Ray's X-Blog

The Hulk.  Green and mean.  A rampaging muscular mass who destroys all in his path.  Uncontrollable fury. So do you think someone could teach him to be polite? That’s the basis for the illustrated children’s book, Please and Thank You, featuring Spider-Girl and the Hulk sitting in a tree house, eating hamburgers. The Hulk grunts, telling Spider-Girl to give him the ketchup. Spider-Girl explains to the Hulk that it’s polite to use “please” and “thank you.” The Hulk responds:  “Hulk?  Rude?”  He thanks Spider-Girl for teaching him how to be polite. That’s not the Hulk I know.  I think the encounter would play out like this: “Spider-Girl has cooties.  Hulk smash!” And there’s Godzilla, a 30-story tall dinosaur known for his dance move, the Tokyo Stomp.  With a sweep of his cyclopean tail he can taken out an entire village.  Missiles and bombs don’t slow him down. When you look at the cover of the kids’ book, Go...

Are you embarrassed by that peculiar protrusion in the center of your face?  Strap on the Anita Nose Adjuster and in [unspecified] time you can join the happy honker gang! (NOTE: Possible side effects include increased snoring, chronic post nasal drip, and the proboscis monkey syndrome.  Also exposure to derisive laughter.)

I’ve got mail?  Xcellent. I appreciate the feedback.  If you want to join the conversation email me: raypalmx@gmail.com .  Snail mail: BoXholder, PO Box 2, Plattsburgh, NY  12901-0002. - - - Regarding two images I used in RX XR # 112 Rick Hilberg wrote: That was a great old B-grade movie that I still have in my film collection. RX:  So you recognized that turkey from the turkey The Giant Claw.  I read the producer told the actors the special effects would be top notch.  I can imagine the cast’s embarrassment when they sat in a movie theater and the terrifying monster flashed on the screen.  They watched themselves reacting in consternation to a crude string puppet. And from Dave Haren regarding my reaction in XR #112 to the new Supergirl TV series: Hi Ray, I didn't see a request for letters of comment but here's one anyway. The Superman material was always pretty strange to me since there wasn't much in the way of limitation. I l...

Another holiday, another quiet day. My circumstances are unlike most people.  No family.  And, yes, I do have friends but they're busy with their own families.   I used to go out on this so-called day of thanks, meandering through the deserted streets.  Unfortunately the streets aren't totally lifeless.  One time I found a  guy passed out mid-main-street mid-afternoon.  When I asked him if he was OK he got up and took a swing at me.  Someone else was passing-by and pulled the inebriated ingrate away.  With two of us he decided to calm down. Another altruistic incident that makes me to pause and give thanks for all the positive things in my life. (Next time I'll let someone become roadkill.) Today I enjoyed my traditional meal: a microwaved pepperoni-and-sausage Hot Pocket [TM].  Homemade goodness. Keep your eyes on the skies.  La Carcagne could be lurking.

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Back in the day westerns dominated TV.  Just three networks overstuffed with oat operas.  You had to decide which show would induce less saddle sore.  And there were plenty of hee-haw shoot-them-ups at the movie theater.   Too much killed the format.  Ad nauseam.  There's hardly a new western series on TV. A movie theater is like a ghost town for saddle sagas, tumbleweed rolling through.  You have to watch reruns on TV to get your cowboy fix. Now superheroes are the Big Thing, both TV and movies.  Irony: When I was a kid my peers and some adults questioned my rabid interested in four-color pamphlets.  I would be laughed at for spending 12 cents on a comic book.  Now everyone, not just nerds, are paying 12 dollars to see the same stuff brought to life on a cinema screen. A surfeit of product means each one has to match, even beat, the other one. I watched the pilot film for the Supergirl TV series and maybe ten minutes of the secon...

Usually perfection can’t be attained.  Bare minimum for me:  An adequate result. I snail-mailed the last paper edition of my zine.  Why?  Not the computer but the printer. This Windows-compatible  printer is the third one I’ve owned.  All three were crap.  This one started to print faint copies.  I tried the usual fixes.  Nothing.  I searched via Google for other fixes.  They didn’t work.  Two hours wasted. I had to take my PDF file to a print shop.   Text was OK but the images were muddy.  A problem I could’ve fixed with the file if my printer had been working.  The file was uneditable so it couldn’t be properly fixed at the print shop. Online the images look great, in color, not B&W as with print. Since 1994 I’ve been cranking out my paperzine The Ray X X-Rayer .  No more.  I don’t want to waste money on another crap printer or take the option of trying to get adequate copies at a print...

Are you in there Nick?  I can hear you…  Good interview, crap video. I click the remote control to watch another segment included in the DVD “Aliens, Abductions, & Extraordinary Sightings.”  This one is entitled “The U.K. UFO Sightings.” This segment jumps right into a sit down interview without IDing the interviewee.  I recognize UFO Researcher Nick Pope from photographs seen online and in magazines.  For those viewers unfamiliar with him, tough luck.  You’ll have to look for clues in the interview. Nick discusses his experience working for the U.K. Ministry of Defence’s UFO Project.  Unlike some UFO personalities Nick is rational, neither a true believer nor diehard skeptic.  It’s the first time I’m seen a video interview with him. Unfortunately whoever edited this interview decided the average viewer suffers from limited attention.  The attention of such a viewer will wander unless you draw him back in with some visual...

