Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “Fabulas Panicas” (Panic Fables), was an unusual psychedelic comic strip published in the right-wing Mexican newspaper, El Heraldo de México, from 1967-73.
FILM
LASH OF THE PENITENTES — Exploitation Cinema and Los Penitentes
Extra! Extra! Read all about “a strange story of love, hate, passion, and intrigue” and the “strange rites” of “frantic flagellants” in New Mexico. Enjoy “The Lash of the Penitentes” trailer at The End of Being!
ART
UM, LONNIE? — Episode One
That’s right kids! clawdeuS offers up a web comic like none you’ve ever seen before. Behold the tales of Lonnie the Lot Lizard: Pillow Talk from Truck Stops!
DRUGS
ALAN WATTS INTERVIEWS BERTRAND RUSSELL – Plus Remix Video
Amazing interview of British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, socialist, pacifist and social critic, Bertrand Russell by British philosopher, writer, speaker and counter culture icon, Alan Watts.
ART
THE COMING INSURRECTION – The Invisible Committee
The insurrection is coming! The insurrection is coming! The insurrection is…probably not actually coming.
KULTURE
JOHN BOEHNER > “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” – by Miss Isis
Our resident Sexpert, Miss Isis, opens her mouth about John Boehner’s comments on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in his interview with David Gregory on “Meet the Press”
KULTURE
CIVIL MISS OBEDIENCE – Reverend Wenda Watch Acts Up
I’ve been called “The Mouth from the South” and everyone is about to see why. I am a peace loving, patient gal — up to a point. And where I come from, according to my watch, it’s about 10 minutes past ass kicking time.
KULTURE
MOUNTING AN ATTACK — Single Mother With Knife Responds to Pat Robertson
The End of Being intercepted a missive addressed to Pat Robertson from Voudon Petro loa Ezili Dantor and steamed open the envelope.
FILM
MAYA DEREN – Rare Unedited Hatian Footage Shown
Anthology Film Archives in NYC is hosting a very rare look at the unedited footage of Maya Deren’s Divine Horsemen film. All proceeds go to the Haiti Relief and Development Fund.
ART
GODOT “ACTION COMICS” – #37:The Wrath of Vladimir
GODOT ACTION COMICS – Episode #37 – The Wrath of Vladimir – art by Jerry Ordway – Another American Sequel Society Spin-Off!
KULTURE
KALKI – and the End of the World
Gore Vidal’s end of the world epic is true to the Hindu mythology of Kalki and a weird romp into political science fiction.
KULTURE
INTO THE LION’S DEN – Wenda Takes on Dallas Mega-Church’s Santa Fe Invasion
Wenda Watch can stand anything except hypocrites, and when a bunch invaded Santa Fe from the Dallas Bible Church to cure Santa Fe of its “homosexual invasion,” she had to do something!
MUSIC
DEATH MAY BE YOUR CHRISTMAS PRESENT – Morbid Call and Response Xmas Sermons
And today’s happy holiday thoughts are, “DEATH MAY BE YOUR CHRISTMAS PRESENT” by the Rev. A. W. Nix and “WILL THE COFFIN BE YOUR SANTA CLAUS?” by the Rev. J.M. Gates. Take a listen here…
FILM
FIRES ON THE PLAIN – Part One: The Book
(part one: The Book) examines Shohei Ooka’s 1957 novel Fires on the Plain, the first person account of a Japanese soldier’s attempts to escape death in the Filipino jungle during the final days of World War II.
KULTURE
Vive la Revolución!
Several years ago I was gifted a 400+, six volume set of books called “Thought Control in U.S.A.” Put out by the Hollywood A. S. P. Council after a 1947 conference in reaction to what would, in the 1950s, become the infamous blacklisting of Hollywood during McCarthyism. The text includes lectures, papers and testimony at the conference by writers, actors, academics, and others.
LIT
ALEISTER CROWLEY – A Cylinder Recording
ALEISTER CROWLEY reciting THE PENTAGRAM – cir.1910 from a cylinder recording.