‘“A Sudden Flicker of Light” is subtitled “A Revisionist History of Movies,” and in it he describes himself as “someone who feels more than regret that over the decades he has given time to wondering which film was the greatest ever made, to distinguishing the auteurs and artists … and to treating the enterprise of darkness and light as if it honored society and history.”

From the vantage point of a dystopian present in which “attention has become infernal, hopeless, yet unstoppable,” he chronicles how, under the spell of movies, “we let the lifelike distract us from life.” This isn’t an abstract, philosophical predicament; it’s a political crisis….’ (A.O. Scott via The New York Times)

‘In 1971, Ron Morehead and Al Berry set up camp in the Sierra Nevada mountains to record evidence of Bigfoot. Morehead was a believer. Berry was a skeptic looking to debunk a hoax. On the tape, the two can be heard whispering to each other before distant howls begin. They call back. More sounds follow — grunts, knocking, and a rapid-fire vocalization that Bigfoot enthusiasts have dubbed “samurai chatter” because it sounds like dialogue from old Japanese samurai films. The Sierra Sounds have been circulating among cryptozoology communities ever since.

Retired U.S. Navy cryptographic linguist Scott Nelson analyzed the recordings and concluded: “It is definitely a language, it is definitely not human in origin, and it could not have been faked.” No formal scientific study has ever been conducted on the tapes….’ (Ellsworth Toohey via Boing Boing)

‘The asteroid will be visible for several nights from different parts of the world. We’ll tell you when and where to look, and what equipment you’ll need to spot it….’ (Jorge Garay via WIRED)