Mr. Radford, are you certain that ‘Species’ was released in PR on the same date as it’s proper US release? Because we are talking about 5 weeks between a film’s premiere, and Ms. Tolentino’s description, and when dealing with such a short window, it’s probably a good idea to be certain.

Just because a film is released on July 7th doesn’t mean that it’s going to be shown at your local theatre in West Nowhere, Idaho.

My apologies, awrvb.

I have only spent a decade investigating cryptozoological mysteries, doing first-hand field investigations into these topics, and writing columns, articles, and books on the chupacabra and other mystery animals.

You, after having seen part of an old TV show on YouTube, are clearly far better informed than I am about the chupacabra.

In a documentairy of Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World there was a policeman (?) who shot at a Chupacabras when the Chupacabras was on his property. The Chupacabras rolled over and flew away. You can see the documentairies of Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World on YouTube. Some people are uploading all the A C Clarke’s documentaries on YouTube.

and btw Remobec, maybe it’s time for you to start playing with
‘friends’ your own age…

The moment they’ve established that idea, however, they immediately start looking for analogies to convey at least some impression of what they’ve undergone, what they’ve seen, i.e., they’re forced to use the known to describe the unknown.

Hence Kenneth Arnold spoke of the unusual flying behaviour of whatever it was he witnessed as being like a saucer skipping across water and others, using this idea of the ‘flying saucer’ as a kind of shorthand, happily opined they’d seen a ‘flying saucer’ too, even though they’d often be describing ‘flying cigars’, ‘flying domes’, ‘flying doughnuts’, etc., etc.

It’s the same with the term UFO – by definition, something UNIDENTIFIED – yet people generally use the terms UFO and flying saucer as if they’re exactly interchangeable.

I love this idea, though, of pop culture explaining away all these weird and wacky people who apparently only need to read the term ‘grey’ in newspapers to set them off imagining they’re being kidnapped by aliens, or watch a Sci fi movie to start hallucinating chupacabras, (although it begs the question if she saw a movie ALIEN why didn’t she instantly assume what she was seeing outside the movie theatre was ALSO an alien?).

I remember having a conversation with a police officer mate who ended up drinking himself to death because he couldn’t handle his weird experiences, (it’s why I refer to myself as a theosexual as a pun on homosexual, since once upon a time medication, lobotomies and electroshock therapy were all used on homosexuals in an attempt to ‘cure’ them, too).

He was having one of his cynical days when he was trying to explain away our mutual tendency to undergo episodes where time seems to slow down or even come to a dead stop. Apparently, according to him, it was all down to the influence of the movie The Matrix; and I had to admit, it was a plausible explanation – until you realised The Matrix was released at the end of the ’90s, whereas we’d first spoken about our experiences at the beginning of the ’90s.

According to this cultural precedent explanation, then, when people claim to’ve seen the likes of David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Lady Gaga on tour, they’ve all been hallucinating.

What’s really happened is all of these imaginary figures are celebrated for supposedly performing in strange ostentatious outfits and executing weird gyrations on stage, all motifs of the career of Elvis from Jail House Rock through to Vegas.

And there’re Elvis fans who’ll tell you for a damned fact there’s only ever been Elvis!

(I’m a Bowie fan, by the way).

Speaking of Chupacabras, check this out.

But I would like to just say thanks for the distracting photos, it really made the whole post worthwhile! Afterall, who doesn’t like pictures with their text?

Nice.

Don’t wish to sound complaining. I know a blog is a lot of hard work and I appreciate the great posts. But really… don’t see how that photo really adds to the discussion here.