Recent content by Jigoku Bosatsu

Well, I have to say that I love the show Ghost Hunters. It's fun, my g/f likes to watch with me, and I can pretty much suspend my disbelief the entire time. Wait, should I have to suspend disbelief on a reality show? I think as far as the evidence is concerned, there are some fascinating...

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Morphine, Steely Dan, Barry Adamson, Slayer, ELP, Clutch, Morrissey, the Police, Voivod, the Who, Zappa, Mel Torme, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Bauhaus, Robert Johnson, David Bowie, White Zombie, Cream, Prong, Tool, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Pat Martino, Alice Cooper, Fareed Haque, Ice T, Joni...

What the????!!!?

I used to run a hellish packaging machine at a feedmill. Some genius came up with the idea to post a clipboard labelled "AUTOPACKER PROBLEMS". It had forms where people would write various maintenance issues. One night in a fit of pique I took a sharpie and wrote DING-AN-SICH on the cover...

Well, here is my Zen-informed two cents. That crazy stuff you hear during meditation is called makyo. These are effects of contemplative activity, and hallucinatory or not, are distractions to be considered and then ignored. On a grander scale, makyo might manifest as contact with...