Stoner Cooking: The Evil Leprachaun A Robalini original, enjoy on St. Patrick's Day: Mix equal parts Monster Energy & Lemon-Lime Gatorade. Add Jameson Irish Whiskey to taste: ideally the concoction will remain green but still get you smashed quickly. Garnish with a four-leaf clover or, if none available, chopped mint will suffice. *** New Book Reveals That Adam Gorightly Is Really Greg Bishop! (Or vice versa!) Adam Gorightly 3-8-11 http://gorightly.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/new-book-reveals-that-adam-gorightly-is-really-greg-bishop-or-vice-versa/ I received a book in the mail today which lists yours truly as one of 20 select members in the Conspiracy Hall of Fame and furthermore reveals my true identity as that of alleged CIA disinformation agent , Greg Bishop… Or Maybe I should rephrase that: The photo that accompanies the section on Hall of Famer Adam Gorightly is that of Mr. Bishop. (Which should be a clue to you all that the Walrus is Paul!) The Stunning Evidence on Page 42! And while I am honored at being among this august group of conspiracy theory stalwarts — which includes the likes of William Cooper, Jim Keith, Jim Marrs and George Orwell — I am also a bit chagrined that my cover has been so thoroughly blown and my true identity revealed as that of the aforementioned Mr. Bishop, who’s also an alleged alien implant victim and diehard fan of the much hated Los Angeles Dodgers. Whatever the case, to find out more about myself (whoever I am) and 19 other fabled conspiracy theorists check out Victor Thorn’s Conspiracy Hall of Fame. Also available is another newly released title by Thorn, New World Order Assassins, in which yours truly (who ever I am) is extensively referenced. *** "Conspiracy Hall of Fame" by Victor Thorn http://www.wingtv.net/conspiracyhalloffame.html Sisyphus Press -- P.O. Box 10495 State College, Pa. 16805-0495 $6.99 plus $1.99 for S&H. For Orders in U.S. only $6.99 plus $10.99 for S&H. AIR MAIL: For Canadian + International Orders (U.S. checks, money orders, or currency only - no Canadian checks, money orders, or currency) Victor Thorn's Conspiracy Hall of Fame - Thorn's latest release pays homage to 20 of the finest investigative authors who've entered uncharted territory to reveal an array of suppressed criminal acts. An eclectic assortment of material has been compiled by the writers contained within these pages. In addition to the Trilateral Commission and UFOs, also included for good measure are government detention centers, MK-ULTRA and false-flag terror events. Readers should prepare to embark on an odyssey through the hidden corridors of history. While pursuing the great cover-up, truth-seekers will relive past moments that have been forever frozen in time, such as where they were when John Kennedy was assassinated, or the horror experienced while watching New York's twin towers collapse via controlled demolitions. Thorn writes, "These top 20 researchers have worked tirelessly to expose the machinations of secret societies and other global organizations that lurk in the shadows to manipulate world events." Table of Contents * William Cooper * Gary Allen * Michael Collins Piper * Zechariah Sitchin * George Orwell * Texe Marrs * Eustace Mullins * Benjamin Freedman * Antony Sutton * Jim Keith * Jim Marrs * Michael Hoffman * Des Griffin * Dr. John Coleman * William Guy Carr * Mae Brussell * Ralph Epperson * Alex Constantine * Gary Webb * Adam Gorightly Plus, an expose on the TUCSON MASSACRE & Jared Loughner *** "Pym": Negroes on ice A "blackademic" obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe mounts an expedition to Antarctica in this hilarious satire Laura Miller Sunday, Mar 6, 2011 http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2011/03/06/pym "Pym," by Mat Johnson is a blisteringly funny satire of contemporary American racial attitudes -- which is quite an accomplishment when you consider that most of the novel is set in the wilds of Antarctica. It's the story of Christopher Jaynes, a "blackademic" at a small liberal arts college in the Hudson River Valley who fails to make tenure, in part because of his refusal to sit on the Diversity Committee. "The Diversity Committee," he explains to his successor (a "Hip-Hop Theorist"), "has one primary purpose: so that the school can say it has a diversity committee. ... People find that very relaxing. It's sort of like, if you had a fire, and instead of putting it out, you formed a fire committee." But the real reason why Jaynes loses his job may be his obsession with "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket," the only novel written by Edgar Allan Poe and surely one of the weirdest texts in the American canon. It describes the eponymous Pym's adventures sailing the South Seas and ends, prematurely, with an enigmatic vision of a towering figure, shrouded in white, looming over a foaming cataract in Antarctica. " 'Pym' that is maddening, 'Pym' that is brilliance, 'Pym' whose failures entice instead of repel," Jaynes rhapsodizes about this strange book at the beginning of one chapter, sounding like Humbert Humbert and nearly as far gone. Yet Jaynes can't convince anyone else that in Poe's 'Pym' he has found the key to "Whiteness, as pathology and as mindset ... the primal American subconscious, the foundation on which all our visible systems and structures were built." Accused of neglecting the beat he was hired to cover, he insists that he's not "an apolitical coward, running away from the battle. I was running so hard toward it, I was around the world and coming back in the other direction." And soon he is literally going around the world. Jaynes stumbles across a manuscript that suggests that Arthur Gordon Pym really existed -- which means that the island of Tsalal, a place so black even the water is colored, must exist, too. Determined to find this "great undiscovered African Diasporan homeland ... a society outside of time and history," he puts together an expedition. Its crew includes the ex-girlfriend he's been pining after for seven years (and the slick entertainment lawyer he didn't know she'd married), a gay couple who film their stagily heroic exploits for the Internet and his best friend, Garth, a laid-off city bus driver with a serious addiction to Little Debbie snack cakes. Their captain and leader is Jaynes' older cousin, Booker, a civil rights movement veteran with a dog named White Folks, who meets Jaynes downtown, sitting "in the back of the room staring intently at the front door, Malcolm X style, which considering we were in an organic juice bar was a little heavy for the scene." The novel's early chapters, all set in America, are clever enough that I wouldn't have minded if Jaynes' ship had never sailed. Tracking down the descendants of Pym's racially ambiguous traveling companion, he stumbles across the Web page of one Mahalia Mathis, "a self-proclaimed "Singer, Actor, Poet, Novelist, Dancer, Actress and Noted Psychic Person.'" He attends a meeting of the Native American Ancestry Collective of Gary (Indiana), a confederation of wishful thinkers who, underneath their feather headdresses and buckskin, "looked like any gathering of black American folks." He tries to talk Garth out of his devotion to billionaire artist Thomas Karvel, "The Master of Light," whose uberkitschy paintings of English cottages look, in Jaynes' words, "like the view up a Care Bear's ass." (Garth defends his taste for these narcotic scenes by protesting "I got stress!") Jaynes and company do finally set sail, embarking on a series of escapades that Garth summarizes as "Negroes on Ice." Johnson's novel evolves into a full-fledged and fiendishly inventive inversion of Poe's, a series of bizarre encounters I can't bring myself to spoil, each one more deliciously pointed than the last. Suffice to say that they include death-defying treks across the permafrost, underground caverns, chases, multiple betrayals and even a climactic explosion -- also, be aware that matters of great import will hinge on Garth's stash of Little Debbie cakes. "Pym" departs from its 19th-century inspiration in more than just the way it repurposes motifs of blackness and whiteness: Unlike "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket," it is hilarious. (Much of this is due to Garth, who deserves a bust in the comic sidekick's hall of fame.) It's also a novel that doesn't soft-pedal the bitterness instilled by slavery and its racist legacy yet avoids lapsing into bitterness itself. It is a work filled with chagrined realizations, beginning with its very premise: that a fed-up black man might find his promised land in the pages of a book by a half-crazy, pro-slavery white guy. Nothing can be truly separated from that which is conceived of as its opposite. In Johnson's vision, the races are running away from each other so fast, they end up circling the globe and colliding again on the other side. Hardcover: http://www.amazon.com/Pym-Novel-Mat-Johnson/dp/0812981588/thekonformist Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Pym-A-Novel-ebook/dp/B004DEPEUU/thekonformist *** Say it Loud on Opening Day: Baseball Must