Comments on: Gangster Computer God Worldwide Secret Containment Policy: the cult rants of Fracis E. Dec, Esq.

By: Nick Dimmock

Nick Dimmock — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:07:00 +0000

Yeah, “Gone Paranoid” from (more accurately collected on) Ultradrug was another PTV Dec track. I had no idea where the rant had come from when I first heard it, but it fascinated me. Later I linked it to a reprint of one of Dec’s tracts on the back page of an issue of Weirdo, but it was years and years before access to the internet filled in the many blanks.

By: TheOven

TheOven — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:55:00 +0000

Psychic TV sampled this guy is the 90′s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjNqKEpYnfw

By: TheOven

TheOven — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:48:00 +0000

B E Pratt is right:
http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/tinfoil-hats-actually-amplify.html

By: Derek C. F. Pegritz

Derek C. F. Pegritz — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 23:19:00 +0000

Bringing Dec and that lady together would be like crossing the streams! The result: TOTAL PROTONIC REVERSAL!

By: Sparg

Sparg — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:32:00 +0000

I used to get this kooky crap thanks to High Weirdness By Mail. Wonder if Douglass Truth Society is still around?

By: ifriit

ifriit — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:24:00 +0000

I wish the guy who did this had finished the whole thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OzxNM8Nlsc

By: Sparg

Sparg — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:24:00 +0000

Is that Ashby Road or Avenue? Google Maps has a view of the Road. I may not have to cross the river to check it out. ;)

By: Just_Ok

Just_Ok — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:12:00 +0000

That’s what they WANT you to think.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:53:00 +0000

Wow!

By: Bill Kates

Bill Kates — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 07:01:00 +0000

One used to see this guy’s crazy Xeroxes all over New York, especially in midtown; the stuff was ubiquitous. I’m surprised I didn’t know about his audio recordings, which are true priceless horrible yet fascinating nutcake weirdness insanity– eek now I’m gonna start talking like that. It’s so strangely dispassionate, robotic yet passionate and 50′s radio announcer-like.

By: mindfu

mindfu — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 05:23:00 +0000

*That* freaking guy.

Well it just goes to show that having a niche and being persistent and self-promoting will eventually bear fruit, even for schizophrenics.

By: mindfu

mindfu — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 05:19:00 +0000

It’s used as custom by lawyers in the US, but there really is no reason why anyone in the US can’t use it either. If you look it up in the dictionary, it’s actually quite funny – it is a title that literally has no actual meaning! Pure fanciness with no actual substantive value.

By: Richard Pusateri

Richard Pusateri — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 04:41:00 +0000

A place I worked in the 1970s received these single-spaced, 1000-word sentences on both sides of the page epistles about Frank Sinatra organizing the Kennedy assassination and cover-up that involved every celebrity of that era and every two weeks or so another one would arrive inexplicably to our place of business, which had nothing to do with Frank Sinatra or the C.I.A. or celebrity or assassination and I am so sorry I do not have any of them anymore… I could go on, but…

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 03:48:00 +0000

I used to love this kind of nuttery back when it was hard to find. The Internet made it easy to find and compare the rants, the dismal sameness, desperation, and sadness became apparent.

Schizophrenia mucks up your brain. One of the manifestations is that it removes the “breaks” on the brain’s pattern recognition circuitry. It doesn’t give up looking for connections.

By: Pend-O-Matic

Pend-O-Matic — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 01:43:00 +0000

Reminds me of Toynbee tiles (“TOYNBEE IDEA IN MOVIE 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER”) associated Minority Association, that handed out leaflets (speaking of alien-machine overlords- Archons if you will ) in Philly before the related tiles began to appear. Dr. John C. Lilly (whose work is the bases for “Altered States”), spoke of nefarious alien-machines. Not to mention Authors Arthur C. Clark and, Phillip K. Dick.

It seems at the very least, this type of thought is an indicator of the inner-workings of the modern psyche- if nothing else. You could impose a pop-culture seeded hypothesis, assuming this to be a manner of regurgitating the aesthetics of scifi horror. Personally I feel that might be too simplistic and, that it’s just as plausible that man has a deep seated fear of a dependent society.

