Sunday, August 16. 2009
'A man of many names, Aleister Crowley through his life was know as "the magus", "the guru" and also the "The Wickedest Man In the World". He has been parodied as Hugo Rune by Robert Rankin, had Alan Moore devote entire comics to his deck of tarot cards (Promoethea), had Ozzy Osbourne singing his praises, and even appeared on a Beatles album cover (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band).
'Aleister Crowley was a man that certainly people have heard of but probably know very little about.
'Although a movie was recently released called Chemical Wedding, that had Crowley as the main protagonist (written by Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson no less), the film was a B-movie affair at best and, for all the gratuity, along with Simon Callow and John Shrapnel's hamming, it did not really do the character of Crowley any favours, failing to appease both the mainstream and geek audience. However, there is a great deal that could be developed to make the character appeal to those looking for an alternative to the underwhelming blockbusters of this summer or the drab dramas currently churned out on ITV and BBC.' (Den Of Geek article). media-underground.net
Wednesday, July 8. 2009
'Think we understand that big object in the night sky? Guess again. The moon is full of mysteries, some of which baffle scientists more the more we learn about it. Admittedly, the source of many of these reports has not been fully verified, and I don't have the time to do the full research. But hey, this is a blog and by definition, I can take liberties with my sources and talk about whatever I want, right?
'For example, rocks from the moon and the earth reportedly have very different minerals; the earth has high concentrations of iron, the moon does not. This implies that they were not formed from the same source, nor was the moon once part of the earth, as previously thought.' (The Universed Solved weblog). media-underground.net
Wednesday, June 24. 2009
Obama's "good cop" routine has masked the reality that his administration has followed the same policy paths in finance and geopolitics as "bad cop" George W. Bush.
'I finally understand the fundamental analogy of American politics, and of course it's drawn from film/television: good cop, bad cop. You know the scenario: Bad Cop enters the room and recalcitrant suspect/perp gazes up in hostile, stony silence.
'Bad Cop "softens up" the suspect/perp with a "we're going to kick derriere and take names later" speech and then moves on to hardnosed "persuasion:" It'll be a lot easier on you if you cooperate, tough guy, but if you want to play tough, then fine, play tough; we'll play tougher.
'After a round or two of this, Bad Cop appears to lose control and is either restrained from assaulting the suspect/perp or goes ballistic in a spittle-flecked tirade a few inches from the suspect/perp's face which communicates this sobering message: "You think you're crazy? Well, I'm crazier."
'Bad Cop then lunges at the suspect/perp, only to be restrained by polite Good Cop, who forcefully pushes Bad Cop out of the room and apologizes to the suspect/perp. Good cop speaks in a reasonable, sonorous tone, the exact opposite of the swaggering, aggressive Bad Cop. Good Cop just wants to reach an understanding with the suspect/perp, and just wants to hear him out.' (Of Two Minds article). media-underground.net
Tuesday, February 3. 2009
In San Francisco for their final January 14th show Johnny Rotten famously exclaimed: "Ever get the feeling you're being cheated?" That's how I feel after watching the movie Nothing But The Truth. I know I shouldn't complain because I get all my movies free off BitTorrent. But for the love of God this movie sucked in so many ways I am unable to come up with any metaphors for extreme suckness. I may just type the most heinous descriptors I can come up with right now. "Steaming turd" is the first thing to come to mind. "Incontinent Hollwood CIA handjob" sounds good too. I'm not really sure but I do know this. I have never felt the need to write a movie review until I watched this total shit stain Nothing But The Truth.
Now that I think of it, I should have set my television upside down and watched the movie backwards to get a closer version of the "Truth". First off, it's supposed to be loosely based on the Valerie Plame affair. The projected goat vomit starts with, "Though inspired by actual events, the following is a fictional film that does not depict any actual people or events." Ok fine. That could mean midget porn or an hour and a half long simulated fireplace video. After finishing the film, I feel like it should have started with, "Though you'll be watching inanimate and animate objects moving around on your TV screen, the following is a perfect example of how the CIA and Hollywood have a finger up each other's ass." And does anyone see the irony of a movie called Nothing But The Truth opening with a disclaimer that says it does not depict actual events?
