Wendy's Coffeehouse Curious

  “For the whole life-effort of man was to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain-life, cloud-life, thunder-life, air-life, sun-life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so derive energy, power, and a dark sort of joy.” –   D.H. Lawrence ,   Pantheist.net. 3.7.23 I woke up to the sound of my alarm – it was muffled and sounded far away. Confused, I heard the noise stop as I reached for my phone. It wasn’t actually the phone. The alarm had not been activated. The time was 12 am.  Birthday wake up call. Recent quirk – my phone alarm shifted from swipe to button function. Somehow, I managed to plug in the right words to locate info on an  android alarm update  – the quirk: on my phone, the  function keeps switching  without me doing anything. Some days are button mode. Other days the swipe is back. I am guessing, with my non-selection, it will eventually settle on the button update. Pantheism  s...

"Aliens will evolve until they are pure, willful conscious energy - and maybe even something beyond that. They long ago realized that biology and ones and zeroes in machines was literally too rudimentary to be very functional. True advanced intelligence will be spirit-like - maybe even on par with some people's ideas of ghosts." - Zoltan Istvan, Transhumanist, Why Haven't We Met Aliens Yet? Because They've Evolved Into AI. Motherboard . Spooky, Sci-Fi, Offbeat and Odd - Bees survive Note Dame blaze? Drunk on smoke. Independent.UK UFO from the window seat - splits into multiples. Source . New Nessie video - via Grandson of a previous witness. Source . Stops traffic. Beaver hauls equivalent of small tree across road. UPI . Twilight Zone bummer. Episode 1 free links ['The Comedian'] have expired. Vulture . Follow CBS All Access . The Orville gains traction. Space likes it. Star Trek Discovery scores a solid review from Vulture . Space not ye...

It began when as a young parish priest I tried to assuage my curiosity about ghosts, and in no time at all found myself enjoying the company of these people from the world of yesteryear. I even found myself acting as counselor/social worker to many of them. I just can't understand anyone being afraid of ghosts. - Holy Ghostbuster: A Parson's Encounters with the Paranormal , Reverend Joe Aelwyn Roberts OddsnEnds -  This Fan-made Harry Potter film brings new life to the Tom Riddle backstory , adding extra characters and fleshing out a few plot elements. Nixed and then, after a chat with the execs, approved. Voldemort deserves an afterlife renew... Thumbs up review: Yahoo.   The Last Great Daredevil aka Mad Mike Hughes plans to launch his homemade rocket on February 3. Details and launch coverage . Hoping that name isn't a self-fulfilling title.   Holy Ghostbuster , yes, the same one quoted above, passed away. Mysterious Universe - Thanks to Paul Seaburn Woman marr...

"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done." - Steven Wright Wendy's Coffeehouse Podcast 4/16/17 Nick Redfern - 365 Days of UFOs Nick explores all things Fortean. His books have numbers and pages . Smile. Books by Nick Redfern/Amazon OddsnEnds - True meaning of Star Wars according to George Lucas - to be 12-years-old once again: HuffPost   Truman's secret crash site debrief? Another Roswell reveal?: Express ( Nick's next book revisits the Roswell case .) Missing student Bruno Borges . Continues to confound. Time Travel? Alien Abduction? Updates on the case post here: Reddit thread   Woman and her Therapy Dog attend a Furry Convention and we all get educated. (Might be just me.) Turns out they are people (mostly guys) who enjoy going to a costume event dressed up as animals. Link the dog now has a new scrap book of memorable photos and a bunch of new furry friends: HuffPost   And there's this guy. Jiji is 94 and didn't ...