It's Bandcamp Friday and this is the best song I've heard all year marklane2.bandcamp.com/track/yellin...

If you're a person who digs weird stuff who has read and enjoyed THE SAUCERIAN, please consider reviewing it for Goodreads or Amazon! (And if you're a person who digs weird stuff but you *haven't* read it... you should!)

Good morning to everyone except people who respond to questions by posting screenshots of Google's AI Overview without comment

Thrilled to have been invited to appear on Binnall of America to talk Gray Barker and UFO narratives with the ever delightful @binnall.bsky.social !

Stay tuned for the executive order declaring Bohabs a terrorist organization

Just deleted my Academia.edu account, and I advise everyone do the same. It's not a repository. It's a grift. (If you want my stuff, it's here: archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/... )

Academia.edu wants permanent rights to your likeness, signature, voice, name, etc. to be used in any setting. My answer was "absolutely not." Log in, click on "privacy policy" when prompted to accept the new terms (don't accept!" then find "account settings" @ dropdown, scroll down to delete.

If I don't see multiple ~media reporters~ columns about the extraordinarily irresponsible Wall Street Journal report from yesterday morning — and their extensive promotion of that inflammatory report — you all should just pack up and go home.

The current @forteantimes.bsky.social carries a five-star review of THE SAUCERIAN by the brilliant Andrew May, whose own book "Pseudoscience and Science Fiction" is an excellent resource. Just snippets of the review here, but check out the whole thing in the October 2025 issue!

They're trying to convince everyone that building a Dyson Sphere around the solar system is more realistic than increasing the capital gains tax

we need to teach the 1930s properly so that people know the Reichstag Fire was exactly this stupid

Looking forward to presenting this Saturday at The 2nd Annual Online Symposium on Goth Music and Subculture. My presentation is on the Cure's "Wailing Wall," and is a sort-of sequel to last year's paper on "The Holy Hour"...

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

One of these things is... a lot like the other

I saw Flavor Flav in the mirror

Desperately hoping that this dope's typo manifests some actual subsidies for urban beekeeping

Next Saturday (July 19 at 5pm), come to @comicazi (Davis Sq. in Somverville) for a fireside chat about THE SAUCERIAN: UFOs, MEN IN BLACK, AND THE UNBELIEVABLE LIFE OF GRAY BARKER.

Bringing thaumaturgy to the final day of #SHARP2025

Delighted to see Tyroc on prominent display in the superhero exhibit at The Strong

Paintings of the Virgin Mary are evidence of a Satanic cult. This finally takes Satanic paranoia to its logical conclusion. It also shows why the paranoia can never be eliminated. You can be in a room full of Christian artifacts and *still* find secret Satanic symbols!

My paper for #SHARP2025 is "Ufology as a Fandom: Science Fiction Fanzines, Flying Saucer Newsletters, and the Birth of the UFO Subculture"-- check it out at 3:30 Wednesday in the Gamble Room!

And now @sarahpyke.bsky.social on Frog and Toad! #SHARP2025

Next up: @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social on queer newsletters in the Bruce McKinney Collection #SHARP2025

Great session on the negotiation of authenticity in 90s zine culture with @jwluther.bsky.social @joliebraun.bsky.social and Patrick Williams at #SHARP2025

Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"

From the keynote on Katie Mitchell's keynote on her book "Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores": only surviving copies of some fliers and other ephemera from Black bookstores are in the FBI's files: "I wouldn't have saved this flier for a cookout, but the FBI did" #SHARP2025

And now @sylvain-lesage.bsky.social on the history of photocopying in libraries -- A great deep dive into the development of office copying technology throughout the 20th century #SHARP2025

Starting #SHARP2025 with @amoreshead.bsky.social on the early 20th century origins of the "credibility bookshelf"-- relevant to the library of fake books covering HVAC ducts at the ISAW Library @isawlibrary.bsky.social

"THE SAUCERIAN: UFOs, Men in Black, and the Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker" is available now from the MIT Press (and your favorite indie bookstores). mitpress.mit.edu/978026204954...

Two more recent interviews on Gray Barker's life and impact on the world of UFOs and popular culture more broadly-- With Paul Bestall of the Mysteries & Monsters podcast (available at the link below, or all the places that have podcasts)-- audioboom.com/posts/874170...

Trekkies: If you see this post your first experience with Star Trek. (Getting into pre-memories here, as there literally wasn't a time in my life before Trek. It may be imaginary, but I have a toddler-era memory of seeing Star Trek II at a drive-in a few years before that, so I'm going with....)

I never actually believed Epstein was murdered until just now

And this is just the beginning of the shady stuff Academia.edu's user agreement allows them to do with anything you upload.

Gonna start referring to the Senate as the House of Lords

A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Out now - My conversation with @jdarowski.bsky.social for Dueling Genre's Protagonist Podcast. In addition to stories about Gray Barker, we talked about narratological aspects of UFO accounts, and how the culture surrounding the paranormal guides, shapes, and changes the stories that it tells.

I'll be talking Gray Barker, UFO history, and how narratives mutate on Coast to Coast AM Sunday night-- www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2025-06...

Cops lie-- we know this-- but ICE agents ONLY lie

For my sins, I'll be appearing on COAST TO COAST AM on Sunday night, June 22nd-into-23rd, from 3-5 AM EDT (12-2 PDT), to talk about Gray Barker and the early history of the UFO subculture to whoever is awake. Wish me luck, and send coffee.

The whole thread, but especially THIS

These people are the enemy.

Excellent overview of a project I've been watching grow for several years now at the ISAW Library (@isawlibrary.bsky.social) - the Digital South Caucasus Collection, an international collaboration to distribute open-access archaeological publications: medium.com/@nyulibrarie...

All. Cops.

There is no insurrection, no riots — the LA crisis is an escalation of the crisis that has been ongoing since 2016 of Trump’s determination to exert & expand power by using all means of coercion, including always the threat and encouragement of violence to make his hellish make believe our reality.

Putting the finishing touches on the slide deck for tonight's online talk-- Register free at www.morbidanatomy.org/events ! #graybarker #saucerian #ufos #flyingsaucers #booktalk #onlinelectures

My god god have mercy on our souls ICE went at full speed ramming the crowd

Please, don’t let Jonathan Joss’s story die down. Please, don’t do this to Indigenous people on Pride month. Please, recognize his whole neighborhood was in on his premeditated death and killed his dogs and burned his childhood home. PLEASE REALIZE this is a hate crime against a gay AND Native man.

June 9th at 7 pm ET: Morbid Anatomy hosts Gabriel Mckee for a free online talk about "The Saucerian," a book that examines the intriguing life of Saucerian Books founder Gray Barker and the development of UFO narratives: www.morbidanatomy.org/events-ticke... @secret-terror.bsky.social 💙 📚

We are one week away from my free online lecture via Morbid Anatomy on Gray Barker, UFO publishing, the mythology of the Men in Black-- register here! www.morbidanatomy.org/events-ticke...

My response to all further inquiries will be "All the information is on the task"