What if war didn’t need a reason anymore? What if it didn’t need a story, or a cause, or even an enemy? What if all it needed was a system—and a player?
That’s the idea behind War for Fun and Profit. Continue reading
There’s a lot of benefit to be had from listening to the same song in twenty bands playing forty different arrangements.
What you’re really doing there isn’t just “listening to variations”—you’re training the ear to separate essence from appearance. Continue reading
Friends, blog readers, and everyone in our Zoom circle—
Something interesting happened tonight while we were playing around with images. We produced what started as a humorous photo—me standing inside a UFO with two Greys—and then turned it into a magazine cover. The result was surprising. It didn’t just look like a joke or a novelty graphic. It looked like a real pulp magazine cover you might see on a newsstand.
That’s worth thinking about for a moment. Continue reading
Long before the internet, long before encrypted messaging apps, there existed a remarkably simple system that allowed human beings to communicate across great distances — and sometimes right under the noses of people who did not want them to communicate at all.
That system was Morse code. Continue reading
Last night I didn’t write a blog.
Instead, I built something.
Many of you know that I’ve been experimenting with song generation using a very simple but powerful method. Rather than writing one song and polishing it endlessly, I take a lyric idea and send it through a series of different musical environments. Each environment is a different band, style, or arrangement.
Same words.
Different musical universe. Continue reading
Beatless – The Festival That Shouldn’t Exist
Every once in a while something shows up in the music world that nobody can quite explain. No one knows exactly where it started, and no one is completely sure who organized it. Yet suddenly everyone seems to be talking about it. Continue reading
People ask me all the time if I’ve ever had a UFO experience.
I usually pause, look thoughtful, and say, “Define experience.”
But since you asked, here’s what happened. Continue reading
Everything we see around us — the news, the politics, the noise of the world — all of it takes place inside the space-time universe. This is the stage where events unfold. Causes lead to effects. One moment follows another. People are born, people pass away, and history marches forward.
In that sense, what happens here normally stays here. Continue reading
good morning all.
Everywhere you look right now there is noise. War news, political shouting, endless commentary from people who seem determined to out-dramatize each other. The television panels look like theater companies performing The Tragedy of the Week, and the internet echoes it all back at us twenty-four hours a day. Continue reading
Jack was a good friend, and he never even met Epstein. Nor have I.
Years ago, when I was involved in the intelligence community as a “clerk-typist trainee MOS 006”, I heard a curious bit of professional slang used to describe the underworld agents against whom the good guys were pitted. Continue reading