SUNDAY BREAKFAST

I think I need a drink. A Cuba Libre? I played a show with The Deviants on Friday night, and, like the codger that I am, I rested up yesterday and it was only when I turned on my computer that I found the long breaking news feed on the deadly insanity in Connecticut. I wasn’t being fair but I was suddenly damn glad that I’d left America. It wasn’t so much the crime itself. Such things happen and they are both mind-wrenchingly tragic and close to inexplicable. What worries me more are the minor monsters who slither from the woodwork in the wake of this kind of horror. Check these two comments lifted at random and unedited from the Murdoch-owned New York Daily News online… 

"Finding out the REASON for these killings makes the deaths have meaninig. The REASON behind these shootings, which needs to be exposed is that PSYCH MEDS cause suicide, homicide and are being used to genocide the whole world. ALl the mass shooters were on them. The REAL CULPRITS are psychiatrists; these shooters are victims too. Remember Levi Aron? Who killed Leiby Kletzky - Levi's sister died on a psych hospital from suicide caused by the drugs. Levi was ON psych drugs and used them to kill Leiby. He did to the kid what was done to HIM by psychiatry. Same story everywhere. stThe columbine shooters were ON psych drugs AND taking a death ed class. In the 90s many schools had them and the suicide rates shot up duh. WHy? the social engineers who RUN mental health and education want to depopulate the pl

anet by 90% and mind control everyone thru drugs. Brave New world by Aldous Huxley was the blueprint for them - a fascist society where everyone is drugged for control. Huxley said "a scientific fascism will be easy to sell the masses" meaning, the "supposedly scientific" mental health system which is atheistic and FALSELY calls Christians and everyone with spiritual experiences and beliefs schizophrenic. The murderers are the drs who drug people. The drugs brainwash peple. Al the major assassins were brainwashed patsies - one of the reasons is to justify GUN Control laws to disarm the population so we cant protect ourselves from the government. It is ALL MANIPULATION. They WANT us to beg the government to protect us. Remember SON OF SAM David Berkowitz? He became a born again Christian 12 years ago and is nO LONGER CRAZY. He says he WAS crazy due to dabbling in the occult wjhich opened him to demonic possession .THat testimony is important and people need to hear it - that JESUS HEALS People of Mental and Physical illness. IF berkowitz had been killed, nobody would hear his testikmony. what use is that/ He sholuld be set FREE so MILLIONS can hear his story - THEN his victims at least won't have died in vain. See my website, free books and articles at 1prophetspeaks.com HOw to be healed, saved & born again. Jesus heals The mental health system is a front for nazi genocide QUOtes showing the real agendas behind mental health and education ILlluminati mind conttrol in psych drugs, music and education."

Or try this one…

"More to the point, the anti-gun laws failed repeatedly as they do with criminals who ignore them. The 'Gun Free School Zone" policy is not only a total failure, it's a magnet for mass-killers, might as well paint a bullseye on every school. See, when law abiding citizens see 'gun free zone', they know not to bring a firearm anywhere near it. But when criminals see a gun-free zone, they see it as a green light, a soft target of opportunity. No law would have stopped this psycho-geek who apparently was known to many in ewtown to be dangerous. One armed school official - teacher, janitor, principal - would have. But the liberal rats in the media and their big mouth big city ghoul mayors will laugh at that, preferring instead to disarm the citizens so that their gutter accomplices in the criminal world can more readily prey on them. Keeps the Elites in power."

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The secret word is Unthinkable

MARILYN SEZ…

“I don’t want to think about it.”

ONLY FIVE DAYS TO THE END OF EVERYTHING

SO JOIN THE PARTY

OR WILL THE COMMIE ROBOT SAVE US?

GRATUITOUS CRUZ (PART 2)

JUST A REMINDER

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The secret word is Friday

Ravi Shankar – RIP 

BANG, WHIMPER, OR DRUNK?

