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 Posted: 30-01-2004 15:32 Post subject: Montague Keen |
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A man dedicated to truth, and the spirit of humanity.
Condolences to Montague's surving family.
See you later, Monty. Peace.
"I regret to inform you of the tragic death of my beloved husband, Montague Keen, on the 15th January. He died whilst attending a debate at the Royal Society of Arts, London. In accordance with his wishes, he will be cremated at 4pm on Thursday 22nd January at Hendon Crematorium, Holders Hill road, NW7. He will be in our home from 10am Wednesday until the time of the cremation. All friends welcome.
72 Southway, Totteridge, London N20 8DB.
Only family flowers, please; donations may be sent to the British Heart Foundation.
Veronica Keen
Some details from Dr. Bruce Greyson:
He was in the front row of the audience at the Royal Society of Arts for a debate between Rupert Sheldrake and Lewis Wolpert, the British skeptic. During the question-and-answer period, Monty rose to speak in support of Rupert, and in mid-sentence his voice faded and he lost consciousness from a heart attack. Two doctors in the audience immediately tried to resuscitate him, but he died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. He was 79 and had had a triple bypass. He died as he would have wished, championing the cause of survival.
Bruce
Bruce Greyson, M.D.
Carlson Professor of Psychiatry
Division of Personality Studies
Department of Psychiatric Medicine
University of Virginia Health System" |
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FelixAntonius Outsider.
Great Old One Joined: 08 Aug 2001 Total posts: 1097 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 22-02-2004 01:53 Post subject: |
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Eddie Clontz.. died aged 56 on the 26th January....
Late editor in chief for the last twenty years of the Weekly World News, which began as a dumping ground for stories that failed to make the National Enquirer....
He was the man who in 1988 informed the world that "ELVIS IS ALIVE" before informing us all in 1993 that: "Elvis is Dead at 58" before later revealing that this death was also a hoax!!!!
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/accent/content/auto/epaper/editions/wednesday/accent_04615ff331cbb0d400fc.html
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| KeyserXSoze King of Otters
Great Old One Joined: 02 Jun 2002 Total posts: 1040 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 22-02-2004 15:14 Post subject: Dennis Conrad Bardens, journalist and occultist |
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| Quote: | Dennis Bardens
Occult writer who founded Panorama
CAR Hills
Saturday February 21, 2004
The Guardian
Dennis Bardens, who has died aged 92, played a brief, but crucial, role in broadcasting history as the founding editor, in 1953, of BBC Television's Panorama programme, then a news magazine. He was also a friend and encourager of the occult artist Austin Osman Spare. Many of the books that Bardens was later to write concerned magical subjects, on which he was an acknowledged expert. The disparate character of these achievements gives some clue to his protean nature.
Bardens was born in Midhurst, Sussex, the son of an army major and an actor. His mother deserted him and went to Australia when he was three, and his father was often away on military duty. Bardens did not get on with his siblings, so he had to fend for himself at Portsmouth grammar school, which he left early.
After serving a newspaper apprenticeship in Cardiff, he made his way to London in the late 1920s, with the intention of becoming a poet. He soon joined the bohemian and occult circles gathered around Victor Neuberg, the great disciple of Aleister Crowley - whom Bardens once met - and discoverer of Dylan Thomas.
It was through Neuberg that Bardens met Spare, whose works are now highly regarded, but who was then living in squalor on the Walworth Road, in south London. They became great friends, and, shortly after the second world war, Bardens organised an important exhibition of Spare's work. Spare subsequently painted several portraits of Bardens.
Meanwhile, Bardens was proving himself as a journalist, working, during the 1930s, for the Sunday Chronicle, Sunday Express and Daily Mirror. In 1940, he became a distinguished reporter of the Blitz. After discharge from the Royal Artillery on medical grounds, he spent two years with the Ministry of Information, and was in charge of coordinating plans for newspaper services in Britain in the event of a German invasion. In 1943, he was transferred to liaison work with the Czechoslovak government in exile, which included, at the end of the war, secret service work in Czechoslovakia.
After 1945, Bardens worked on periodicals published by Odhams Press for three years, and, in 1949, was appointed editor of the BBC radio documentary series Focus. However, Panorama, the product of his subsequent move into television, was not, at first, a great success, and, after six months, he moved on to work, initially, for the Foreign Office and then for commerical television, at the inception of ITV in 1955.
In later life, he was mainly a freelance television editor, writer and journalist, distinguishing himself as a royalty watcher and occultist, and with 15 books to his name, ranging from Churchill In Parliament (1962) to Ghosts And Hauntings (1965) and The Lady Killer (1972), about the French multiple murderer Dr Landru. Another of his books, Elizabeth Fry (1961), is to be republished this year.
