"Replay," a parable of the near-future:
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
I'm a Kansas City, Missouri-based author, blogger, Fortean researcher, and occasional speaker. For biographical detail, visit my other website.
Please address all email to macbot [at] yahoo dot com. And yes, I'm on Twitter.
(Masthead by Araqinta.)
Like this blog? Drop a couple bucks in the tip jar and I'll dispatch nanobots to stimulate your brain's pleasure center. Karmic, isn't it?
Welcome to the official blog of Mac Tonnies.
I'm a Kansas City, Missouri-based author, blogger, Fortean researcher, and occasional speaker. For biographical detail, visit my other website.
Please address all email to macbot [at] yahoo dot com. And yes, I'm on Twitter.
(Masthead by Araqinta.)
My Books
"A stunning survey of the latest evidence for intelligent life on Mars. Mac Tonnies brings a thoughtful, balanced and highly accessible approach to one of the most fascinating enigmas of our time."
--Herbie Brennan, author of Martian Genesis and The Atlantis Enigma
"Tonnies drops all predetermined opinions about Mars, and asks us to do the same."
--Greg Bishop, author of Project Beta
"I highly recommend the book for anyone interested in the search for extra-terrestrial artifacts, and the political intrigues that invariably accompany it."
--David Jinks, author of The Monkey and the Tetrahredron
"Mac Tonnies goes where NASA fears to tread and he goes first class."
--Peter Gersten, former Director of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
And don't miss...
(Includes my essay "The Ancients Are Watching.")
Blurbage
"Posthuman Blues is good shit. You humans might like it too."
--John Shirley, author of Crawlers and Eclipse
"Mind-stretching."
--Clifford Pickover, author of Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves
". . . a grabbag of links and pithy blurbs, each a little more curious than the last."
--Feral Intelligence
"Frankly, there's nothing worse (aside from death, global famine, nuclear disaster and all-round armageddon) than seeing players in the UFO field fawning all over their peers at conferences as they seek acceptance into the ufological sand-pit by saying the 'right thing' to the 'right people.' Thankfully, there's none of that in Mac's world."
--Nick Redfern, author of Three Men Seeking Monsters
"Mac Tonnies is undeniably a bit of a weirdo. Perhaps that's why I like him so much, though I agree with nearly nothing that he writes."
--John Brownlee
--John Shirley, author of Crawlers and Eclipse
"Mind-stretching."
--Clifford Pickover, author of Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves
". . . a grabbag of links and pithy blurbs, each a little more curious than the last."
--Feral Intelligence
"Frankly, there's nothing worse (aside from death, global famine, nuclear disaster and all-round armageddon) than seeing players in the UFO field fawning all over their peers at conferences as they seek acceptance into the ufological sand-pit by saying the 'right thing' to the 'right people.' Thankfully, there's none of that in Mac's world."
--Nick Redfern, author of Three Men Seeking Monsters
"Mac Tonnies is undeniably a bit of a weirdo. Perhaps that's why I like him so much, though I agree with nearly nothing that he writes."
--John Brownlee
Featured Interviews
Twitter Updates
Follow this blog...
My photos...
Friends
Tears in Rain
-
▼
2008
(1789)
-
▼
February
(185)
- Researcher claims vast network of prehistoric civi...
- Will robots replace suicide bombers?A leading expe...
- Robotic hunting trophiesHunting Trophies is a coll...
- The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change...
- Eviscerated Furby dolls laying down some sick beat...
- Terence McKenna: "When you shed the cultural opera...
- No, this isn't Photoshopped.Yes, we're that profou...
- The road to the futureVisionaries of the past, suc...
- 'Silicon womb' to begin fertility trialsIn standar...
- Terence McKenna: "You want to reclaim your mind an...
- I just happened across the "news updates" portion ...
- As you can see, I've been hard at work doing UFO "...
- One more reason to love biomimetics:Mercedes-Benz ...
- Fascinating sidewalk trompe l'oeil.