How better to face the final curtain and defy the Mayan calendar than all together in the back room of a Brighton pub? But please note this is not a full flying Deviants rock & roll show. That’s this week. At this gathering we’ll have solos, duos and trios, guitars and drums, rants and chants and maybe experiments, cake and the odd exotic dancer. Human sacrifice is optional.

SPACE OPERA (Acme-style)

GRATUITOUS CRUZ

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SUNDAY BREAKFAST

Our slimy, bungling, bought-and-paid-for old-Etonian Prime Minister has decided that the plebs are drinking too much – which seems hardly surprising in the foul and uncertain midst of the entire austerity movement of which he is a graspingly enthusiastic supporter. He means to put a stop to all this proletariat drunkenness by raising the price of booze. The BBC tells us…

“The government is proposing a minimum price of 40p per unit of alcohol in England and Wales in an effort to "turn the tide" against binge drinking.It believes this could transform the behaviour of those who cause the most problems for hospitals and police. It also plans to "end the notion that drinking is an unqualified right by piloting sobriety schemes for those people whose offending is linked to excessive alcohol consumption", says the strategy document." (Click here for the rest of the sorry story.)

Which essentially means the rich are fucking the poor yet again and they won’t even have the courtesy of getting us drunk first. Which in turn reminds me of the old Paddy Ryan song…

I am the man, the very fat man,
That waters the workers' beer
I am the man, the very fat man,
That waters the workers' beer
And what do I care if it makes them ill,
If it makes them terribly queer
I've a car, a yacht, and an aeroplane,
And I waters the workers' beer

Now when I waters the workers' beer,
I puts in strychnine
Some methylated spirits,
And a can of kerosene
Ah, but such a brew so terribly strong,
It would make them terribly queer
So I reaches my hand for the watering-can
And I waters the workers' beer

Now a drop of good beer is good for a man
When he's tired, thirsty and hot
And I sometimes have a drop myself,
From a very special pot
For a strong and healthy working class
Is the thing that I most fear
So I reaches my hand for the watering-can
And I waters the workers' beer

Now ladies fair, beyond compare,
Be you maiden or wife
Spare a thought for such a man
Who leads such a lonely life
For the water rates are frightfully high,
And the meths is terribly dear
And there ain't the profit there used to be
In watering the workers' beer

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The secret word is Bottle

Huw Lloyd Langton – RIP

Sir Patrick Moore – RIP

MARILYN SEZ…

“It was really long but kind of floppy.”

BUT REMEMBER...

OUR WHACKY UNCLE BILL: Part 1 (Long time readers will remember this series)

“I’m back and I’m not happy.”

OUR WHACKY UNCLE BILL: Part 2

“I’m not your Uncle Bill. I just play him in the movies. And I never saw the mugwump before in my life.”

GRATUITOUS CORRECTION

15 DAYS TO THE MAYAN MELTDOWN (but the party is being planned!)

NO GUNS, PLEASE, WE’RE JAPANESE

I have always been morbidly fascinated by how the Japanese managed to conduct serious warfare while spurning the use of firearms for more than two centuries because they debased the nobility of combat. 

"Alone among countries that acquired and mastered guns, Japan effectively banned and repudiated these weapons, while simultaneously cutting itself off from the outside world. This meant that Japan was defenseless when U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry arrived with gunships in 1853, a culturally shocking moment, which vaulted Japan into a civil war caused, in part, by conflict between those who wanted Japan to continue to hold to its traditions -- and those who wanted to rapidly modernize Japan and catch up with the rest of the industrializing world:
"Warfare ensured that once states had acquired guns, they could not give them up. To this rule, there is one glaring exception: Japan. The Japanese first encountered firearms when Portuguese adventurers arrived in 1453 with two matchlocks, guns in which the powder was ignited with a match. Japanese blacksmiths quickly learned to produce such weapons in large quantities. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are known as the Age of the Country at War, when powerful lords bat­tled for control of the country. At the Battle of Nagashino in 1575, an army of 38,000 men, of whom 10,000 carried guns, defeated an army of sword-wielding samurai (or Japanese knights). Japan soon had more guns than any European country. Warfare and the proliferation of guns had serious social conse­quences, however. The battles showed that even a poorly trained peas­ant with a gun could kill a samurai, no matter how courageous, well trained, or expensively armored he might be. This threatened the posi­tion of the warrior class, who numbered half a million and were jealous of their status and their privileges, such as the right to carry swords. 

