Month: June 2004

Elizabethan Weirdness

(courtesy of The Fortean Times)

On this date in 1609, William Lily, the English astrologer, was born. In his autobiography, he tells a strange anecdote of teleportation involving fellow astrologer John Evans, a Welshman residing near Aldgate in London. In 1630 or 1631, Evans was asked by Lord Bothwell and Sir Kenelm Digby ‘to shew them a Spirit… upon a sudden, after some time of Invocation, Evans was taken from out of the Room, and carried [five miles] into the Field near Battersea Causeway…’ The next morning, a labourer found him asleep there.

Time to get back to work on GLORIANA.

Bruce Lee: 1, Productivity: 0

Go ye forth and play with The Bruce Lee Ultra-interactive Kung Fu Remixer.

So Long, Fare Well, and Fuck You.

Great. Now I’m going to have to listen to days upon days of asshat conservatives, aided and abetted by the corporate media, re-writing history as we watch, lauding, eulogizing and canonizing Saint Ronald as a mix between Teddy Roosevelt, Roy Rogers, and Moses.

To hell with that. I remember the 80s. I remember Reaganomics, I remember Iran-Contra, and I remember living through my adolescent years convinced that the doddering old fool was going to push the button on the “Evil Empire” and consign us all to oblivion.

Nixon and Reagan are the ones responsible for spawning what the current Republican party has become, rather than what it once represented, and in my opinion, both of them belong on the “trash heap of history.” Good riddance.