Continue reading "James Inman: The CIA & Nothing But The Truth"
Saturday, December 13. 2008
Ken Eakins of Right Where You Are Sitting Now asked me to contribute a regular column to his website whereby, each week, I teach you ways of keeping 'The Man' on his toes. Here's this week's instalment...
TVL Resistance
One Afternoon back in 2004, my telephone rang…
“Hello?”
“Mr. Mortimer?”
“Who wants to know?”
“Television Licensing. You don’t seem to have a TV license registered at your address.”
“I wasn’t aware that I needed one. You see, I don’t have a television.”
Continue reading "Mortimer's Guide To Armchair Anarchy #4"
Thursday, November 20. 2008
The recently leaked BNP (British National Party) members list is a hard one to call. Whilst I despise racism in any form, I do feel that in a free society BNP members do have a right to free speech and privacy in the same way as anyone else does.
As far as I am aware - and although it may seem quite to the contrary sometimes - we are not yet living in an Orwellian and totalitarian society. People do have their own political and religious beliefs, and although the majority may personally dislike some of these minority opinions, it isn’t society’s place to make an open judgement.
In a free society people should be free to think what they want and affiliate to whatever organisation or philosophy they so choose. To do otherwise is to initiate the concept of Thought Crime.
That said, I think it is rather cowardly for one to associate oneself to a radical ideology and expect anonymity. Rather than have these Nazi goons sacked from their positions of employment or lynched by an angry mob (without any damning evidence or justifiable reason for so doing), it is much more appropriate to expose them as the cowards they are for failing to openly proclaim, without fear, their right to free expression.
By avoiding a witch hunt society prevents driving an organisation such as the BNP underground, where they will gain more power by playing the victimisation card.
The proper approach, in my opinion, is through open discourse and to place trust in the population at large to see common sense and understand reason (difficult, I know, when you consider the level of stupidity that prevails everywhere).
That said, the list is quite easy to find by doing a quick Google search, and it makes for interesting reading if for no other reason than knowing where the thugs are located in your local community. media-underground.net
Wednesday, November 19. 2008
Douglas Rushkoff is a New York-based writer, columnist and lecturer on technology, media and popular culture. Recently he did a talk for the Institute of General Semantics.
In his latest blog entry he writes: "The talk was about the biggest honor I’ve had as a public speaker: The 56th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture at the Princeton Club in NYC. The event was just written up by Brian Heater for the NYPress. This put me at the end of a long line of thinkers I’ve long admired: Buckminster Fuller, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Gregory Bateson, Robert Anton Wilson, Abraham Maslow, Ellen Langer, Albert Ellis... you get the idea. It’s hard to accept the fact that I’ve grown up, and that most of the generation of thinkers before me have already moved on. But someone has to carry the torch, and that may as well be all of us." (Rushkoff weblog & audio stream). media-underground.net
Monday, November 17. 2008
Ken Eakins of Right Where You Are Sitting Now asked me to contribute a regular column to his website whereby, each week, I teach you ways of keeping 'The Man' on his toes. Here's this week's instalment...
Fun With Finances
A few weeks ago the fixed rate on my mortgage ran out resulting in a rather alarming increase in my monthly repayments to the Halifax Bank Of Scotland (soon to be laughably called Lloyds Trustees Savings Halifax Bank Of Scotland - or something as equally ludicrous due to recent bailout plans). Being the ever-vigilant little investor that I am - and realising the implications that the current economic crisis will have on mortgage rates - I decided to schedule an appointment with the bank to negotiate another fix rate mortgage for a few more years.
The offer they presented to me was reasonable, I thought, until I asked if there were any additional charges.
“It’s £999,” remarked the mortgage advisor as calm as you like, “for transferring from a variable rate to a fixed rate for 5 years.”
