Santa, it seems, can be kinda scary. * The happiest time of the year isn't happy for everyone. Holiday Shakes If enough people fear a thing, we invent a word to describe it. Christmas has its own laundry list: Christougenniatikophobia: fear of Christmas Syngenesophobia: fear of family / family gatherings Heortophobia: fear of celebrating events Ghabhphobia: fear of receiving gifts Pediophobia: fear of lifelike dolls or toys (Annabelle, anyone?) Selaphobia: […]
‘Tis the season for tons of articles and recommendations about “the perfect gift.” We gathered up a bunch of Santa's DMT Elves from the corners of the Fringe offices and asked them for recommendations. The Facebook elves beat us to the punch this week. One of my clean-living family members was surprised when a vibrating cock ring showed up in his Facebook feed. I didn’t believe him until I saw […]
Fellow researcher and field-investigator, Chaz of the Dead joins me to talk about some of his strange expeditions across the world, investigation the unexplainable, the psychedelic, and the horrific -- oftentimes all at once. Firstly we discuss Chaz's ground-rules of paranormal investigation, with considerations of Carl Jung, chaos magick, and classical paranormal ghost hunting but without the crosses and holy water. After this, we get into some real wild stories. […]
The Fringe.FM News Desk comes across weird, unique, and interesting stories every single day. Most end up in our virtual "junk drawer," rattling around until we either use them or go all konmari on the mess. Some are too good for the dustbin, though - so welcome to the 1st edition of "Random Fringe!" This Week's Grab Bag of Completely Unrelated Randomness: Biopiracy: How companies are buying up nature […]
Author, illustrator, and experimental esotericist Eric Millar -- The Garbage Wizard himself --returns to the show to talk about his latest work, An Assemblage of Disparate Parts. Following up our last conversation about OG comic book culture, philosophy, and mysticism, Eric's latest work is a decidedly critical strike at the concepts of the "scholar", the "professional", the "accredited", and the "accepted". Eric takes some unique approaches in his critiques as […]
Breaking news: Facebook may have your tax and financial data. If you’ve used online tax prep software, you may have been affected. They even steal information about your children. The Investigation Nonprofit news organization The Markup conducted an in-depth investigation. They found that Facebook’s "Meta Pixel" scrapes data from free online tax prep sites including H&R Block, TaxAct, and many others. They subtly operated in plain sight without some […]
Thanksgiving is upon us and the Martha Stewarts of the world are back to tell us how to have a delicious, gracious holiday. All of it is useless crap, folks. I’m going to clue you in to the REAL Thanksgiving tips you need to know. The last one is my secret go-to, sure-fire, undetectable tactic for avoiding awful relatives. Frozen Solid Your turkey is an explosive device. TL;DR: don’t put […]
NASA is going back to the lunar surface in 2024; by the end of the decade they plan to start a permanent base camp. From there, it’s just an orbital swing to Mars and beyond. But why did NASA name the mission after a love story from Greek mythology? What’s in a Name? NASA has a long history of naming stars, planets, and space missions or craft after gods […]
Welcome back, folks! This week on the show, my friend Martin Ferretti joins me to analyze psychoanalyst, Carl Jung's legendary self-therapy journals: The Red and Black Books. Both released after his death, The Red Book represents a sizable portion of the Black Books' contents. Large, leather-bound, and full of beautifully haunting paintings and calligraphy of his innermost spiritual turmoil, Jung's Red Book is truly something like a magical tome written […]
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