http://notesfromunderground.today.com Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:48:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Another thing to consider about Criss Angel is the nature of his press coverage.  Usually when a celebrity or a star of the day is in the spotlight they are mauled by the paparazzi, the media, and there is no challenge too great for a photographer to capture a disclosing ... http://notesfromunderground.today.com/2008/12/01/criss-angel-the-paparazzi-mystery/ I have done plenty of research on the web about Criss Angel in particular and magic in general.  There are several different types of people I have found.  Loyals: caring little about how the tricks are done and simply are in it for entrainment or to be doting groupies. And more ... http://notesfromunderground.today.com/2008/11/30/criss-angel-a-skeptical-look/ Apparently the Vatican is preparing a beatification of a religious figure of the 19th century from Cuba who was responsible for a what the Vatican pronounced as a miracle in which a young girl in 1999, the 20th century, was miraculously saved from certain death due to an inoperable stomach ... http://notesfromunderground.today.com/2008/11/29/the-vatican-miracles-and-a-cuban-beatification/ I am not a political person and don't have national flag in my yard and want now look upon the recent "terrorist" activities in Mumbai more as kind of spectator event like sports.  At the onset of the Civil War in the US when battles occurred around the cities, people ... http://notesfromunderground.today.com/2008/11/28/terrorist-attacks-in-mumbai-an-underground-strategic-overview/ A small newspaper in Connecticut reported that a Christian saying prayers in public was hospitalized after a concerned observer called the police to report what they thought was abnormal, irregular behavior.  The hospital officials said this was a standard operating procedure when dealing with calls of this nature. Physicians at the ... http://notesfromunderground.today.com/2008/11/27/christian-saying-prayers-hospitalized/ Surely just about everyone these days has seen tattoos of Chinese characters.  I imagine the people who have them are attempting to access mystical, exotic, foreign energies by having these done or of course even more stupid, "Oh, what pretty designs."   I don't really have any morals and think ... http://notesfromunderground.today.com/2008/11/26/tattoos-chinese-symbols-a-faux-paux/ I have been off track thus far in this blogging spree from the trajectory that I had initially intended; namely writing from Underground and inspired by Dostoevsky's book Notes From Underground.  Today as I sat down to breakfast there was a calm in the restaurant full of people quietly munching ... http://notesfromunderground.today.com/2008/11/25/happy-thanksgiving-happy-desecration/ Now that the fury and ire had been raised on my previous entry I would like to try and be a little more rational, calm and composed although there is really nothing rational about this whole situation.  I sit here tonight pondering the masses of people who drive the paparazzi ... http://notesfromunderground.today.com/2008/11/24/celebrities-gossip-hollywood-and-stars-continued/ I want to begin with an idea of Friedrich Nietzsche's in which he claims that a popular culture unites a people and provides a common ground.  I certainly don't disagree with this but consider this of the commoners and the mindless masses who can endure to be entertained or rather ... http://notesfromunderground.today.com/2008/11/23/celebrities-gossip-hollywood-and-stars/  On several a late night while rotting my mind in front of the TV I have come across the Chris Angel show and watched him levitate.  I have to admit I am not altogether comfortable with people just floating in mid air and making a big show of it.  In ... http://notesfromunderground.today.com/2008/11/22/chris-angel-mind-freak-or-national-security-risk/