JESUS FISH SPOTTED ON ASTEROID TOUTATIS!

The peanut-shaped near-Earth asteroid known as Toutatis was recently photographed by an unmanned Chinese space station, but I have found an earlier video that shows the asteroid tumbling through space to be far more interesting. Take a look at the screen-shot below and tell me whether or not you see what I see? The video can be watched at the link provided above, or you can watch it, below.

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CONNECTICUT MURDERER AND STAR TREK ALIEN, SEPARATED AT BIRTH?

I'm pretty sure I won't be the only person commenting on the odd appearance of the alleged Newtown, Connecticut grade school massacre gunman Adam Lanza and that that spooky alien from the end credits of Star Trek: The Original Series. But that doesn't mean I'm going to refrain from doing so.

UPDATE! H'WOOD PARTY KIDS PLAY PRETEND BLACK MAGICK!

And the whole thing was caught on camera! Here it is, in all its tacky glory...

Here's a detailed report about the event that goes into all the minutia and even some behind the scenes gossip that might be of interest to any Thelemites and Crowleyans out there reading this.

TORONTO'S CONSPIRACY CULTURE SHOP

Those of you living in or near Toronto who have yet to visit the amazing Conspiracy Culture store need to do so ASAP. It's a beautiful space and Patrick's prices are very competitive with even Amazon's. Also, they has a number of rare books and videos that can't be found elsewhere - including some samizdat-style photocopied books that have long since gone out of print and fetch hundreds on the auction sites. You can watch a video of store co-owner Patrick being interviewed for Space TV, Canada's version of the Sci-Fi Channel.

ACTORS TO PERFORM OCCULT RITUAL AT H'WOOD ART GALLERY

Jeez! First he wanted to adapt Cormac McCarthy's un-adaptable masterpiece novel Blood Meridian for the big screen, now Hollywood wunderkind James Franco wants to bring Crowley back? From the Dangerous Minds blog:

Occult artist / musician / filmmaker Brian Butler will be performing Aleister Crowley’s “Bartzabel Working” tomorrow night, Tuesday, December 4, at the L&M Arts gallery space in Venice Beach, CA. This occult ceremony is part of the gallery’s current “Martian Chronicles” theme exhibit and will employ custom robes made in the original A∴A∴ (Crowley’s magical order) designs and a circle, altar and triangle fabricated in vivid colors. Actor James Franco and Noot Seear from Twilight: New Moon will also participate in the ritual.

To quote my friend, parapolitical blogger Jeff Wells: "I guess Hollywood occult rituals aren't what they used to be."

Read the whole story at Dangerous Minds.

CULT MOVIE PROPHECY OF DOOM COMES TRUE

American International Pictures (AIP) was legendary for churning out an endless stream of product for the nation's movie theater and drive-in screens. They made them fast, and they made them cheap, and most of the time, it was easy to tell. However, hidden among the rock and roll beach romps and teenage werewolves, aliens and cavemen, one occasionally finds the odd shining gem. 1968’s Generation Gap “youthsploitation” satire Wild in the Streets is one such gem.

Wild in the Streets is the story of rock and roll singer Max Frost, whose massive popularity allows him to become both a political force and a messiah of the “youth liberation” movement. After folk singer Phil Ochs turned down the role, producers went with James Dean look-and-sound-alike Christopher Jones.

Max first gets political by backing the Senatorial ambitions of Johnny Fergus, a Kennedy clone, played by Hal Holbrook. Fergus supports lowering the age of suffrage from the then-current 21 to 18.

At a rally for Fergus, Frost electrifies the audience by advocating a voting age of 14 and debuting the rabble-rousing protest song “Fourteen or FIGHT!”

The masses take this message to heart and after some back-and-forth between the political establishment and Max’s band and brain-trust, everyone agrees to the less controversial platform and slogan: “Fifteen and Ready.”

Fergus is swept into office on the youth vote. Max’s gang then use the only member of their entourage old enough to run for office – blissed-out former child star and acid casualty Sally LeRoy – as their puppet in Congress. They succeed in amending the Constitution to allow Max to run for the Presidency, which he does on the Republican ticket. Thanks to a wave of public anger over a police massacre of young demonstrators--a truly chilling cinematic premonition of the Kent State Massacre, which was still two years away at the time--Max gets elected and almost immediately assumes dictatorial powers

Wild in the Streets is a remarkable film on a number of counts, over and above its tremendous commercial success. Though decades of hindsight render its satirical ambitions all too obvious, it was taken as a dead serious Orwellian warning upon its release. This is most likely because Wild in the Streets is, at its core, a deeply conservative film. In fact, upon close inspection, its politics are damn near reactionary.