As the special screenings coordinator of Daniel Pinchbeck's film 2012: Time for Change, it's been really exciting for me to see the variety of events that people have created around their screenings of 2012: Time for Change.

The production company that helped create director João Amorim and author Daniel Pinchbeck's 2012: Time for Change is looking to set up special screenings of the film. If you are interested in having the film screen, please message me here or e-mail me at cmcontillo@gmail.com and we can talk about the available options.

A few years ago, working as an intern for Reality Sandwich, I had the privilege of transcribing an essay written by Hakim Bey on the magical hold money has had over our species since its inception. Shortly afterward, the economy collapsed.

I picked up Rebecca Solnit's most recent book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster because I'd really enjoyed her book Wanderlust which traced a history of walking and visited the leftist political implications of doing so. walking as resistance, who'd have thought!

It's a play about the ruinous results of plundering the earth for non-renewable resources! But it's also so much more. And I get to play a singing, dancing, scantily-clad mummy queen. If you live in New York there's no reason to miss Cocktails at the Centre of the Earth!

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I'm going to be studying German in Kassel, Germany for a little over a month. My access to the internet, aside from at the school, is unknown, and I'll probably be deeply immersed in my studies for a bit.

This is kind of a light blog post on the topic of the X-Files. My girlfriend and I have been re-watching (or, for her, watching for the first time) the series from the beginning over the past several months. We're at the end of the 5th season. I think this show was pivotal in my personal exploration of the unknown, and also provided an enduring crush on one ms. gillian anderson.

found this great article, "indexing the machine elves," on the Daily Grail. Folklore, of course, does not necessarily negate the experience of either UFO abduction scenarios or fairy encounters, but instead seeks to index and understand the nature of the belief. Well researched and v. interesting article!