“A grand!” I exclaimed. “But I’m not transferring to anywhere, I’m already a goddamned existing customer!”
The mortgage advisor looked contemptuous, almost sneering at my reaction like I was some kind of cheapskate. “It’s the current climate,” he pointed out, “all the high street banks are doing it.”
I stood up, dropped the tropical rain forest he’d spent the good part of two hours printing out and began walking away in disgust.
“You can shove that offer right up your arse,” I remarked, “I can shop around.”
Continue reading "Mortimer's Guide To Armchair Anarchy #3"
Thursday, November 6. 2008
Ken Eakins of Right Where You Are Sitting Now asked me to contribute a regular column to his website whereby, each week, I teach you ways of keeping 'The Man' on his toes. Here's this week's instalment...
Junk Mail Japery
Everyone hates receiving junk mail. In fact, on average, each UK household receives 18 items of junk mail every week with 21 billion junk mail items being distributed to UK households every year.
There are already many websites out there that will show you how to eliminate junk mail by opting out altogether, or by saving it up and sending it all back on an appointed day as a statement of protest. I’m not going to encourage you to do any of the aforementioned, since neither of these options helps out the future of Royal Mail which is already put under strain through the overpowering regulations set by the government’s Postal Services Commission (Postcomm).
Continue reading "Mortimer's Guide To Armchair Anarchy #2"
Monday, October 27. 2008
A couple of weeks ago, Ken invited me on board the Right Where You Are Sitting Now team to contribute a regular column... but what the hell to write about?
“What do you want to write about?” was Ken’s response.
That’s when I realised that being given total freedom is sometimes more complicated than simply being told what to do - which is probably why the planet is in the appalling state that it is today.
Western civilisation, it seems, has degenerated into a society of numbskulls - its population has become decadent, self-obsessed, submissive and soft. All the signs are there for total collapse and, in my opinion, this collapse is well deserved.
Continue reading "Mortimer's Guide To Armchair Anarchy #1"
Tuesday, October 14. 2008
Perhaps I have a somewhat twisted sense of humour, but I can’t help finding it rather amusing that Fife Council may be one of the 108 local authorities in the UK who invested tax-payers’ money in Icesave - the ironically frozen online division of Landsbanki (Iceland’s national bank).
Whilst it is true that financial advisors, all over the globe, recommended opening a high interest deposit account with Icesave, most of them did also emphasise not to throw all your eggs in one basket. In fact, on their own website, Icesave clearly state that the maximum compensation is “limited to 100% of the first £35,000 deposited”.
However, UK chancellor Alistair Darling - that hapless confused looking imbecile that resembles Sam the Eagle from The Muppets - has managed to increase the compensation limit to 100% of the first £50,000 deposited, by throwing more tax-payers’ money at Landsbanki’s online division.
Whilst Fife Council have still yet to comment on how much of our money they have flushed down the Icelandic lavatory, it is rumoured to run into “several million”, which leads me to question why Fife Council are gambling our hard-earned cash instead of spending it on making Hazzard County a more pleasant place to live.
