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Dr. Medulla wrote:
18 Aug 2018, 11:58am
America's rocketry pioneer who was also into the occult and libertarianism and blew himself up in an explosion at home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Pars ... _engineer)
Ah yeah I posted about him on the pre-crash board.
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revbob wrote:
18 Aug 2018, 12:14pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
18 Aug 2018, 11:58am
America's rocketry pioneer who was also into the occult and libertarianism and blew himself up in an explosion at home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Pars ... _engineer)
Drunk History did a good piece on this...

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/h71t46/dr ... py_email
Can't watch it in Canada cos of The Man, but I dl'd it. Thanks!
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revbob wrote:
18 Aug 2018, 12:14pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
18 Aug 2018, 11:58am
America's rocketry pioneer who was also into the occult and libertarianism and blew himself up in an explosion at home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Pars ... _engineer)
Drunk History did a good piece on this...

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/h71t46/dr ... py_email
Quite the grim tale. His mother took a fatal dose of downers upon hearing of his death.
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WestwayKid wrote:
10 Oct 2018, 7:42pm
revbob wrote:
18 Aug 2018, 12:14pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
18 Aug 2018, 11:58am
America's rocketry pioneer who was also into the occult and libertarianism and blew himself up in an explosion at home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Pars ... _engineer)
Drunk History did a good piece on this...

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/h71t46/dr ... py_email
Quite the grim tale. His mother took a fatal dose of downers upon hearing of his death.
I’d have had a go at his wife. Why not?

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BostonBeaneater wrote:
12 Oct 2018, 10:29pm
WestwayKid wrote:
10 Oct 2018, 7:42pm
revbob wrote:
18 Aug 2018, 12:14pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
18 Aug 2018, 11:58am
America's rocketry pioneer who was also into the occult and libertarianism and blew himself up in an explosion at home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Pars ... _engineer)
Drunk History did a good piece on this...

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/h71t46/dr ... py_email
Quite the grim tale. His mother took a fatal dose of downers upon hearing of his death.
I’d have had a go at his wife. Why not?

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...for any Twin Peaks fans out there...Jack Parsons was featured in Mark Frost's The Secret History of Twin Peaks. It was the first time I'd ever really read anything about him.
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Looking up the meaning of "Alianza dollars"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Progress

There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Looking up the meaning of "Alianza dollars"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Progress

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Dec 2018, 1:32pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus

What's Christmas without some goat-demon nightmare fuel?
In the 1950s, the government distributed pamphlets titled "Krampus Is an Evil Man"

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Dec 2018, 1:32pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus

What's Christmas without some goat-demon nightmare fuel?
From my friend just a sec ago:
Every 'krampus' picture I see, my anti-Semitism alarm goes nuts. Maybe I've finally inherited [my family's] racial paranoia, but I don't trust European folklore about bearded and horned people being anti Christian and stealing kids and shit.
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Kory wrote:
05 Dec 2018, 7:39pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Dec 2018, 1:32pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus

What's Christmas without some goat-demon nightmare fuel?
From my friend just a sec ago:
Every 'krampus' picture I see, my anti-Semitism alarm goes nuts. Maybe I've finally inherited [my family's] racial paranoia, but I don't trust European folklore about bearded and horned people being anti Christian and stealing kids and shit.
Quite plausible. I can see pagan origins and then appropriation by Christians as reinforcement of anti-Semitism.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ann_Steinhagen

Listening to Roger Kahn's The Era (which, btw, is marvellous in that baseball-as-romantic-mythology kind of way). He relates a story I'd never heard before, a teenage girl who became obsessed with a Chicago Cub player and stalked and shot him (inspiring The Natural).
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
03 Feb 2019, 10:32am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ann_Steinhagen

Listening to Roger Kahn's The Era (which, btw, is marvellous in that baseball-as-romantic-mythology kind of way). He relates a story I'd never heard before, a teenage girl who became obsessed with a Chicago Cub player and stalked and shot him (inspiring The Natural).
And that teenage girl would grow up to be... Jon Wolter.
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Flex wrote:
03 Feb 2019, 10:59am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
03 Feb 2019, 10:32am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ann_Steinhagen

Listening to Roger Kahn's The Era (which, btw, is marvellous in that baseball-as-romantic-mythology kind of way). He relates a story I'd never heard before, a teenage girl who became obsessed with a Chicago Cub player and stalked and shot him (inspiring The Natural).
And that teenage girl would grow up to be... Jon Wolter.
Goddammit, I was feeling sorry for her being mentally ill; now I wish she'd gotten the chair.
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