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Posted by invizweb on May 16, 2009
My colleagues Austin Gandy and Raymond Wiley are finally going on tour to the EU~! Everyone within 10000 miles should attend their performances.
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Posted by invizweb on March 30, 2009
This site requires my own pocket money to maintain. So please, consider a few pennies for a poor dog to continue this whacky journey into phantasmagoria~! Please help feed a starving artist?
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Posted by invizweb on December 20, 2008
Happy Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Perchtenlauf, Requiem of the Dead, Tongzhi, Christmas, Yule or Winter Solstice.
KARL~!
On this episode of the Invisible Web Cast, I interview the only court certified historian of the combat sports, Karl Stern once again for the first half of the show. We discuss DC vs Marvel Comics continuity, 52, Annihilation, and some good recent reads. We also touch on some Wrestling history. As a bonus he reads part of his novel, Absence of Absalom, now available for the Amazon Kindle and all compatible readers. Approximately 46 minutes of whackiness~!
AUSTIN~!
And on the second half of the show, the Out There Trilogy comes full circle as “Stunning” Austin Gandy of Disinfo World News and formerly Out There Radio, joins us for more than 45 more minutes of hijinks~! We reveal the origins of young Austin. The discussion is had of popul;ar holiday customs of traditions including but not limited to reindeer. Then SUMOM is brought up. What is SUMOM? Find out the answer to that question and others on this episode. Plus we try to sort out our colleague, the Popo Bawa’s career as a childrens’ television star.
And a bonus surprise appears.
Download it now.
And thanks once again to Wendy Rule for her song, “La Femme de la Mer.” How can an epic show end without an epic song of timeless proportions?
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Posted by invizweb on December 16, 2008
Interwebz,
I am currently working on various things of which include the following:
- Last week I interview Austin Gandy of the Disinfo World News and Karl Stern of the Figure 4 Weekly Empire as part of our special Winter Carnival Espectacular. I hope you guys enjoy the show. I will do my best to make it entertaining. I am considering adding a third segment to it.
- For those viewers who visited the site in the last two days, you may have seen a preview my “YuleTide: The Twelve Deities” project I am working. Originally I was going to release it now but then I learned the 12 Days of Christmas/Solstice is between Christmas and January 6th, which is also known as Three Kings Day. However my profiles will begin on the Solstice, which is December 20th EST, so it will be the Twelve Deities plus five.
- I am still in the middle of working on my review of Jodorowsky’s work. I will also do a quick retrospective on the life of Shigeru Miyamoto who celebrated his birthday last month, and two posts listing the best foods I have dined in Queens and Manhattan, and best podcasts I have listened to this year.
- Recently I have purchased Alterna Comics- Morbid Myths Vol.1: the Collection, Steve Ditko’s The Hero, Grant Morrison’s Doctor Who#1, Classic Graphics: H.P. Lovecraft, and DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore. I have not decided whether or not I will review them as of yet.
Updates have slowed down not due to the Holiday Season but because of my taking the GMAT. Those who know me personal realize that I am a proponent of education reform and the abolition of standardized testing. At $250 a pop, the GMAT is definitely one that I highly advocate the concluding of.
I really want Persona 4 but I am still unemployed so it is not just a money issue, it is also a time issue. Once I find a job, I will have time to purchase and play it. I will set that tentatively by Lunar New Year I hope. In the meantime, i will settle for watching Persona: Trinity, Sarah Jane Adventures Series 2, Doctor Who classics, and One Piece. I will of course earch for work about two-three hours a day also.
By the way, yesterday while I was taking out the garbage I stepped over on an orgy of a dozen garden slugs killing most of them. I know slugs repulse me due to the slime they generate. I wonder if that is why most other people are afraid of them or is it their prejudice against those who a re sexually different; slugs have mail and female reproductive organs.
Thank you for your time. I look forward to your feedback.
Sincerely,
Alan Lee
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Posted by invizweb on October 12, 2008
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Posted by invizweb on July 30, 2008
courtesy of Erika Mlejova (@) Openphoto.net
On this episode of the show I take part in the TapOut Season Two conference call from last Wednesday. Find out how they select fighters and gyms to highlight, and their thoughts on the controversy of fighters sandbagging records.
Invisible Web Season Two Bonus Track TapOut Conference Call
The new season of TapOut starts tomorrow night, July 30th, on Versus. Please check your local listings and the website for details.
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Posted by invizweb on June 29, 2008
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Posted by invizweb on June 27, 2008
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Posted by invizweb on June 23, 2008
This is one of the big issues I will touch on in the future and I hope to get Michael Parenti on the podcast at a future time to talk about Tibet and sinophobia.
Michael Parenti wrote:
As with any religion, squabbles between or within Buddhist sects are often fueled by the material corruption and personal deficiencies of the leadership. For example, in Nagano, Japan, at Zenkoji, the prestigious complex of temples that has hosted Buddhist sects for more than 1,400 years, “a nasty battle” arose between Komatsu the chief priest and the Tacchu, a group of temples nominally under the chief priest’s sway. The Tacchu monks accused Komatsu of selling writings and drawings under the temple’s name for his own gain. They also were appalled by the frequency with which he was seen in the company of women. Komatsu in turn sought to isolate and punish monks who were critical of his leadership. The conflict lasted some five years and made it into the courts.
But what of Tibetan Buddhism? Is it not an exception to this sort of strife? And what of the society it helped to create? Many Buddhists maintain that, before the Chinese crackdown in 1959, old Tibet was a spiritually oriented kingdom free from the egotistical lifestyles, empty materialism, and corrupting vices that beset modern industrialized society. Western news media, travel books, novels, and Hollywood films have portrayed the Tibetan theocracy as a veritable Shangri-La. The Dalai Lama himself stated that “the pervasive influence of Buddhism” in Tibet, “amid the wide open spaces of an unspoiled environment resulted in a society dedicated to peace and harmony. We enjoyed freedom and contentment.”
A reading of Tibet’s history suggests a somewhat different picture. “Religious conflict was commonplace in old Tibet,” writes one western Buddhist practitioner. “History belies the Shangri-La image of Tibetan lamas and their followers living together in mutual tolerance and nonviolent goodwill. Indeed, the situation was quite different. Old Tibet was much more like Europe during the religious wars of the Counterreformation.” In the thirteenth century, Emperor Kublai Khan created the first Grand Lama, who was to preside over all the other lamas as might a pope over his bishops. Several centuries later, the Emperor of China sent an army into Tibet to support the Grand Lama, an ambitious 25-year-old man, who then gave himself the title of Dalai (Ocean) Lama, ruler of all Tibet.
Read more.
And if you like it you can find this essay and similar ones in the Disinformation published book, Everything You Know About God is Wrong. Even though I disagree with Richard Dawkins’ views of the unseen world, some of the articles in the book, particularly this one, Neil Gaiman’s, and Nasrin Alavi’s about blogging by young progressive Muslims in Iran were very enjoyable.
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Posted by invizweb on June 16, 2008
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