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  1. Finished "Crazy for God" (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2007) a memoir by Frank Schaeffer son of Protestant theologian Francis Schaeffer
  2. Thomas Tietze, author of Margery (an excellent book on Margery [Mina] Crandon), has died. Info at http://bit.ly/ChGRr
  3. Jim Schnabel, author of "Remote Viewers" comments on Jon Ronson's "Men Who Stare at Goats" at http://bit.ly/2komzw
  4. Jon Ronson video on YouTube (5 parts), pertinent to Men Who Stare at Goats, is at http://j.mp/32khK0
  5. Michael Swords, a former editor of the Journal of UFO Studies, now has a blog at http://bit.ly/2zOdMB
  6. Finished reading The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (New York: Random House, 2007). Good.
  7. Doug Skinner has a website on John Keel. See http://www.johnkeel.com
  8. I've been reading Master of the Mysteries: The Life of Manly Palmer Hall by Louis Sahagun (Port Townsend, WA: Process, 2008). Recommended
  9. David Perkins' foreword to "Stalking the Tricksters" by Christopher O'Brien is at http://bit.ly/18TZ1s
  10. How cows saved the world from UFOs (humor, of course) at http://www.bechamel.com/v3/...
  11. Carol Rainey, coauthor and former wife of Budd Hopkins, has commented on Hopkins' "fundamentalism" at http://bit.ly/mX51D
  12. Stacy Horn continues to post interesting material on the Duke University parapsychology work at http://www.stacyhorn.com/un...
  13. Interesting article on placebos in September 2009 issue of Wired magazine. Online at http://tinyurl.com/nwowoc
  14. New journal reviews books on alternative religion and spirituality http://www.academicpublishi...
  15. Just finished a review of the Muhlenberg College 2009 Theory and Art of Magic Conference. See my blog: http://tinyurl.com/4pskh2
  16. I uploaded an article on magicians and the paranormal. See my blog for details: http://tinyurl.com/4pskh2
  17. I am on a Paratopia podcast (27 June 2009) discussing “Marginality, Anti-structure, and the Paranormal” at http://paratopia.podbean.com/
  18. Good article on US government involvement with UFO movies at http://tinyurl.com/kj7gcs
  19. Just posted some old papers on Budd Hopkins’ case of the Linda Napolitano (Cortile) UFO abduction. Links at http://tinyurl.com/mdmlyb
  20. I was briefly mentioned in Weird New Jersey magazine, No. 32, May 2009, page 85.