Cocoon Up!

How to Use the God State as a Protective Cocoon

There are days when it feels like the world is unraveling faster than we can stitch it back together. Headlines scream about billionaires buying up suddenly available public lands, politicians auctioning off sacred burial grounds, and entire ecosystems being signed away with the flick of a pen. You can protest, write letters, donate, scream into the void—but there’s another option that cuts through the chaos: step into the God State and just get away from it all. Continue reading

What rough beast?

“…and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, shuffles toward Bethlehem to be born?” — William Butler Yeats

Well, now we’ve seen it, and it’s plenty rough and beast-like, and it’s headed toward the battleground of Megidda Plains, so there’d be no mistake. I have a plan: Continue reading

What Happens Here Stays Here

“What happens here, stays here”. That’s what the sign reads on all the Las Vegas check-in/out counters at all the hotels, casinos, bars, cafes, art galleries, fast food joints, and houses of prostitution, of which there are many.

Mostly  that sign saying “we won’t tell” is addressed to the many cheating husbands there for a convention, which they attend remotely from the local whorehouse. “What happens here, stays here” is the promise of Las Vegas and all its service people. Continue reading

Why is this Happening?

Magical garden of Misty Mountain, photo by Bilbo Baggins.

Consulting with my chatbot, Bob:

Back a few years ago, our band, “Insane Investors Club”, appeared on NBC’s squawk box for several hours, in front of 150 million viewers, and at the same time we had a dozen #1 hits on the then-new mp3.com music platform, plus dozens of top 40s. we also have sold over 1 million copies of my main book, “American Book of the Dead”, and I had ten youtube videos that got 1/3 million hits apiece.

Today, nothing like that happens for us. why? Continue reading