The Supernatural Services Industry

Welcome back. I hope you enjoyed your break and that the very, very few blog entries that have been posted does not mean that you have put off doing your library assignment, because if you all show up on the same day, the librarians are going to have my head in a display case.



ANYWAY, this week's topic is, broadly conceived, the Supernatural Services Industry, which is not a real industry. Basically, people who are turning coin by perpetuating beliefs about the non-religious supernatural.

• Peter, who is pale and wears lots of black, has put us in touch with the goofiest thing that I have ever heard of in the longest time. This is truly a symphony of weird.
• Who is that creeping around your house at night? It's Michael!
• Vince finds that not only are psychics phony, but they are also affordable.
• Carey discovers that if there are not ghost hauntings, there are at least ghost hunter hauntings.
• Elise finds a former cop (I wonder why he is "former") who investigates the paranormal, doubtlessly fingerprinting them and taking them downtown.
• Brian house has a fear-demon who won't stop killing his pets....who can help him?
• Haley found evidence of a haunting...
• Peter--just clear your head...don't think of anything!!!!!
• Eileen learned that if Noreen touches her wallet, the energy tells her that it will get $1000 lighter.
• Elliot be callin' on Mrs. Cleo for help with his reggae groove, mon!

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Hoaxes

Most of you have not completed your blog assignments on time. Just saying.

• Peter E seems to know a suspicious amount about crop circles.
• Isn't it enough to enjoy the beauty of a garden without having to believe that the Cottingley Fairies are at the bottom of it, Haley?
• I thought that Mountain Dew glowed anyway, Carolyn.
• Caroline exposes the most hilarious threat posed by bananas.
• Carey has been visited by aliens, or weird tornadoes, or something.
• Elise convincingly argues "that Marx uses the term ‘objectivism’ to denote not sublimation, as Sartreist existentialism suggests, but postsublimation." She's doing the Sokal Hoax. For a convincing example of what postmodernism reads like, go to the Postmodern Essay Generator, which is completely random but grammatically correct and amusing.
• Elliot has uncovered the truth about the fire-breathing beaver-people of the moon. There are also unicorns.
• Chris Yay! wonders, "Now, where did I put my kidneys?"
• Ever wonder why Vince's has a kitten shaped like a Coke bottle?
• Peter has unearthed the carefully constructed story of the Cardiff Giant.
• Eileen has the title of the week: Loch Ness...Model?
• Chris finds it really does taste like chicken.
• Ben discusses the first Nazi superweapon: a lung-powered airplane!
• Your instructor has encountered the least convincing hoax ever. Really. Wow. Wow.
• Brian has his own private Idaho.
• Mary limps across the finish line with the very important Piltdown Man Hoax.
  

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Mass Hysteria Posts...

These are coming along nicely. I will add links as you folks post. Please try not to double-post.

• Carey caught the Y2K bug
• Elliot has discovered the Martian Invasion of 1938.
• Have you met Elise's pet Chupacabra? I encourage you to look at the site she talks about. It has a great summary of mass hysteria! Way to go, Elise!
• Caroline's post about the "Mad Gasser" will knock you out!
• Haley explains why she will never turn on the air conditioner ever again.
• Why does Brian cover his mouth when he coughs?
• Carolyn explains why nobody should ever, ever, EVER go to Nigeria.
• Syed asks, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?"
  
• Eileen asks, "Have you ever attended a meeting of the Communist Party?"
  
• Chris takes us to the wonderful land of woo, by which I mean Peru. Then Peter shows up a little later and finds Chris passed out from the fumes.
  
• Peter turned me into a newt. I go' better.
• And Chris takes cover in the enchanted land of modern day Lebanon.
• Ben wins the title of the decade award: "Penis-melting Zionist cyborg combs"
• Vince is not afraid (he says) of the Monkey Man of New Delhi.
• Why did it take so long for Michael to write to his blog? He was hiding from the Fairfax Slasher!
  

As more of these come in, I am starting to realize the scope and, really, how many patterns you can find and links you can make between these panics, well, except for the Penis-melting Zionist cyborg combs, which deserves its own place in the Pantheon of Goof. Seriously, when I start my band, that's going to be our name.

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Conspiracy Theories

She's a witch!!!!



Illuminati and the New World Order



Illuminati Symbolism

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