Anomalous News From Southern California, provided by
The League of Western Fortean Intermediatists
To tickle your ganglia...
An Evening with Norio Hayakawa "Putting all things Paranormal into Perpective" Recording available at:
www.blogtalkradio.com/InFocusParanormal
Saturday, 14th of March saw Get Your Nano-Wood On, Baby! A mind-altering nanotechnology-art happening by deranged scientists from Caltech (Paul Rothemund) and Cal Poly Pomona (Phil Lukeman) at Machine Project, 1200 D North Alvarado, Echo Park., LA. Very cool poster: http://www.csupomona.edu/~psl/nano_wood.pdf
SO CAL STORIES
Skylaire made a guest appearance
on PsiOp-Radio on February 21st
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This weekend!
12/12/2009 - LASantacon
December 12, 2009
Information >> http://www.heathervescent.com/
santacon/
Canter's Delicatessen and Restaurant
419 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90036
(323) 651-2030
Ho Ho Ho Tickets!
The moment you've been waiting for.... ticketing information for Santacon 2009 has arrived. Pop on over here to get your tickets. A few notes.
1. Everyone must have a ticket (price optional). If you opt not to pay for a ticket, Santa highly suggests you bring cacophony to share.
2. You must also show up with your own $5 metro pass.
Santa would also like to thank everyone who filled out the survey. Your responses were very colorful. Santa will be sharing some of those later, but we overwhelming heard that you want to kick it back to the Cacophony (and yes, we know the "bar crawl" last year sucked - that's not how it was supposed to happen). Santa was surprised at how many of you want a pony. Be careful for what you ask for......
But back to the Cacophony. Santacon is a response to the consumer-culture of Amerika's Holiday season. To that end, Santa would invite, incite you to come with your way to create and spin up the cacophony. Santa is working hard to put Santa in a place where cacophony can ensue; however it's up to Santa to create it.
(Only one request: can we keep the meta-pranks: the pranks on Santa, to a minimum? Remember who we're pranking. Pranking the pranksters can be fun and games but is lost in the larger scheme of the event.) Also, don't be a douchebag asshole Santa. No-one likes that.
Alright Santa, get your tickets, and we'll see you on the first day of Hannukah: 12/12! Ho ho ho.
Santarchy sweeps Los Angeles streets on 12/12/2009. Stay tuned for more details, but you can mark your calendar and start planning.
In the November 12th issue of LA Weekly, there appeared an article by Doug Harvey reviewing, amongst others, an installation by L.O.W.F.I friend Jeffrey Vallance as well as the Mantong and Protong Szukalski/Shaver exhibit. You can read it here.
Hope you were able to tag along with Maja!
If you're in Los Angeles on October 31st, why not do something that'd fit right into a L.O.W.F.I frame of mind? You can simulate one of our outings very closely if you were to join the Occult Los Angeles Tour called Maja's Mysteries: A Magical Excursion into Secret Los Angeles.
Los Angeles has always attracted spiritual seekers, some swimming down the mainstream of thought, others exploring esoteric tributaries. Maja's Mysteries is a guided excursion to some of the city's most fascinating spiritual sites hosted by Maja D'Aoust, lecturer and librarian at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Feliz, in association with Kim Cooper and Richard Schave of Esotouric. The tour's theme is "Consciousness impacts objective reality," a jumping off point for explorations of the nature of reality itself. Join Maja and Esotouric for a metaphysical journey into history, faith and magic in the Southland, with in-depth visits to some of the city's most compelling and seldom-seen spiritual sites.
Tour stops include: Downtown L.A.'s landmark 1927 Theosophy Hall, which is simultaneously an exquisite architectural time capsule and a thriving center for spiritual study where all are welcome to explore the wisdom of the ages in leaderless gatherings for which no payment is ever asked.
The local home of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O), the esoteric fraternal organization and religion that, under the leadership of Aleister Crowley in the early 20th Century, was rededicated to the Law of Thelema, with its twin directives “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" and "Love is the law, love under will.”
The Gnostic Society of Glendale (established 1928), where for more than 40 years our host Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller, the Bishop of the Ecclesia Gnostica and senior holder of the English Gnostic Transmission in America, has given Friday evening lectures exploring Gnosticism as living religious practice.
