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Angels and Scientologists

Written by Alan Cabal on April 3, 2001. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

St. Patrick’s Day in New York City is a day to be avoided at all costs. It has nothing to do with the Irish: they’re no better or worse than any other ethnic group in this town. It has to do with the fact that, like New Year’s Eve, the occasion serves as an eldritch
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Spike’s of Jersey

Written by Alan Cabal on March 22, 2001. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

I spent the last weekend in February cruising around New Jersey with a woman I’ve been seeing. Saturday we rode down the Turnpike and had dinner with my cousin and some friends of hers, then we took a room at a cheap motel we favor. Neither one of us gets cable tv at home, so
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The New School’s “Altered States of Consciousness” Conference

Written by Alan Cabal on March 13, 2001. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The surest way to make dope boring is to have a bunch of shrinks get up and talk about it. Back in January I received a nice-looking pamphlet promoting a conference at the New School on "Altered States of Consciousness." Being an unrepentant aficionado of altered states myself, I figured I’d register and go check
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Heaven or Las Vegas: Loving the Disneyland of the Desert

Written by Alan Cabal on January 9, 2001. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Heaven or Las Vegas Loving the Disneyland of the Desert Las Vegas is the spiritual heart of America. It is our Jerusalem, our Rome, our Mecca. It looms over the desert like a neon Stonehenge, glittering and glowing, pulsating with hope, the throbbing center of the classic rags-to-riches dumb-luck American Dream. There is a very
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When Microbes Attack

Written by Alan Cabal on October 24, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Recently I decided to switch ISPs. I had an account under one of my numerous aliases with Earthlink, and while it worked just fine out on the road, here in New York it usually took seven or eight tries just to get my mail. One fine autumn morning I threw the AOL CD into my
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A New Life of Aleister Crowley

Written by Alan Cabal on October 20, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

Do What Thou Wilt by Lawrence Sutin (St. Martin’s Press 483 pages, $27.95) Aleister Crowley comes to mind, here. Crowley failed at the task, mainly owing to hubris and a general inability to focus his agenda, but he lived large for quite a while and cut one hell of a swath. Numerous biographers and essayists
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The Best Things About Being A Middle-Aged Guy in New York

Written by Alan Cabal on October 3, 2000. Posted in Best of Manhattan, Posts

The idea of aging used to terrify me. America, young, randy and so fashionably decadent, worships youth. Coming up on 40, I became so neurotic about not having achieved any level of what could be termed "worldly success" whatsoever that I actually took to consulting a shrink for a while, a fruitless endeavor for anyone
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Glomming Free Internet Swag

Written by Alan Cabal on September 26, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Fortunately, they were giving away a lot of interesting swag. I got about 20 pounds of it (including the printed matter) in a fast 40-minute pass through the event before I caved in and left to smoke, never to return. The swag is really the only reason to attend these events. I’ll never have to
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Cirque du Malaise: Dawn of the Zombies for Gore

Written by Alan Cabal on August 29, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Cirque du Malaise Dawn of the Zombies for Gore Los Angeles – Al Gore is going to lose. His campaign is already melting like a pocket watch in a Dali painting. Surrealism comes as naturally to Los Angelenos as nastiness does to New Yorkers. Neil Simon once said something to the effect that when it’s
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Elephant Walk: Triumph of the W

Written by Alan Cabal on August 15, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Elephant Walk Triumph of the W I’ve always loved circuses and I have an abiding fondness for whores. The coronation of George W. Bush at the Republican National Convention last week in Philadelphia was the Cirque du Soleil of contemporary American politics, a slick and brilliantly choreographed Nuremberg rally of friendly fascism. The delegates were
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