Perhaps Fife Council should do what one angry online blogger suggested and ask for the balance of payments in fish fingers, since given the current financial crisis, this is all that we’ll be able to afford to eat soon. media-underground.net
Monday, October 13. 2008
'What are the main principles of a banana republic? A very salient one might be that it has a paper currency which is an international laughingstock: a definition that would immediately qualify today’s United States of America. We may snicker at the thriller from Wasilla, who got her first passport only last year, yet millions of once well-traveled Americans are now forced to ask if they can afford even the simplest overseas trip when their folding money is apparently issued by the Boardwalk press of Atlantic City. But still, the chief principle of banana-ism is that of kleptocracy, whereby those in positions of influence use their time in office to maximize their own gains, always ensuring that any shortfall is made up by those unfortunates whose daily life involves earning money rather than making it. At all costs, therefore, the one principle that must not operate is the principle of accountability. In fact, if possible, even the similar-sounding term (deriving from the same root) of accountancy must be jettisoned as well. Just listen to Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, as he explained how the legal guardians of fair and honest play had made those principles go away. On September 26, he announced that “the last six months have made it abundantly clear that voluntary regulation does not work.” Now listen to how he enlarges on this somewhat lame statement. It seems to him on reflection that "[voluntary regulation] was fundamentally flawed from the beginning, because investment banks could opt in or out of supervision voluntarily. The fact that investment bank holding companies could withdraw from this voluntary supervision at their discretion diminished the perceived mandate of the program and weakened its effectiveness.' (Vanity Fair article). media-underground.net
Monday, September 8. 2008
'"What a world! What a world!" That's what the Wicked Witch of the West exclaimed as she melted in one of the final scenes of The Wizard of Oz, and today her plaintive cry seems the only possible reaction to the headlines reporting trouble every which way: Pakistan about to explode, the Taliban retaking Afghanistan, Iran spreading its influence deep into "liberated" Iraq, and a new cold war brewing in the steppes of the Caucasus. From Eastern Europe to the Far Eastern reaches of Central Asia, a storm is gathering. Whoever is president in 2009 is going to be facing some of the most dangerous crises since the Great War, when a single shot fired in Sarajevo sparked a global conflagration, giving rise to two world wars and the bloodiest century in the history of mankind.
'The most serious eruption in this world of trouble at the moment is the crisis in Pakistan, where the corrupt Pakistan Peoples Party of the late Benazir Bhutto has taken power in the latest elections and governs in a very shaky coalition that is already threatening to rip apart. New President Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of the assassinated Bhutto, is known as "Mr. Ten Percent" on account of his reputation for corruption. He is being actively undermined by the Muslim opposition parties, and he enjoys very thin support throughout the country. Worse yet, his ascension to the presidency coincides with an upsurge in violence emanating from the Taliban, the tribal areas, and indigenous Muslim fundamentalist groups. The whole country looks about to burst apart at the seams, with U.S. policymakers no doubt already nostalgic for Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani strongman forced to step down because of his notable lack of "democratic" credentials.' (Antiwar article). media-underground.net
Sunday, August 10. 2008
Down in the third sub-basement below Mortimer’s castle here at Media Underground, I had just finished a three week investigation on Halo 2 Live. I had some suspicion that the gamer PinkUnicorn12 had hacked into my X-Box game controller and installed a remote program to make me lose every game I played against her and all of her online friends. I also found I lost to random players and even a five year old boy with a broken arm who said he was eating a sandwich at the time. I remember hearing his exact words, “I just pawned your bitch-ass down like a newb again”. I knew there must have been some security breach with either the game controller or my X-Box console. Statistically I had been able to win one or two games out of 1000 games played. I switched controllers and nothing seemed to add up. Then the phone rang...
Continue reading "James Inman: "The Universe Has Been Hacked""
Wednesday, March 26. 2008
Project MKULTRA was the code name for a covert CIA mind-control research program that began in the early 1950s and continued through the late 1960s. Experiments included administering LSD to CIA employees. Coincidentally around that same time the Joint Chiefs of Staff were working on Operation Northwoods. In 1962 there was a plan by the U.S. Department of Defense to stage acts of terrorism on U.S. soil and against U.S. interests abroad. The goal was to generate U.S. public support for military action against Cuba. Does this frighten anyone? The fact that the CIA dosed its own agents while being the principal advisor on covert and military issues?
Here's the scene: Inside a log cabin. Somewhere in upstate New York, 1961. Two CIA agents are high on acid. One agent is occasionally looking out the window. The other agent is pacing back and forth around the room.
