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Today I offer video. Not just any video. Below are 2 Local News broadcasts featuring the Toynbee tiles and the Resurrect Dead documentary team. Also included is a Chicago story and a link to an NPR segment featuring tile nut and documentary co-collaborator, Justin Duerr. NPR’s Morning Edition ran the tile story nationally on a Sunday morning in September of 2006. After it aired I got emails from Maine to California. Although David Mamet makes some shit up in his NPR interview, it’s the best media treatment yet given to the tiles. I recommend a listen.
Philly:
Extra unaired footage from Philly:
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Chicago:
* This broadcast led to the destruction of the Chicago tiles.
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NPR:
[article] with audio link at the top of the page.
Way back in 2003, just before the start of the Iraq War, news of a talking carp “splashed” across headlines around the world. (haha)
But seriously, this was the story:
The scene is New York’s New Square Fish Market. The players are a Christian a Jew and a fish. Just as the Christian is about turn the carp into gefilte fish, it starts shouting out prophetic messages in Hebrew. The Jewish guy hears the fish, understands his message (Repent! The end is near!) and freaks out. The fish then identifies himself as a recently deceased hascidic local. The Christian, assuming the fish is the devil, kills it.
At this point, things get hazy, but I’m guessing that the fish was eaten during a seder in Queens.
But anyway, the story is picked up by the New York Times, the BBC and a ton of other news outlets. Since then, the carp has faded into obscurity. And with good reason. Fish or not, here we are. (Here’s the BBC link.)
The war in Iraq is clearly a clusterfuck, but end of the world it isn’t. I guess there’s still plenty of time for the world to end. In captivity, a carp can live for close to 4 decades. You’d just think that if he was saying the end is near, the end would have been nearer. I guess what I’m trying to say is:
I believe that the spirit of a dead man can inhabit a carp and spew messages in a NY fish market, but I don’t trust him any more than any living man.
Finally, the end of the year list everyone has been waiting for. Here are the 79 most interesting search terms that led people to dovate.com in 2007. Why 79? Why not? In addition to being an interesting lens into the collective consciousness of the internet browsing public, many of them also make excellent band names:
79. space jesus
78. abstract cop
77. pictures of fetus after using colon cleanse
76. what is that hippie smell
75. scum derivation
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73. colon cleanse on 2nd in market phila
72. ’smiling anus’
71. my broken mind psychosis why
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69. hippopotamus shit territory
68. artificial girl illusion
67. yearly deaths by donkey kicks
66. fetal skull for sale
65. bigfoot fucking females on porn
64. unaligned dragon
63. is licking anus harmful?
62. is my girlfriend a prostitute?
61. homemade squirrel spray repellent
60. how to repel dogs off of my property with chemicals
59. hippopotamus elephant mating video clip
58. red bellied woodpecker and the bible
57. chimps attack
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53. what makes keith haring so fucking great?
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41. ideal duck cages
40. i saw my cleaning lady naked
39. methamphetamine parasite terrorists
38. billy pilgrim diagnosis
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36. is it safe to eat my own ejaculate
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30. yearly deaths from spoons
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19. military industrial complex photo archive
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17. verbal communication amish
16. how would a human being fare on the planet saturn
15. do male testicle stink?
14. buy hitech chastity belt made of steel
13. shakespeare schwarzenegger
12. what is common between martha stewart and stephen hawking
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9. barak obama for klingon high council leader
8. how i lost my job girlfriend apartment rabbit food
7. korean screaming pussy
6. my 20 month old son’s breath stinks
5. anus picket pony
4. gay hangouts to prostitute my body
3. clown gags and teenagers
2. proper attire for dayton ohio cocktail party
1. obama and his correlation to the number 666
Many years ago, I read an internet tale of a man who claimed to be the gatekeeper of an interdimensional vortex. That vortex was found somewhere under I-287 in Wanaque, NJ. Now before you discount it as fraud, consider this:
If an interdimensional vortex were to exist, wouldn’t New Jersey be the most likely place for it to be? And if that gatekeeper were a native New Jersyian, wouldn’t he look a lot like the man pictured at the top of this post? Makes you think.
But anyway, the aliens that Bryan Williams, aka Sargel18 best gets along with are the Ewoks… I mean the Endorians. Who are the Endorians:
SARGEL18: The Endorians are beings of the astral plane. They are the counter to the negative aliens which I call the Dragons. Both are reptile in nature and evolution. People forget that there has to be balance in the universe, this is how the Creator (God) set it up. So where there is good, there is evil. Which again is just a perception. There is no good and evil, only there IS. But for human reference I will call the Endorians good and the Dragons bad. There is too much information for a web page about the Endorian beings, it would fill a whole book. But I will tell you this, they have been with us since modern humans have existed. They told me that it was them who taught Sanskrit to the Sumerians, and that there was evidence of their people 90 miles northwest of Paris in caves. I have yet to go there and find out if this is true.
When in fuzzy little corporal form, I hear they also throw wild parties in their North Jersey tree houses. But anyway, interested? If so, you can take the drive up the Garden State Parkway to check it out for yourself, or you can just click on the pig:
.At one point, this 1400 foot “building” was proposed for central London. Presented without further comment… wow:
So it seems that the Beautiful Mary Posters aren’t just a Philly thing. Posters have been reported in Los Angeles and Pittsburgh and photographed in Philadelphia, Chicago and New Orleans. So it looks like we have a mystery. While not as captivating as the Toynbee tiles, it is no doubt fascinating. The posters are likely created by 1 person, but are they distributed through a network? Is it a prank? The author of this blog talks about his encounter with the mad poster-maker:
Getting the poster from Mr. Crazy was a nice little adventure. I was walking back to the office, chillin outside on a gorgeous day, and I see this bummy looking white dude, older, with classic, white Elmer’s glue bottle in hand, hobbling back from a green lightpost on Jackson and Franklin, now plastered in Lohan Mother Marys. I size up the situation, pause for a sec, and ask the guy kindly, sir, if I could have one of those. He gives me the requisite once over, suspecting me to be getting him in trouble somehow. No, badge, check; okay, mini-rant time. “Oh, so you want one of these? One of these will save one thousand people from going to hell and you want one all to yourself, huh?” Uh-oh, I somehow wasn’t expecting such crazy. “Uh, it’s cool. I don’t need one.” Walk away, avoid crazy. Nope. Dude changes his mind. “What the hell, there’s only so many good people in the world…have one.” Whoa, awesome: crazy thinks I’m good peoples. I feel warm inside, oddly singular, special; crazy people are great. “Me and my friend from [St. something, crazy church group presumably] we trying to hand these out earlier today and people wouldn’t take ‘em.” I say thanks–boy, were they missing out–and amble away, crossing the street with the rest of the office people of the midwest, scoping out my find. He forgave me of my sins on the way out.
If you’re interested, new posters were put up last week on Broad between Pine and Walnut. Keep your eyes out, they’re everywhere.
New Orleans:
Chicago:
