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Miracles and Wonders

Written by Alan Cabal on August 10, 2004. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Last week, USA Today reported a joint effort between Qualcomm and American Airlines’ to allow passengers to make cellphone calls from aircraft in flight. According to the story, the satellite-based system employs a "Pico cell" to act as a small cellular tower. "It worked great," gushed Monte Ford, American Airline’s chief information officer.
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Nine-hundred and 11 Missing Pieces

Written by Alan Cabal on January 6, 2004. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The Southern Solstice has passed, and with it the deadline for 9/11 families to file their claims with the "Feinberg Fund," as it has come to be known. Of an official death toll of 2976, claims have been filed by for 2,851. The claim involves signing off on any future litigation against the government, the
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The Doom that Came to Chelsea

Written by Alan Cabal on June 10, 2003. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

My ex-wife died back in March, after a long and heroic bout with cancer. She walked out on me in 1997, but we remained on good enough terms that I hosted her first and only visit to Vegas in October of 2001. Las Vegas was a refuge from the maudlin hysteria of the time. She
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Slimelight

Written by Alan Cabal on June 3, 2003. Posted in Books, Posts

Pills, beats, greed and no-necked atavism.
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On Board an Aircraft Carrier in the Arabian Sea

Written by Alan Cabal on April 30, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

The Big Stick On Board an Aircraft Carrier in the Arabian Sea I made some contacts in the Pentagon, and they told me to get myself to Bahrain. They’d handle it from there. I put on my Graceland hat, fueled up my Elvis Presley Zippo and headed east, walking with the King for luck. •
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Graysmith’s Zodiac Unmasked

Written by Alan Cabal on April 23, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Whenever I pass into a foreign country and have to fill out a visa form listing my occupation, I invariably have to resist the impulse to write "serial killer." I abandoned the idea of serial murder as a career option some number of years ago, opting instead for a lifetime of pranks, but I understand
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Elliott Hester’s Plane Insanity

Written by Alan Cabal on February 26, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Customer service is very important to me. That’s why I love Las Vegas so much. That town has raised customer service to an art form. There’s a whole class of professionals in the hospitality industry there known as "customer relations managers," and these people know how to keep customers coming back for more. They make
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Signs of Life at WEF Protest

Written by Alan Cabal on February 12, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

A certain mad hubris seems to have gripped the Power Elite lately, what with the state of Illinois confiscating legally registered guns from law-abiding citizens and Posse Comitatus safeguards tossed down the old memory hole in the name of Homeland Security. It’s like the opening of The Turner Diaries. The radical right is bubbling with
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The Gates of Janus, by Ho-Hum Serial-Killer Ian Brady

Written by Alan Cabal on December 11, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Every hero eventually becomes a bore. I’m not sure what happens to villains. Some of them write books. Ian Brady is certainly a villain, and he has written a book that is bound to cause quite a stir: The Gates Of Janus (Feral House, 306 pages, $24.95). This exceptionally creepy little tome is subtitled "Serial
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A New History of the Lure of the Satanic

Written by Alan Cabal on December 5, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

I have many vices, but the easiest and the cheapest to indulge is my endless appetite for bullshit. I can get a quick cheap fix anywhere, anytime, just by picking up a daily newspaper, but the true mother lode is to be found in the darker recesses of UFOlogy, conspiracy research and religion. I burned
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