Via Xenophilia, I came across a super-cool and hilarious pop culture site called Retrocrush. I don’t know particularly where to start cause there’s so much stuff on this site. The archives might be a good spot, so you can get a quick overview.
There seems to be a ton of great gallery pages with all […]

Came across a cool blog about strange things a couple days ago. It’s called Xenophilia, and I found it through my referral logs (they linked to me). Anyway, it more than passes my initial test of whether a blog is worthy of being included in my “Honor Roll.” That test generally goes that - based […]

Apparently there is a new swing underway to do medical and psychological experiments with hallucinogenic and other illegal “street” drugs. Check out this article from the Guardian (via Taipei Times) about how a study is about to begin in South Carolina involving ecstasy and combat trauma. Soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder are being recruited […]

Hey, I have a question for all y’all. You know how like old sailing ships had those statues of like a woman or a mermaid or whatever on their prow? Is there a word for those? Because if there is, I forgot it and I want to know it. I think in this past week’s […]

Fantastic Planet has an awesome Gospel of Thomas post up, wherein he includes one of the best descriptions I’ve ever seen of what Philip K. Dick refers to as the “Black Iron Prison” (ie, the Gnostic material world of illusion; ie, the Matrix)
you are imprisoned for a crime you did not commit. You have no […]