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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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October
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- Triptych #15
- "As One" by Makoto Yabuki
- Attention, audiophiles!
- Link-dump #22 (space edition)
- Tube twins
- 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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September
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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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- "A Short Vision"
- The hour is nigh.
- "On your last trip did you discover what the Earth...
- Link-dump #15
- Anomaly
- Le petit prince
- Well, it's a start. (Of what, exactly, I don't kno...
- Link-dump #14
- The more things change, the more they stay the sam...
- UFOs and extraterrestrials
- UFO landing at 1984 Olympics
- Link-dump #13
- "Proof"?
- Exoskeletal
- CTRL ALT DEL
- Hot, hot, hot!
- Here we go again.
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- A Roswell crash debris "smoking gun"?
- NOAH
- Visitor
- "The Math Book" by Cliff Pickover
- Link-dump #12 (UFO edition)
- "We do the work, you do the pleasure."
- The latest YouTube UFO clip
- Triptych #14
- Soupbots
- Fingers crossed
- "What is oozing out of our ground?"
- Quote of the day
- The Pitch on Stan Romanek
- This should come as no surprise.
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- Reality check
- Meltdown?
- Signs of life?
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- It came from beneath.
- LGM meets PGA
- In a perfect world
- Triptych #13
- The toilet paper tube art of Junior Jacquet
- Website of the day
- "Manifest Destiny"
- "Harry Patch (In Memory of)" (Radiohead)
- Elaine Morgan on the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
- Aldrin's "monolith"
- But where's Gort?
- Sounds from the future
- Only forward
- Shaking its thing
- Miniature flying saucer in Japan?
- Have cube, will travel
- The semantic apocalypse
- What's with the giant black sperm cell in your liv...
- New photos
- Bobby McFerrin and "Close Encounters"
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2 comments:
All I remember of the 84 Games was that there were no Russians, so there was no Ying for the American's Yang. It became an immense American propoganda show, so I don't think I watched any of the games.
I surely remember watching this live on TV. It was really amazing —nothing like the Olimpic games to allow the two superpowers show off their wangs in front of a global audience :-P
The commentator at one point reads that the "ship" weighs over two tonnes and is powered by jet fuel. Is this accurate? I would have thought the whole thing to be really light and towed by a helicopter. In fact I just wrote a comment at Cabinet of Wonders where I mentioned that I remember (or think I remember) some flying saucers used as publicity stunts that were carried by helicopters, or so my parents explained it to me.