The Premier Issue of ANOMALY is Now Available.

Copies are being distributed at select locations across Austin including:

• Armadillo Christmas Bazaar at the Austin Convention Center
• Guero’s Taco Bar on South Congress
• Vulcan Video & EcoWise on Elizabeth Street
• Austin Art Glass on South Congress
• Gallery Soco on South Congress
• Monkey See Monkey Do on South Congress
• Planet K on South Lamar
• Little City Espresso Bar & Café on Congress
• The Hideout on Congress
• Aaron’s Rock n Roll on 6th Street
• Lovejoy’s on Neche Street
• The Gas Pipe on 5th Street
• Waterloo Records on Lamar
• Cheapo Discs at West 9th & Lamar
• BookPeople on Lamar
• Amy’s Ice Cream at 6th & Lamar
• Counter Cafe at 6th & Lamar
• Brave New Books on Guadalupe
• Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers on Guadalupe
• Cream Vintage clothing on Guadalupe
• Hole in the Wall on Guadalupe

… And at Other Locations to be Announced Shortly.

Having Trouble Finding A Copy? Then Send Us An Email.

- SMiles Lewis

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The AAS covers this past weekend’s phenomenal Ron Paul “money bomb” and Tea Party ‘07 activism. But of course the author just had to use the obligatory, dismissive identifiers ”‘black helicopter’ crowd” and “Paul’s is the Keep Austin Weird campaign” to discredit his supporters.

 - sMiles

POLITICS 2008 PRESIDENTIAL RACE

Austin is a stronghold for Ron Paul campaign

Supporters run the gamut from techies to libertarians to ‘black helicopter’ crowd.

By Mark Lisheron
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Sunday, December 16, 2007

Famously, flagrantly liberal Austin has almost overnight become a crucial redoubt in a campaign to elect as president a libertarian Republican congressman from Lake Jackson.

The strength of Ron Paul here is just another surprise in a campaign built almost entirely on the unexpected, delighting the candidate and confounding the experts. From the bursts of online political donations — nearly $11 million contributed by roughly 125,000 small donors — to the donors themselves — disaffected voters from both parties, idealistic political naifs, Constitutionalists (who believe in strict adherence to the Constitution) and anarchists — Paul’s is the Keep Austin Weird campaign of this presidential election cycle.

Read entire article here: Austin is a stronghold for Ron Paul campaign - Austin American Statesman

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My good friend Greg Bishop has reminded us that Saturday was the 40th anniversary of the tragic bridge collapse in Point Pleasant which was the climax to a flap of strange phenomena reported on by fortean ufologists John Keel and Gray Barker. Which also means its the anniversary of the birth of Mothman.

Silver Bridge Disaster 40 Years On by Greg Bishop at UFOmystic.com

Greg also links to some Point Pleasant related music.

- SMiles

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“We shall pick up an existence by its frogs. Wise men have tried other ways. They have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.” ~Charles Fort, Lo!

UFOlogists don’t like to talk about bigfoot. Cryptozoologists looking for sasquatch don’t like talking about ghosts. Ghost hunters won’t talk about UFOs. And conspiracy researchers are constantly lamenting, and rightfully so, being linked to all of the above by the media as a discrediting tactic. It’s a fair criticism (for those not wishing to taint there own activist chocolate with those other fringers’ peanut butter.)

A corollary criticism often follows that television shows and movies with wacky paranormal conspiracy subjects generally condition the public to associate those topics and issues with so much silly entertainment. And again, I generally agree with that sentiment.

But some TV shows and movies can make excellent touchstones for educating that same neophyte public about both the paranormal and parapolitical. And while our myth-making media do condition the public to pigeon-hole conspiracy claims and UFO sightings research into the molds sculpted in the image of X-Files “True Believers,” some examples from these pop-culture continuums can be turned back on themselves as vast repositories of referential material and launchpads for further exploration. These exemplary cult-classics can serve to educate instead of obfuscate. For there are many True Believers and they each have their own cliques, but there are also those watching all the various cliques - and those watchers aren’t all working for the NSA.

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The year 2007 has been a banner anniversary year for Forteans in general and ufologist in particular. Those with even a passing interest in unexplained phenomenon know that 2007 marks the 60^th anniversary of the June 24, 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting that ushered in the modern era of UFO sightings and gave popular birth to the term flying saucer, as well as the 60^th anniversary of the purported late June or early July crash in Roswell, New Mexico (reports of the exact crash date vary and the story would remain buried until Stanton Friedman, a physicist with experience working on various government air and spacecraft projects, began investigating the Roswell rumors in 1978). Read more »

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