Tag Archives: 1996
Mountain Song
I don’t post a lot about sports on this blog — Insomnia is a counterculture blog and sports are mostly intrinsically mainstream culture in America. That said, certain extreme outliers are so crazy that they create subcultures that are ever bit as weird as any artists’ enclave, musicians’ scene or drug tribe. The men and [...]
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Tagged 1996, Aleister Crowley, counterculture, Everest, mountain climbing, subculture, Ueli Steck
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Back Through Heaven’s Gate
The comet Hale-Bopp was visible to the naked eye in the second half of 1996 but it disappeared into sunlight before re-emerging to the visible eye for the entirety of 1997, becoming the brightest object in the sky in the spring of that year. I remember going out night after night to spot the comet [...]
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Tagged 1996, 1997, comet, cult, Hale Bopp, Heaven's gate, March 26
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