It’s here. Available for a limited time only, ICED BORSCHT & OTHER DELIGHTS — the Book (Volume I).

Excitement is in the air, no?

Addendum: I made this book not only because I find Pedia Press, the publisher that facilitates these Wikipedia compendiums cool and fun, but because I occasionally get feedback that the Iced Borscht blog is too esoteric. Impenetrable even. So I thought I’d make a roadmap. The above compendium contains a lot of things I find compelling. Things I enjoy, things I want to learn more about. For example, hypnagogic mind-states — that time right before the mind falls asleep, right at the threshold– might be the best time to listen to the great music of Ken Nordine. I’m very familiar with these states because I experience hypnic jerks then. I occasionally fall prey to the Exploding Head Syndrome in sleep-related moments too.

The book touches on concepts I’m paying particular attention to lately. This summer, for instance, I have toyed around with a dream machine, and I hope to make my first visit to an isolation tank later this month. I’m obsessed with the mind right now. “I’ll show you the life of the mind!

And I’ve always had a fondness for:

Hope this helps.

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Jennifer Oh Jenni

  • Mark your calendars, Oregonians: July 11, 2010, AD at Lincoln City — the prestigious Competitive Rib Eating Contest returns. Making an appearance will be Joey Chestnut, the world’s most decorated gustatory athlete.

I guess that’s where we are these days in terms of global, intellectual discourse — if free speech still exists, it’s either hanging on by a loose, tattered thread or floating about nominally. Markets used to rule the world, and back then, we thrived. Now pathological madmen who live in caves rule the world, and nobody can speak ill of them lest we want to see our loved ones slaughtered in the streets.

Barbarism. Seventh-century idiocy. Nukes as readily available as Little Debbie Snack Cakes.

Yep, I like the direction this world is headed in.

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