A friend loaned me the new Criterion Collection issue of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1932 cinema fantastique opus, Vampyr. The movie is quirky and fun, but not nearly as interesting as its star, Nicolas de Gunzburg. Son of a wealthy Russian banker (who changed his name from Günzburg to de Gunzburg to make himself seem more […]
Audio blog snippet Yesterday, I attended a briefing at the National Press Building in Washington, DC. It was the culmination of the 2009 X-Conference (held April 17-19), a UFO research and disclosure advocacy conclave organized by Washington lobbyist Stephen Bassett. … Peter Saputo and I financed our trip to the conference hotel in Gaithersburg, MD […]
Audio blog snippet About twenty years ago, I was walking across the campus of USC in Columbia when a brown Toyota station wagon pulled over to the curb and, as I remember it, the driver leaned out of his window to ask me what I was doing with my life. His name was Buren Martin […]
