Update: www.fire.org/news/ohio-ma...

Maybe Day celebration returns www.rawillumination.net/2026/06/mayb...

Looking forward to the words, but also to the artworks. I keep wanting to steal all his art for my blog!

At last.

As First Amendment violations go, this arrest of @rooster.info is pretty clearly an instant classic. signalohio.org/progressive-...

A 1985 article about Robert Shea www.rawillumination.net/2026/05/a-19...

Sonny Rollins —Live in Denmark, 1965 There Will Never Be Another You #JazzSky #SonnyRollins #Jazz Sunday vibes from the Saxophone Colossus. Niels Pedersen swings some sturdy bass here, but ✔️ that solo by Alan Dawson, starting 'round halfway — one of the coolest cats to ever slap them sticks. 🥁✨ 🫴

A Philip K. Dick prank www.rawillumination.net/2026/05/a-ph...

Another olde-timey essay with AI not used, in any way. Sex and neologisms: demisexuals, sapiosexuals, young people and their dreams of Dark Academia. Etc. Do new words open up more thinking in "reality"?

👆 ⭐️ 👇 Great article — a fun read. #RobertShea #booksky #writing

Live Fri May 29th! 3:30PM PST/6:30PM EST EP 177 of Comix 4 All’s Ink & Insight as we are joined by Bob Campbell to chat about his creative career & current KS for Tales of Illuminatus #3! Come join us! KS 🔗👇 Click the “Notify Me” 🔔 @bobbycampbell.net #comics #reading #podcast

Ted White has died www.rawillumination.net/2026/05/ted-...

If Katie Miller was in a desperate rush to get married before 30, certain life choices start to make more sense.

Scott Apel discusses his Philip K. Dick book www.rawillumination.net/2026/05/scot...

New reading group begins! 'The Classical Style' www.rawillumination.net/2026/05/new-...

Quite a good piece.

Todd Purse on Hilaritas Podcast @createmagicstudios.bsky.social - www.rawillumination.net/2026/05/todd...

Early origins of Maybe Day!

You could call it vice signaling.

A favorite lie of Trumpists is that the thousands of people who protest against his government's lawlessness and brutality are paid to protest. The claim has no credibility. I think that they make it to affirm that they're willing to lie shamelessly in their master's service.

Last night my wife said she grew up thinking the song "Mellow Yellow" was about the soft drink. I told her I'd always heard that it was about getting high by smoking banana peels. We checked Wikipedia, and...

‘Masters of the Universe’ drone show spotted over Los Angeles 💥 • Had 1600 drones • Guinness World Record for brightest drone show ever (via Amazon MGM)

Take 20 seconds and enjoy this Oregon scenery. Credit: izak photography.

Although there are a number of things Thomas Massie and I differ on, he is on the right side of the Epstein scandal. To see him lose his seat for supporting victims is unnerving. Release the files.

Church of Burn plans August 23 event www.rawillumination.net/2026/05/chur...

RIP magicians Peter Carroll and Gordon White www.rawillumination.net/2026/05/rip-...

Bobby Campbell news roundup www.rawillumination.net/2026/05/bobb...

Nick Herbert on quantum tantra www.rawillumination.net/2026/05/nick...

The new Timothy Leary book is out www.rawillumination.net/2026/05/the-...

Bobby Campbell on the 'Ezra Pound problem' @bobbycampbell.net - www.rawillumination.net/2026/05/bobb...

New Bobby Campbell interview @bobbycampbell.net @criticalhitparader.com - www.rawillumination.net/2026/05/new-...

I am old enough to remember when it was done in ten-year intervals.

Comparing RAW to the Velvet Underground is an analogy that runs through my head, too. Did Bobby originally put it there or did I think of it myself?

Good story in the Plain Dealer about the hundreds of thousands of dollars of corporate PAC money spent to help @poindexterforcongress.com: www.cleveland.com/news/2026/05...

Michael Johnson on 'The Ezra Pound Problem' @r-michael-johnson.bsky.social - www.rawillumination.net/2026/05/mich...

Science fiction news: Roger Zelazny and Ian Watson www.rawillumination.net/2026/05/scie...

I can't speak for anyone else, but every time I voted, I read ever word of the fiction nominees.

This is really interesting, read it if you are watching the Ohio primary.

The US government's murder spree in the Caribbean continues. No formal charges, no trial, just shoot and kill. abcnews.com/Internationa...

This is a topic a lot of people have worried about lately, and Michael does a good job with it.

See also: this amazing anecdote from Penn Jillette

D. Scott Apel on his Alec Smart mystery series www.rawillumination.net/2026/04/d-sc...

John Higgs on the contents of his subscriber-only book @johnhiggs.bsky.social - www.rawillumination.net/2026/05/john...

Quick reminder! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bob...

More Bobby Campbell news @bobbycampbell.net - www.rawillumination.net/2026/04/more...

Tales of Illuminatus No. 3 Kickstarter has launched www.rawillumination.net/2026/04/tale...

Michael Johnson on RAW and math @r-michael-johnson.bsky.social - www.rawillumination.net/2026/04/mich...

The Louvre is a public institution. Admission is free for EU residents under 26, children from anywhere, unemployed people, and on certain days everyone. There is no sense in which robbing it is “stealing from the rich.”

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Rebecca Archer’s daughter died of measles that she contracted before she was old enough to be vaccinated. “Parents must realize that refusing vaccinations doesn’t just put your own child at risk. It puts other children at risk,” Archer writes.

'Mycellium Parish News 2025' is an inspiring catalog of creativity www.rawillumination.net/2026/04/myce...