Black Octopus Journal

Zero Kama - The Secret Eye of L.A.Y.L.A.H.

Here is a shot of Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury in the skies of Whittier, California I took tonight on a whim with my iPhone.

Ah, Debt!

Community.

I haven’t really felt inspired to write anything interesting since my last post, so I decided to try setting up a small web server I can run in my office.

I have a small collection of Tarot cards I’ve acquired over the past few decades.

One of my favorite pieces of gear is my reissue Fender Reverb Unit, also known as the 6G15.

If you have ever read The Equinox, Volume III, Number I (The Blue Equinox), you have most likely stumbled upon the mysterious portrait of a large headed entity with tiny eyes and a small mouth labeled LAM.

I love this guitar so much.

Nerd ALERT!

My little joke about the Large Hadron Collider in my last post made me think about ... well, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN!

I hate April Fools' Day, especially online.

Coming off the Radionics train and after rewatching the Duncan Laurie segment from Disinfo TV, I was reminded of Cleve Baxter's plant communication experiments, which fascinated me as a kid and still fascinate me today as a connoisseur of sound.

I remember stumbling upon Radionics in the late 80s early 90s.

Being a kid in the 70s and early 80s was a blast from what I remember.

Sometimes a performance doesn’t need explanation, just a focused, uninterrupted listen.

The Fool’s Journey by Kippi’s Kwest turns the Major Arcana into a single unfolding story instead of a set of disconnected meanings.

Remember when webcams became all the rage back in the early ’90s?

I’m not much of an art aficionado, but I do have a few favorites that include H.R.

Have you ever noticed that as soon as you get into a hobby or even just think about collecting something you suddenly discover that millions of other people have recently started doing the same thing, and now the prices are three times what they were a ye…

Do you remember how, in the ’70s and early ’80s, the Loch Ness monster was everywhere?

Happy Friday the 13th!

For some reason I got the itch to buy a sticker of the “I Want to Believe” poster that Mulder had hanging in his office on The X-Files.

My mind gets distracted easily.

Mars is my favorite planet, and I have been excitedly waiting for its opposition for years.

These are my feets!

It's no secret that my favorite ride at Disneyland has always been the Haunted Mansion and my favorite character, Madame Leota.

I began this journey on March 17th, 2023 with the Orion Nebula (M42) and concluded it on December 9th, 2023 with M89.

Another great shot taken during opposition, with some excellent seeing that night.

This is one of the nicer shots I’ve managed to capture of Jupiter.

I stumbled across this LIFE photo essay while I was poking around the internet after reading about the strange wartime story of people supposedly trying to hex Hitler.

I stumbled across this post on John Coulthart's Feuilleton: Typeface of the Occult Revival and loved it.

I had read about this story before and was drawn in by how strange it was, so when I found a copy of Life magazine’s February 10, 1941 issue, I bought it mostly for the photos.

I have bookmarks.