This is important work

Also this is just a bonkers take-- It took about 20 minutes for the show to entirely end human society, and gathered people from five continents for an international summit in hour two. Lost took two seasons to advance the plot half this far

Oh hey! My guest spot at one of the Dickheads Podcast's weekly #PKD Hangouts earlier this year is now available. We talked about Gray Barker, Philip K. Dick's Exegesis, and Dick's interactions with UFO culture.

Just learned that the interlocutor for this will be Greg Bishop, whose "Project Beta" is probably the most important UFO-related book of the century so far... And who was a good friend of Jim Moseley's to boot!

Join us Sat. 11/15 for a FREE virtual conference on Christmas in Pop Culture! I'll be moderating a roundtable about my edited collection, Under the Mistletoe: Essays on Holiday Romance (@mcfarland.bsky.social). And don't miss the keynote from historian @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social!

Desperate to know if note 13 is providing a citation for their love of the book or the calendar entry for when they first read it

Honored that the Society for UAP Studies has chosen "The Saucerian" as their Community Reading Circle text for this month! Join for a live discussion of the book on Saturday, Nov. 15 -- sign up at www.societyforuapstudies.org/community-re...

"Punishment Park" continues to haunt-- especially in the last 10 months or so.

Read to the end, the last line is a doozy

If you study the culture, media, and publications surrounding UFOs, cryptids, the paranormal, or other weird stuff-- consider putting in a proposal for the Popular Culture Association's annual conference! Deadline is Nov. 30. sites.google.com/view/2026pca...

"He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us."

Perry: The federal government is "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois." That's it. Thanks again for following.

Greetings from U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is present, waiting for the high stakes hearing to begin. @wttw.bsky.social

Getting ready to present on "Some Narrative Aspects of Cryptozoology" at #NEPCA , which looks at major works of cryptozoology by Sanderson and Heuvelmans alongside creature films of the 1950s (especially "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms"). Here are a couple of my favorite slides from the talk!

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.