Here at Anomaly Magazine, we’re learning to love our “Because it’s Thursday” features. We all hold down full time jobs. This is a labor of love for us. But because it isn’t our job, it’s easy to let it slide when things start getting hairy. The Thursday feature reminds us, at least once a week, that we’ve got this red-headed step child sitting over here waiting for some of our attention.

Plus, Thursdays have held a soft spot for me since college. My alma mater, Shawnee State University, was on the quarter system instead of the semester system. This meant they were always tweaking the scheduling, trying to find the most efficient arrangement. At one point classes were scheduled either on Mondays and Wednesdays, or Tuesdays and Thursdays, with lab and studio times available on Fridays. This essentially meant Thursday became our Friday, and a ritual of Thursday night drinking and debauchery ensued. When my group of small town co-conspirators decided our irregular poetry readings and open mic events needed to happen on a monthly basis, we continued our Thursday tradition, and the Third Thursday Open Mic for poets and musicians was born. As we got “real jobs” and founding performers started moving away, it became more difficult to maintain. But we still found time to dedicate one night a month to the celebration of Thursday, and, at last report, new generations of college students in small town southern Ohio are keeping our Third Thursday event alive and kicking.

It’s apparently not just me and my friends that have a soft spot for Thursday (or Thor’s Day). I have it on good authority that football fans love it because a lot of games are broadcast on Thursday. People start getting geeked for Friday. And in Austin, it’s not the alliterative Third Thursday, but the First Thursday of every month that brings celebrants into the street to experience art, music, and community.
And then there is this guy, 41 year old Peter Bielecke, who liked to rob banks on Thursdays.

To each his or her own I suppose. Me, I’ll stick with poetry and music. I don’t think I’m so keen to know what kind of Thursday rituals they practice in the prison system.

What kind of Thursday traditions do you practice or know about? Share them with us in the comments section or start a thread in the Anomaly Forums!

I would like to plead for my right to investigate natural phenomena without having guns pointed at me. I also ask for the right to be wrong without being hanged for it. — Wilhelm Reich, father of the concept of orgone energy and inventor of the orgone accumulator

Wikipedia

Wilhelm Reich Museum

Watching the ARGonauts Play

If you’ve followed the Elfis Network from the beginning then you know of my early interest in Alternate Reality Gaming and their potential for “mucking up the works” for paranormal and parapolitical researchers. You may also know that my interests were rekindled in 2007 by the provocative hypotheses of blogger DreamsEnd, who speculated that the mysterious suicides of artists Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake were some kind of sophisticated art hoax or viral marketing / alternate reality game. After a very rough period of defending his theories online, blogger DreamsEnd temporarily pulled up shop, taking down his websites. My own re-investigations into ARGland dwindled and I too went back to my normal para activities…

That is until I became aware of a new blog that was following many of the threads explored by DreamsEnd; KadesKorner. Here was another blogger (with a writing style nearly identical to that found at DreamsEnd) writing about many of the themes and topics we’d been exploring during the Theremicity period: Andy Kaufman, Election Fraud, Andy Stephenson, false identities, the Franklin Coverup, the Octopus and PROMIS, Middle East parapolitics and … Theresa Duncan and ARGs! And through “Kade” I learned of a new ARG to watch out for; what has come to be called TGATT or The Great And The Terrible aka I’m Sorry. But before getting off into the I’m Sorry mindfu…, er um, ARG, let’s take a peek at some of the more interesting ARGs and Viral Marketing campaigns that have been bleeding through their alternate ARGiverse realities into our own.

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Dowsing Talks in Texas with Remote Viewer Paul Smith:

Folks–

Here’s a heads-up.  I will be giving a presentation on dowsing in two different locations this coming week.  The talk will be “The Remote Viewing/Dowsing Connection,”  And I will be giving it on the following days at the following locations:

AUSTIN
Austin Metal Detecting Club
Thursday, 14 May 2009, 7 PM.  Address:

Woodlawn Baptist Church
4600 Manchaca Blvd.
Austin, TX  78745

Website:  www.amdconline.com/Meetings.htm
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HOUSTON
Lone Star Dowsers Dowsing Conference
Friday, 15 May 2009, 1:30 PM .  Address:

Days Hotel at 500 N. Sam Houston Parkway, Houston, Tx.  77060
Website:  www.dowsersmayconference.com

If you’re around, come on by!

Best wishes,

Paul
(Paul H. Smith)
www.rviewer.com

Proposed Police Programs Put Your Privacy at Stake

Austin’s police chief proposes a policy of mandatory blood withdrawals for drunk driving suspects who refuse a breathalyzer test.

