Pinin' for the fnords
(Word to Greg)
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23 Skidoo
(Further florals for Greg)
Lunatic cult author Robert Anton Wilson, has died of complications from post-polio syndrome at the age of 74. Wilson is best known for the Illuminatus! Trilogy, the story of the Illuminati, elite authoritarians who pull the puppet strings of the world’s political establishment while seeking to become super-beings by sucking the souls from the masses. They are countered by the Discordians, who resist through convoluted tactics that include a network of double agents. Postulating that every conspiracy theory ever was true, mixed in with drug culture, theology, philosophy, occultism, chaos theory and nonsense, the comic novels caught on with sci-fi shut-ins and hippies. Like the rest of the population of California he ran for governor, representing the Guns and Dope party, with the platform plank including equal rights for ostriches. He was American director of the Committee for Surrealist Investigation of Claims of the Normal and helped found two "religions:" Discordianism and the Church of the Subgenius, whose high priest Ivor Stang called him "the Carl Sagan of religion, the Jerry Falwell of quantum physics and the Arnold Schwarzenegger of feminism". Other works included the Schrödinger's Cat trilogy, a science fiction series inspired by quantum theory, The Sex Magicians, Neuropolitics, Quantum Psychology, Chaos and Beyond, TSOG: The Thing that Ate the Constitution and an article entitled Whoever Controls Princess Diana, Controls the World. In his autobiography, he describes episodes when he believed he had communicated with extraterrestrials — while admitting that he was experimenting with peyote and mescaline. He had been updating his worshippers on his blog and in his final post, he wrote: “I don’t see how to take death seriously. I look forward without dogmatic optimism, but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying.”
While sitting in his basement under a bare bulb writing letters to the government, Greg came up with this one and scores a solo hit to move Team Quincy into second place, where he would remain, despite…
Or
23 Skidoo
(Further florals for Greg)
Lunatic cult author Robert Anton Wilson, has died of complications from post-polio syndrome at the age of 74. Wilson is best known for the Illuminatus! Trilogy, the story of the Illuminati, elite authoritarians who pull the puppet strings of the world’s political establishment while seeking to become super-beings by sucking the souls from the masses. They are countered by the Discordians, who resist through convoluted tactics that include a network of double agents. Postulating that every conspiracy theory ever was true, mixed in with drug culture, theology, philosophy, occultism, chaos theory and nonsense, the comic novels caught on with sci-fi shut-ins and hippies. Like the rest of the population of California he ran for governor, representing the Guns and Dope party, with the platform plank including equal rights for ostriches. He was American director of the Committee for Surrealist Investigation of Claims of the Normal and helped found two "religions:" Discordianism and the Church of the Subgenius, whose high priest Ivor Stang called him "the Carl Sagan of religion, the Jerry Falwell of quantum physics and the Arnold Schwarzenegger of feminism". Other works included the Schrödinger's Cat trilogy, a science fiction series inspired by quantum theory, The Sex Magicians, Neuropolitics, Quantum Psychology, Chaos and Beyond, TSOG: The Thing that Ate the Constitution and an article entitled Whoever Controls Princess Diana, Controls the World. In his autobiography, he describes episodes when he believed he had communicated with extraterrestrials — while admitting that he was experimenting with peyote and mescaline. He had been updating his worshippers on his blog and in his final post, he wrote: “I don’t see how to take death seriously. I look forward without dogmatic optimism, but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying.”
While sitting in his basement under a bare bulb writing letters to the government, Greg came up with this one and scores a solo hit to move Team Quincy into second place, where he would remain, despite…
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