John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History. Viking Press, 2004. It's hard reviewing a book you haven't read. That remains true even if you have heard the entire book read aloud as an audiobook, listening to it on an iPod as you took the early … [Read more...]
“2020 – The Summer of the Saucers” (Navy UFO Videos, Pentagon Task Force, New York Times)
"This is a big one for me — maybe the one I feel most strongly about," Bryce Zabel (@hollywoodufos) tweeted on August 13 about his article "People Get Ready," published that same day on medium.com. It's an important article, filled with prophecies, nearly all of which I think are bound to fail. … [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...]
Pandemic and Memory – Spanish Flu, Hong Kong Flu
"People spread the disease before they knew they had it, got sicker, brought it home, and died. ... Ambulance drivers, stretcher bearers, doctors, nurses: working until they died on their feet. Trolley conductors, shopkeepers. Teachers. ... "Imagine: around the world, millions and millions vital … [Read more...]
