Let's Have a Swim on the Moon

A recent NASA press release announced that the deliberate crash of a spacecraft into the moon's shadowy crater Cabeus on June 18 has revealed substantial amounts of water. The discovery, made by the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission could have major implications. If the water is billions of years old, it may reveal secrets of the evolution of the solar system as well as provide resources for future expeditions. Due to the permanently low temperatures in the shady regions, material of interest may have been trapped in Cabeus for billions of years and will provide valuable information about our closest neighbour.

(Ontarion news brief- 11.19.09)

End of the world? 2 years & 2 months to decide

December 21st or 23rd 2012

Some say it's the start of an apocalypse..some say it may be a new era of higher consciousness..a spiritual transformation.
Scientists say it's a fudging of Mayan history.
What do you think!?

Do you think:
a) the world is going to end in 2 years
b) You are going to get a whole lot smarter and magical

If you answered a) I'd like to know where you want to be/what you want to be doing on New Year's 2011!

Calling all those freaks looking for some creepy, "surreal and disturbing" dark fiction and fantasy!!

This past summer, while working a table at the Toronto Small Press Fair, I met Brett Savory and Sandra Kasturi- co-publishers for ChiZine Pub. These two have been working hard at freaky fiction for about 10 years, but only recently took on longer novels, novellas and short story collections. As soon as I checked out some of their invite-only authors, I knew I wanted to be more involved. Since ChiZine started releasing longer works, the hype from critics has gotten louder and louder.

I'll be posting special feature previews of recently invited authors here-so check back!

Special, limited edition hardcovers are available at Horror Mall.
...Take a peak!

Baby Mex

I was waiting for my take-out at Sushi Choice tonight when something just barely caught my ear on the radio: "Mexican scientists are speechless about the test results from the alien baby found by a farmer in 2007."
!!!!
According to a number of international blogs and Mexican news sources, a farmer named Marao Lopez encountered the mysterious creature pictured above (I have named him 'Mex') on his farm two years ago and was so freaked out that he began drowning it!!! Lopez alleges that it took him 3 tries before he fled the scene of the crime.

Scientists who have been examining Mex for the past 2 years have only now publicized their test results. Due to it's large brain size, they believe him to be quite intelligent. They described him as having joints similar to humans. However, Mex has rootless teeth and apparently survives under water for hours at a time. What's more...Mex's physical structure has been described as very 'lizard-like' (are you with me here? LIZARDS..?).

This gets even creepier...
Strangely, but not surprisingly, major newspapers have remained quiet on this new report. What is most frightening of all...Allegedly, just after the incident, Marao Lopez was killed when he burned alive in a parked car....

UFOlogists have simply said: If there's one-there must be more..

love ya little guy!

BEWARE THE WINDOW

Monday September 14th

It was a cold and quiet night on Kent street.
The midnight train had already rolled past my window-empty.
I had just turned off the lights. There was nothing but the glow of the moon in the top corner of the glass.
The early winter breeze was giving me shivers...
As was the solitary old man standing down below beside the track, looking up.
I reached my right arm up to close the window payne...
pressing too hard I felt the glass shatter and my wrist break right through!
What happened!? I look down. The glass had stabbed through the vein in my wrist.
The blood looks black as it pours onto the white bed sheets!
Blood is everywhere!! On the wall..on the bed..on the floor...
I reach for the light switch screaming for my roommate Bonnie to call 911!
"Scarfs! Get some scarfs from my closet to tie up my arm!"
I hold my arm in the sink under freezing water as Bonnie ties a vintage scarf around my wrist. She calls for an ex-boyfriend who races over to take me to the vacant hospital where I'll sit all night alone under fluorescent lights.

......TRUE STORY GUYS! IT WAS ACTUALLY TRAUMATIZING.

GROW-OPS AND DESERT STORMS

Hi everyone!!!

Ok ok, I know I've been a bit absentee in terms of delivering the bone chilling conspiracy theories lately..but you'll HAVE to forgive me when I tell you I've been lounging with Xtine at her new Vancouver home/green commune/oasis of home growns!

Friday we leave for a three day drive across B.C. to Portland Oregon before returning HOME- home to the desert city we call Black Rock where we'll be staying with Sacred Spaces spiritual/environmental camp- oh yes- a solid week of chanting healing mantras and live art creation!!!

Stay tuned for TRUE ghost stories next week.

Sci-Fi Meets Reality.. or Schizophrenia?

A booming New Age conspiracy culture can't survive without a few political assassinations. Kids these days seem to love nothing more than exposing inside jobs committed against their heroes-especially those of the pop-idol persuasion. But it's not some crazy stoners who take the cake for the most left-field assassination theory this time!

Back in 1980, Steve Lightfoot, a now 55 year old man from California started his own passionate investigation into the murder of John Lennon. Convinced that the public had been seriously dooped about the events leading up to Lennon's death, Lightfoot started his own campain and website (lennonmurdertruth.com) which claims to provide some evidence on the "REAL killer" in the John Lennon case. So who IS the REAL KILLER? Are you ready?......OBVIOUSLY STEPHEN KING. Ya, that's right...horror/sci-fi fiction writer Stephen King. Admittedly, once you start poking around into this theory, you realize it's going to take a while...