© Ray X  10/25/15 I never got the memo.  The world was supposed to end on October 7th. I can’t remember how many times I’ve survived Doomsday. Previously in “The Ultimate Deadline” [1] I discussed another doomsday prophecy from last month involving the blood moon and asteroids destroying the earth.  The lunar eclipse happened with no incident and I don’t recall a massive meteor storm that spoiled everyone’s picnic. Now we have another group, E Bible Fellowship, claiming the 2011 End Day prediction (another no show)) of the late great preacher Harold Camping was going to come true [2].  This group is based in Pennsylvania, an indication that the Keystone State cut too deep into its mental health services.  At the E Bible website there’s a post entitled “October 8th” [3] that attempts to explain away why the world didn’t crap out, the usual backpedaling hyperlogic.  (The E must stand for evasive.) Responding to the question “Did We lie?” E Bible ...

(C) 2015 Ray X - 9/19/15 Time is running out.    I am feverishly writing this piece, hoping that it will be completed and published, because I will die at any moment. Why?  The end of the world will occur sometime between September 15th (Did you note we're still here?) and the 28th. Yes, the end is nigh again.  (Yawn.)   I suspect I'll survive this doomsday like all the previous ones. So what has set off the doommongers again?  Before it was Y2K screwing up all the computers, then some stuff about the Mayan calendar running out of days. This time we have the omen of a blood moon and a group of asteroids that will smack the shit out of the Earth. Why hasn't anyone learned from previous doomsdays that the end will come like a thief in the night (unlike the cable TV guy who never shows up in the morning). With that question in mind I did some quick Google research to see what the experts had to say. The top Google hits went back to 2011 wh...

(C) 2015 Ray X “Wait a minute!  That’s wrong.” A storyteller doesn’t want his audience to notice holes in his great tale. In this third and last book, Flying Saucer Farewell (1961), contactee George Adamski had to explain an apparent falsehood with his previous writings. George always had stories to tell. In the summer of 1947 he claimed 184 flying saucers flew over him one evening.  He even photographed what he said were alien spacecraft. But his UFO adventure went into full gear after he reported that he met with an alien in the desert, a Nordic humanoid named Orthon who hailed from Venus.  (Any relation to Nylon of Mars?) George received the usual contactee messages: nuclear war would end life on Earth, people had to live in peace, and don’t wear white after Labor Day. Orthon took his earthling friend on a tour of the solar system.  George wrote that other worlds like Venus had Earth-like atmospheres, even all the way out to Pluto. But...

© 2015 Ray X UFO researcher Curt Collins has always been inquisitive, not one to accept anything at face value. For example: the banana peel experiment.  “At age five,” he explained, “I attempted to verify whether [TV] cartoons accurately depicted slipping on a banana peel. It turns out, yes, it can be done." Through an email interview he detailed how he set up his experiment in four steps: “1) Observe cartoon.  “2) Go on to carport and eat banana. “3) Place peel on smooth concrete surface. “4) Step on it while walking.” But Step 4 failed to yield results until he changed tack.  He duplicated the scene from an episode of “Magilla Gorilla” by running and jumping on the banana peel. “As I recall,” he continued, “the slip resulted in landing primarily on my right gluteus maximus, without any injuries or circling cartoon birdies produced.  The results were conclusive, and I felt further studies were not required.” Curt always kept asking ...

(C) 2015  Ray X At last: no more ads or news items about David Letterman leaving the Late Show.  The omnipresent relentless push to tune in his final shows produced great irritation with this writer.  Of course the local CBS-TV affiliate had to carry stories about how some of the staff had met the talk show host.  Even BBC TV News carried a story about the pseudo-event.  That's news? Years ago I wrote a put-on about Letterman being a top member of the Illuminati.  I used the gag with a couple of ultra-right-wing talk show hosts on US shortwave radio.  I called in, inquiring about his membership/affiliation.  One time I spoke with the late William Cooper on the phone, asking him about the images seen during the Late Show opening, a fly-over of New York City featuring various landmarks.  I mentioned how some buildings had pyramid shapes.  Cooper told me it was part of the hidden message. The Lettermanati story was a yardstick to me...

(C) 2015 Ray X His stage name even sounds Illuminoid. Marcel Everett is an electronic musician and record producer who goes by the handle XXYYXX.  (Maybe he suffers a serious condition with his sex chromosomes.) In a 2011 interview with Noisey/Vice the young talent let it all hang out about his Illuminatism.  (The reporter was Aleks Eror -- now there's a Illuminatic appellation.)  XXYYXX said that he was CEO of the Illuminati.  He owned the secret organization, had stock in it.  Asked about the conspiracy's plans for 2012 he revealed he was going to "fuck some shit up," create a global currency, assassinate some people. Surprisingly he stated that Lady Gaga was not in the Illuminati, that she was "fucking retarded," that she didn't know what she was doing.  Hey, of all of the celebrities who would be a card-carrying Illuminati she would at the top of the list.  Her appearance reeks sinister Mega-Conspiracy promoting secret messages. During ...

Well, it seems that Google sites doesn't what to cooperate.  If you're looking for PDF copies of my zine go to http://xrayer.webs.com/ .  The useless Google site has been deleted. And there's also  http://www.tinyletter.com/RayX .  You can subscribe via email or read the latest issues in the Archive. Any problems, please let me know.  The again, after wasting more than two hours screwing around with Google...

I'm trying out TinyLetter and have published the latest issue of my zine, Ray X X-Rayer #104.. Go to  http://tinyletter.com/RayX  . You can subscribe via email or click on the Archive link to read the latest issue. As for this blog and my paperzine - well, we'll see.  I hardly get any feedback here at this blog.  Maybe an email newsletter will generate more of a response.