Comet Envy

As I mentioned in the book, when Leary died the greatest comet in twenty years appeared in the sky. This was known as the "great comet of 1996", or C/1996 B2 Hyakutake to it's friends. This was a nice touch on the part of the heavens, considering Leary's obsession with the comet Kahoutek whilst in jail.

Well, the comet that was in the sky when Robert Anton Wilson died last month puts Leary's comet to shame. It went by the name of C/2007 P1 McNaught, the brightest comet for over forty years, and was soon given the name of - yes - "the great comet of 2007" by Space.com.

Have a look at it, it's a magnificent thing.

http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/ap070115.html

http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/ap070118.html

Online course in Tim Leary

One of the benifits of writing the book was discovering that time spent getting your head around Tim Leary is a really useful thing to do on many levels - it's something I'd recommend to anyone. Well, an online course in exactly that is starting on Feb 26th, over at RAW's Maybe Logic Academy, in the capable hands of R.U. Sirius. Look, it just sounds good on many levels.

More info here:

http://www.maybelogic.org/courses.htm