Pretending there isn’t an enormous bias against any alternative form of spirituality or the legitimacy of psi in general is sort of like pretending there’s no such thing as racism, sexism, or…
Born in 1936, Mario Mercier is mostly known by movie buffs for his full-length films Erotic Witchcraft (La Goulve, 1972) and A Woman Possessed (La Papesse, 1974). These two films were very…
Rolling the empty pre-dawn streets in ‘ol Citizen’s Cab 1015, it’s like old times. Karl’s back. (Karl the Fog, for those not following him on Twitter.) While San Francisco is known for…
A SUDDEN REALIZATION When someone first smokes cannabis, and the conditions are right, something remarkable and concerning happens… The user is suddenly thrust upon a world of wonder, relaxation, humor, passion, creativity,…
I received a phone call from out of the blue from my old friend, El Crow. “Furious,” he said. “I saw that post on facebook where you were eating at a vegan…
(Originally Posted at Gods & Radicals) I could write about the newest murder committed by the police, could write about the newest life lost behind bars, but what would be the point?…
Hey Thad, how’d you hear about Dinsfo.com back in the day? Well, from the band Tool actually. Their website turned me onto amazing shit like Mr. Show and Terrence McKenna as well,…
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Disinfonauts! It’s been a pretty long time now since I’ve contributed, but I’m happy to say that I’ve accepted Thad’s offer to return to the site. Really excited for the good things…
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One of those articles where it’s like, about fucking time. Let’s not forget that this is a site that once pushed a book whose entangled time narrative was channeled by Graham Hancock…
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Some folks might remember that I wrote about the utterly dumbfuck PizzaGate conspiracy theory a week before a dude shot up Comet Ping Pong last year. I’m not even going to get…
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As I mentioned in my last post, while contemplating whether or not to take the prestigious position of Omni-Dimensional Content Curator for Disinfo.com, I stumbled upon this recent Grant Morrison interview on…
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Well, here’s where we’re at Disinfonauts. Through an incredibly bizarre set of circumstances (the totality of which I don’t remotely comprehend myself) I’m going to be editing the site here moving forward….
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In an attempt both to treat his morphine addiction and to find a non-opioid pain reliever that was sufficiently powerful to abate his agony, Pemberton began to experiment with creating a new analgesic tonic.
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And the ribbon keeps descending.
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Long time Disinfonaut and gonzo extraordinaire Dr. Bones is publishing his first book! “Do you want to be exploited forever, to die a beautiful soul trapped in a body-turned-machine, or will you…
THE DUTY OF THE PRESS is to keep the people informed, even when the things they might learn lean towards the morbidly terrible and truly bizarre. The Republican healthcare plan is both.
Didn’t drive Monday. I tried, hard. Real hard. But I didn’t sleep at all Sunday night. I kept tossing and turning in bed while envisioning potential road rage incidents and the possibility of plowing into some jaywalker challenging my taxi on the streets of San Francisco.
It’s 4:10 in the A.M., and I’m rolling the Gough gauntlet in my van towards the Citizen’s Cab lot. But this three lane thoroughfare all downhill to the highway, with its timed lights, is proving no gauntlet on this early Monday morning.
At dusk I stood on a residential street with trim lawns and watched planes approach a runaway along the other side of a chain-link fence. Just a few dozen yards away, a…
A new book about Hillary Clinton’s last campaign for president – Shattered, by journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes – has gotten a lot of publicity since it appeared two weeks ago….
It is officially spring in the San Luis Valley. The winds are heavy, and they carry with them some unintelligible wrath of the gods.
Over the many long rides that we’ve shared together, you’ve read much ado regarding your driver’s introduction to this, um, “lively” street vocation by way of cab school…
Our story starts where usually it ends, at least in Florida anyway: on a crowded highway at breakneck speed and heavily, heavily distracted.
In hack news, the taxi biz has been okay this past week. Your driver scored three airports on Thursday, and was nicely busy outside of that to the tune of $245! This, as successfully avoiding the marijuana celebratory hajj on the Haight that is 420 Day.
After Hillary Clinton’s devastating loss nearly six months ago, her most powerful Democratic allies feared losing control of the party. Efforts to lip-synch economic populism while remaining closely tied to Wall Street…
Good Friday It’s been kind of a mind fuck driving a taxi around one of the richest cities in the country, San Francisco, these past seven years. Introspecting in the early morning,…
Easter: a day normally celebrated by the recollection of Christian myth, the painting of eggs, and the wide scale eating of pork in clear defiance of Judaic law.
The news is rife with President Trump’s threatened and actual military misadventures: in Syria, Yemen, and North Korea. But these military actions take on a new gravity considering the vast and secret…