Bardens had a lifelong interest in psychical research, and was a life member of the Ghost Club Society. He was also a member of International Pen, the Society of Authors and the National Union of Journalists. A man as sharp as he was kindly, as mischievous as he was portentous, he was an indefatigable coureur de femmes, and was the centre of a vast, vivid and sometimes quarrelsome circle which, despite a whiff of the aristocracy, was essentially democratic.
Bardens was always vigorous in defending his right to be acknowledged as the true founder of Panorama and, at the programme's 50th anniversary celebrations last year, he spoke movingly about those long-past events, with which the official Panorama history, by Richard Lindley, fully credits him.
Essentially a self-made man, he had all the passionate enthusiasm and volubility of the autodidact. Hard-nosed newspaperman, occultist, mason, clubman, spy, writer, gamey man about town, Bardens's roles were infinite and, although he talked about every aspect of his existence at disarming length, he retained a core of mystery.
He was married to the former Marie Marks, who predeceased him, as did their son Peter (obituary, April 8 2002), a rock keyboard musician.
· Dennis Conrad Bardens, journalist and occultist, born July 19 1911; died February 7 2004
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 24-02-2004 11:33 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | It's Bigfoot, Baarsma and Bat Boy, oh my!
The News Tribune
The world mourns the recent death of Eddie Clontz, or at least the Weekly World News mourns him. The king of the supermarket tabloids - and a sort of patron saint to The Nose for yanking the chain of the stuffed-shirt newspaper establishment - died from diabetes complications at age 56. More likely, he staged it and went off to start a paper in the Lost City of Atlantis.
As a tribute to Clontz, we started noodling what kind of headlines he might've written if the Weekly World News had a bureau in Tacoma.
To wit:
•Sniper trained with Bigfoot
•Face of Satan seen in Tacoma Tideflats
•Bat Boy signs contract to be Cheney Stadium batboy
•Baarsma blood test reveals alien DNA
•World's fattest cat moves into Ivan's cage at B&I
•Michael Jackson Point Defiance land deal flops; Never-Neverland characters rejoice
•UFO lands at Museum of Glass; nobody there to see it
•Nostradamus predicted it: World will end when Brame investigation done
You look stunning in that: Glad to see three young pillars of the community charged with beating a homeless man to death were on better behavior in a Pierce County courtroom last week.
Their last time in court, they cursed, spat and heaved chairs. There hadn't been language like that around here since the Busta Rhymes concert last summer at the Puyallup Fair.
The stun belts they were wearing must have done the trick. Wonder if we can get the jailhouse tailor to fit Will Baker with one of those.
He's a jolly, happy soul: Sincere congratulations to new PLU head football coach Scott Westering, the team's long-time offensive guru and, oh yeah, the son of some guy named Frosty.
Now that Scott's coming down from the booth and into the spotlight, PLU marketing whiz kids figure he needs a nickname of his own. Sources say the following ideas already have been considered and rejected:
Slushy, Snowball, Flaky, Chilly, Nippy, Icy, Itchy, Scratchy, Sweaty, Sneezy, Stinky, Soggy, Sticky, Balmy, Sunny, Sonny, Frosty the Sequel, Frosty the Younger, Frostier and Rudolph.
LUI (legislating under the influence): You always hear about lawmakers being under the control of the pharmaceutical industry, but here's a new twist.
State Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-Seattle) felt compelled to write a "My dear colleagues" letter this week to explain her "unusual conduct" during a caucus meeting. Seems she accidentally swallowed a prescription sleeping pill instead of a muscle relaxant and took a siesta in front of her peers.
"I actually hadn't known that I had done so until a couple of people mentioned it to me this morning," she wrote. "I also was unaware that I had spoken on a higher ed bill of mine."
At least give her credit for honesty. Most legislators down there have trained themselves to sleep with their eyes open.
Extreme forbearance: The News Tribune SoundLife section had a story last Friday about the insane number of carved wooden bears in Fircrest. Strangers who take a wrong turn might think they've somehow landed in Jellystone Park. C'mon people, you're actually making us wish for lawn gnomes.
There are more phony grizzlies in that city than Level 2 sex offenders in Tacoma. Speaking of which, maybe it's time for Fircrest to take a cue from Tacoma City Councilman Tom Stenger: Limit the number to 20 per census tract.
Got nose for The News? Call 253-597-8742, Ext. NOSE (6673).
(Published 12:01AM, February 6th, 2004)
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 18-03-2004 18:59 Post subject: |
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| Mercedes McCambridge, the voice of Linda Blair in the Exorcist has departed this dimension. Let's hope she isn't channelled by any teenage girls... |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 18-03-2004 19:02 Post subject: |
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| Typically I only half remember reading this in 'Empire' but didn't the director of the exorcist make her do some terrible things to get that voice, like gargle raw eggs??? |
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| Posted: 18-03-2004 21:38 Post subject: |
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Friedkin is a git. A complete and utter wazzock.  Can't stand the little shit. |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 18-03-2004 21:48 Post subject: |
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| Helen wrote: |
Friedkin is a git. A complete and utter wazzock. |
And a piecan.  |
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| BlackRiverFalls I wear a fez now.
Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Total posts: 8716 Location: The Attic of Blinky Lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 10-05-2004 03:48 Post subject: John Money's career trellis... |
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No idea how he managed to die at 38 and nothing on the web about it, maybe in a day or two:
May 07 2004 04:11 PM CDT
Man raised as girl dies
WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg man who was the subject of a ground-breaking sex-change experiment died this week.
David Reimer's parents were advised to raise their baby boy as a girl after a failed circumcision in 1966. Reimer was clinically castrated and was subject to mental, social and hormonal conditioning to help him live his early life as a girl named Brenda.
Medical experts from around the world quietly monitored the experiment, which was thought to be of particular interest because Reimer had a twin brother.
Reimer was a social outcast as a child and suffered extreme depression. He discovered the truth about himself when he was a teenager and decided to life as a male. He underwent testosterone injections, a painful double mastectomy and a phalloplasty and started a new life as a man.
Reimer eventually married and raised three stepchildren in Winnipeg.
The flawed experiment later received worldwide publicity, and Reimer stepped out of anonymity in 2000 to reveal his story in the book As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl.
Reimer was 38 years old. |
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| Dennis_De_Bacle Joined: 25 Nov 2002 Total posts: 4608 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 10-05-2004 21:12 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Red_Dalek
No, that was Fred/Freda.
[B]Also, like to post RIP for Anthony Ainley - The Master. |
NOOOO! |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 10-05-2004 22:25 Post subject: |
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I can't think I've ever heard of him but what a life!!
| Quote: | Robert Fulton, Inventor of Flying Car Dies at 95
May 10, 2004 11:44 am US/Eastern
(1010 WINS) (Newtown, CT) Robert E. Fulton Jr., who was there when King Tut's tomb was first opened, drove a motorcycle around the world and invented a flying automobile, has died at the age of 95.
Fulton, who was born in New York City, died at his home on Friday.
After getting a degree in architecture from the University of Vienna in 1932, Fulton kicked off the motorcycle trip around the world, leaving from London on a 40,000-mile trek that took him to 32 countries over the next 17 months.
Fulton had planned to study and photograph the world's architectural wonders, but that changed once he hit the road.
"I soon discovered that instead of taking pictures of architecture, it was the people that were more important. So that became what I did on the whole trip," Fulton told CNN in a 2000 interview.
Fulton traveled extensively with his family as a child. He was on the first commercial air flight from Miami to Havana in 1921 and was present at the opening of King Tut's tomb in Egypt in 1923.
In the early 1940s, Fulton developed a simulator that was used to train Navy pilots in aerial combat.
His flying car, which he called the Airphibian, was developed in 1946. Despite logging over 100,000 miles in the air and garnering favorable press in national magazines, the Airphibian never got off the ground commercially. One complete model still exists as part of the collection of the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian.
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http://1010wins.com/topstories/winstopstories_story_131114614.html
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| Ronson8 Things can only get better.
Great Old One Joined: 31 Jul 2001 Total posts: 6063 Location: MK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 10-05-2004 23:00 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Red_Dalek
[b]Also, like to post RIP for Anthony Ainley - The Master. |
There was frequently a Fortean theme in his roles, such as this. |
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| BlackRiverFalls I wear a fez now.
Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Total posts: 8716 Location: The Attic of Blinky Lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 11-05-2004 23:11 Post subject: |
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Ah, more on Reimer as expected, and not nice either:
"Gender Study" Victim Boy Raised as a Girl Commits Suicide
WINNIPEG, May 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - David Reimer committed suicide last week at the age of 38. Reimer's parents, after a botched circumcision, were convinced by a Johns Hopkins gender studies specialist to raise the boy as a girl. Dr. John Money believed that gender was a learned trait, and wanted to prove his theory with an ideal test subject: David was one of a set of identical twins. He was started on female hormone injections and raised as Brenda.
David's mother, Janet Reimer, said that he would still be alive had it not been for the gender experiment. She blames the doctor for talking them into the sex-change. She described his life: "They wouldn't let him use the boys' washroom or the girls. He had to go in the back alley," she said.
At the age of 14, he was told of his true gender identity, at which time he rebelled, and lived as a boy. He eventually married and became a stepfather to three children.
David's story became widely known after the publication of a book about his life by author John Colapinto, who wrote As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl. Reimer went on the Oprah Winfrey show to talk about the issue, in order to prevent the same thing from happening to anyone else.
David's mother said he was depressed after losing his job and separating from his wife. He was also still grieving the loss of his brother, Brian, who died two years earlier from a drug overdose related to his schizophrenia treatment. |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 12-05-2004 14:04 Post subject: |
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Geeezzz, poor bastard, what a life. I hope he's finally found some peace....  |
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