Podcast appearances and mentions of Francis E Dec

Francis E. Dec, Esquire stood alone against a world-wide open secret: that all of society was top-down controlled by a Computer God, an ancient experiment by his ancestors gone awry. Dec, having been forced into jobless poverty for being immune to mind control, spent the last decades of his life typewriting and mailing out rants which attempted to inform the population of their Frankenstein-like enslavement. His letters found a home not in the media institutions he sent them to, but as collectibles sought after by the underground alternative lifestyle movements from the 70s to today.

Francis E. Dec (1926-1996) was a disbarred lawyer who wrote and circulated a series of pamphlets detailing the world's subjugation by the Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God. He was largely ignored for much of his life, but his writings eventually gathered a cult following because of their unique depiction of a theme common both to late twentieth century science fiction and critical theory: the ubiquitous and subtle operation of technological control systems. Artist writer, and gonzo philsopher Gio Pennachietti joins Outsider Theory for a wide-ranging discussion of Dec's work and its connections to an array of other cultural phenomena from Dec's era and our own. We conclude with a brief and only tangentially related discussion of the art of the late Thomas Kinkade, another shared interest of ours. Follow Gio and read his writing: * Twitter: https://twitter.com/giantgio * Instragram: https://t.co/WNZfDA10zQ?amp=1 * YouTube: https://t.co/2vsKCsvFVO?amp=1 * https://gioscontentcorner.wordpress.com/ * https://terrorhousepress.com/product/ending-bigly/ Also related: * The Collected Rants of Francis E Dec (https://www.bentoandstarchky.com/dec/rants.htm) * Jeffrey Sconce, The Technical Delusion (https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-technical-delusion) * Geoff Shullenberger, We All Wear Tinfoil Hats Now (https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/we-all-wear-tinfoil-hats-now)

Selections from Ringo Stalin and friends: "The Dead Trilogy" Francis E. Dec: "Worldwide Mad Deadly Communist Gangster Computer God Frankenstein Radio Controls" Mike Browning: "Eviltech" Tamaryn: "Mild Confusion" & "Return To Surrender" Mark of the Devil Mike Warnke: "A Christian Perspective on Halloween" Selections by Romanian avant-garde composer Iancu Dumitrescu Elizabeth Clare Prophet (aka Guru Ma) of the new age doomsday cult Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT) aka The Summit Lighthouse Rainbow Arabia: "Haunted Hall" H. P. Lovecraft "The Call of Cthulhu (excerpts)" "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far." Citizen Kafka: "Abbot and Costello Meet the Anti-Christ" Mashup Industries, Zee Bearoness: "Baby's First Spellbook (ft. Vincent Prince I Was Totally Destroying It: "The Witch Riding Your Back" The Bomboras: "Beyond The Sound Of Time" Subscribe to my YouTube channel: transpondency Subscribe to transpondency.blip.tv Follow me on twitter & seesmic email: suburban@transpondency.com Call my voicemail: 1 (716) 402-1462  

In the first hour, we butt heads on The Irredeemable Ant-Man #3, David praises Peter David, Scot Eaton, and company's work on Friendly Neighboorhood Spider-Man #15, and VinceB launches a long assessment of the second volume of the Essential Defenders! The Pop Cult Online's Rick Gordon and Kevin Moyer from Comic Geek Speak drop by in our second half to help us find books for new readers not familiar with the mighty Marvel Universe! Bonus! The Collected Comics Library's Chris Marshall drops some science for new readers! Scott Cederlund of Wednesday's Haul gets desperate in the wake of Civil War: The Return! Around Comics' Tom Katers! The Big Largeness! Francis E. Dec, Esq.! All this and the usual pop culture weirdness that is Bullpen Bulletins!