Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

Screenplay by Aleister Crowley’s de facto godson

PopCon | 2026 PopCon is the premier music writing and popular music studies conference.

Tomorrow morning (Saturday March 14, 9 am sharp) I am presenting a learned treatise on the subject of smooth music at USC's Pop Conference. Free admission with pre-registration!
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Reviews: Gorillaz, Bruno Mars, Megan Moroney Plus Bill Callahan, Crooked Fingers, a great Clifton Chenier box and a McCartney soundtrack.

Catching up with new albums by Gorillaz, Bruno Mars, Megan Moroney, Bill Callahan, Crooked Fingers, and a new Clifton Chenier box in my latest newsletter.

Just passed a weed store named FlynnStoned and I don’t know what to do with my anger

Well done, Clickhole.

Conrad Flynn Pt 2 | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan YouTube video by The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

My second episode on Billy Corgan’s The Magnificent Others podcast is now up.

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Aviation and the Creation of Scientology Paranormal encounters while flying are part of Scientology's origin story.

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Somewhere a publicist is telling Morrissey he can write his Clavicular song all he wants but he’s not going to let him release it.

Larry Johnson or Arian Foster?

And then Hideo Kojima has Norman Reedus looking like he’s about to drop the hottest post-grunge video of 2001.

bro this lady on Jeopardy was deep in third place going into Final Jeopardy, and she didn’t know the answer so she just wrote “i hope they both bet it all” and the other two guys fucking bet it all and got it wrong and she won

AI pioneer accused of having sex with trafficking victim on Jeffrey Epstein’s island Marvin Minsky was named alongside several other prominent men.

It’s not like the technical advisor on “2001,” Marvin Minsky, had Epstein ties.

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Beak looking like a Far Side character talking

Running with the Devil: Disney's Dream Debased The Fall appears briefly on "Stranger Things." The Manchester band was not unfamiliar with the occult, and frontman Mark E. Smith had a correct premonition that someone would die at Disneyland.

Over on Substack (The Flynn Effect) and at Tom Erlewine’s (So It Goes) we discuss the spooky real-life stories about Mark E. Smith of The Fall. One tale even ties into a death at Disneyland. @sterlewine.bsky.social
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Why Future Generations Will Obsess Over 'Back to the Future II' This may be the most Hideo Kojimacore post I've ever done...but your kids are gonna love it.

Over on Substack, I went into the strange real-life historical figures that parallel, and possibly inspired, Back to the Future II. A movie that is weirder than we realized at the time.

Why Future Generations Will Obsess Over 'Back to the Future II' This may be the most Hideo Kojimacore post I've ever done...but your kids are gonna love it.

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Over on Substack, a lengthy post about the strange real-life history behind Back to the Future II. Time travel devices, Tesla, Elon, Trump’s scientist uncle, and von Braun. It’s a bit much—even for me.

Keep your eyes peeled for my mom in The House on Willis Ave ep!

Lowly Youth becomes hero and king goes back to at least the David story (with Samuel training him) in the Bible.

Samuel even picked and trained Saul (a nobody) before David. Many tropes originate there.

Looking for Stars in the 1992 Hollywood Players Directory (Part III) 1992, mostly dudes remain.

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Hollywood Players Directory 1992 Part III

It’s a testament to the endemic interest in occult matters in the sixties that both the Grateful Dead and the Velvet Underground, despite being seemingly on opposite sides of the countercultural spectrum, were both called The Warlocks early on.

David Bowie was trending at the same time as the Renee Nicole Good.

Coincidentally, Bowie's widow, Iman, is from the same Somali sub-clan, the Majeerteens, as Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

How Aleister Crowley inspired the sitcom 'Bewitched' This is even crazier than Dick Sargent + Dick York = Sergeant York.

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Conrad Flynn | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan YouTube video by The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Did Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins’ podcast. Talked music and entertainment underbelly.

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Running with the Devil: The Rolling Stones Part One: Play With Fire

Happy to share this first taste from Running with the Devil, a project I’ve been developing with my friend @conradflynn.bsky.social about rock and the occult. Naturally, the place to start with rock and the occult is the Rolling Stones. substack.com/home/post/p-...

S9E50: Strange Encounters with Conrad Flynn | The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast Get more from The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast on Patreon

Did the Bret Easton Ellis podcast.

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Nick Fuentes and Martin Scorsese I don’t think Nick Fuentes would exist without Martin Scorsese.

Wrote about Nick Fuentes and the cultural memory of the Scorsese Cinematic Universe (the SCU).

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