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We’re Going to Need a Bigger Ballista: Regulus vs. the River Monster

Anthropology, Monsters, Folklore, History, Technology

We’re Going to Need a Bigger Ballista: Regulus vs. the River Monster

September 22, 2022 — 1 Comment

Seraphim of Sarov: Patron Saint of Nuclear Weapons

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Philosophy, Technology

Seraphim of Sarov: Patron Saint of Nuclear Weapons

December 15, 2021 — 0 Comments

The Politics of the Zombie Apocalypse

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Philosophy, Technology

The Politics of the Zombie Apocalypse

December 31, 2020 — 9 Comments

A Monstrous Ticket to Ride: Liminal Locomotives

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

A Monstrous Ticket to Ride: Liminal Locomotives

October 6, 2019 — 4 Comments

An Old Explanation for the Fermi Paradox: N ≈ L and L ain’t Looking Pretty

Anthropology, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

An Old Explanation for the Fermi Paradox: N ≈ L and L ain’t Looking Pretty

August 19, 2019 — 2 Comments

Defense Against the Dark Algorithmic Arts: A Modern Primer

Anthropology, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Defense Against the Dark Algorithmic Arts: A Modern Primer

May 28, 2018 — 4 Comments

The Goldfish that Would Be Pisces: Out of Place Objects

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

The Goldfish that Would Be Pisces: Out of Place Objects

May 1, 2018 — 0 Comments

Death by Dining: An Unbalanced Day’s Breakfast

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Technology

Death by Dining: An Unbalanced Day’s Breakfast

December 23, 2017 — 3 Comments

The Best Dressed Anomalist on Radio

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Technology

The Best Dressed Anomalist on Radio

December 13, 2017 — 0 Comments

Radio Free EsoterX: Obscure Ghost Ships

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Technology

Radio Free EsoterX: Obscure Ghost Ships

December 5, 2017 — 0 Comments

Hell is for Railroad Telegraphers

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult, Technology

Hell is for Railroad Telegraphers

November 13, 2017 — 1 Comment

Fishy Phenomena: Unidentified Submarine Objects and Sea Serpents

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Fishy Phenomena: Unidentified Submarine Objects and Sea Serpents

October 24, 2017 — 5 Comments

Asylum Earth: The Voices in My Head are Scientists

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Asylum Earth: The Voices in My Head are Scientists

August 14, 2017 — 3 Comments

I’ve Been Working on the Creepy Railroad

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult, Technology

I’ve Been Working on the Creepy Railroad

July 31, 2017 — 2 Comments

All Your Axioms are Postulates: Pseudoscience vs. Pseudometaphysics

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy, Technology

All Your Axioms are Postulates: Pseudoscience vs. Pseudometaphysics

July 25, 2017 — 3 Comments

Eternalism vs. Presentism: How Soon is Now?

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Eternalism vs. Presentism: How Soon is Now?

June 29, 2017 — 1 Comment

Close Encounters of the Puritan Kind

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Close Encounters of the Puritan Kind

June 22, 2017 — 0 Comments

James Campbell Besley and the Amazing Amazonian Telegraph

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James Campbell Besley and the Amazing Amazonian Telegraph

June 11, 2017 — 0 Comments

The Ecstasy of Error: Green Cards in Magonia

Anthropology, Folklore, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

The Ecstasy of Error: Green Cards in Magonia

May 25, 2017 — 1 Comment

Bugging Out During the Second Great Dying

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Bugging Out During the Second Great Dying

April 30, 2017 — 4 Comments

Quantum Entangled Escargot: Sympathy for the Snail Telegraph

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult, Technology

Quantum Entangled Escargot: Sympathy for the Snail Telegraph

March 16, 2017 — 2 Comments

The Specious Present: It’s the Size of the Moment that Matters

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The Specious Present: It’s the Size of the Moment that Matters

