Eclipses, Spring and Unimaginative People

If you’re reading this morning’s column, I assume you forgot to call in sick and fly your Gulfstream up to Greenland for the eclipse today. Just a guess, mind, you. Got to love the headlines about it, though. Not to burst your bubble, or anything, when when you read headlines like “Total solar eclipse provides a spectacular celestial show” don’t get too worked up. Around here, when we see stories like this, we take an East Texas Outback kind of practical approach, which includes laughing our butts off at live coverage of darkness on television.

Coping: Hints of WoWW – Flashes and Time Slips

It has been a good while since we’ve had anything big to report from the World of Woo-Woo – that place past Rod Serling’s “sign post up ahead.” It may be that WoWW is a consequence of natural forces we don’t understand. Like right now, for example. We’re in a “Michael K. Lee window” awaiting major earthquakes from the recent eclipse.

Coping: Beware the Corporate Rumble

(Gig Harbor, WA) One of our long-time readers is a hard working east coasterly fellow who works a good ways up in one of those NYSE-list companies that if I told you, you’d go “Sure, I use their stuff every day…” He sent me an email last week that is more that sobering because it looks ahead to “America After””.” After what? Well, odds are fair that the S&P will crack 2,000 today or later in the week. And that (trigger effect) means that we could be in one last parabolic stock market blow-off for a few months to come. BUT then we expect the Mutha ofs All Crashes – the one that will dwarf the 1930’s and make us all broken and beyond.

Coping: Automatic Writing Blowback, Retrograde, Chance?

As you know, I did an experiment last weekend with “automatic writing” and wrote up the interesting experimental results Monday, or so, of this week. What’s interesting is that several readers warned me against such an endeavor, noting that to mess about which such processes is to risk getting in contact with entities that may not have my best interests at heart and some suggested that “evil sticks” to people who get around such stuff. Danger in tinkering with magick is their context. On the other hand, no harm in it (although yes, the information in the note from Chris at www.thechronicleproject.

Coping: The Matter of Predictions and “Slop” (CalQuake)

When one makes “predictions” about the future, the reader or analyst is faced with a terrible statistical problem. While a perfect “hit” would be an event – exactly as described – there is the matter of “effective fulfillment” of a prediction. When on pokes around the Internet, for example, and offers various insights into future events, there is often (accompanying) a kind of disclaimer. It says, in effect, that because the net is so large and impacting on mass consciousness, the ACTUAL fulfillment may not occur but a QUASI fulfillment would have to be counted. When, for example, one writes about “massive flooding” to come, it is argued that “flooding” anywhere – even if just in headlines – would constitute fulfillment of a prediction.

Coping: With the WoWW & Another One of “Those” Dreams

No, I have no idea how all this “dream stuff” works, but for sure – as soon as I get the usual load of crap done around here this morning – I’ll be uploading this one to the www.nationaldreamcenter.com site.  Definitely a case of the world of woo-woo (*WoWW.) It’s another one of those dreams that has the same “syrupy reality” feel to it that other dreams (with some precognitive content to them) have had.

Coping: With Dreams, Dream Work, and the Dream Center

Once again, the mind of George was busy delivering either the future or a frappe of leftover thought stubs last night as I had one of those odd dreams with content that has – on occasion – old me about the future before it arrives. I won’t go through the litany of past experience – I’ve done that enough in the past – but the dream last night centered on the concept “The Sudberry (Sudbury) Incident” which would be fine. Except, of course, I know no Sudberrys and have no idea why it should pop up in a dream. The word Sudberry (possibly Sundberry or Sudbury) doesn’t mean jack to me and it’s not a word that has cropped up in the previous conscious thought in the past year. Hell, I don’t consciously remember ever thinking about it.

Coping: With Serious, Personal, WoWW

(Amarillo, TX) As the sun comes up over the Texas Panhandle this morning, and the winds have died down so the scent of the feedlot operations west of town are down, Ures truly is slowly on the mend from one of the finest encounter with the World of Woo-Woo, WoWW, ever. The tale begins on Tuesday morning after publishing the UrbanSurvival column. I was dead tired after grabbing breakfast, and so I decided to snooze a bit before hitting the shower and heading out on the road for our next stop, a casino-hotel outside of Albuquerque, NM. It was only supposed to be a 4-5 hour drive…Besides, I had gotten up at 2 AM local time to write the Tuesday column due to the time zone changes from home base. While snoozing, I had what can only be described as a “vision” kind of dream.

Coping: With the “Great Texas Blizzard of Ought ‘14”

(West Elmwood, Texas) The commute to the UrbanSurvival office this morning was deemed treacherous and writers were urged to stay at home and offline if possible as the Great Texas Blizzard of Ought ‘14 swept through the Outback Region overnight dropping billions of flakes. “I haven’t seen this many flakes since the 2012 elections,” one local resident told us. Forecasters, who have named it “Winter Storm Klink” immediately attributed the storm to the effects of global warming. One forecaster, Mortimer Snerd of the Fort Worth forecast office said it was the worst storm he’d seen in his whole career since being hired on in late 2013 . Another weather expert, Dr.

Playing to the Fed, Quantitative China

The market looks to open firmer this morning…and why not? We still have more than a week to run until the Federal Reserve meeting, at which time most of the smart money seems to think that new Fed chair Janet Yellen will not rock the boat and will take a “go slow” attitude toward ending quantitative easing, which though losing its effectiveness has, nevertheless, allowed the Fed to keep the economy from catering. The latest bit of financial candy is that China is boosting liquidity and that, in turn, should give markets a goose globally. Between now and Fed day next week, we have a paucity of news and data to look forward to. There aren’t any big releases set this morning.

Coping: “Phantom Time” and a “Woo” Report

A number of readers have asked me to research a bit into “phantom time” which (even if you haven’t read Anatoly Fomenko’s History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)) is an intriguing notion that would destroy a lot of present-day thinking. The Wikipedia notes on “Phantom Time” relegate the idea to the the trash heap, at least on the surface:

Coping: Did U.S. “UFO” Tech Testing Cause Japan Quake?

Sit down, relax, and open your mind up. We’re going to venture into the most highly speculative thing I’ve written in a good, long while. There is a longish chain of data to follow, but it leads to a very interesting bit of speculation. This is a complicated story and we are still barely upright apes. We’ve only recently figured out electricity, after all…so come on along on one of my holiday rambles… The timing of this is important, as we head to what some (like Patrick Geryl) have hypothesized as an early January quake.