Release the Files

Everybody’s talking about Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail back in 2019, while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Of course, nobody actually believes the official story — that he committed suicide.

Ever since his mysterious death, people have been convinced there’s a much bigger map behind him—names, networks, protection, the whole ball of wax. Continue reading

Hiding Secrets tra la la

Hide the Secret, Quick!

In the middle of the night, casting about for something to blog about, I find myself idly wondering … what exactly are those white house people hiding now? Do we know? Is there any evidence anywhere? Has it already been revealed? Any clue?

The short answer is: there’s no solid evidence of one big huge giant “hidden secret” except the Russian hookers urinating on you-know-who. No actual big secrets. Continue reading

What are you thinking?

Telepathy (Not What You Think)

I was asked to make a cover image for the Telepathy collection, and I did.

That alone is interesting, because the word “telepathy” has accumulated a lot of baggage over the years. Rays shooting out of foreheads. Secret powers. Parlor tricks. CIA files. Comic books. Tin-foil hats. You know the drill. Continue reading

What Tantrum???

You wondering why I’ve written yet another song called “Tantrum”?

Okay, I’ll tell you what happened.

I wanted an example of a good song that had been made before I understood what I know now about how Suno works, how to work the style sheet and the lyric sheet effects (call and response, etc.) and how to get specific results from it, so I could show how to re-work a good song into a better one. Continue reading

Rhythm, Rhyme and Repetition

The old three r’s were “reading, writing and ‘rithmatic, clearly taking advantage of the general ignorance that accepted those as “the three r’s”.

Now you’re right on the spine of it,” I said to myself this morning. Hey. This is a very strong line of thought, and it’s older than literacy itself. My “new three R’s” — rhythm, rhyme and repetition — are not just poetic tools. They are memory technologies.

And in the hundreds of thousands of years before writing, accurately retelling a story was the whole of civilization, period.

Thinking shamanically is exactly the right move here. I’ll explain: Continue reading