Lightfoot believes that Lennon's murder was a carefully planned assassination carried out by Ronald Reagan, President Nixon and... Stephen King. According to his theory, the night of the murder, King was swapped for decoy Mark David Chapman (the man incarcerated) who, he points out, looks eerily similar to King.

Who is this crazy old man and how did he come to believe this? Well, his supposed discovery came first from the facial resemblance between King and the last man to get Lennon's autograph (pictured above).

Lightfoot also points to 1980s newspaper headlines which describe the murder scene as "One great big zippo lighter"- a line from King's 1980 horror/sci-fi novel 'Firestarter.'

All the peculiarities of Chapman's arrest aside, Lightfoot points to supposed government codes in the media and to King's own words as evidence- he hi-lights quotes like this one from King's 1983 interview with Playboy:

KING: "Writing is necessary for my sanity...All the rage and hate and frustration, all that's dangerous and foul and sick within me, I'm able to spew out into my work..."

PLAYBOY: "Where do you think you'd be today without your writing talent?"

KING: "I might very well have ended up there in the Texas tower with Charlie Whitman, working out my demons with a high-powered telescopic rifle instead of a word processor. I mean I know that guy Whitman. My writing has kept me out of that tower."

WHOA..ok. A little creepy maybe?

So there's the facial resemblance, the creepy and candid admissions of morbidity and various references to political assassination in King's fiction...Is Lightfoot just insane?


NASA SECRETS

I've returned from hiding out in the northern wilderness to share some important and fairly recent news on the NASA conspiracy.

At a National Press Club conference called by the Paradigm Research Group (PRG), Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell (the 6th man to ever walk on the moon) announced his conviction that earth is being "visited."

Mitchell grew up in Roswell Mexico at the time of the famous 1947 UFO crash incident which he says started the American government's cover-up program which has persisted for about 60 years.

It is nearly common knowledge that we have now identified a number of planetary bodies that are likely inhabited (see Enceladus below).

A number of NASA astronauts have been threatened by "spooks" to keep their stories secret.

Around the world however, many other governments have started opening up- Belgium, France, Brazil, Mexico and England have declassified mysterious files. The Catholic Church has even made statements declaring that belief in UFOs does not compromise religiosity. Whether NASA will follow suit, we'll have to wait and see.

The Paradigm Research Group claims to have substantial evidence of alien encounters and gave something of an ultimatum for the government to talk this year- or else- they said they would reveal their evidence.

When asked to describe these extraterrestrials, Mitchell says they are like small people with strange facial features. He assures us that their intentions are peaceful-otherwise, he says, we would not be here today.

Mitchell's message to the world: "We are really universal beings" and it is time to understand our role accordingly.

In the words of a good friend- namaste Ed.

Life on Enceladus?

***Weekly astronomical update***

In February of this year, Carolyn Porco of the Cassini mission to Saturn announced that there is good reason to think that Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons (pictured above), may be hiding an ocean under it's surface capable of necessitating extraterrestrial life! This theory has been drawn largely from the discovery of salt water ice crystals which are said to contain the chemical energy and compounds needed for life.

In Greek mythology, Enceladus was a child of Gaia (Earth) with limbs that resembled a dragon-like water serpent.

Most likely inhabitants?
...sea monsters of course.

True Blood Brothas

I'd like to devote this post to my favourite of supernatural beings and my latest obsession-vamps. As teenagers, we all secretly wish for a sexy vampire to show up in the woods behind our mansion (or greasy spoon diner) and hypnotize us into falling in love with them-and then demand that we leave them alone. Well, now you can live out your s&m fantasies vicariously through one of the latest celebrity vamps or their love victims!!

In True Blood (based on Charlaine Harris' 'Southern Vampire Mysteries') Anna Paquin (go Winnipeg!) plays Sookie Stackhouse-perky small town waitress with telepathic powers and the love interest of vampire Bill Compton. An imitation blood drink has been invented to keep the thirsty minority vamp population under control, but they remain an oppressed sub-group in society fighting for equal rights and mainstream tolerance.

In the beginning, I wasn't sure if I was suppose to take this show seriously..the intro is amazing- but something about a bunch of young waitresses in daisy dukes living on a trailer park, running around the forest looking for vampires really screams cheesy thrasher movie...In fact, you can almost predict the order in which people will be killed based on their level of skanky-ness.

But don't be fooled...you will get hooked. Just wait until the vamp blood is being traded on the black market as viagra!

Wait a minute... telepathic waitress with a creepy boss getting pulled into the dark underworld...? It's almost as if someone was sniffing around my diary...

But the award for *best fang-banger* goes to Kristen Stewart (a.k.a. Bella) from my new favourite movie -Twilight (thanks for the addiction Kate). It may be that Bella's character is more natural..more believable, therefore allowing me to more easily pretend to be her. It may be the suspense, the special effects or dreamy co-star Robert Pattinson. Whatever it is, I am officially in the Twilight zone.