In the early seventeenth century, Tokugawa Ieyasu and his descen­dants defeated their rivals and established a military dictatorship. In the 1630s, they began restricting the manufacture and sale of firearms. Only in two towns could gunmakers practice their trade. Civilians were for­bidden to buy guns. Gradually, the government cut back its orders of fire­arms; by 1673, it was buying 53 large matchlocks or 334 small ones on alternate years. It also expelled all foreigners and forbade Japanese peo­ple from traveling abroad under penalty of death. For the next two cen­turies, no foreign power threatened Japan. The country was practically cut off from contact with the outside world and saw no reason to keep up with technological changes occurring elsewhere. Guns were forgotten until 1853, when American warships arrived in Tokyo Bay and, by firing their cannon, awoke Japan to the power of modern technology.” – Daniel R. Headrick: Technology: A World History (Oxford University Press)

The secret word is Loaded

Dave Brubeck – RIP

WRONG BLOCK – RIGHT RIOT

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THE FROZDICK FAMILY

Velvet Frozdick could never be too careful.

MY ADVICE IS TO NOT LET THE BOYS IN…

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PAY ATTENTION, CHAPS

SUNDAY BREAKFAST

"MMMM…Crunchy!!"

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The secret word is Shelob  

AUDREY EATS THE CHERRY

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EVA EATS THE SUSHI

MARILYN SEZ…

“Can’t these women keep their mouths shut?”

JUST 19 SHOPPING DAYS TO OBLIVION

My relentless ego compels me to remind everyone how I was discussing The 2012 Solstice Doom Racket back when José Argüelles and Terence McKenna were the only major players. Now even the mainstream media are not only in on the act, but shrieking like Helen Lovejoy, “Will someone think of the children?” But don’t despair, whatever else might come to pass on December 21^st, The Deviants and their ill-gotten cronies will be hosting a party in a pub in Brighton so we can all cease to exist together. Details will be revealed as the plot thickens, but it should not be confused with band’s full-on, no-prisoners rock & roll on show in Lewes on December 14th. (See about three items down.)

“NASA scientists took time on Wednesday (Nov. 28) to soothe 2012 doomsday fears, warning against the dark side of Mayan apocalypse rumors — frightened children and suicidal teens who truly fear the world may come to an end Dec. 21. These fears are based on misinterpretations of the Mayan calendar. On the 21st, the date of the winter solstice, a calendar cycle called the 13th b'ak'tun comes to an end. Although Maya scholars agree that the ancient Maya would not have seen this day as apocalyptic, rumors have spread that a cosmic event may end life on Earth on that day. There is no true issue here," David Morrison, an astrobiologist at NASA Ames Research Center said "This is just a manufactured fantasy. “Unfortunately, Morrison said, the fantasy has real-life consequences. Morrison receives many emails and letters from worried citizens, particularly young people. Some say they can't eat, or are too worried to sleep, others say they're suicidal.”

96% OF THE UNIVERSE IS MISSING

And even if the great multidimensional, string-theory main switch is shut off, it still seems we only know about 4% of the known universe.

