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After I did the Ram Dass thing, I did another issue on Wilhelm Reich, and this was all done on the office photocopier after hours. Then I started to send them around to publishers to get free books to review. If you can convince publishers that you are a viable magazine, you can get review copies and save lots of money.


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That was it's sole function until the third issue, when at that time Bob Banner was doing Critique - the quintessential conspiracy zine. But the conspiracy stuff depressed him so much that he joined a self-help cult -- Robert Le Masters' group -and he changed the name of the zine to Sacred Fire, and published the homilies of his guru. It was a disaster in terms of those of us who liked the conspiracy stuff.

Q: So it grew out of a need to keep the information flowing, and was basically a selfish impulse? The Excluded Middle certainly was. A: That's what it was.

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I'm a reader, a consumer of this material and to feed that need, I felt I had to do more with Steamshovel instead of the literary zine it was until the third issue. At the end of that issue, I called for papers, and we got some conspiracy stuff. Issue 4 was a donated print job. This was actually done on photocopy equipment at Monsanto Chemical. Q: How did the name "Steamshovel Press" come about? Wasn't it from a Bob Dylan song? A: Maybe so.

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It's an absurd thing - people think the magazine is about industrial farm equipment. And it's not even absurd in a good way, like Dharma Combat. It's just dumb. I've been thinking about calling the enterprise Steamshovel Press, and calling the magazine Popular Alienation , but everyone knows it by that name, and I might not even do another issue!

I hate to say "this means that" and be so linear. It's like John Lennon trying to explain "Beatles. Kerouac said that it meant "be-attitude. Q: It was a return to what "freedom" means in America. People were horrified by WWII and the soldiers came back and wondered what was going on in the world.

A: One of the unique things about Steamshovel Press is that it has that perspective of the Beat movement. A lot of the conspiracy culture is driven by right-wing extremism and militia movements and other groups that don't really connect with that creative underworld. Q: It seems the Beat aesthetic drives your perspective in that the reason for the discussion of these subjects is not out of a selfish motivation.

It's more altruistic. A: All these things are connected. What does the Kennedy assassination have do with the Beats? Some of the things that were responsible for the assassination from the "straight" world were referred to as "Moloch" in Ginsberg's Howl. Q: Like Phil Dick said; "The empire never died" meaning the Roman empire, but also that that imperialistic, materialistic, and controlling impulse survives to this day.

A: Popular Alienation has that quote right at the beginning from Ginsburg: "Recent history is the record of a vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind. Q: Getting back to the conspiratorial side, one of my friends was talking to a colleague at work about the Kennedy assassination, and this person finally asked if he was "some sort of conspiracy nut," and my friend shot back, "Well, maybe, but are you some sort of coincidence nut? A: Well, being called a "conspiracy theorist" to me is like calling a black person a "nigger.

It's as bad as Stepin' Fechit or the Yellow Kid. Q: It puts the person in a box so he can be categorized and no one has to deal with it. That would involve thinking and work. Although something like that kind of conspiracy wacko does exist. A: People need to laugh at it because they just can't handle it.

Not that it isn't true, not that you're insane because you're into it, but that it IS true, and it's a rational thing to be concerned about the kinds of things we're concerned about. One of the things about the monolithic mainstream culture is that it's always right. I would be the first person to tell you that half of what I say is wrong. It's as much as I understand it. This is what I think distinguishes what we do from what the militias or other such groups publishing this material are doing.

Q: The Crossfire hosts [John Sinunu and Geraldine Ferraro] were just on during the Roswell event and they generally sneered at the whole thing while looking at it in such a cursory manner. No substance and all emotion, essentially. A: Yeah, they always have an agenda there. Jonathan Vankin was on that recently and he wrote me back and he asked me why I didn't contact him earlier with the info because he wouldn't have looked like such a fool on the air. He was identified as an "internet researcher" because they were trying to blame it as a product of the internet.

The internet is of course a threat to entities like Crossfire and CNN, since it allows people to access information on their own.

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Q: Oh no! Now people have to work to find their own truth if they choose! Can't have that! Their hypocrisy was contained in the statement that was made on one of these news analysis shows about "How can we trust anything when anyone can look like Time magazine? A: They always have a bunch of "facts" and package it and make it look pretty, and the complaint is that anyone can now take a bunch of crap and make it look pretty, but they've been able to get away with it forever. Q: What do you think the major news services are doing to co-opt this new access technology, and possibly circumvent it?

A: I think in addition to PROMIS software and things like it, that the powers that be are trying to make everyone alarmed about the power and the freedom to be able to communicate in that way, and also to use it to spy on people in various ways. Q: Do you have problems in your public appearances with people who are unfamiliar with the material?

In other words, how much backgrounding do people need? A: At times, I think that an audience should know a lot more than it does. This morning at my presentation I brought up the Maury Island case, which is my next book, and I was surprised that many people in this UFO audience seemed to draw a blank.

This book has to come out this year because it's the 50th anniversary of the case. A: Because of this fact that he was harboring Gayle or a number of other Minutemen at his ranch in Oregon.

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In this Maury Island book I'm doing right now there's going to be a whole section that focuses on Crisman. It appears very probable that some kind of strange event happened at Maury Island, and that Harold Dahl actually saw these six doughnut-shaped saucers. Q: Why is this probable after so many UFO researchers have concluded that it was a hoax? A: There are certain parts of it that are hoaxed, and all of this has to do with Fred Crisman, who was a notorious liar. He involved himself in the episode after Dahl had come and reported his experience.

Then Crisman said he went out there by himself and saw a saucer too, and then he's the one who's holding on to all the "metal slag" that he says fell from the object. Before all that happened he had letters published in Ray Palmer's magazine [ Fate ] about he was fighting the Deros in Burma as part of that Shaver mystery. And later, Palmer hired Kenneth Arnold to go out and investigate Crisman and Dahl and paid him bucks to go out and talk to them, saying he'd never heard of either of them.

He knew all along that Crisman had written him letters about the Dero and a wound he'd suffered to his arm that was a very prescient description of a laser wound, before the laser was invented.


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So Palmer knew who Crisman was, and here he is asking Arnold to go out and check him out. Then there's a whole element of intrigue here as well with pseudonym that Shaver used which was "Robert Webster," which was the name of one of the Oswald doubles! A: Maybe I'm making more out of it than I should, but it's just that Crisman has so many different connections to the Kennedy assassination. Also that brings in the whole idea of the Oswald doubles in the first place.