Who Said It: Elon Musk or Mr. Burns? | The New Republic

Crazy quote of the day. Bet you can't guess who said it. Wait, bet you can.

"There will be no Mars is we let them take our freedom away." 

Who Said It: Elon Musk or Mr. Burns? | The New Republic

Images and Old Poems

pastel drawing by Regan Lee

I've been going through some of my poetry and creative writing with the idea of e-zines, or chapbooks, or something, not sure yet where I'm going with this. I noticed that some of theses early poems from the 1980s have recurring images of orbs, night skies, and feelings of disconnection. In re-reading them, I realized many of these were written around the time I saw the orange orb. In fact, this poem refers to an orb, although it's a sliver orb, not orange. The imagery is interesting: moon women, orbs, shadows, and the end, sweet jesus, "capturing my frozen eyes." ?! What was that about? I also noticed that I wrote a lot of these kinds of poems during the late summer and the fall, which is the time frame for our orb sighting. And in going back further, reading poems I wrote while living in L.A., the imagery of orbs and night and planets, etc. were present. As Jim and I know now, we had UFO related, and/or high strangeness events occur when we were living in L.A., before the orange orb sighting. And, of course, going back to our childhoods, independent of each other. Are there clues in these poems, signals from the subconscious? No doubt, lol.

unconnected with moon women

a silver orb waits silently in a
musty corner on a wooden shelf,
hidden by sharp shadows like Chinese meat cleavers poised
on thick pegs above labeled spice jars, corked and racked, 
full of the herbs of mid-wives, now forgotten.

on the windowsill, tart purple grapes, hot and shriveled
grapefruit and pomegranate exposing their soft pink and secret glistening red waiting to be eaten.

unconnected with moon women i wait,
a single artichoke on a a scalloped plate, my tips half chewed, strewn about the cream white edges

the sliver orb shifts forward slightly in the night, and
one sliver gleams bone white 

capturing my frozen eyes.

~ 1982

Big Mars News

Big time news about Mars. All kinds of interesting things are coming from out of there. . . doesn't it seem that all the news about what's being discovered up there is all so casual? Signs of Underground Plumbing Seen on Mars

A NASA probe has spotted hundreds of small surface fractures near Mars' equator that may have acted as underground natural plumbing to channel groundwater billions of years ago.

In The Green Room: Yes, Yes, Yes! But . . .

I have a new blog entry on the UFO Magazine blog, The Green Room: Yes, Yes, Yes! But . . .

Shaver and Hoagland: Separated at Birth?

Were Richard Sharpe Shaver, and Richard C. Hoagland, separated at birth?

Shaver was the author of the "Shaver Mysteries," which FATE magazine publisher Ray Palmer believed were true, and gave them publicity in FATE. Briefly, Shaver's story was that there was a race of beings living inside the earth. "Deros" and "Teros," beings that kidnapped humans and did unspeakable things to them beneath the earth. Shaver had been in communcation with these beings; indeed, he was held prisoner by them.

Hoagland of course works tirelessly to bring news of "The Face" on Mars.


Don't misunderstand; I'm not suggesting one, or both, are hoaxers. Maybe one is, the other isn't. Or both are. Or both aren't. My point, if I have one, is just an idle observation on the physical similarities.