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After a relaunch on Kickstarter, the Chapel Perilous audiobook has hit its goal.

A new documentary, The Cosmic Trigger, connects the invention and test of the atomic bomb in the Southwest United States with the appearance of "flying saucers."

Having finished putting out his broadcast of Ong's Hat: Compleat, Joseph Matheny is ready to announce his new project, Art is War: Fear and Loathing on the Internet, a current work in progress with a projected release date of late 2027, "An art manifesto…

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Ben Graham, the British Discordian writer, has announced he's completed his new novel, Savage Jubilee, and is taking preorders from his small press operation: "Savage Jubilee is the second book in my ongoing American Underground sequence, a psychedelic od…

What Mark K.

UPDATE: Comments finally are fixed after being down for much of the day Friday.

The subject of yesterday's late blog post.

Meet Bobby Campbell and Todd Purse Sept. 12-13 at the Small Press Expo in Rockville, Maryland, details here.

As he continues his Kickstarter campaign for an audiobook of the Robert Anton Wilson biography, Chapel Perilous, Garbriel Kennedy/Prop Anon is interviewed by the Boing Boing website.

The 2026 Hugo Awards have been announced; I have not read the Alix Harrow title that won best novel, The Everlasting, but I would like to.

Haydn After the Death of Mozart 2.

The Judgement of Paris (1599) by Hendrick van Balen the Elder.

On Bluesky, Brian Dean of the RAW Semantics blog had suggested that a portion of the Wikipedia bio on RAW ought to be revised.

A 1921 sketch of Prokofiev by the French artist Henri Matisse (public domain image).

Bobby Campbell mourns Dolly Parton.

Tales of Illuminatus issue 3 "Opus Chao" has been completed; Bobby Campbell email me a digital copy and I read it the same night.

Lion of Light is a previous Hilaritas RAW book dealing with magic, details here.

Morzin Palace in the Czech Republic, where Haydn worked early in his career (see the Wikipedia bio).

Here's the announcement: "Mike Gathers chats with bio-energetic therapist, qabalist, and author Deveraj Sandberg.

A recent comment from Alastair Atlantis to this blog post seems worth a signal boost: "Even though this is old, I wanted to let everyone know that the 'original' comic books from the 1980's and 90's can be found on the Internet Archive (archive.org), even…

Thanks to efforts from Mike Gathers and Bobby Campbell, several out-of-print Timothy Leary ebooks have become available.

Craig Ellenwood.

The Kickstarter for a planned audiobook of Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson by Gabriel Kennedy/Prop Anon has been relaunched.

Modern Occultist, which recently interviewed Eric Wagner, has posted an interview with me about Robert Shea.