Continue reading "James Inman: 'MKULTRA And The Northwoods Document'"
Friday, March 21. 2008
'The scam that's playing itself out now began on June 18, 1815 with a courier working for Nathan Rothschild. The courier was reporting on events in the Battle of Waterloo, and he reported what he saw to Rothschild; which was that Napoleon was being beaten. The story of how Nathan Rothschild was able to take advantage of these circumstances is below. The result was that he created his own empire after he acquired ownership of the Bank of England (The principal bank among the twelve Central Banks of the World today). The Fed is the privately owned and controlled American Central Bank.' (Rense article). media-underground.net
Wednesday, March 12. 2008
The worship of the Sacred Bull was widespread in the ancient world. When Moses came down from Mount Sinai he found that his brother Aaron had talked the Israelites into worshiping the Golden Calf. The Apis was a bull diety worshipped in ancient Egypt as the embodiment of Ptah and later of Osiris. Ritually perfect bulls were identified by the god's priests, housed in the temple for their lifetime, then embalmed and encased in a giant sarcophagus.
A cow's DNA is remarkably close to human DNA. The human body can accept modified hemoglobin extracted from cows' blood. Humans and cows have the same gestation period, which is about nine months. Cows can detect odors up to five miles away. Cows are able to hear lower and higher frequencies better than human beings.
Hallucinogenic mushrooms grow out of cow dung. Cows have multiple stomachs. They are also one of the only animals with no stomach acid, so as the cows graze they are also eating millions of microscopic spores. In Siberia, the mushroom was widely used as a hallucinogenic drug by many of the indigenous herders and/or cattle ranchers. The ancient Vedas mention a plant with no leaves, no seeds and no roots called Soma. It was R. Gordon Wasson who asserted that soma was an inebriant, and suggested the mushroom, Amanita muscaria, as the likely candidate. The Hindus worship cows and the spores from a mushroom can survive extended periods of time in space.
Continue reading "James Inman: 'Cows Are Weird'"
Saturday, March 1. 2008
'Psychologist Philip Zimbardo has seen good people turn evil, and he thinks he knows why.
'Zimbardo will speak Thursday afternoon at the TED conference, where he plans to illustrate his points by showing a three-minute video, obtained by Wired.com, that features many previously unseen photographs from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.' (Wired article). media-underground.net
Wednesday, February 27. 2008
'A few days ago I came across an Op-Ed submission that called for file sharing to be decriminalized. The editors here decided not to run it, but it intrigued me for a couple of reasons. First, the author, Karl Sigfrid, is a member of the Swedish Parliament from the Moderate party - a pro-business party that's akin to this country's Libertarians (except in Sweden they're more than just a fringe group). Second, although he covered much of the same ground earlier this year in a Swedish paper, Sigfrid's new piece added another provocative contention: that unauthorized downloading isn't actually theft.' (L.A. Times article). media-underground.net
'A father was jailed for three years and eight months after he "lost it" and drove a van at a knife-wielding thug.
'A court heard 47-year-old Stephen Armstrong's life had been made a misery by vandals, and he was terrified when the drunk confronted him with a knife and a baton. He believed it was connected with the painting of gang slogans on a fence near his home.
'He drove on to a pavement and hit the 22-year-old, who was seriously injured and spent six weeks in hospital.' (Scotsman article).
Mortimer's note: Whilst this petition doesn't quite reflect the exact truth of the story, I think Mr. Armstrong should not only get a medal for almost killing the little shitbag, he should be given a larger vehicle and encouraged to continue wiping more vermin off the street. For that reason I have signed his petition and I hope that others will join me. In my opinion there is absolutely nothing wrong with vengeance if the reasons are understandable and wholly justified. Last weekend, for example, I watched two cop cars approach my street from opposite ends whilst drunk teenagers taunted our so-called law enforcement leaving a trail of destruction. After two minutes of watching this I eventually knocked on the door of one of the cop cars and was looked at with utter disgust as the police officer rolled down his window. "You are gonna get off your fat lazy fucking ass and do something about this?" I asked. Needless to say I was informed that I could be arrested for swearing at this gormless uniformed waste of space. The police aren't interested in crimes where there's no funds to be made from it. It's far easier for them to nail motorists driving at 30 mph in a ludicrous 20 zone. Sign the petition before we have to start taking the law into our own hands like Mr. Armstrong. media-underground.net
Tuesday, February 19. 2008
'Have you seen the latest issue of Paranoia Magazine?