February 10, 2017 — 0 Comments

Our Colonized Consciousness: Defense Against the Doppelgänger

Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Our Colonized Consciousness: Defense Against the Doppelgänger

February 9, 2017 — 6 Comments

Doomsday will be Dry: The Water Clock of the Apocalypse

Anthropology, Geography, History, Mythology, Technology

Doomsday will be Dry: The Water Clock of the Apocalypse

January 27, 2017 — 2 Comments

Galaxy Noir: The Case of the Stellar Strangulation

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Galaxy Noir: The Case of the Stellar Strangulation

January 17, 2017 — 6 Comments

Where the Wild Things Are: Anomalies and the Poverty of Critical Thinking

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Where the Wild Things Are: Anomalies and the Poverty of Critical Thinking

January 13, 2017 — 3 Comments

Charlemagne: Frank Encounters with UFOs

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Charlemagne: Frank Encounters with UFOs

January 1, 2017 — 1 Comment

Rooster-Based Planetary Defense Systems at Morial’s Den

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Rooster-Based Planetary Defense Systems at Morial’s Den

November 30, 2016 — 2 Comments

Wooden Ships, Iron Men, and Occasional Sea Serpents

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Wooden Ships, Iron Men, and Occasional Sea Serpents

November 26, 2016 — 2 Comments

Skepticism and the Post-Human Economy

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Skepticism and the Post-Human Economy

November 22, 2016 — 3 Comments

Our Xenomorph Who Art in Heaven

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Our Xenomorph Who Art in Heaven

November 8, 2016 — 1 Comment

Philosophical Monsters Ship in Black Boxes

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Philosophical Monsters Ship in Black Boxes

October 7, 2016 — 1 Comment

Dude, Where’s My Spaceship?

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Dude, Where’s My Spaceship?

September 29, 2016 — 2 Comments

Primate Estate Planning: Monkeying Around with Extinction

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Primate Estate Planning: Monkeying Around with Extinction

September 19, 2016 — 1 Comment

Gallipoli Dowsing: When Falling from a Great Height, Try Flapping Your Arms

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Gallipoli Dowsing: When Falling from a Great Height, Try Flapping Your Arms

September 12, 2016 — 1 Comment

Supercivilization and the Shoe Event Horizon

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Supercivilization and the Shoe Event Horizon

August 9, 2016 — 4 Comments

First You Get the Money, Then You Get the Women, Then you Find Out it’s a Simulation

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

First You Get the Money, Then You Get the Women, Then you Find Out it’s a Simulation

June 29, 2016 — 8 Comments

Civilization is a Dish Best Served Cold: Polar Origin Theory

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Mythology, Technology

Civilization is a Dish Best Served Cold: Polar Origin Theory

June 16, 2016 — 2 Comments

Talking Heads: Automata and Artificial Intelligence

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Talking Heads: Automata and Artificial Intelligence

June 13, 2016 — 0 Comments

Gray is the New Black: Zoanthropy and the Apex Predator

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Technology

Gray is the New Black: Zoanthropy and the Apex Predator

May 24, 2016 — 3 Comments

“It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry ‘Monster!’ and looked behind him.”
-Laini Taylor

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
-Oscar Wilde

“Life is Hard. After all, it kills you.”
-Katherine Hepburn

“Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.”
-Theodor Adorno

“All would be well. All would be heavenly–If the damned would only stay damned.”
-Charles Fort

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
–Jerry Garcia

“You can’t create a monster, then whine when it stomps a few buildings.”
–Yeardley Smith

“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”
–Robert Anton Wilson

“The earth, it has been said, is one vast graveyard, and man can nowhere put down his foot without stepping on the remains of a brother.”
–M. Schele de Vere

“Even from the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.”
–H.P. Lovecraft

“If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?”
–Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“The problem with people who say monsters don’t really exist is that they’re almost never saying it to the monsters.”
— Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
–Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.”
–Eric Hoffer, American Social Philosopher

“The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.”
–Günter Grass, German Novelist