Feb 08
Issue six of Paraphilia Magazine is now available to download. This issue includes a fascinating article on the Abbey of Thelema by Nick Louras. (Paraphilia Magazine pdf download).
Feb 08
During the last few years of his life, Philip K. Dick lived in Orange County, a Southern California setting that made the life-battered sci-fi writer something of a stranger in a strange land. This is the fifth part of a six part series where freelance journalist Scott Timberg looks at Dick’s final years.
‘Though Philip K. Dick was not, on the surface, a writer of place - he was driven more by sweeping ideas than by locations or even local cultures - his time in Southern California had a profound impact on his work, in sometimes complicated ways. Dick wrote - in a 1973 letter to Polish science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem - “there is no culture here in California, only trash. And we who grew up here and live here and write here have nothing else to include as elements in our work. The West Coast has no tradition, no dignity, no ethics - this is where that monster Richard Nixon grew up.”’ (L.A. Times article).
Feb 05
Here’s Doug again, exposing “the sausage factory of modern celebrity” in the third episode of Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe. (Voice Of America video stream).
Note: you can check out Stanhope’s YouTube channel right here.
Feb 03
During the last few years of his life, Philip K. Dick lived in Orange County, a Southern California setting that made the life-battered sci-fi writer something of a stranger in a strange land. This is the forth part of a six part series where freelance journalist Scott Timberg looks at Dick’s final years.
‘Of course, for all the action of Philip K. Dick’s Orange County years - the marriage, the divorce, the birth of his son Christopher, the suicide attempt, the bouts of depression, the new novels, the development of Blade Runner - the most significant is surely what the author came to call “2-3-74″. Those months of 1974 were when Dick either lost his mind completely or was visited, ravishingly, by God.’ (L.A. Times article).
Feb 02
‘Any nation which borrows/prints 20% of its GDP every year is essentially a debt addict on welfare.
If you depend on borrowed money which will never be paid back and freshly printed notes for 20% of your expenses, you’re on the dole. Since we will never pay it back, the borrowing of the money is just a sham; stripped of deception, it’s welfare, a “gift” from future taxpayers to the current beneficiaries of Federal largesse and swag.’ (Charles Hugh Smith article).
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