There is no such thing as an ex-KGB man.

~ Vladimir Putin

Chekism is the dominant political ideology in Russia today.

It derives its name from the Cheka, which was the first incarnation of what was later known as the KGB. The Cheka were formed immediately after Russia's Communist revolution in 1917 to act as the "sword and the shield" of the Communist state. The Cheka were a secret police organization whose role was...

It's 1976, a full year before Saturday Night Fever would tell you where to go when the record was over, a full year before Studio 54 began to fill up with the celebrities of the era. The Trammps, one of the original disco bands, down in Philadelphia, were about to release their defining single, the one song for which they would be most remembered. Not their first single, no - there was 1972's Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart and 1973's Love Epidemic. But ...

i used to be jealous of you emma
and of what he said and wrote
about your honeyed breasts and long white legs
and how every time you turned your face away
from his kisses your little pointed chin
cut him deep and red

and i said she makes you pathetic
and said she hasn't earned your love
and other things

i'm not really jealous of you anymore
is what i'm...

This series begins with The Machine in the Ghost

Back to Reality, Dimensions and the Natural Ontology || On to The Simulacron Project

The previous few parts of this series focused on the sensory wall that separates reality from the knowing brain and on the reality that lies on the other side of that wall. On the brain side, we have only taken a small step away from the raw...