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December 20, 2011
Free Versions of Ong's Hat: Incunabula
Here's some free versions of Ong's Hat for Kindle and as an ePub (for iPad, Nook, Sony Reader, Adobe Dimensions, et al). I'll be putting these up on the newly redesigned incunabula.org (see design here) in 2012. Thought you might want to grab one now as my holiday present to you. Thanks to Matt for doing the great work to get these done.
Also, David wrote nice article over here where he gave me some props.
December 14, 2011
Greylodge to forward for now
For the present time, Greylodge.org will begin forwarding to http://tubegnosis.com/ as I feel Tube is a fitting placeholder for GL until we relaunch next year. It should begin forwarding in the next 24 hours.
Coincidence Control Network: File #005
Personnel - Joe Nolan, Joseph Matheny, and Ken Eakins.
This week we discuss: The great American Adderall shortage, The God Particle discovered…well, not really, but sort of, Krampus, Gangsta Rapper Producer gets iced in MK Ultra scenario, Iceland: why is it not in the news?, #Abandon all hope those you don't listen to Joseph Matheny, The CIA makes Science Fiction Unexciting.
December 9, 2011
TAZ Excerpts over at The Psychedelic Salon
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Lorenzo ran more excerpts of one of my audio projects over at the Psychedelic Salon. This time Hakim Bey and Robert Anton Wilson from the T.A.Z. CDs. Enjoy.
"The Power of Art and the TAZ"
December 7, 2011
Coincidence Control Network: File #004
Episode 4 of Coincidence Control Network is Ken'less. (No Barbie either) Personnel this week– Joe Nolan, Kim Monaghan, Joseph Matheny talk about Ken behind his back then discuss: Video Game Killings?, Baseball and sex in space, segue to Segway, Occupy and Occupy Foreclosures, Roky Erickson, Strange Culture and lotsa kid. There was more but Kim lost the file. In Ken's absence you'll just have to deal with Joseph's punk rock editing style. Get over it.
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December 1, 2011
Traveling into the vortex of Ong's Hat
From Hidden New Jersey
Much, much later, Ong's Hat became the setting for a very strange supernatural tale that takes a variety of different directions, depending on who you talk to. The writer Joseph Matheny claims that it all started with a man named Wali Fard, who bought a few hundred acres of the Pinelands in the 1950's. Along with a couple of anarchist lesbians (or are they lesbian anarchists? You decide!) and some runaways from Paramus (why is it always Paramus?) he started a cult called the Moorish Science Ashram.
That's not all that strange, but it gets better. Allegedly, the site held a vortex that led to an alternate universe, discovered by discredited Princeton physics professors who were somehow influenced by the nearby Fort Dix and McGuire Air Force Base. The proximity to the famed Lakehurst Air Naval Base probably didn't hurt either: it was the site of the famous Hindenberg explosion. Through a series of experiments, the scientists found the gateway to another dimension, which they'd accessed through use of a capsule shaped like a human sized egg. I wouldn't doubt that there were drugs involved, too. From a story like that, you'd kind of expect there were. Or maybe even hope… In any case, it's the kind of story that makes the Jersey Devil pale by comparison.
November 30, 2011
Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat Reviewed by The Journal of Folklore Research
From The Journal of Folklore Research
Reviewed by David J. Puglia, The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg
In a day and age when legends are as likely to be transmitted online as they are face-to-face, folklorists have begun assessing how our established concepts apply to the digital realm. The convergence of different forms of media has increasingly diminished the traditional boundaries between folk and popular culture and the digital and analog world. If the legend continues to thrive under these new conditions, folklorists will want to determine how the closely related legend-trip has similarly transitioned to the online environment.
In Legend-Tripping Online: The Search for Ong's Hat, Michael Kinsella seeks to answer this question using the example of the Incunabula Papers—a conspiracy theory, an alternative reality game, and a mystical experience all wrapped into one. The "Incunabula Papers" refers to two documents, Ong's Hat: Gateway to the Dimensions! A Full Color Brochure for the Institute of Chaos Studies and the Moorish Science Ashram in Ong's Hat, New Jersey and Incunabula: A Catalogue of Rare Books, Manuscripts & Curiosa—Conspiracy Theory, Frontier Science & Alternative Worlds. Allegedly produced by banished Princeton faculty studying chaos theory at the Moorish Science Ashram in Ong's Hat, New Jersey, these rogue professors perfected a device known as The EGG, which made possible interdimensional travel. The group then "embedded within [the Incunabula Papers] enough clues for its intended readers" to join the quest "but not enough for those with little faith to follow." For folklorists this legend complex provides new challenges capable of expanding the body of legend scholarship. Legend-tripping online will not replace legend-tripping in the "real world," as folklorists have found with some other forms, but rather exists in addition to and follows the same principles as the classic legend-trip.
Coincidence Control Network: File #003
Personel – Joe Nolan, Kim Monaghan, Joseph Matheny, and Ken Eakins.
This Week: R.I.P. Ken Russell, Mickey Mouse's missing link discovered, Mars Lab Launch, Alan Moore on V Masks, Occupy Updates, Jon Ronson writes a book about real-life superheroes, Russian Anchor gives Obama the finger, Book Club, Charity Requires ID to Hand Out Aid.
November 25, 2011
Robert Anton Wilson "The 'I' In The Triangle" Part 2 at Psychedelic Salon
My buddy Lorenzo over at Psychdelic Salon has posted part 2 of "I in the Triangle", the audio excerpt of a Robert Anton Wilson talk I produced. Check it out at The Psychedelic Salon.
November 23, 2011
Coincidence Control Network: File #002
This week – Weird invasion of bestseller lists, Will SOPA destroy the Internet, Louis Farrakhan turns Fox Mulder, What is the LRAD sound cannon?, Matheny does Hollywood…sort of, Making space travel boring, and Occupy updates.
Personel – Joe Nolan, Kim Monaghan, Joseph Matheny, and Ken Eakins.
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