'No? Well, that's not surprising, is it? There's a very good reason why you haven't seen it: They don't want you to see it. They know that Paranoia exposes them and their secret conspiracies to control every aspect of human life.' (Washington Post article). media-underground.net
Friday, February 15. 2008
'It's time for our annual game: How much is really in the U.S. military budget?
'As usual, it's about $200 billion more than most news stories are reporting. For the proposed fiscal year 2009 budget, which President Bush released today, the real size is not, as many news stories have reported, $515.4 billion - itself a staggering sum - but, rather, $713.1 billion.
'Before deconstructing this budget, let us consider just how massive it is. Even the smaller figure of $515.4 billion - which does not include money for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - is roughly equal to the total military budgets of all the rest of the world's nations combined. It is (adjusting for inflation) larger than any U.S. military budget since World War II.' (Slate article). media-underground.net
Monday, February 11. 2008
'Whether it's her background at the Rose Law Firm, her role in the Clinton White House pardons, her little-known testimony at the Iran/Contra hearings, or her silence about the suspicious death of friend Vince Foster, Hillary's ability to keep secrets from the public has been her political currency. Secrets are the source of her power. With the candidacy of Barack Obama, Hillary has a real rival. One who didn't vote to unleash the US war machine in Iraq, and one who has beaten her in two major political primaries. It's time to take a comprehensive look at Hillary's greatest hits.' (GNN article). media-underground.net
Monday, January 7. 2008
'Reality for you, Old Media representatives and executives, is self-fulfilling. That is, the reality broadcast through the airwaves and printed on dead wood has for so long influenced the way that the general public perceives reality, it has become inconceivable that a time would come when your pictures and words would no longer drive public opinion.
'I am writing this to you as a final warning. That time has already arrived. Whether or not Dr. Paul threw his hat in the ring, it was inevitable. With the advent of the Internet, people from all over the world, able to tell their own stories and reflect their own perceptions to willing eyes and ears, have provided an awakening and shake at the very foundations of what you currently perceive to be reality.
'When your advertising agencies began collecting demographic information and targeting consumers as collective groups who thought as one, that was the beginning of the end for you. When our own government started aiding and abetting this collectivism through expanded census - defying the very nature and intent of a census - the demise of media influence was propelled further. Your agencies and marketing professionals kept refining the data, methods and messages you directed toward these groups until we, who were once just open-mouthed consumers, have finally slipped through your fingers.' (Rense article). media-underground.net
Thursday, December 6. 2007
'The High Court has ruled that Christian evangelists can't bring a prosecution for blasphemy against Mark Thompson, the head of the BBC, for his decision to air Jerry Springer - The Opera. This was a commendable decision.
'The right to say offensive things about other people’s ideas is one of the mainstays of democracy. Why should the law give religious ideas special protection from criticism just because the holders of those ideas say it is a mortal sin to offend them? (Times article). media-underground.net
Wednesday, November 21. 2007
It’s been a while since I posted anything here at Media Underground because I’ve been on a clandestine mission. Mortimer sent me to the US as an embedded reporter. The plan was to infiltrate Blackwater and establish a beach head for information on corporate mercenaries. For six months I trained in a secluded wetland preserve outside North Carolina sleeping inside a cave. I immersed myself in weapons training, survival, first aid, crowd control, Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and commercial country radio. I also practiced the fine art of firing my weapon randomly at any object within a three hundred yard perimeter. Unsystematic weapons discharge and Total Eradication Arbitrary of Moving or Fixed Angle Geography, also known as TEAMFAG, is compulsory at Blackwater. The black bandana is key. Normally worn around the forehead, a skilled security contractor in any situation will pull the bandana over his eyes and uncontrollably utilize any weapon in his arsenal. This is called Blind Firing. After six months of self training, I was ready to apply.
