Ray's X-Blog

Just set that dial, load, drop and -- boom or BOOOM! I was joking around with someone about a bad 1960s sci-fi novel called “The Day They H-Bombed  Los Angeles” by Robert Moore Williams.  Who was bombing LA?  While our government, of course, trying to contain a plague caused by a rogue protein molecule turning humans into howling zombies.  But our hero and his friends live to tell the tale after the City of Angels is H-Bombed three – count 'em – three times. I joked the government must have been using low-yield H-Bombs. And while I was Googling to see what was out there for low-yield A-Bombs I came across a reference to variable yield or dial-a-yield nukes.  Some nukes can be adjusted before they're loaded on bombers.  There was the Mod-10 B61 bomb that had four dial settings: 0.3, 5, 10 or 80 kilotons. So what would happen if the technician setting the dial was upset, the-wife-had-a-headache-last-night scenario?  The dial is supposed to ...

Pile it on! Sometimes I skip to the end of a book or movie to see if it's going to be worth my time to eXperience the whole thing. But some people say, “How can you enjoy a fictional work if you know the ending?”  Simple.  I've always been interested in writing fiction – never been published – and along the way I've learned how a work is constructed.  I can enjoy fiction on another level, seeing how well it was put together. The film A Quiet Place had a great premise: blind aliens have invaded our planet and they can only detect human victims through sound.  Make a noise and you're dead. I did notice that these carnivorous critters with their blindness can run around all over, at one point panically racing away in a beeline, without slamming into trees or and other objects.   They even don't even slip on something like Little Johnny's damn skateboard left in the driveway or one of Curt Collins' banana peels.  But let's leave that aside. ...

Besides this blog I also have an ezine that includes posts from here with the addition of a letters column.  In the last issue -- Ray X X-Rayer #141  -- Bob Jennings ( Fadeaway zine ) wrote in his LOC some negative comments regarding Dr. Robin Wright.  Robin is known for submitting dense philosophical essays addressing science fiction symbolism.  Below is Robin's email to me which includes Bob Jennings' criticism. * * * Subject: Sick and not a doctor    robin usher<robika2001@yahoo.co.uk> Attachment - Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 9:43 PM To: raypalmx@gmail.com Hi, I wrote to Robert asking him to retract these remarks that somehow found their way into what at first sight seemed a fairly innocuous letter to X - Ray # 141. However, he wrote that it was his opinion, although I've never written anything remotely approaching this as a summarization of my writing, '... evil womankind is corrupting the human race and destroying civilization.' I'm appen...

Image by D. Marshall Unelected governmental officials really control the US, lurking in the background, evil, nebulous.  The Deep State.  Out to get Trump. Yeah, right.  I've heard it all before.  Communists, the Illuminati, whatever, boogeymen striking fear in the hearts and minds of non-critical thinkers. But have no fear -- QAnon is here. QAnon followers showed up at a Trump rally, proudly displaying their "Q" signs.  So far no bigots unaware of what the Q symbolizes have attacked any of these sign-holders, driven by homophobic rage.  The Q refers to Q-level clearance with the Department of Energy, i.e. top secret clearance.  The Anon is short for Anonymous. QAnon's beliefs are all based on material shared first posted in October 2017 on the 4chan image-board site where a poster can hide his identity.  An anonymous poster or group referred to itself as Q with the inference that the items of  information being shared -- "bre...

A Trump supporter told me: "It doesn't matter what happens.  Everything is going to fall apart anyway." I hardly ever watch Fox News, Trump's favorite TV "news" channel.  At times FN will make a false statement and the "president" will repeat it.  I have enough bullshit in my life, thank you. But the other night I was flipping through 100+ cable channels for something worthwhile to watch when I caught mention of alien abduction on one of FN's talking heads programs.  The Miami Herald endorsed a GOP primary candidate who ran for a Florida House seat despite revealing she had been abducted as a child by aliens and was still in telepathic contact with them. The candidate, Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, lost the nomination. The Greg Gutfeld Show -- which features the cackling host and his guests discussing topical issues -- had focused on this item.  This show is known for its "comedic" take on the news. http://video.foxnews.com/...

IMAGE: http://perezhilton.com/2017-11-09-smallville-actress-allison-mack-second-in-command-sex-cult-nxivm-report#.WwNmAUgvzIU Actress Allison Mack -- or at least her Smallville character Chloe Sullivan -- appeared to be so innocent but independent.  That's why allegations about her sadistic involvement in a sex cult shocked me. From what has been reported the path to her arrest began when she met Keith Raniere, leader of the group called Nxivm (pronounced BULL-shit.)  Apparently Raniere filled a need in Allison.  Despite her success in Smallville -- a TV series about young Clark Kent before he became Superman -- there was still something missing in her life. Nxivm had different organizations under its aegis.  Allison first attended a seminar held by Jness which promoted itself as a women's empowerment movement that would bring personal growth to its members. The story goes as part of her personal growth Allison would become Rainere's #2, running another...

IMAGE By User:Meowwcat, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17946160 Some creative people never have it easy. Outlets for their work dry up.  And their own personal life -- not easy to begin with -- is compounded when the income they counted on is gone. Bill Messner-Loebs is a writer/artist who had a good run in comics books with such titles as Wonder Woman, Thor and The Flash.  But the market changed, he was no longer in demand. Back in 2005 Bill and his wife were living in a motel, just getting by.  After the story about his situation became known fans rallied and he was able to get some more comic book work. Bill had owned a home but his mother and wife became sick.  He was evicted when he couldn't keep up with the bills.  But he got back on his feet, living in a mobile home in a nice trailer park for 15 years.  Then bad luck paid another call.  There was a gas leak in his mobile home that made it uninhabita...

I asked myself: Are these comments for real? Recently I had two comments posted at my blog regarding my article, George Adamski & Our Amazing CRT Solar System .  George was one of the most famous contactees of his time.  He claimed that on November 20, 1952 he met a Venusian visitor named Orthon in the Colorado Desert.  Instead of a many-tentacled monstrous blob Orthon looked human, his features the archetype of the Nordic alien. George claimed he traveled to other planets in our solar system thanks to the Space Brothers.  In his third and final book, Flying Saucers Farewell, he explained how other planets far away from the sun were still hospitable, sunny and warm, due to the solar system acting like a cathode ray tube (CRT.)  It sounded like some inventive but wild rationalization for what he saw and what scientists had actually discovered. Both commenters came to George's defense.  Maybe one or both are jokers, putting me on, but their comment...

 I nvestigative journalist Jaime Maussan and friend      In the field of ufology there is a body of non-evidence regarding alien visitors to this world.   Actually it’s more appropriate to refer to bodies of non-evidence.      Believers in ET visitors are so desperate for proof that they will believe in any alleged alien corpse that seemingly fell out of a flying saucer’s garbage chute.   And when such proof turns out to be bunk they say that the claim of a hoax is a hoax.   (Does that mean that a claim that a hoax is a hoax is itself another hoax?)     The late great editor/writer Jim Moseley, perpetrator of the zine Saucer Smear, referred to the extreme believers as ufoologists.      When researching tales of dead alien bodies the name Jaime Maussan pops up.   Maussan is a Mexican investigative journalist who critics say is too obsessed with UFOs and aliens.   Others call him...

Ma and Pa Kent now rue the day they voted for Donald Trump. See what happens when those damn technocrats take over? The illegal alien situation is getting way out of hand.