poll by twiigs.com Have you voted? Good. Now check out this deep analysis from Robert: Doug Skinner’s vision reflects Mark’s self-image brilliantly, looking from the inside out, so to speak. The Dreamland model, on the other hand, depicts more of an outside-looking-in vantage point; an impartial observer’s perception, one might say. Both models are excellent, […]
I was sitting at the bar at Haab’s a few weeks ago, enjoying a beer, when thickly-bearded local troubadour Patrick Elkins sidled up alongside me and whispered in my ear that, at that very moment, a crew was assembled at the Dreamland Theater, busily working on a “Mark Maynard puppet.” Or, he may have said […]
John Keel, the legendary Fortean author of such books as “The Mothman Prophecies” and “Strange Creatures From Time and Space,” died last week in New York at the age of 79. As I only knew Keel second-hand, through my friend Doug, I don’t have much to offer in the way of a eulogy. As we’ve […]
And it doesn’t really fit here, but I’d like to wish the great John Keel, author of “The Mothman Prophecies,” a happy belated 79th birthday. And, for what it’s worth, I love the name “Demon with a Glass Hand” for a band.
A few days ago, I asked my friend Doug how I should celebrate Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday. As Doug is an interesting fellow who often lectures on such things, I was expecting some kind of brilliant, inspired answer in return. All he said, though, was simply “Read what he wrote.” It’s not terribly witty, but […]