- The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What...
- NASA Takes Aim at Moon with Double SledgehammerSci...
- Hollywood's 'perfect woman': A cross between Angel...
- The Ultimate Project: 10000 Year JourneyWhen you'r...
- Peter Watts: is there a case for willfully perpetu...
- New ESA Rover Will Look For Life On MarsThe ExoMar...
- Blog of the day: Personal Spaceflight
- Creationist Diorama-RamaBefore I arrived at the sc...
- Mind Over ComputerUsing non-invasive elctroencepha...
- Krill Living in Water 9,800 Feet Below Antarctica ...
- Nokia's Morph - A Nanotech Concept DeviceNokia and...
- Los Angeles Air Raid of 1942: Wartime Jitters or U...
- Stanton Friedman waxes Saganesque on the ultimate ...
- Vintage anime: Evil Mickey Mouse invasion!"Toy Box...
- The Ten Best Post-Apocalyptic Survival VehiclesI'd...
- My new SETI essay, "The 'Face on Mars' and Pareido...
- I can imagine a future in which everything is pret...
- Richard Hoagland on the recent satellite shoot-dow...
- Prosthesis for a lost instinctThe risks we fear th...
- Giant ropes of dark matter found in new sky survey...
- Purported hauntings and UFO sightings in my hometo...
- Mexico: Triangular UFO Photographed During Eclipse...
- Click here for the funniest comic about the Drake ...
- Me killing time.
- Oh, those Italians and their coffee-making robotsT...
- Now this looks like a good time.
- The "drone" meme -- still not dead!(Thanks: The An...
- Reptilians shapeshifting live on camera (allegedly...
- Arguing the Upside of Being DownAuthor Eric G. Wil...
- Edo-period monster paintings by Sawaki SuushiIn th...
- The Daily Grail dissects James Randi's $1 million ...
- Taxidermie mécaniqueSteampunk meets taxidermy. I ...
- Electronic tattoo display runs on bloodJim Mielke'...
- A future-sexy Brigitte Bardot becomes entranced by...
- Theory Of Evolution Of Cities Links Science, Fract...
- This Java chessboard visualizes the computer's "th...
- Redefining SETI: The Case for Martian ArchaeologyA...
- "Alien Worlds" editor Stuart Miller sent me a hard...
- "Replay," a parable of the near-future:
- Get Ready For Antigravity! And Other Pieces of Sad...
- UFO Provocateur(s)? UFO Loser(s)The RRR Group has ...
- File under "Vaguely Reminiscent of Roswell Crash D...
- Just a quick note that my third SETI.com essay (th...
- Ebe the cat lounges next to a vintage Royal typewr...
- Valley firefighters get trained for UFO, alien con...
- An inspiring proof-of-concept for any aspiring exo...
- Heads up: Nick Redfern is blogging the apocalypse!
- Next plague likeliest to emerge from poor tropical...
- As Nuclear Waste Languishes, Expense to U.S. Rises...
- Military says missile hit spy satelliteA missile l...
- Petition to put Carl Sagan on a stampThe Sagan App...
- Yow! Ufological legend James Moseley, editor of t...
- Hard-wired for loveNot everyone embraces Levy's vi...
- A gem from Dark Roasted Blend:Barbarella & Other L...
- Disappearing bees threaten ice cream sellersLet's ...
- Cabinet of Wonders does justice to Whitley Striebe...
- Obesity 'requires climate plan'Professor James, of...
- Mysteries of computer from 65BC are solvedA 2,000-...
- True story: for the last couple days a white van a...
- A Second Earth in Our Solar SystemTraveling to ano...
- From Whitley Strieber's new "journal" entry:The ob...
- My new SETI essay has been posted. More on the wa...
- In Defense of Scientology (Peter Watts)You think t...
- Feeling amorous? How about a dose of hard-core sl...
- Today's meme: "cognitively modified organisms." I...
- I prefer to lay off videos of cute critters doing ...
