Sorry for the delay this week kids. I (the all seeing Ken), have been stricken with evil germs. What are you going to do uh?

This week: I actually don’t know…it’s all in American…But I think they talk about Black Eyed kids again…or was it the black eyed peas?, Something about Pigeons being terrorists?, How Twin Peaks is an all American cherry pie of a show?, Going to war again?…I dunno you listen.

Personnel – Joe Nolan, and Frater Isla

• Ghost News: Black Eyed Child is back! – Link
• 10,000 Chinese Pigeons Subjected to Cavity SearchesLink
• The Return of Twin Peaks Link
• ‘The Art of Future War Project’: Washington Hires ‘Call of Duty’ Creator Link
• Spooktober – The Goatman of Pope Lick Link
• Antarctica’s Melting Ice Causing Gravity to Change Link
• The Medium is the Message at 50 – Link

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WHAT IS THIS?? A CCN RELEASED IN A TIMELY FASHION?

This week: We salute the changing of the guard at DisInfo, Bad vibes in Isla-Town, Vlad the Impaler found!, Washington hippy news, Ouija boards now on the NHS, Get that vag in shape!, Soooo Normcore, Spotty Mars logic, and get your folk on with shirley Collins.

Personnel – Joe Nolan, Frater Isla, and Ken Eakins

Links

• Farewell, Matt Staggs – Link
• Bad Vibes in Texas Link
• Dracula is buried in Italy…apparently – Link
• Stoned State: Weed in Washington Link
• Diagnosis: Ouija Board LinkLink
• Vaginal fitness tracker – Link
• What’s a Normcore? Link
• Rover Spots Mars UFO? Link
• Shirley Collins Campaign - Link

This week: California’s mayor bullies bullies, That ain’t no Yeti. Uri Geller…sigh, German Cat slinging, HR Dieder…too soon?, Florida: the endless story machine, plus much more.

Personnel – Kim Monaghan, Frater Isla, and Joe Nolan

Links

• CA Mayor to Bullying Victims: “Grow a Pair” Link
• Is Yeti a Bear? – Link
• Uri Geller’s Spoon Gorilla Link
• German Cat-Weapons of the Middle Ages – Link
• Goodbye HR Giger – Link
• FLORIDA WATCH: Representative Says Common Core Program Makes Kids Gay Link
• McScary – LinkLink
• The Case of the Parisian Penis Rooster – Link
• Best Speech Ever – Link

Musick

Serge Gainsbourg

Apologies for the lateness of this show, I (The Ken) have been ill.

This week: The Big Dog is off the chain, yeah that’s right, Ken’s hosting again. That’s really all you need to know….no?…ok, this week we discuss The latest activistprank from the Yes Men, New moons and hipsters, Hack your face!, Kim’s analogue dream tape, Stuff, The weirdness of Mandella’s interpreter, Brazilian football is Smash TV, Nintendo gayness, and Florida’s cache of medieval weapons.

Personnel – Kim Monaghan, Frater Isla, and Ken Eakins

Links to your soul

• The Yes Men Prank Homeland Security Link
• New moon rising – Link
• URME Prosthetic Surveilance Hacking! – Link
• Cassette Tapes are Back! Link
• I would. – Link
• Mandella interpreter is a fucking oddball – Link
• Brazilian Futbol Fan Killed by Toilet Link
• Gaytendo – Link
• Cache of Medieval weapons discovered in a coffin in Florida – Link

Interlude:

These disturbed wannabes – Link

This week: Ken gets all nerdy about the Star Wars Episode VII cast announcement, The KKK gets all neighbourly and then sleeps with a gay black guy, Bees are little bastards!, Balls of purity, More fascism in the UK, Dem Vampire Ants be all up in my yard, E.T.’s sordid past, Locke and load, and Trippin’ in Italy.

Personnel – Joe Nolan, Frater Isla, and Ken Eakins

Links

• STAR WARS Ep VII CAST ANNOUNCED!!! – Link
• KKK Starts Neighborhood Watch Link
• Ken’s Fascist Corner: KKK Grand Dragon’s gay black man past. – Link
• Worst place to be stung by a bee Link
• Purity Balls Link
• Ken’s Fascist Corner: EDL march in Brighton turns ugly…who saw that one coming? – Link
• Dracula Ants Discovered in Madagascar Link
• Atari’s Shame Unearthed Link
• Locke film review Link
• The Trip is back

Interlude

• Ugly Duckling – Left Behind

This week: Our glorious leader Ken is once again unable to reach the epic levels of fitness, and mental agility needed to traverse the rocky rhetoric that is CCN, however, the others are…so, that’s good I guess. Anyway, this week they discuss: Catzilla!, Red Spain, Protestaganda, Lots of stuff about books to look intelligent, authors capitalising on our fascination with Florida, Magickal Magicky Magick, and the death of a legend!

