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This is Mac Tonnies' Posthuman Blues Blog as it was captured shortly after his death. We hope future historians, the curious and his friends will read these words and Grok Mac in fullness. More details can be read here.
I'm a Kansas City, Missouri-based author, blogger, Fortean researcher, and occasional speaker. For biographical detail, visit my other website.
Please address all email to macbot [at] yahoo dot com. And yes, I'm on Twitter.
(Masthead by Araqinta.)
Words Frozen in Time
This is Mac Tonnies' Posthuman Blues Blog as it was captured shortly after his death. We hope future historians, the curious and his friends will read these words and Grok Mac in fullness. More details can be read here.
Welcome to the official blog of Mac Tonnies.
I'm a Kansas City, Missouri-based author, blogger, Fortean researcher, and occasional speaker. For biographical detail, visit my other website.
Please address all email to macbot [at] yahoo dot com. And yes, I'm on Twitter.
(Masthead by Araqinta.)
My Books
"A stunning survey of the latest evidence for intelligent life on Mars. Mac Tonnies brings a thoughtful, balanced and highly accessible approach to one of the most fascinating enigmas of our time."
--Herbie Brennan, author of Martian Genesis and The Atlantis Enigma
"Tonnies drops all predetermined opinions about Mars, and asks us to do the same."
--Greg Bishop, author of Project Beta
"I highly recommend the book for anyone interested in the search for extra-terrestrial artifacts, and the political intrigues that invariably accompany it."
--David Jinks, author of The Monkey and the Tetrahredron
"Mac Tonnies goes where NASA fears to tread and he goes first class."
--Peter Gersten, former Director of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
And don't miss...
(Includes my essay "The Ancients Are Watching.")
Blurbage
"Posthuman Blues is good shit. You humans might like it too."
--John Shirley, author of Crawlers and Eclipse
"Mind-stretching."
--Clifford Pickover, author of Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves
". . . a grabbag of links and pithy blurbs, each a little more curious than the last."
--Feral Intelligence
"Frankly, there's nothing worse (aside from death, global famine, nuclear disaster and all-round armageddon) than seeing players in the UFO field fawning all over their peers at conferences as they seek acceptance into the ufological sand-pit by saying the 'right thing' to the 'right people.' Thankfully, there's none of that in Mac's world."
--Nick Redfern, author of Three Men Seeking Monsters
"Mac Tonnies is undeniably a bit of a weirdo. Perhaps that's why I like him so much, though I agree with nearly nothing that he writes."
--John Brownlee
--John Shirley, author of Crawlers and Eclipse
"Mind-stretching."
--Clifford Pickover, author of Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves
". . . a grabbag of links and pithy blurbs, each a little more curious than the last."
--Feral Intelligence
"Frankly, there's nothing worse (aside from death, global famine, nuclear disaster and all-round armageddon) than seeing players in the UFO field fawning all over their peers at conferences as they seek acceptance into the ufological sand-pit by saying the 'right thing' to the 'right people.' Thankfully, there's none of that in Mac's world."
--Nick Redfern, author of Three Men Seeking Monsters
"Mac Tonnies is undeniably a bit of a weirdo. Perhaps that's why I like him so much, though I agree with nearly nothing that he writes."
--John Brownlee
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- Triptych #15
- "As One" by Makoto Yabuki
- Attention, audiophiles!
- Link-dump #22 (space edition)
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- Tube-girl sighting!
- "The Lady Who Fell to Earth"
- The entomological art of Cornelia Hesse-Honegger
- Skeletons in the planetary closet
- The Knife
- That strange feeling is your head spinning.
- Rise of the tumorbots
- Link-dump #21
- I'm snot making this up.
- Behind the scenes at the Singularity Summit
- I don't have an iPhone . . .
- I think it's about time for another dubious UFO vi...
- You want one, don't you?
- The existential implications of ufology
- This is more like it.
- The art of Xia Xiaowan
- Deja vu
- The bold new look of The Future!
