It's not, as they say, your father's New York Times. Very definitely, it's not my father's New York Times. My father, who died over 30 years ago, swore by the Times partly on account of its well-deserved reputation for gravity and sobriety, partly because of the center-left politics that … [Read more...]
About UFOs – Conversations with Michael Shermer and Whitley Strieber
"Have you ever," he inquired hesitantly of Yossarian ... "been in a situation which you felt you had been in before, even though you knew you were experiencing it for the first time?" Yossarian nodded perfunctorily, and the chaplain's breath quickened in anticipation as he made ready to join his … [Read more...]
A UFO “Epidemic”? – “Extraterrestrial Vampires” and the Coronavirus
The answer, in my opinion, is no. The question, in case you've forgotten, is the one I posed at the end of my blog post two weeks ago. "Shall we speak of an 'epidemic' of chupa chupas, vampire-like 'suckers' that rise from the sea and attack from the sky," as a model for understanding the spate … [Read more...]
“Unidentified Viral Objects” – the Pandemic and the UFOlogist
A tale of two podcasts, Part 1. (I'll post Part 2 in another two weeks.) Both podcasts aired, two weeks apart, on the "Micah Hanks Program," where I had the honor of being interviewed several weeks afterward. Their dates were March 9 and 23, straddling that awful week when the coronavirus storm … [Read more...]
Clever But Empty – A Review of “The Vast of Night” (Amazon Studios)
"Now what was that all about?" --Overheard in a movie theater at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey; ca. 1970 Which was more or less my reaction to 2001 until, several weeks later, a friend explained the film to me and I understood that it not only made sense but was intellectually provocative, … [Read more...]
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