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Apparently lost their wedding tackle and passed the readjusted bill.
My question is, where’s the 700 billion dollar bailout to feed and house the poor?
Yesterday I happened upon this website of “then and now” pictures of my hometown, Richmond VA. The rest of the website is full of insanity and I do not endorse it, but the pictures are awesome. It’s crazy to think that downtown was full of horses and carts as recently as 1910.
Before you write me off as loony, no, I’m not proposing genetic engineering and colonization by space monsters as the origin of humanity. It’s something much less interesting than that!
Maybe it’s just a repressed image of our mothers from the poor eyes and blurry vision our of infancy.
I’ve been doing research much of the day on mythology and cryptids (legendary and rumored animals and other sorts of creatures) for a comic book I’m developing with Kevin, my co-blogger, and I stumbled across a particularly strange and intriguing theory for the most famous of modern cryptids, the Greys.
Regardless of whether or not you believe in aliens and alien abductions, the shear consistency of the beings involved in the incidents is remarkable and worth studying, and explanations range from “The Zeta reticuliians are here among us!” to “People are just lying!” I think the explanation is probably a heck of a lot closer to the widespread nature of the image of the black eyes and the slit mouth, how much an object of our culture it’s become, that people are probably just projecting it onto their supposed abductors.
But where did the image actually come from? It’s oddly primal, strangely iconic. It’s firmly neotenic, and has the barest essentials of a face. It falls square in the trenches of the Uncanny Valley, familiar but oddly inhuman, of a profoundly magnified strangeness. We respond to it viscerally, from the gut, non-rationally; if there are aliens, we think, surely they are that, and not lizard-men or blonde-haired Nordics, to use two previously-dominant alien models.
I think this new theory is stunning.