Move the All-Star Game from Arizona Dave Zirin http://www.thenation.com/blog/159060/say-it-loud-opening-day-baseball-must-move-all-star-game-arizona At the risk of profound understatement, it’s been a difficult 2011 in the state of Arizona. Jared Loughner’s shooting spree that grievously injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six, including nine-year old Christina Green, was a national horror. The killings also focused global attention on Arizona’s toxic political culture. Gun-toting nativists, white supremacist state senators, anti-immigrant laws like the infamous SB 1070, and Gov. Jan Brewer spinning myths about “headless bodies” [1] on the Arizona/Mexico border, turned the state into a national punchline. After Loughner’s rampage, the punchline became a cautionary tale, and everyone from Gov. Brewer to Barack Obama called on the political fire breathers to give it a rest. Unfortunately, Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce didn’t get the memo. Pearce, a man chummy with those who consider swastikas to be fashion accessories, returned this year with new legislation that would peel the paint off the Statue of Liberty. Pearce has proposed SB 1611 [2], which among other things would force schools to report students who cannot produce documents verifying their U.S. citizenship or legal residence. School adminstrators that refuse would be subject to prosecution. It's a law that would compel teachers and principals into becoming de facto INS agents. It's also a law that would be a brazen challenge to the US Constitution which protects the right of every child to attend a public school. As Gabriel Chin, a University of Arizona Law professor said [3], "This is all aiming for Supreme Court test cases by doing something that is over the constitutional line. It's really alarming and astonishing that they would deliberately violate the Constitution in this way." Last Friday, there were walkouts at eight Phoenix area high schools, as students joined together to march on the state house and protest Pearce’s bill. As the primordial ooze of Arizona’s politics comes to a boil yet again, the question must be posed anew to Major League Commissioner Bud Selig: Will the 2011 All-Star Game go ahead as planned in the state of Arizona? Will Selig ignore the latest from Russell Pearce, along with the thousands of petitioners, protesters, and players and reward a state with aspirations of apartheid with the Midsummer Classic? By last year, Selig offered his position in a statement as bizarre as it was obtuse. Pressured for an answer, he said [4], “Apparently all the people around and in minority communities think we’re doing OK. That’s the issue, and that’s the answer. I told the clubs today: ‘Be proud of what we’ve done.’ They are. We should. And that’s our answer. We control our own fate, and we’ve done very well.” No one is quite sure what this means but the answer was still clear. Yes, as of last summer, he would be ignoring all concerns and the game would be played as planned in Arizona. Selig chose to disregard the concerns of his own players, 27.7% of whom were born in Latin America, and the MLB Players’ Association. He wouldn’t comment on the fact that the biggest star in the game Albert Pujols, said of the recent Arizona legislation [5], "I'm opposed to it. How are you going to tell me that, me being Hispanic, if you stop me and I don't have my ID, you're going to arrest me? That can't be." He didn’t care that 2010 All-Stars Adrian Gonzalez, Joakim Soria, Jose Valverde and Yvonni Gallardo have said that they wouldn’t play in the 2011 game if it goes ahead in Arizona as planned. [6] He shrugged his shoulders when World Series winning manager of the Chicago White Sox Ozzie Guillen, swore to uphold an All Star boycott. And Selig showed contempt for the thousands of petitioners, the fans who demonstrated in 20 major league cities last summer, and the former MLB executives all of whom have pleaded with him to “move the game.” In 2011, since the horrific shootings, not to mention the latest legislation by Pearce, Selig hasn’t even deigned us with rambling incoherence. He’s been silent. This has enraged those who built the protests last summer at the park. Enrique Morones, the former VP of Latino and Diversity marketing for the San Diego Padres and a protest organizer to move the game, said to me, “As the temperature rises in Arizona and another nine-year-old girl is killed Christina Green, we remind Bud Selig that two years earlier a nine-year-old girl was murdered because of racial profiling, Brisenia