- No bachelor pad's complete without one!
- You can't win.
- Link-dump #20
- Well, that didn't take long.
- You've probably already seen it, but . . .
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- "Then came the great comet, Dionysus."
- New photos
- Ernst Haeckel remixed
- Link-dump #19
- This one really got my attention.
- A breakthrough to warm one's posthuman heart
- Coast to Coast AM
- Some recent (and semi-recent) UFO posts
- Drink up!
- Into the abyss
- Further evidence that we inhabit a cosmic fractal
- Link-dump #19
- Transcendent machines
- More Roswell "insider" testimony
- This picture really bugs me.
- I wish I'd drawn this.
- Ever wondered what might happen if David Cronenber...
- Just ignore it and maybe it will go away.
- I love a good dose of paleo-transhumanism.
- Can't afford your own private wormhole?
- Link-dump #18
- Skywatchers, take note.
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- In Tucson I met the Vatican Observatory's Chri...
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- Because Twitter is so 2007 . . .
- Today's featured artist is Phil Noto.
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- Although I won't be at all surprised if I publish ...
- Found Image #12
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- The Interstellar Conundrum Reconsidered No on...
- Cat with four ears Yoda is a Chicago cat with fou...
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- Dark Roasted Blend is on the toy robot beat.
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- OK, I did it. Now it's your turn.
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- This Lexus concept car looks fetchingly like the "...
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- No words. (Thanks to Aberrant News.)
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- Who I Think the Visitors Are (Anne Strieber) ...
- They just don't make commercials like this anymore...
- Found Image #11
- Alien Will Kick Your Ass at Chess It's been a whi...
- I want this biker jacket!
- Russian Interest in MJ-12? Hey, who can resist a ...
- Film-maker Jesús Olmo sent me the following clip t...
- Found Image #10
- In the not-so-distant future, lighting fixtures wi...
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- Photos: Tetrapod beaches of Japan Hit the bea...
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- Not me. What famous person (or character) do ...
- Library of Dust In 1913, Maisel explained, an Ore...
- I found a serviceable bookshelf, slated for dumpst...
- World's Smallest Solar Car: Select Solar Mini Tal...
- Found Image #9
- Now this is a laptop.
- Good stuff: The Cyberpunk Project Information Data...
- Exclusive: A robot with a biological brain "T...
- Scientists to study synthetic telepathy The b...
- Meanwhile, at SETI.com, I chastise the so-call...
- My new "Loving the Alien" column has been post...
- It's a hoax. And not even a good one.
- Found Image #8
- Here's a follow-up to a story I blogged in October...
- Nasa Moonship flight target slips Agency offi...
- The Chinese "Weather Manipulation Missile" Olympic...
- Pat Condell at his best:
- Bigfoot Body: "Georgia Gorilla" Will Shock The Wor...
- Just taken today . . . The more I look at t...
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- I've added yet more photos to my Flickr stream...
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- Found Image #7
- A Bridge between Virtual Worlds The discussion of...
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- A charming example of cartoon reality deftly inser...
- Build a better being Will Wright's hugely success...
- Speaking of found images: this site is nothing but...
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- Rudy Rucker on the creative process: I enjoy my c...
- Franz Kafka's porn brought out of the closet ...
- Found Image #6
- New computer simulations show how special the sola...
- I've added a couple new photos to my Flickr stream...
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- Found Image #4
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4 comments:
"Calm as Hindu cows"
What happened to your train of thought on Ken Wilber?
The Wilber train is still gliding merrily along.
They all seem so happy...now, if they just turned around and looked behind them....
No, they're happy because Zeus is destroying the tenement project that their socialist government forced them into, and liberated them from the factory life that had kept them prisoner. Notice, also, the ethnic diversity and how harmonious they all seem. Destruction and upheaval always brings out the best in people.
Now, facing toward the future, they can dream. Then again, they could very well be staring at a mushroom cloud, but I just made that up.