Maja says, "The mystery of magic in all its forms lives and breathes in us from the depths of our blood to the tips of our souls. From the Shamans of old to the modern day quantum physicists, the effect of our sheer will on the material world makes up a large part of what defines us as a species. Impacting reality with our consciousness, and conversely, reality's impact upon our consciousness lies at the base of every kind of magic from sympathetic voodoo to thaumaturgy. Making things happen with your mind, whether bringing the rain, healing a disease, invoking a God or prestidigitating an illusion, the art of conscious change is the very heart of the magical mystery of living."
Join us on the Maja's Mysteries tour for a one-of-a-kind Halloween adventure through the looking glass, and beyond.
Visit Esotouric at www.esotouric.com
"I am made of water. You wouldn't know it, because I have it bound in. My friends are made out of water, too: all of them. The problem for us is that not only do we have to walk around without being absorbed by the ground but we also have to earn our livings.
Actually, there's an even greater problem. We don't feel at home anywhere we go." - Philip K. Dick
Come discover Philip K. Dick's Fullerton, with our gracious host and tour guide, the venerable Robert Larson, this Monday, September 21st. Convene at 3pm at the corner of Chapman and State College, or contact me as soon as possible to iron out carpooling options from Lost Angles. (Feel free to forward this invite to any PKD enthusiast you may know in town.)
Bring a favorite PKD quote, passage or story to share at the last stop, which is, thankfully, a bar. One that PKD drank in (and wrote a scene or two about). Email me directly for more info: Skylaire@gmail.com.
Yours in Fort,
Skylaire
• CALEXICO, Calif. (AP) - The hottest thing on the griddle at the Las Palmas restaurant these days isn't the food — it's the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe that a cook says she saw on the griddle.
Restaurant manager Brenda Martinez says more than 100 people have flocked to the small town of Calexico on the California-Mexico border to gaze at the likeness of the Virgin Mary since it was discovered as the griddle was being cleaned.
Among the awe-struck was a group of masked Mexican wrestlers who arrived Thursday for an exhibition at a nearby swap meet.
One, known as Mr. Tempest, says: "This is amazing. It's a true miracle."
Since the discovery, the griddle has been taken out of service and placed in a shrine in a storage room.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97T3NGO0&show_article=1
Mysterious shaking leaves O.C. mystified
http://cbs2.com/local/Quake.Shake.Rattle.2.950567.html
Botox Bandit hits Newport Beach
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/03/two-newport-bea.html
The politics of Hollywood
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12465
Lovecraftian school board member seeks curriculum change
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/lovecraftian_school_board_member
Santa Monica Octopus floods aquarium
http://news.aol.com/article/octopus-floods-aquarium/360942
$@!%#*&! L.A. tries for expletive-free week
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29458858/
Man protests Christianity with nudity, poop
http://www.ktla.com/landing_topstories/?Naked-Man-Stages-7-Hour-Protest-Atop-Loc=1&blockID=227411&feedID=1198
Marijuana to be legal in California?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/23/BAO416354C.DTL&tsp=1
Thieving energy efficiency in Whittier
http://www.wcbs880.com/topic/ap_news.php?story=AP/APTV/National/a/a/SoCal
Truckjacking
As though we've got jobs for them... 50,000 CA prisoners to be released early
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/10/california.prisons/?iref=hpmostpop
UFO says hello to So Cal
http://www.ufocasebook.com/2009/california012909.html
Mammoth remains found at construction site
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090205/ap_on_fe_st/mammoth_find
Los Angeles woman is oldest person on Earth
http://www.ncbuy.com/news/http://deathby1000papercuts.com/
Don’t hang around death memorials unless you want to get shot, too
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/crime/la-me-gang-memorials4
UFO caught on video above Pasadena
http://www.ufoseek.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=3689&sid=2684165aeef0008add
4235724ece1a46
UFO spotted over San Fernando Valley
http://www.ufocasebook.com/2009/california111408.html
Illustrating the Apocalypse
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/675179392.html
Glowing UFO filmed over Corona January 30
http://www.nowpublic.com/strange/ufo-glowing-ufo-corona-california-jan-30-2009
Former Beverly Hills plastic surgeon used human fat to power “biodiesel” SUV
http://www.ncbuy.com/news/2008-12-23/1017100.html
Laguna Beach residents get Alabama calls
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2009/01/02/7905146-ap.html
George Knapp reports on mysterious object crash in Needles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awGOXaAA0Ts