- China concerned by U.S. satellite missile planChin...
- According to Communist Robot, "[t]he Sleep Waking ...
- UFO at Roswell - Sgt. Earl Fulford. - A new credib...
- Early Mars 'too salty' for lifeThe Red Planet was ...
- I have Alice In Wonderland syndromeIt wasn't long,...
- Here's the brand-new ad for my SETI.com blog. Not...
- New solar system boosts possibility of alien lifeK...
- Total human impact on oceans mapped for the first ...
- Greg Bishop on one of my all-time favorite UFO enc...
- Baby detained, dies in Honolulu airportThe baby ha...
- Ray (of Ray's X-Blog) relates his mysteriously fai...
- I'm looking forward to the new "Indiana Jones" mov...
- Britain may send astronauts to the Moon, Mars and ...
- Russia could aim rockets at European missile shiel...
- Risky Chemical Found In US Hurricane TrailersTens ...
- Real-Time Solar Storm Warning Now Operational, Pro...
- Pssst! Decrepit Jesus simulacrum for sale on eBay...
- Who wants to live for ever? A scientific breakthro...
- For whatever it's worth, Nick Redfern's cryptozool...
- Fiber-based nanotechnology in clothing could harve...
-
▼
February
(185)
Meme Dispersal
- 10 Zen Monkeys
- A Different Perspective
- Aberrant News
- Above and Beyond
- Adam Gorightly's Untamed Dimensions
- Ajgulyas.com
- Alien Etheric Messages
- Alterati
- AlterNet
- American Samizdat
- Analog Digits
- Anomalist
- Anomalist Books
- Anomaly Television
- Area 51 Loose Ends
- Ask Nicola
- Ballardian
- Beyond the Beyond
- Bioephemera
- Biology in Science Fiction
- Bit Babble
- Black Shiny Bug
- Blacksundae
- Blue Economy
- Blues Tea-Cha
- Boing Boing
- Brainsturbator
- Brave New World Order
- Cabinet of Wonders
- Children of the Lens, Seekers of Tomorrow
- Chris Wren
- CleanTechnica
- Climate Progress
- Clusterfuck Nation
- Conscious Earth
- Conservengland
- Conspiraporn!
- Corpus Mmothra
- Cosmic Citizen
- Cosmist Ponderer
- Cryptomundo
- Culture of Contact
- Curio
- Cyberpunkreview.com
- Daily Galaxy
- Daily Grail
- Daily Kitten
- Dancing on Colette's Grave
- Danger Room
- Dark Roasted Blend
- David Byrne
- Debris Field
- Dedroidify
- Dinosaurs and Robots
- Discordian Research Technology
- Doktorsblog
- Dr. Fong's House of Mysteries
- Dr. Menlo
- DVICE
- EcoGeek
- Ectoplasmosis
- Electric Children
- Elfis Network
- Empire of the Odd
- Entangled Minds
- Enthusiasm
- Environmental Graffiti
- Extracranial
- Extraordinary Intelligence
- Fabulous Forager
- Fantasy IRL
- Far Queue
- Flickrbabes
- Flobbergobber
- Forgetomori
- Further: Strange Attractor and Beyond
- Future Hi
- Future is Awesome
- Future Scanner
- Future-Speak
- Futurismic
- Gareth L. Powell
- Gerry Canavan
- Gizmodo
- Gpod
- Gralien Report
- Greg Hemmings
- Grinding
- Grouchogandhi
- Hidden Experience
- Holographic Romance
- Huge Entity
- Intangible Materiality
- Inventor Spot
- io9
- Joao's Corner
- John Cabrera
- Keyhoe Report
- Kosmic Tom
- Laughing Squid
- Less Cyber, More Punk
- LiLela
- Loving the Machine
- Machines Like Us
- Meaning of Existence
- Meme Therapy
- MemeMachineGo!
- Mental Floss
- Mind Hacks
- Minding the Planet
- Monkey Buddha
- Morbid Anatomy
- Mutate!
