin Regimen'
The latest episode of V did little to discourage my suspicion that the series is an allegory on Scientology.* The "vitamin shots" that the V were offering as well as the E-meter type diagnostic apparatus used to lure the "poor man's Tom Cruise" into their clutches are fascinating clues here. The paranoia and

Discovery, Document and Disclosure (UPDATED)
Well, in light of recent discoveries how could we observe American Thanksgiving with anything but this clip from The People, giving us an alternate take on the origin of the holiday?Or some faked UFO footage over a Thanksgiving Day parade, for that matter? Over the years of photography and film and now digital technology, the same rule applies to UFO footage- if it looks too good to be true it probably isn't. Prolonged detail and exposure is usually a good sign it's a fake. Why? Because it's very difficult to photograph f

CERN- NOT a mere science project
The 17-mile Large Hadron Collider at CERN is back online. There are all sorts of theories about the project, never mind the incongruous statue of Kali at its front door (so much for scientific atheism). It's very telling that it's located on a border as well- very powerful symbolism there.I'm not exactly sure what they're up to there but the sheer scale of the project tells me that this is not merely a science project - this is a device- meant to achieve a tangible and non-theoretical goal. There is something meant to be accomplished here, s

Justice Pantheon of America
Man, these animated DC films are coming fast and furious. And here were get some tasty interdimensional memes along with the ever-popular alternate-reality hero versions, something that Batman Beyond and Justice League have done better than the comics themselves. There's something much deeper at work here- certainly what will be an irreversible migration of superheroes from page to screen, the alternate reality meme as a metaphor for pop culture itself and the end of the solo superhero story. The superhero team- or pantheon, more accurately- has replaced the heroic myth of the outsider. The Green Lantern