"Manifesto" of mass-shooter Elliott Rodger

For those who might be interested, this is the self-aggrandizing and self-pitying autobiography of the Santa Barbara mass-shooter.  Personally, I didn't get very far.  Dude loved his video games, that's for sure.  Given his father's Hollywood connections, you'll be hearing lots of Illuminati mind-control talk about this one, probably even Project Monarch.  I probably don't even have to say "probably" anymore....

My Twisted World: The Story of Elliott Rodger by Elliott Rodger

Tentative bibliography of synchromystic and related titles....

This is a woefully incomplete list of titles I've read (except for one), that have informed my vision of what may be called "synchromysticism".  Only one book actually uses the term and deals with the genre directly, but all of them I think are useful "primary sources".  That said, they probably aren't the best choices to start with if you want to know what self-identified synchromystics have read and written; the list may be of most use to those who have already read some of those books and are looking for precursors or related works that may not have occurred to them to read.  Please feel free to add titles you've read in the comments section, bearing in mind I make no pretense of this list being either comprehensive or the most pertinent selection.  You can find many blogs and websites which identify themselves or are generally regarded as having a synchromystic approach to history and current events.  Like I said, this is only a list of books I've read; there are certainly other books out there that may be obvious but I can't vouch for them.  Dates refer to the first publication, not necessarily the edition I read, nor the date the book was actually written.

Plastic Tub, a Wiki project I contributed to predates my knowledge of synchromysticism but shares a lot of features with it.

• Brandon, Jim.  Weird America.  1978.  (The only book on this list I haven't read, but I recommend it on the basis of its connection to Downard, Hoffman and Coleman and its status as a precursor and a "classic" of the genre).
• Breton, Andre.  Surrealist Manifesto.  1924.
• Breton, Andre.  Nadja.  1928. 
• Burroughs, William S.  The Adding Machine.  1985.
• Coverly, Merlin.  Psychogeography.  2010.
• Debord, Guy.  Theory of the Dérive.  First published in French in 1956.  In English?
• de Sède, Gerard.  The Accursed Treasure of Rennes le Chateau.  First published in French in 1958.  In English, 2001.
• Downard, James Shelby and Hoffman, Michael.  King-Kill 33.  Published by Adam Parfrey in Apocalypse Culture in 1988, but Hoffman prefaces his online version by saying the book had been out of print since 1987.  He sells a longer version on his website.  Loren Coleman says the text circulated "for years" prior to being published by Parfrey and was written "sometime before 1978."
• Downard. "The Call to Chaos".  Apocalypse Culture, 2nd ed.  1990.
• Downard. "America, The Possessed Corpse".  Apocalypse Culture II.  2000.
• Downard.  Carnivals of Life and Death. (The only book-length work by the generally-acknowledged Godfather of the genre).  2006.    
• Eco, Umberto.  Foucault's Pendulum.  First published in Italian in 1988.  In English, 1989.
• Fort, Charles.  The Book of the Damned.  1919.
• Gorightly, Adam.  James Shelby Downard's Mystical War.  2008
• Guffey, Robert.  Cryptoscatology: Conspiracy Theory as Art Form.  2012.
• Hoffman, Michael.  Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare.  2001.
• The Holy Bible.
• Jung, Carl.  Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle.  1960.
• Mackey, Albert G.  An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry.  1873.
• Malaclypse the Younger.  Principia Discordia.  1965.
• Parfrey, Adam, Riding the Downardian Nightmare.  Cult Rapture. 
• Pynchon, Thomas.  Gravity's Rainbow.  1973.
• Spence, Richard.  "Searching for James Shelby Downard".  2012.
• Waite, Arthur E.  A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry.  1921.  
• Wilson, Robert Anton and Shea, Robert.  Illuminatus! trilogy.
• Wilson, Robert Anton.  Cosmic Trigger, vols. I, II and III.  1977; 1991; 1995.

Aucamville Project 12

Aerial view of the village center.

Aucamville (82!) now has a new website.  That is all.

http://www.aucamville.fr/

15 feet towards nowhere

A 15th foot has been found floating in the Pacific waters near the Canada/US border.  We include a link cuz we've been following this since the beginning but really, we have nothing to say on the subject we haven't already said, no grisly puns to trot out (hehe).

Article: http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/952427-129/port-of-seattle-finds-severed-human

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discoveries

Note that the foot was in a jogging shoe.  I think this means that the jogging shoes are more floaty than other types of shoes, hence the reason we're finding them.  Which makes we wonder how many feet have sunk to the bottom in say, a pair of penny loafers?

That or there's a killer on the road, hunting joggers.

Pyramid = Dead Horse

Résidence La Pyramide, Foix

Foix.  Unless you're a Medievalist, you may never have heard of it.  But Foix dates back to the time of Charlemagne, and its rulers, the Counts of Foix, once ruled a County larger than the Kingdom of France....and were certainly more powerful.  That is, until they weren't.  Simon de Montfort, dickhead supreme, never took its famous castle.  As we still happily celebrate in these parts, Old Simon got his head crushed by a stone flung from the ramparts of Toulouse, from a catapult operated by women, so they say, during another of his unsuccessful sieges.  Fortunately for the Toulousains.  "Kill 'em and let God sort 'em out"?  That's a paraphrase from de Montfort, who put some 20+ thousand residents of Béziers to the sword after he captured that unfortunate burg.

Foix is well-known to French kids due to the following lil' ditty, which is a way of illustrating the weirdness of French:  four spellings, four different meanings, with the same pronunciation:

Il était une fois,
Dans la ville de Foix,
Une marchande de foie,
Qui vendait du foie...
Elle se dit : Ma foi,
C'est la première fois
Et la dernière fois,
Que je vends du foie,
Dans la ville de Foix

In English is makes less sense, but this is what it means:

Once upon a time

In the town of Foix

A liver merchant

Selling liver [like, duh!]

Said to himself:  My lord

This is the first time

And the last time

That I sell liver

In the town of Foix

Foix is a sub-Prefecture of the Ariège, a mountainous department on the Spanish border.  It's coat of arms features red and yellow stripes, resembling that of both Catalonia and Aragon.  Historically, this area has longer links with Spain than France.  It's deep in Occitan country, not far from Montségur, where the Albigensian Crusade came to its horrible end as hundreds of "heretical" Cathars were burned alive, en masse.

There are also caves galore around here, a paleolithic paradise.  People have been living here for a very, very long time.

Monuments aux Morts, Foix

Anyway, I just wanted to show a photo of an HLM, or public housing building, called "The Pyramid" with a pyramid-shaped entrance, just down the road from the WW1 monument, an obelisk, which marks the entrance of Foix's town center.  As the title of this post suggests, I've flogged this topic a lot, but it never ceases to amaze me how the French still work the pyramid into their architecture in all sorts of contexts:  parks, monuments, border crossings and here, public housing.  I'm not sure I even need to go into the irony of using a pyramid in the design of public housing.

So, follow my tag for "pyramids" and you'll find more discussion.  At this point, I'm just cataloging examples.