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"What killed television's cultural worth was irony and over-sophisticated, postmodern defences of the lowest common denominator. By the turn of the century, there was no longer an intellectual position from which to unambiguously reject reality and game shows. Look at the way Jade Goody's personal tragedy is developing now – liberal critics don't know what to say but in the end they feel they have to defend this public death, even though it is something a science-fiction writer couldn't make up. Why? Because to condemn would be elitist and authoritarian."

Jonathan Jones on Art

Hatch 23: the occult series of 'Lost'

We found this article through Technoccult about retroactive magic threaded through 'Lost'. As you probably know retroactive magic is a an instrument we use widely in our rituals, so its very interesting to see how others perceive and use this:

In “Confirmed Dead” we learn that John would have died when Ben shot him in the back if he’d still had his kidney. This sounds a lot like “retroactive magic.” Retroactive magic is either the most cutting edge arena of modern magical practice or the most self-delusional (or both). According to Edward Wilson: “Retroactivity is the idea that actions taken in the present or the future can affect the past and therefore the affect can proceed the cause… It creates of causation an Ouroborus or Mobius strip.” In other words an occulist can alter the past as well as the future.

Patricide Music concerts with integrated psychedelia by Patricide Visual Solutions 7th and 8th of February about 9 o'clock both days DIVUS UNIT 30 Cremer Centre - North Entrance 37 Cremer Street, Shoreditch London, E2 8HD 7th February is also the opening of

'Brussels Sprouts' The vapour of European Parliament by Jasanský & Polák BRUSSELS SPROUTS Recently a group of photographers, perhaps inadvertently, revealed that the European Parliament is often almost completely empty, and the rest is just a Potemkin Village. Lukáš Jasanský and Martin Polák is a pair of sarcastic artists who could easily set up a TV channel to amuse even the most disenchanted and skeptical of intellectuals. It would broadcast in black-and-white, full of technical difficulties, with the two of them at the helm, having the most fun of all.

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Esozone

My Childhood Pt 2- Bast's first manifestation..

The REAL Frankensteins

Hidden deep in a Russian forest, and guarded by soldiers with orders to shoot intruders on sight, the medical research laboratories on the outskirts of Moscow were one of the Soviet Union's best-kept secrets.

Blinking unhappily in the daylight as Demikhov paraded it on its lead, this unfortunate beast had been created by grafting the head and upper body of a small puppy on to the head and body of a fully-grown mastiff, to form one grotesque creature with two heads. The visitors watched in horror and fascination as both of the beast's mouths lapped greedily at a bowl of milk proffered by Demikhov's assistants.

Google negates dont be evil maxim

Google developing eavesdropping software that uses your PC microphone to listen to your TV in the background, then places relevant ads on your PC.

Thetans forever trapped in pitiful man-bodies."

South Park's creators have renewed their "battle" with Scientology, after a US TV channel dropped a show which mocked its church and actor Tom Cruise.

"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!"

Trey Parker and Matt Stone told trade paper Variety. Comedy Central said the schedule change enabled it to screen two extra episodes featuring Isaac Hayes, who played Chef. Hayes left South Park this week after objecting to it sending up religion. Parker and Stone added in their statement to Variety:

"Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies."

Tardis Found in East end

IT'S a mystery even Doctor Who would struggle to explain - a Tardis has appeared in a wall in Glasgow's east end.

But if David Tennant and Billy Piper travelled back in time they'd find the answer in 1912. It was the year the Titanic sank, construction of Hampden got under way ... and the Mark Two cast-iron police box was introduced in Glasgow.

The police box was made redundant in 1935 and forgotten about for decades - until a curious worker found it embedded in a brick wall earlier this year.

And Speaking Of Channel Five....

Watching Peter Benchly's Amazon in it's full hilarity, fucking A for so-shit-it's-good entertainment value. But hang on a minute...The first images show a plane flying peacefully across nothing but green on the ground, as the First Officer, who has become the "guide", describes the Amazon rainforest as "The lungs of the Earth" over the P.A. system. Somehow the camera already shows us the survivors, even before the disaster.
...ringing any bells....?