Tag: LSD

• Her Body Electric

                  First up, here is Gary Westfahl to give us some background on actress, writer, and psychic researcher with a PhD from the University of California, Thelma Moss, also known as Thelma Schnee: She wrote screenplays for two episodes of Science Fiction Theatre: “The Negative Man” (story by Ivan TORS) (1955), “The Throwback” (1956); and…

  Bill Ectric

  March 29, 2015

  Father Brown, Gary Westfahl, Kirlian Photography, LSD, My Self and I, paranormal, parapsychology, The Body Electric, The Colossus of New York, Thelma Moss, Thelma Schnee

• Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice: Feds, Heads, and Threads

  The books of Thomas Pynchon are so chock-full of cool references, I had to make two collages for this blog entry. Pynchon is one of my favorite writers. I recently read his noir-hippie novel, Inherent Vice (The Penguin Press, New York, 2009). The term “inherent vice” is a legal term that refers to  physical properties of…

  Bill Ectric

  January 31, 2011

  Alfred Korzybski, Feds’N’Heads, general semantics, Inherent Vice, LSD, noir, San Narciso Community College, the internet, Thomas Pynchon, Timothy Leary, virtual reality