“Astronomers and physicists are now grappling with evidence that suggests, even with the most powerful telescopes, we can only observe four percent of the universe. The rest, they posit, is dark matter and dark energy: " 'Dark,' cosmologists call it, in what could go down in history as the ultimate semantic surrender. This is not 'dark' as in distant or invisible. This is not "dark" as in black holes or deep space. This is 'dark' as in unknown for now, and possibly forever: 23 percent something mysterious that they call dark matter, 73 percent some­thing even more mysterious that they call dark energy. Which leaves only 4 percent the stuff of us. As one theorist likes to say at public lectures, 'We're just a bit of pollution.' Get rid of us and of every­thing else we've ever thought of as the universe, and very little would change. 'We're completely irrelevant,' he adds, cheerfully.
"The 'ultimate Copernican revolu­tion,' as [astronomers] often call it, is taking place right now. It's happening in underground mines, where ultrasensitive detectors wait for the ping of a hypothetical particle that might already have arrived or might never come, and it's happening in ivory towers, where coffee-break conversations conjure multiverses out of espresso steam. It's happen­ing at the South Pole, where telescopes monitor the relic radiation from the Big Bang; in Stockholm, where Nobelists have already be­gun to receive recognition for their encounters with the dark side; on the laptops of postdocs around the world, as they observe the real­time self-annihilations of stars, billions of light-years distant, from the comfort of a living room couch. It's happening in healthy collabora­tions and, the universe being the intrinsically Darwinian place it is, in career-threatening competitions.
"The astronomers who have found themselves leading this revolu­tion didn't set out to do so. Like Galileo, they had no reason to expect that they would discover new phenomena. They weren't looking for dark matter. They weren't looking for dark energy. And when they found the evidence for dark matter and dark energy, they didn't be­lieve it. But as more and better evidence accumulated, they and their peers reached a consensus that the universe we thought we knew, for as long as civilization had been looking at the night sky, is only a shadow of what's out there.” – Richard Panek: The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality ( Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

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GRATUITOUS ELLEN RIPLEY

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WE’RE AT IT AGAIN!

AS GOOD AS IT GETS

All through the interminable preparation for this book I tried to avoid the inevitable contemplation of the hideous reality that this was my life. I was gathering together some of the best surviving stuff that I had ever written, goddamn it. This was my fucking life. This was it. Life. This was all there was. The blurb reads…

“The definitive collection of Mick Farren’s prose, over four hundred pages of some of the best writing the counterculture has ever produced, carefully selected and extensively annotated by Mick Farren himself, with superb line-art illustrations by Michael Robinson, a foreword by CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY, a preface by FELIX DENNIS, plus encounters with JOHNNY CASH, FRANK ZAPPA, CHUCK BERRY, GORE VIDAL and PETE TOWNSHEND, among others. Over four decades of Farren’s very best interviews and polemics.” 

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Right now you can buy the deluxe paperback. The much cheaper paperback will be out in the spring.

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The secret word is History

BUT LET'S NOT FORGET

This fine, fine, novelette is also still very much on sale – except Amazon seem to be having trouble grasping the reality of this. The publishers assure me that this will soon be fixed, which is crucial for buyers in the UK. In the mean time you can contact Penny Ante by clicking here.

GRATUITOUS BIG GULP

49 YEARS AND STILL WAITING

I’m one of that generation who gave up on the concept of democracy when JFK was gunned down in Dealey Plaza 49 years ago today, except I’ve always had my own spin of the deal. When they shot Jack – CIA style – that was tragic, but when Jack Ruby took out Lee Oswald – Mob style – I knew instinctively something was wrong. Very wrong.. 

“November 22 marks the 49^th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The memory of the tragedy in Dallas seems to be fading in America's collective consciousness. Few people younger than myself (I'm 54) have any memory of the day it actually happened. 9/11 has certainly replaced 11/22 as the time stamp of American catastrophic angst. Yet the JFK story still acts as a gravitational vortex in America's pop culture galaxy. ABC News released of audio tapes of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy conversations shortly after her husband's death. The factually grounded but over the top Jesse Ventura blamed JFK's assassination on "the same old military industrial complex  " Stephen King published a time-travel epic called November 22, 1963. Bill O'Reilly wrote an uncharacteristically wimpy JFK book. And next year, Tom Hanks plans to release a big-budget assassination drama called Parkland, the hospital where JFK died. In this media spectacle, the Internet is a mixed blessing. The Web keeps the JFK story alive by providing a platform and audience for ever more fantastical theories about the death of the 35^thpresident. More constructively, the Web has made the government's troubling records about JFK's death available for the first time to millions people outside of Washington and the federal government. I believe this diffusion of knowledge is slowly clarifying the JFK story for everybody.” (Click here for more)

