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From The Journal of Folklore Research

Reviewed by David J. Puglia, The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg

In a day and age when legends are as likely to be transmitted online as they are face-to-face, folklorists have begun assessing how our established concepts apply to the digital realm. The convergence of different forms of media has increasingly diminished the traditional boundaries between folk and popular culture and the digital and analog world. If the legend continues to thrive under these new conditions, folklorists will want to determine how the closely related legend-trip has similarly transitioned to the online environment.

In Legend-Tripping Online: The Search for Ong's Hat, Michael Kinsella seeks to answer this question using the example of the Incunabula Papers—a conspiracy theory, an alternative reality game, and a mystical experience all wrapped into one. The "Incunabula Papers" refers to two documents, Ong's Hat: Gateway to the Dimensions! A Full Color Brochure for the Institute of Chaos Studies and the Moorish Science Ashram in Ong's Hat, New Jersey and Incunabula: A Catalogue of Rare Books, Manuscripts & Curiosa—Conspiracy Theory, Frontier Science & Alternative Worlds. Allegedly produced by banished Princeton faculty studying chaos theory at the Moorish Science Ashram in Ong's Hat, New Jersey, these rogue professors perfected a device known as The EGG, which made possible interdimensional travel. The group then "embedded within [the Incunabula Papers] enough clues for its intended readers" to join the quest "but not enough for those with little faith to follow." For folklorists this legend complex provides new challenges capable of expanding the body of legend scholarship. Legend-tripping online will not replace legend-tripping in the "real world," as folklorists have found with some other forms, but rather exists in addition to and follows the same principles as the classic legend-trip.

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This Week: R.I.P. Ken Russell, Mickey Mouse's missing link discovered, Mars Lab Launch, Alan Moore on V Masks, Occupy Updates, Jon Ronson writes a book about real-life superheroes, Russian Anchor gives Obama the finger, Book Club, Charity Requires ID to Hand Out Aid.

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My buddy Lorenzo over at Psychdelic Salon has posted part 2 of "I in the Triangle", the audio excerpt of a Robert Anton Wilson talk I produced. Check it out at The Psychedelic Salon.

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This week – Weird invasion of bestseller lists, Will SOPA destroy the Internet, Louis Farrakhan turns Fox Mulder, What is the LRAD sound cannon?, Matheny does Hollywood…sort of, Making space travel boring, and Occupy updates.

Personel – Joe Nolan, Kim Monaghan, Joseph Matheny, and Ken Eakins.

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My friend Lorenzo has posted another show of Robert Anton Wilson material on the ever edifying Psychedelic Salon. This one is audio excerpts from The I in the Triangle DVD that I produced (and introduced).

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Podcast 290 – Robert Anton Wilson "The 'I' In The Triangle" Part 1

This week – Crowley the Jack the Ripper wannabe, Kenneth Anger's Theramin, Found footage foul-play, Occupy heats up, Frank Miller is a douche, The end of legal weed, Huge Asteroids, Jack the Ripper's knife, and Facebook censorship.

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I have an article on Mel Lyman and the Lyman Family in the next issue of "Another Mirror at the End of the Road" sometime in November/December (depending on when it makes it to your mailbox).

If you don't know about "Mirror" I highly recommend it as a magazine of "High Weirdness". I read every issue, cover to cover when it arrives in my mailbox. It is a print only publication and handily comes with a with standard three hole punch so you can collect them all.

Welcome to the pilot episode of CCN, a weekly show that examines emerging countercultures, fringe science, Magickal happenings, and other strange blips on the social landscapes that we all occupy.

This week we examine: The Occupy Movement, Metallica and Lou Reed, killing for Star Wars toys, the occult significance of the Statue of Liberty, and The Exegesis of Phillip K Dick.

Personel – Joe Nolan, Kim Monaghan, and Ken Eakins.

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I'll be on the next and other episodes of this show. (Had a GMT/PST brain fart). I also came up with the name.

Lorenzo over at the Psychedelic Salon has (with my permission) put together a podcast of excerpts from the CD I produced, Robert Anton Wilson: The Lost Studio Sessions. I hope you enjoy and if you do, remember you can get your own copy at Original Falcon (on CD) or as a digital download form any number of download services. Complete list here.

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