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One of the best things ever. St Francis is the birdy bomb.

“The ability to think analogically is a reflection of sensitivity to ontological form.” – Jan Zwicky, Wisdom&Metaphor §5

Sometimes it all comes together in one balanced and rhyming moment. Bright and brisk air, fiery magnolia and spring rain clouds.

The very sharp Joe Donohoe, editer of the great Bay journal Specious Species, has inaugurated his new Substack with a nice PKD-centered interview we did a couple years ago. I bet you will enjoy following him. joedonohoe.substack.com/p/erik-davis-a…

If you have ever communed with a Joshua tree and gone WTF is up with these things, you gotta check out Baumgart's ode -- politics, history, nature, and the weirdness before us.

Ever wanted to read PKD's prophetic cosmic horror masterpiece The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch? Over at the Weirdosphere of Weird Studies my 5 lecture course on the book is available, with a live Q&A set for the last Sunday in April. Come for the Elon Musk Martian overtones,

the future's so dark...i need a flamethrower.

Very sad to hear (a bit late) about the passing of the great Michael Hurley, who I was fortunate to see perform and even more fortunate to listen to for decades. "Werewolf" is as deep an strange and poignant as it gets. The real great (and weird) America. Wry humor as survival:

Too true, too true.

Black Psychedelic Revolution. This Wednesday's Chalice Berkeley Alembic ⚗️ will feature Nick Powers, a true mensch and the author of the new book on Black psychedelia, trauma, and the return of the body. 7pm, donation. eventbrite.com/e/the-chalice-…

“How tired I am of stories, how tired I am of phrases that come down beautifully with all their feet on the ground! I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on the pavement.” Virginia Woolf, 1931

my wife just said "the problem with life is it took 100-some years, but we finally industrialized culture." "AI is just a mimic of culture, it assimilates everything and spits out derrivatives..."

Tonight: Nick Powers is talking "Black Psychedelic Revolution" at Berkeley Alembic ⚗️ at 7pm. The Chalice is a monthly psychedelic salon honoring the underground. Donation. eventbrite.com/e/the-chalice-…

The writer Erik Davis offers advice on how to keep it together, navigate the weirdness, access creative capacity, and respond to the moment without losing our minds. A preeminent chronicler of psychedelic culture says attention is a martial art. lucid.news/attention-is-a…

The mighty Erik Davis joins Rushkoff's Team Human for AI, Weirdness, and Windows to Other Worlds teamhuman.fm/episodes/322-e…

Nice of Superman to pay a visit to the Baltics.