When I first installed the AdSense program from Google about a week ago, I was pretty pleased, because the ads were pretty well targeted. And now, all of a sudden, they seemed to have dropped off. And now it’s totally hung up on serving a couple ads over and over again for pole vaulting. I […]

I have an idea that I’ve been toying with for a while, and which I want to use as the basis for maybe some sci-fi-style short stories. It’s this idea of people seeking out shamans to employ them as a sort of cosmic stand-in. That like maybe part of what a shaman does is to […]

I’m reading Philip K. Dick’s final novel, Radio Free Albemuth, which wasn’t published until after his death. I’ve read that this was the original novel which later came out as Valis, but I don’t know if that’s true. It definitely covers the same ground, but in a completely different way. It makes a good companion […]

I wanted to do one more follow up informational item on that Hollow Earth story I wrote yesterday. This one is about the name of the ship that William Windigo rides around on, The Manitou.
This entry from Pantheon.org has a good basic description of what I understood about the term “manitou” before I wrote the […]

Here’s a fairly comprehensive list of links & articles, plus some books and other media about the Hollow Earth theory in all its weird glory. I thought this would be a good supplement to the short story I wrote on the subject.
First of all, I just wanted to point out that there really is […]

John sent me this delightful news article about a 21 Delaware student who ate “a bag of hallucinogenic mushrooms” stle two cars and drove to Connecticut to climb a mountain:
Police said Cunningham, of Dover, Del., confessed that eating an entire bag of mushrooms, “probably wasn’t a good idea.” He allegedly told investigators that he […]

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William Windigo was an eccentric billionaire who had not been seen alive in public for over a decade. During that time, however, he had been seen dead (unofficially) on at least 11 separate occasions. Fragmentary evidence, combined with rabid internet speculation, sometimes placed this figure significantly higher.
Ten years ago, Windigo sold the multinational corporation with […]