Flores. She was murdered by Minuteman and Federation of American Immigration Reform activist Shawna Forde. Bud, once again we ask, move the game. How many deaths in Arizona do you need to be convinced that now is not the time or the place to have MLB All Star game in Arizona?" Favianna Rodriguez, co-founder of the online advocacy group Presente.org [7] also spoke to this, saying to me, "The events in Arizona of recent months- the shooting in Tucson, the trial of Shawna Forde for the murder of 9 year-old Brisenia Flores, and the proposed legislation – are strong evidence for not having the 2011 All-Star Game in the dangerous and bigoted state of Arizona." More and more people are saying that this cannot pass. Immigration activists around the country are planning in April to inaugurate the new season with Opening Day protests at parks across the country. I’ve spoken to those planning pickets, banner drops, and even more creative ways to welcome the National Pastime with a message to Bud Selig: "Will you or will you not move the damn game?" If he won’t answer the question, then clearly we’re not asking it loudly enough. Dave Zirin is the author of “Bad Sports: How Owners are Ruining the Games we Love” (Scribner) and just made the new documentary “Not Just a Game.” Receive his column every week by emailing dave@edgeofsports.com. Contact him at edgeofsports@gmail.com. Links: [1] http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2010/0904/Jan-Brewer-corrects-the-record-on-headless-bodies-in-the-desert [2] http://tucsoncitizen.com/arizona-hispanic-republicans/2011/02/22/national-hispanic-group-slams-pearces-omnibus-sb-1611-and-democratic-legislator-sinema-protests-at-capitol-today-at-1130-am/ [3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/04/arizona-students-stage-walkout_n_831659.html [4] http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/37139256/ns/sports-baseball/ [5] http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2010/07/california-groups-pressure-bud-selig-to-move-2011-all-star-game/1 [6] http://oneroyalway.com/royals-blog/writers-broadcasters-personalities-websites/joakim-soria-support-boycott-of-2011-all-star-game-in-arizona/ [7] http://presente.org/ *** YouTube Video of the Week: Planet Rock Afrika Bambaataa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lDCYjb8RHk *** Legalize Ferrets!! Some of you may laugh at the whole movement to legalize ferret ownership in California. I admit it, I sort of chuckled myself. But that's before I got my cat Fluffer (and my latest addition Blueboy) and realized how much emotional joy comes from pet ownership, something I foolishly waited until I was nearly 40 to do as an adult. I wouldn't want any law barring me from my cats, and so I am strongly in union of the whole ferret owner community... From the AP: California's ferret owners are tired of being criminals. They live in the only U.S. state besides Hawaii that bans residents from keeping ferrets as pets, forcing an untold number of Californians to keep their beloved weasels hidden from the public. But these renegade ferret lovers have no plans to abandon their long, furry friends. Instead, they're ramping up their campaign to persuade lawmakers, wildlife regulators and the public that it's time to overturn a ban that's been in place for nearly 80 years. "There is no reason the ownership of the domesticated ferret should be illegal in California," said Pat Wright, who heads the Legalize Ferrets campaign, told the California Fish and Game Commission in February. "These guys are part of our family. The pet-human bond is a strong one, and you're stepping on it..." A member of the weasel family, ferrets are playful carnivores that are believed to have been domesticated more than 2,000 years ago. Until recently, they were mainly used for hunting and pest control. Many U.S. states used to prohibit ferrets, but most of those bans were lifted over the past 25 years as the slinky-like creatures became increasingly popular pets. California's community of underground ferret owners is fighting to changing that. They say they're tired of having to keep their pets secret and live with the constant fear that their weasels could be taken away. Many owners have had their ferrets confiscated by law enforcement after an angry neighbor, co-worker or family member reported them to state authorities, said Debby Greatbanks, a member of Sacramento-based West Coast Ferrets. "All it takes is one phone call to ruin a ferret owner's day," said Greatbanks, who has a permit to house confiscated or discarded ferrets