By: Ian Brewer

Ian Brewer — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 01:39:00 +0000

He makes as much sense as Alex Jones, maybe more.

By: nixiebunny

nixiebunny — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:32:00 +0000

My wife used to work in a public library and found a similar rant hand-written and left by one of the patrons. Lots of CIA mind control stuff.

By: Crashproof

Crashproof — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:31:00 +0000

I suspect we have one of these in St. Louis. There’s a house on Ashby with white stones and a pink bridge in the yard, which has two brand new hand-painted signs. They’re hard to read as you drive by, but one of them says something about robots and one says something about the New World Order. I’m going to have to walk down there and take some photos, but carefully of course so nobody reports me for terrorism or something.

By: Crashproof

Crashproof — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:28:00 +0000

No, you just got to this post before I did. Thanks for posting it so i don’t have to. :)

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:16:00 +0000

People like that probably exist in every big and mid-sized American city. There were a couple of people who used to come into the main branch of the Memphis Public Library (back when it used to be on the corner of Peabody and McLean in Midtown) who would promulgate their own special theories and stories in different ways. One would make photocopies of pages from newspapers, magazines and books on different subjects and arrange them in a particular order on one of the tables–say, juxtaposing stuff on the X-Files, the JFK assassination, and a Mars probe landing–and watch over them to make sure that no one removed or disturbed them. The other was a woman who had long rants about being “the Queen of Spain and Korean” (yes, with the N) written not only on a sign but also on her clothing.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:09:00 +0000

They may very well exist in the collections of obsessive collectors, who have kept them carefully preserved and organized for just such a day.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:06:00 +0000

Kooks is a wonderful book. (It's worth looking at the Amazon review page because a couple of reviews seem to be by subjects of her book.)

By: B E Pratt

B E Pratt — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 22:37:00 +0000

You DO know, sir, that tin foil hats are actually a PART of the conspiracy!?!?!?? Yes!! You have been CAREFULLY deluded!! The tinfoil hats actually INCREASE the RADIO WAVF% FFFFCTIVFNF%%!!!!

[it's true; they've done a study.....]

By: Scurra

Scurra — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 22:25:00 +0000

I never knew that about “Esquire” and the US legal profession – in the UK it’s just a general term for a man (although I believe it originally related to the term “squire” as in “assistant to a knight”.)

By: Wayne Dyer

Wayne Dyer — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 22:24:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JohaSZ7j_00

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 22:03:00 +0000

Long ago, a similar character mailed an unsolicited cassette to my office. My friends and I had such a laugh. I kept the cassette for many years, but it is gone now. I just looked him up, but it seems he left no trace on the Internet. Probably passed away too soon.

By: Zadaz

Zadaz — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:05:00 +0000

His writing has much the same feel and texture as the rantings of Frank Chu. (For those who don't know, Frank has been commuting into San Francisco for years to strut his weird rambly stuff, carrying a placard featuring a daily mutating word salad. Things like "Impeach Lincoln 12 Galaxies Metagenic Apertures Enticement Crosshairs ABC NBC FOX Saucerliners Ultracompacts" It comes at comprehensible from the other side.)

By: ldobe

ldobe — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:13:00 +0000

It must have been a lot of work moving tapes all over the country. I’m a bit surprised these kinds of tapes survive at all. What with the generational loss, over umpteen parent to child to grandchild copies. Do the originals exist anymore for most of these tapes?

By: devophill

devophill — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:05:00 +0000

How did people like him get such a wide audience before the internet?

He typed out his rants, (as you can see) and mailed them to radio and tv stations all over the country for years. Boyd "Doc" Britton was working at a radio station in Colorado, and decided to record himself reading a bunch of them. After that, the recordings made their way into the same tape trading circuit that brought you Orson Welles' pea ad, the Tube Bar Tapes, and the battles of Peter and Raymond.

By: Andrew Auernheimer

Andrew Auernheimer — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:05:00 +0000

You all call Dec crazy, but it is ye who are insane. Continue lining up to be harvested by the demons of Google, and see how far that gets you. They’ll pick you off one by one in autodriven car accidents, and the Google glases will hypnagogically program you to serve the Googleplex without question. Francis really was our only hope for a future!