- Mysterious Universe
- Neural Dump
- Night of the Living Jackboots
- Nightshirt
- No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons (Reloaded)
- No Touch Monkey!
- OddThings
- Ollapodrida
- Oneparticularwave
- Oobject
- Open the Future
- Oz Files
- PAG E-News
- Paramodern Studies
- Paranormal Musings
- Paul Hughes
- Paul Scott Anderson
- PCL LinkDump
- Pharyngula
- Pink Tentacle
- Plockhead
- Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society
- Professor Hex
- Public Parapsychology
- Radio Misterioso
- Ran Prieur
- Ray's X-Blog
- RealClimate
- Reality Carnival
- Reality Carnival Unleashed
- Reality Sandwich
- Reviews of the Fortean Kind
- Rhododendrites
- Rigorous Intuition
- Rudy Rucker
- SciFi Scanner
- Secret Sun
- Shovelware
- Signs of Witness
- Smart Mobs
- Social Dynamite
- Space Archaeology
- Speculist
- Spongy Fungal Substance
- Sprol
- Squarewaves
- Starship Reckless
- Stormy Weather
- Strangeness
- Symbol Interface
- Techgnosis
- Technovelgy
- Teleomorph
- Things That Look Like Flying Saucers
- ThothWeb
- Tokyo Mango
- Tomorrow Museum
- Tony's Kansas City
- Tor.com
- Total Dick-Head
- TracyRTwyman.com
- TreeHugger
- Truthout
- UFOMystic
- Uncertain Times
- Variable Gravitas Content
- Velcro City Tourist Board
- Verbal Vortex
- Void Manufacturing
- Vulcan and the Unicorn
- Warren Ellis
- Website at the End of the Universe
- Weirdomatic.com
- Wild Rote
- William Gibson
- WorldChanging
- Yummy Wakame
Art and Design
- Adaptive Reuse
- Amuck
- Araqinta
- Artist at Work
- Bad Banana Blog
- Beautiful/Decay
- BLDGBLOG
- Brass Goggles
- City of Sound
- Core77
- Decayed Machinery
- Design News
- Designed Objects
- Dezeen
- Drawn!
- Fashioning Technology
- Fernando Vicente
- Flight404
- Future Feeder
- Gallery of the Absurd
- Golden Age Comic Book Stories
- Guerilla Innovation
- Human Condition
- Information Aesthetics
- Inhabitat
- Interactive Architecture
- IsoBan's Journal
- Kitsune Noir
- Kontrast Blog
- Little Boing Marks
- MoCo Loco
- Modern Mechanix
- Mondolithic Studios
- Monster Brains
- Myke Amend
- Next Nature
- Paleo-Future
- Phantasmaphile
- Positive Ape Index
- Postreason
- Pulp of the Day
- Riot on an Empty Street
- Riotfish
- Scribble Pad
- Sex in Art
- Street Use
- Subtopia
- Toybot Studios
- Urban Prankster
- We Make Money Not Art
- Webomator
- WebUrbanist
- Who Killed Bambi?
- Worm Intruder
- Your Logo Makes Me Barf
Technological Futurism
Cosmos
Organizations
Fellow Posthumans
Join the Posthuman Blues Geographical Matrix!
Tracking
Obligatory Graphical Links
Merchandise
Link!
Technorati
Tip jar
Like this blog? Drop a couple bucks in the tip jar and I'll dispatch nanobots to stimulate your brain's pleasure center. Karmic, isn't it?
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe . . ."
4 comments:
Beautifully rendered, and so terribly sad.
Yikes, have kids and this kind of content takes on worlds of meaning you just don't grasp preprocreation.
Awesome piece.
katie -- Those were exactly my thoughts. EXACTLY!
I did notice something a bit odd. The characters were speaking French but the signs in the abandoned town seemed to be in Russian or some other language using the Cyrilic alphabet. Very strange.
bear-- Chernobyl-esque oblige?
Post a Comment