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The secret words are Bolt and Action

MARILYN SEZ…

“I’d already left the building.”

HIT THE ROAD, JACK

WHO YOU GONNA CALL?

THANX

Thanx to all my friends in the USA for being my friends in the USA.

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The secret word is Baste

AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPECIAL THANKSGIVING SPONSOR

GRATUITOUS AND ARMED

31 SHOPPING DAYS TO INFINITY

If my arithmetic is correct we now have just 32 days remaining until, according to the Mayan calendar, reality is switched off and all of everything just kinda winks out like the final episode of The Sopranos. I’ve always had a fascination with End of the World theories from the panic of 999AD to the 19^th century Millerites who, in March of 1844, when The Rapture failed to materialize and they didn’t rise bodily into the sky and go with God, were plunged into what became known as the “Great Disappointment.” In more recent times, we’ve had Nostradamus’ bad boy in the turban in 1999, Y2K in 2000, not to mention the slightly more real Cuba missile crisis, plus the 1962 incident when a bear almost kicked off World War III by triggering the wrong alarm, or the other cluster-fuck in January 1995 when a Norwegian research rocket was mistaken by the Russians for incoming US ICBMs and a vodka-drunk Boris Yeltsin was minutes from nuking the shit out of the United States. And now it’s the turn of the Mayans. Hey, bring it one. We’re even planning a party down here in Brighton – but more of that later.

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The secret word is Countdown 

WE’RE GONNA PARTY LIKE IT’S 1984

(Courtesy of UK Steve)

SPACE OPERA (Another Frazetta)

GRATUITOUS SHOES

THE HORROR, THE HORROR, THE HARDBACK HORROR

So these are the best selling books on the planet? I must confess I had to Google The Alchemist, but the real horror was The Twilight Saga, I mean, The bloody Twilight Saga!!! Words fail me. And where’s the Koran?

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The secret word is Gutenberg 

DRACULA SEZ…

“Idiot children of the night. I will show them twilight.” 

SPACE OPERA

DUMB AND DUMBER

This theory took me totally by surprise. But it does have it’s point. Is your phone smarter that you are? Roll on the Singularity and let Skynet sort it out. I’ll be dead anyway.

"Humankind's intelligence peaked thousands of years ago and advanced civilization has made life so easy for so many that our trend towards stupidity will continue as the ingenuity and intellect once needed for basic survival erode even further. This, anyway, is the argument of a new study out in the journal Trends in Genetics, authored by  Stanford University professor Gerald Crabtree. Crabtree's study claims that harmful genetic mutations—occurring generation after generation as society advanced—have reduced our "higher thinking" abilities and the accumulated result has led to a gradual dwindling of our intelligence as a species. The Guardian explains that Crabtree's thinking is a speculative idea—one he'd be happy to have prove wrong—but also a simple one: In the past, when our ancestors (and those who failed to become our ancestors) faced the harsh realities of a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, the punishment for stupidity was more often than not death. And so, Crabtree argues, enormous evolutionary pressure bore down on early humans, selecting out the dimwits, and raising the intellect of the survivors' descendants. But not so today. “I would wager that if an average citizen from Athens of 1000BC were to appear suddenly among us, he or she would be among the brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and companions, with a good memory, a broad range of ideas and a clear-sighted view of important issues,” Professor Crabtree  says in the paper." (Click here for more)

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The secret word is Stupid