Continue reading "James Inman: 'Blackwater - The Corporate Elite Soldier'"
Monday, October 8. 2007
'Scientific American is reporting on scientific work done to map the euphoric religious feelings within the brain. As a result, it's now quite possible to experience "proximity to God" via a special helmet: "In a series of studies conducted over the past several decades, Persinger and his team have trained their device on the temporal lobes of hundreds of people. In doing so, the researchers induced in most of them the experience of a sensed presence - a feeling that someone (or a spirit) is in the room when no one, in fact, is - or of a profound state of cosmic bliss that reveals a universal truth."' (Slashdot commentary & Scientific American article). media-underground.net
Saturday, September 29. 2007
'The fight began as I explained my hypothesis about 2012, noting aspects of our current world that are unsustainable and will have to change drastically if we are going thrive, or even survive, as a species. I found that Strieber kept harping on the negative aspects of the situation, proclaiming that the Internet was about to be overtaken by corporate interests, and so on. He also stated that there was going to be a huge "die-off" of the human species in the immediate future. He reiterated that this was "definitely going to happen," and that he "believed" it.
'I argued that nobody knows what is going to happen in the future, that at the moment the earth is managing to support the human population, and if we utilized our resources better, incorporating new techniques and alternative energy technologies, we might not have to experience a massive, traumatic die off at all. Strieber continued to assert that this "die-off" was a fact that he had done "the math," and there was no way around it. As far as I know, Strieber is not trained as an evolutionary biologist, and even if he was, experts are continually proven wrong. Personally, I have experienced a series of miracles in my life, beginning with the improbable fact of my birth into this body with 100 trillion cells and as many synaptic connections as there are stars in the universe, so I stick by the perspective that anything is possible. This seems the most accurate position one can hold.' (Penguin weblog & Dreamland audio stream). media-underground.net
Saturday, August 18. 2007
I’ve been in somewhat of a mystical bent these past few days asking all kinds of questions on accepted belief systems. I usually start the morning off with a simple theoretical problem. For instance, today I’m thinking about hell. I know everyone says when you die and you go to hell you’re supposed to go to this really hot place forever. Without beginning or end. Eternally for a really long time. You can’t comprehend it. Kind of like an Opera of Macbeth in German followed by Parsifal with no breaks and the concession stand is out of beer.
But what’s the actual temperature of hell? Is it like 5000 degrees? 10,000 degrees? Is it as hot as the sun? That's supposed to be about 15 million degrees. Let’s say hell is 15 million degrees give or take. Whatever. When you get there it’s hotter than fuck like you just burned your face on one of those swirly orange glowing electric stove top things. That’s screaming and running around on fire hot. It’s going to really suck I know.
Continue reading "James Inman: 'Hell Hot As The Sun'"
Tuesday, June 12. 2007
I called the head office on the 47th floor here at Media Underground looking for our demented leader. I’m in the subbasement below the diesel fueled generators and there’s a constant metallic whine in the background. I’m not sure who picked up the phone. Years ago Mortimer gave me his encrypted satellite number and it’s supposed to be a direct line but this sounded like a woman’s voice. At first I thought it was MorphVOX but we only have that for outside calls. I’m screaming into the phone, “Mortimer is that you? The generator is on again and I can’t hear shit. Why the fuck did you put me in the subbasement? We need to talk. I can’t find our webpage!”
At first I thought it was on my end. I had just installed Windows Vista and I knew Gates was doing something screwy with IE7. We could be on a list of banned sites. I kept clicking refresh. Did I have the cable plugged in? I’ve been up for two days. My head felt like a petrified wooden fertility dong. I have a small framed picture on the wall of a white sandy beach in Costa Maya off the Yucatan peninsula. I’m looking at this thinking of my vacation when I hear a woman’s voice through the groan of the generator, “Look we’ve just been hacked again. There’s been another breach in security. We think it’s NSA. We’ll need you in Las Vegas at the Defcon hacker convention. Look for a guy named Lobstaish. This will be another covert operation so wear civilian clothes. Keep your mouth shut. Remember you don’t work for us. We don’t know who you are and you never heard what I just said.”
Continue reading "James Inman: 'Lobstaish Take Down'"
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