A Good Week

25. November 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Cold Lonely Places, Cosmonautica, Deep-Fried Dystopia, God's Abandoned Vanity Project, Unmitigated Ass-Whistles of Vivacity · Tags: , , , , , ,

I think I’ve mentioned that it’s been a strange year for yours truly.

The strangeness has manifested itself in many good and many bad ways. Happily, this past week, the strangeness has been a very good, very fun thing.

Not all of the strangeness is fit for disclosure in blog-form.

Some of it is, though.

From Texas, the great Daniel Kalder sent signed copies of his excellent books Lost Cosmonaut and Strange Telescopes. He also sent the Polish-language version of Lost Cosmonaut, which looks really cool, although I can’t read a word of it:

D.K. was also kind enough to send several amazing photographs from his personal collection (© Daniel Kalder). Please don’t redistribute in any fashion.

Here’s a few from Kalmykia, the strangest of estranged Russian lands, IMHO.

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Fuck All You Motherfuckers

Another nice bit of mail showed up in the form of this book:

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Brian Clark, the author, mentions yours truly in the “thank you” section, along with a diverse group of talented folks:

Thanks:

Skiba, Boyd, Emily, Vadge, Trace, Stephanie, Ruth, Iced Borscht and Lisa

Beautiful this strange world of ours, nyet?

Thanks to Daniel and Brian for adding to the past week’s excellence quotient.

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FUN, POLITICALLY CHARGED & CURRENT EVENTS-DRIVEN KIDS BOOKS

23. November 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Deep-Fried Dystopia, 日本語 · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
  • ‘A’ is For Assumed Incumbency
  • Adolph Eichmann Builds the Future
  • Alex Jones’ Trout Farm
  • Benito Steals the Bacon
  • Big Sis & the Illuminati Prom
  • Capture the Flag With the Trilateral Commission
  • Chris the Neo-Confederate Clown
  • Christmas With Burl Ives & the Elders of Zion
  • Commodification Snack Cakes
  • Curious George and Gilles de Rais
  • Curious George and the Holocaust Denial
  • Curious George and the Hostile Takeover
  • Curious George and and Jungian Archetypes
  • Curious George and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
  • Curious George and and the Shroud of Turin
  • Curious George and and the Sunk-Cost Fallacy
  • Curious George and and the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
  • Curious George and the Zionist Occupied Government
  • Curious George Meets Marshall Applewhite
  • Darrell the Eminent Domain Duck
  • Dianetics and FUN
  • Diddle Diddle Dumpling & the Doomsday Device
  • Enlightened Absolutism For Kids
  • Father-of-All-Bombs Four Square
  • Finger Painting With Lyndon LaRouche
  • Fun With Leaflet Bombs
  • GoodTime Fun and the Deviancy Amplification Spiral
  • GoodTime Fun With Bailout Bisquick
  • Honey, I Shrunk the U.N.
  • Hopscotch, Expropriations and House Arrest
  • Indentured Servant Prayer Book and Funvelope
  • Jack Abramoff: What Do You Do with the Mad that You Feel?
  • John Jacob Jingleheimer’s Gender Theory Blues
  • Jumping Jacks and Renal Failure
  • Jumping Rope With Andrea Dworkin
  • Keep-the-Bastards-Honest Kick Ball
  • Knock, Knock Gendercide
  • Let’s Go Nation Building! by Nicky the Magic Knackwurst
  • Mama’s Miranda Rights
  • Moral Hazard Hopscotch
  • Mr. Zinn Puts On His Fun Face
  • ‘No Motherland Without You’ Workbook
  • Pass-the-Parcel Petrodollars
  • Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake, Political Prisoner
  • Pete’s Panopticon House
  • Pop-Up Pirate with the Eternal President
  • Pork Barrel Activity Book
  • Repressed Memory Therapy and Other Stories
  • Rock (Against Bush), Paper, Scissors
  • Simon Says: Let’s Go to the Emergency Government Headquarters!
  • Spend the Day With Bobby Fischer & Other Chess Theoreticians!
  • The John Birch Sing-along Book of Truths
  • The ‘Any Means Necessary’ Illustrated Songbook
  • The Carceral State and Any Questions You May Have
  • The God of Justice Truffle
  • The Tactical Turducken Thanksgiving Day Feast
  • The ‘We’re Here-We’re Queer’ Egg and Spoon Race
  • Tomas de Torquemada’s Toolbox of Excitement
  • Uncle Noam’s Foreign Policy Pop-Up Book
  • Why Does Daddy Call Mommy ‘the Plaintiff’?
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Almost as Exciting as the New Phone Book!

30. June 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Deep Night, Deep-Fried Dystopia, Love Letters to the Canadian Shield, Nautical Ephemera, Negative Spaces, Perdita · Tags: , ,

It’s here. Available for a limited time only, ICED BORSCHT & OTHER DELIGHTS — the Book (Volume I).

Excitement is in the air, no?

Addendum: I made this book not only because I find Pedia Press, the publisher that facilitates these Wikipedia compendiums cool and fun, but because I occasionally get feedback that the Iced Borscht blog is too esoteric. Impenetrable even. So I thought I’d make a roadmap. The above compendium contains a lot of things I find compelling. Things I enjoy, things I want to learn more about. For example, hypnagogic mind-states — that time right before the mind falls asleep, right at the threshold– might be the best time to listen to the great music of Ken Nordine. I’m very familiar with these states because I experience hypnic jerks then. I occasionally fall prey to the Exploding Head Syndrome in sleep-related moments too.

The book touches on concepts I’m paying particular attention to lately. This summer, for instance, I have toyed around with a dream machine, and I hope to make my first visit to an isolation tank later this month. I’m obsessed with the mind right now. “I’ll show you the life of the mind!”

And I’ve always had a fondness for:

Hope this helps.

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