Monthly Archives: March 2019

The Other, Then & Now

In the 1950s and 1960s we sat in quiet homes that received, at best, 3 TV channels and radio, and we heard about UFO flaps from word-of-mouth as often as via media. Local newspapers, which we all read, occasionally carried … Continue reading

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Samizdat’s Door

With the cooperation of social media, TV news, and corporate controls, accusation has been weaponized so it suffices to shoot down information outlets, to throttle voices, and to ruin lives. A threat to make trouble is all it takes. To … Continue reading

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Flashback to 1992

Synchronicity:  As I write, my TV’s on, rotting my brain.  Little kids appear on the screen. One tells the camera that a star is twenty feet bigger than a house. Another says that, without gravity, you could jump over those … Continue reading

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Watch Out

Time shifts, or space-time shifts, fascinate us because we’ve all had at least a glimpse of this experience. Interludes of walking into and back out of the past, for example. Finding buildings that aren’t there when you go back to … Continue reading

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Small Changes

They had a clown standee filched from a theater one had worked at. It folded in half as if bowing. Easy to transport. When they wanted, they could open it, flash the clown, fold it, and be gone. They flashed … Continue reading

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