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Anyone who’s read Life After Death for Beginners knows how complicated I think the relationship is between psychedelic compounds, homo sapiens’ taste for consciousness-expanding, and the US Government. Neither the conventional view of drugs as unmitigated evil, nor the countercultural belief that use of them is a human right, addresses the fact that since 1950 [...]

I’ve always loved the demos that John Lennon recorded during his exile at the Dakota during the late 70s. This morning while browsing YouTube I unearthed this song, which I knew in an earlier, rougher version as “Help Me to Help Myself,” from the famous Lennon bootleg, “Dakota Beatle Demos.” This version’s nice, too. How [...]

Friends/family/fans/fellow countrymen of the internet, Life After Death for Beginners… …my novel about a John Lennon-like rock star who survives an assassination attempt and has to go incognito to find out who shot him and why… …variously known, over the last three years, as “Beatle Noir,” “the little monster,” and “really, as good a reason [...]

This documentary from BBC’s “Timewatch” uncovers that the British Secret Service had a hand in the death of the death of Gregori Rasputin. In the words of TopDocumentaries.com: The programme-makers re-opened the investigation into his death and found conclusive evidence to suggest that Rasputin was murdered in St Petersburg in 1916 in a plot hatched [...]

I’m not usually much on writing advice, but this list by author Chuck Palahniuk is really insightful.

This from Phil Davison (R-Insanity). “WHO SAID THAT?!” “INFESTATION!” You know, he might get somewhere if he wasn’t so soft-spoken…

Autobody guys are the same everywhere, even in Russia.

Recovering Barry Trotter fan Kimberley Wintle forwarded me the trailer to her VERY FIRST MOVIE. Big Font, Large Spacing premiered in Atlanta last April. Sez Kimberley: “It’s also going to a festival in Iowa during August, it seems to be fairly popular with the American audiences so far, despite the dry wit of us Brits.” [...]

The Harry Potter parody. First self-published in 2002, Barry Trotter has gone on to sell over 750,000 copies in 20 languages worldwide. Guaranteed to be no more Satanic than the books it was based upon.

If this clip seems boring and unrealistic to you, you obviously were not a six-year-old growing up in St. Louis during the mid-70s. We don’t pick our “Rosebud”s, dudes. We just have to acknowledge them and move on. It’s appropriate that many of mine were only available on UHF.