Personnel – Joe Nolan, Frater Isla, and Kim Monaghan

Links:

• Catzilla – Link
• Spanish Mayor’s Communist Utopia Link
• ABQ Mayor Bullshits About Protest Link
• Isla Beaten to the Punch: Author Writes Florida Book Link
• Ewok Sex Den Link
• This year’s Oddest Book Title of the Year Award Link
• Jack Parson’s and Marjorie Cameron’s New Book Link
• RIP Oderus Ungerus – Link

Musique

Sospetto – Agente D’oriente

This month, Joe Nolan’s Insomnia is celebrating an important anniversary. In May of 2004, I opened up a Blogger account and started writing this illuminated scroll. Blogging was just becoming mainstream at that time and everybody was doing it.

I didn’t really have a subject in mind for Insomnia, I just wanted to share thoughts about culture and present them in a formal context. Little did I know that as I began to create the beast, the beast would begin to re-create me.

As soon as I started writing posts I ran into a problem: I wanted to write 1000 words about a film I’d just seen. I wanted to write a four-volume tome on the folk legends of European werewolves. I wanted to write a stone age grimoire based on the mythology of the Flintstones.

Having been a writing student in college, and penning for an alternative paper during that same time, I realized I needed to pitch myself as a freelance writer so I could afford to write at length about the things that interested me. I also realized that the blog posts had to be as short as they were compelling. It’s because of this blog that I’m currently spending most of my time creating articles, profiles, columns and criticism for a number of publications and sites I couldn’t be more grateful for its lessons.

As a singer/songwriter, a poet and an on-again-off-again artist in other media, I’ve always watched films, read books, visited galleries and listened to music constantly in an effort to gather more influences and ideas into my own work. The writing that I do on the blog and elsewhere has allowed me to turn that process inside out: Instead of quietly ruminating on all of these impressions, I now synthesize my ideas and attempt to create a dialog here and elsewhere. My aesthetic philosophy has itself become the most recognizable product of my creativity and it’s made me a better writer and a better artist.

In 2009, the blog extended its reach into podcasting with the “Insomnia” segments on the Disinformation World News. The popularity of that show and those segments now finds me hosting the Coincidence Control Network podcast which is pushing 70 episodes at over 1 million downloads and counting.

I want take this occasion to say thank you to Raymond Wiley, Joe McFall, Austin Gandy, Ken Eakins, Kim Monaghan, Joe Staggs, Aaron Miles and Joseph Matheny for their support, confidence and camaraderie. By asking me to be a part of their projects and allowing Insomnia to syndicate to superstar countercultural blogs like Incunabula, Right Where You Are Sitting Now, Disinformation and Out There Radio they’ve helped to spread Insomnia’s spell. The alternative media always claims to value cooperation over competition, but these folks all walk the walk, and I couldn’t be more pleased to play a part in what they do.

Thanks to everybody who has made this project a part of their own creative consumption. I hope it’s made you think and laugh. I hope it’s made you watch films and listen to records. I hope it’s made you ask new questions and seek new answers. But, most of all, I hope it’s kept you awake.

Here’s to 10 more.

Love, Joe

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This week: We doff our hats to the head Ghostbuster Harold Ramis, Indian big cats scare Isla and Kim, Kurt Cobain is immortalised in stone, 13 year old flipflop, South America and Europe don’t know how the Internet works, and Ass Robots! The future now!

Personnel – Joe Nolan, Frater Isla, and Ken Eakins

Linkydinks

• RIP Harold Ramis – Link
• Indian Leopard Strolls Through Hospital and Cinema Link
• Crying Cobain Statue Unveiled – Link
• Possibly the coolest 13 year old girl ever – Link
• Brazil and the E.U. Find a Creative Way Around the NSA Link
• Ass Robot Makes the Uncomfortable Unbelievably Weird - Link
• Edward Snowden Action Figure with Detachable Head Link
• Pennsylvania’s Swiss Cheese Pervert – Link
• OK Schools Teach Kids How Money Works. Bankers Weep. Link

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This week: Isla promos the homo..wait, I fancy some human heads with my Ramen, Ken has that sinking feeling, The Bible: the gift that keeps giving, Isla’s Florida report, Crowd-sourcing the cure for cancer, and those crazy Aztecs and their manuscripts.

Personnel – Frater Isla, Kim Monaghan, Roejen Razorwire and Ken Eakins

Linkydinks

• 8 US States with “No Promo Homo” Policies Link
• Get some Human heads in your belly Link
• Fucking Sinkholes in the UK now! Link
• More Down Home Bible Based Madness – Link
• 55 Bodies Uncovered at Florida’s ‘School of Terror’ Link
• Another Zombie Attack in Florida Link
• Man Sets Apartment Fire after Being Told to Stop Masturbating Link
• Is There A Female Comms Expert ? – Link
• Voynich manuscript decoded Link

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This week: Phillip Seymour Hoffman: Goodnight sweet prince, Isla’s got his hands all over your Japanese bra, Go hack a fridge, Remove the pox of the Internet with one nifty plugin, Enigmatic Castaways, Git your Drones off my yard!, Cyberflora on MY Internet?, and Raymonds Oathorama!

Personnel – Frater Isla, Raymond Wiley, Roejen Razorwire and Ken Eakins

Linkydinks

• Japanese Invent ‘True Love Bra’ Link
• Now fridges are at it! Link
• De-bullshitter plugin Link
• Desert Island Depression Link
• Beer Drone Shot Down by FAA Link
• Cyberflora all over my Internets! Link
• Oath-keepers go operational Link

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