1/11: Comic book personality Stan Lee recently received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that more fittingly belonged to Jack Kirby. Because of a pending court battle between Kirby's estate and Disneycorp -- which purchased for billions of dollars the Marvel comics creations/licensing properties that clearly were mostly the product of page-rate earner Kirby's hard work and brilliant mind -- even some of Kirby's fans and admirerers have soft pedaled their dismay. To gain a better appreciation for the powerhouse of creativity that is Jack Kirby, check Rob Steibel's daily blog, Kirby Dynamics, at kirbymuseum.org/blogs/dynamics. Kenn Thomas' interview with Jack Kirby from 1976, with new introductory remarks, appears in the current issue (#35) of Jack Kirby Collector, available from twomorrows.com.
1/30/11: Uncle Icke? Gary Trudeau's Hunter S Thompson figure, Uncle Duke, comes to the same question David Icke did thirty years later.
1/31/11: Price breakdown on Volume 5, Number 7 of David Childress' World Explorer Magazine: "$5 USD; 5 Euro; 4 Fetish Stories..." Another paramag, Nexus, has stopped distribution in North America.
2/1/11: Paved with good intentions...Tim Beckley has let loose with another
one, including contribution from Steamshovel's Kenn Thomas.
Available now on Kindle from amazon.
2/2/11: Long time Steamshovel correpsondent Drew Hemphill has had his research cited extensively in a new article by Dan Eden (Gary Vey) who had exposed James Hurtak's ties to Project HAARP and the NSA: naturalresonancerevolution.blogspot.com
2/3/11:
Comics Journal reports on one Mickey Mouse aspect of the American
involvment in the Egyptian conniption.
2/8/11: The Octopus pops out of memory hole waters just in time for the Reagan remembrances:
"The Octopus Conspiracy: One Woman’s Search for Her Father’s Killer"
2/26/11: The current Middle East mayhem as H. L. Mencken might have viewed it, by Steamshovel ally and CEO of the fabulous book publishing alternative, Dissdent Books, Nicholas Towasser:
H.L. Mencken in Tahir Square: Democracy or Destruction?
3/11/11: Respected long-time researcher Bill Kelly has a new petition for JFK assassination files. He makes the point that no hearings have been held on the subject since 1997, "despite new and critically important information accumulating on the assassination...Many relevant documents have been destroyed or have not been declassified and released to the public by government agencies despite the JFK Act and Freedom of Information Act requests." Kelly asks for signatures at
and adds "I personally ask that you compose a very short letter to the Oversight Committee Chairman, Representative Darrell Issa, stating that you have signed the Petition for open hearings on the JFK Act, and request to be personally informed by e-mail when these expected hearings will be held so that you may make plans to attend, view them live on CSPAN and review their proceedings...You may FAX your letter to FAX Number (202) 225-3974."
3/12/11: Skylaire Alfvegren, the Fortean who focuses on that small section of the Fortean phenomenal world located in the American southwest, gets interviewed on The Church Of Mabus Radio Show late Saturday/early Sunday April 2 & 3, with the archives broadcast later at: Paranormal Radio
4/9/11: The Tim Leary episode of The Outer Limits: "Expanding Human" because the classics never get old!
4/4/11: Feral House has posted an excerpt at its pre-order site for the new book JFK & UFO here: JFK & UFO: Military Industrial Conspiracy and Cover Up from Maury Island to Dallas
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