"Twenty lashes with a wet noodle!" That was the penalty Ann Landers (or was it Dear Abby?) used to impose on herself, whenever she was caught in some egregiously foolish error in one of her newspaper columns. I don't think I deserve the full twenty. But maybe ten would be appropriate. The … [Read more...]
The Man Who Was a “Zetetic Scholar” – Remembering Marcello Truzzi
I hadn't thought much about Marcello Truzzi until about two months ago, when I saw a post on the Facebook page of UFOlogist Isaac Koi noting that the full archive of Marcello's Zetetic Scholar is available on the Web, with the permission of his widow Pat Truzzi. I remembered Marcello from more than … [Read more...]
The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show – XZRS: David Halperin – Journal of a UFO Investigator: A Novel
It was the oddest experience I've ever had doing a radio interview. Or possibly the most remarkable. I'm still not sure to what extent Rob McConnell and I managed to communicate when he interviewed me for his "X" Zone Radio Show about my 2011 novel Journal of a UFO Investigator. I seem not to … [Read more...]
A Case of Clairvoyance – Alfred Dreyfus, Mathieu Dreyfus, and Leonie the Psychic
"I beheld a peasant woman seated on a couch, her eyes closed. She appeared about 50 years in age, had regular features, and wore a Norman bonnet on her head. The doctor told me to sit down facing her." The speaker is Mathieu Dreyfus, brother of Alfred Dreyfus, the young French Jewish army … [Read more...]
From Superman to Whitley Strieber – Reflections on a “Super-Story”
"I am not denying the obvious. I am simply suggesting that there is also a 'secret life' to Superman that extends far, far beyond his latest incarnation and 'descent' (or crash landing) into American pop culture." --Jeffrey J. Kripal It takes a big book to encompass between the same two covers … [Read more...]