and transport them out of state. "Just going through your routine day, you have to keep your ferrets underground. You don't know who to tell." California ferret owners have been pushing for legalization for more than 20 years, but so far have failed to convince state wildlife regulators and lawmakers to take ferrets off the list of prohibited wild animals. In 2004, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed legislation that would have decriminalized ferret ownership in California. At the request of wildlife officials, the legalization campaign commissioned a recent California State University, Sacramento study, which concluded ferrets pose little danger to the state's wildlife, environment or people, except infants and small children. The 177-page report found that domesticated ferrets can only survive in the wild a few days, no feral colony has been found in the U.S. and ferrets are much less dangerous that dogs. But the fish and game commission said the study did not meet the standards for triggering a formal review of legalization... But even if they can't overturn the ban, California ferret owners say they have no plans to give up their beloved pets. Jeremy Trimm said he's been fascinated with ferrets since he saw the 1982 film "The Beastmaster" as a kid. He got his first ones when he lived in Indiana several years ago and couldn't give them up when he moved back to his native California. He currently keeps six of them at his home near Sacramento. "They come into your life and you can't get rid of them," Trimm said. "They are the most incredible, happy creatures that you'll ever meet." California ferret owners want their pets legalized 3-7-11 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iA_OaToeybWfqqSPRZ6KuCYFb_2g?docId=f9b749f52c5648e1a18bfb5978d0dbf2 *** Farewell, Phil Collins Phil Collins, of solo and Genesis fame, recently officially announced his retirement from the music industry. Apparently all the haters have taken their toll on his psyche: "It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me. I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that.” Ignore them, Phil. You're in the Rock Hall of Fame, one of the greatest drummers of all time, won an Oscar (and snubbed for another with your song "Against All Odds") and inspired the greatest Miami Vice montage of all time. Oh, and Mike Tyson loves you too... *** Pan's Labyrinth Meets HP Lovecraft Will this movie ever get made? Let's hope so! From Salon.com: The New Yorker's news desk ran a melancholy addendum to its Feb. 7 feature about director Guillermo del Toro and his attempts to make a $150 million live-action film of H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness." Apparently Universal refused to greenlight the project due to del Toro's insistence that it be released with an "R" rating rather than a "PG-13." Del Toro's e-mail to New Yorker writer Daniel Zalewski was two sentences long: "'Madness' has gone dark. The ‘R’ did us in." The "Pan's Labyrinth" director has spent the last few years on big budget dream projects: "The Hobbit," "Frankenstein" and "At the Mountains of Madness." He left "The Hobbit" in May 2010 (or was fired, depending on who tells the story), following a series of start-date delays, and Peter Jackson, writer-director-producer of the original "The Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy, stepped in. "Frankenstein" never had a firm start date and remains in limbo. For a while, "At the Mountains of Madness" -- the story of an Antarctic expedition uncovering the ruins of an ancient city and the remains of mythical creatures -- seemed as though it might be the first of the three projects to end up on-screen. This was a startling prospect considering Lovecraft's tale had long been considered unfilmable. Del Toro's adaptation had Tom Cruise attached to star and James Cameron ("Avatar") involved as an executive producer and 3-D consultant, and Universal had already given the director pre-production money for creature designs. Del Toro told the New Yorker he wanted "Madness" to have "the polished aspects of a studio film" like Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds," but retain the grungy vibe of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and the original "Saw" while capturing the sense of psychic disturbance and primordial terror that was Lovecraft's stock-in-trade... The amazing del Toro movie that just got spiked Matt Zoller Seitz Tuesday, Mar 8, 2011 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2011/03/08/mountains_of_madness_derailed/index.html