Now the chief favors video surveillance across the city, new requirements for DNA samples for detainees, and police checkpoints, making everyone a suspect.

Is this the end of privacy as we know it?

Join a Public Forum, March 30th.

Panelists include: Art Acevedo - Austin Chief of Police, Deborah Russell - American Civil Liberties Union, Karen Housewright - Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Mike Martinez - Austin City Council, John Bush - Texans for Accountable Government.

Austin City Hall

301 W. 2nd Street, Austin, Texas 78701

Forum Begins at 6pm in Council Chambers

Parking available in garage under City Hall.

Sponsored by Texans for Accountable Government

For more information, call (318) 617-8292

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Austin Mufon 9/26/92 with Karla Turner Pt1

Part One

Central Texas UFO mini-Conference on September 26, 1992. Karla Turner was an exceptional researcher and experiencer of Alien Abductions. This is part 1 of 9 parts. - SMiles Lewis

The following was originally published in the Fall 1994 edition of E.L.F. INFESTED SPACES - Journal of Possible Paradigms:

TAKEN INTO THE FRINGE
RESEARCHER FOCUS: Dr. Karla Turner
by SMiles Lewis

My first exposure to abduction researcher/ experiencer Dr. Karla Turner was on September 26, 1992. She was speaking to an audience of approximately 200 people in Austin, Texas. The mini-conference also featured Ed Conroy and George Wingfield, and was organized by the local Austin MUFON chapter. I have seen very little from abduction researchers that I qualified as being of any significance, so Dr. Turner was a particularly unexpected surprise.

Austin MUFON » Flashback: Abduction Researcher Karla Turner

Opening Reception for Powell St. John
“Surrealistically Fantastical Art on Display”

www.SAMOPC.org

Date:	Saturday, March 14, 2009
Time:	7:00pm - 11:00pm
Location:	South Austin Museum of Popular Culture
Street:	1516-B S Lamar Blvd
City/Town:	Austin, TX
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South Austin Museum of Popular Culture

March 2009 Events

March 7
Powell St. John exhibit opens;
artist reception March 14 At the Museum

March 13
Special Display of Vulcan Gas Company Posters & Photos
Psych Fest Radio Room, 508 East 6th Street
Start Time: 8:30 pm

March 14
Powell St. John Exhibit Reception 7:09pm
Music by Powell St. John
8:00 pm Special guest Alex Maas
At the Museum, $5 donation requested

March 18
Austin Chronicle Music Awards
Special Museum display featuring Doug Sahm
Austin Music Hall

March 19 – 22
Flatstock 20- conference of the members of the American Poster Institute
Thurs., March 19 1pm – 6pm
Fri., Sat. Sun. March 20, 21, 22 11am – 6pm
Austin Convention Center

March 21
Uranium Savages 4:20 pm – 7:09 pm
Chicken Strut 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
At the Museum, $5 donation requested

South Austin Museum of Popular Culture
1516-B South Lamar Blvd
Austin, Texas 78704
512.440.8318

www.SAMOPC.org

Every Tuesday over at Anomaly Television is “Science & Technology Tuesday” when I and my friend Floyd Anderson post the latest videos related to those topics. Well last Monday night Brave New Bookstore featured an important speaker (whose radio show I sometimes carry at Anomaly Radio). Dr. Katherine Albrecht is the leading expert in America fighting for your and my freedom from rampant surveillance society, prison planet, techno tracking and taxation. She was just here in Central Texas to fight the new MANDATORY pet-chipping happening just down the road in San Marcos. I went to the bookstore event hoping to catch her lecture, show my support and maybe even finally meet her face to face. However, the event was so successful that I took one look around, saw no place to sit (it was standing room only and there were a LOT of people standing), turned around and left. I’m not phobic of crowds but I just couldn’t deal with standing around for the next two hours after a long day of work. But thankfully, my friend Floyd Anderson was undeterred and managed to get video of the entire event. As Katherine begins her lecture she estimates there were about 200 people crammed into Brave New Bookstore. Wow! Thank each and every one of you that showed up. Anyway, check out the entire lecture available over at Anomaly Television dot com.

- SMiles Lewis

Part One

Katherine Albrecht speaks on microchips at Brave New Books in Austin, Texas along with Randall Mock, Lisa Marie Coppoletta, Judith McGeary, and Sheila Dean.

Watch all the videos here at Anomaly TeleVision » Blog Archive » Dr. Katherine Albrecht Speaks on Microchips at Brave New Books 3/2/2009

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