It's
been a few days since my last post, so I wanted to take an
opportunity to give you readers an update on what I've been up to.
Never fear I have a few projects in the pipeline that will return us
to your regularly scheduled Forteania postings that you've all come
to love so much. As many of you are already aware, in addition to
blogging here at Forteania I also write a column for Tim Binnall at
his Binnall Of America website that's entitled Fortean Ramblings.
Well you can add another url to your list of places to find my
writing. As of Monday August 6, I began writing for Disinfo.com. My
first (and so far only) post went live Monday evening in celebration
of Charles Fort's birthday. What better way to celebrate not only my
new gig at Disinfo, but also Fort's birthday? Below I'll give you a
snippet of that post, but you should really follow the link below to
check out the whole thing.
Happy
Birthday Mr. Fort!
August
6, 2012 marks the 138th birthday of the great cataloger of the
strange and unusual Charles Fort. Writing in the early 20th century,
Fort would pen a total of seven books in his lifetime. Two early
works, X and
Y, were sadly never published as the author burned
them during one of his many bouts of depression. Another title, The
Outcast Manufacturers, was a fiction book that enjoyed some
moderate success. The works that have made him rather famous (or
infamous depending upon who you ask) are The Book of the
Damned, New Lands, Lo!,
and Wild Talents. Through the use of the New
York Public library, Fort set about to dig up the data he felt that
science had too long neglected. Almost right from the beginning Fort
laid out his intentions pretty clearly. In his first work, The
Book of the Damned, Fort wrote:
“A Procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded”
Follow
this link in order to read the whole thing. Also be sure to keep
checking back on Disinfo for more of my writing. That's all I have
for now, tonight should see normal posting resume here. Until then,
Stay Classy internets!
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