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08/20/2004: "Our Haunted Planet"

I am having difficulty trying to think of something to write about. I am sitting here, half-watching "The Mothman Prophecies" and experimenting with my handheld. I read "The Mothman Prophecies" as a teenager; I wanted to believe that the world was a weird and mysterious place and John Keel affirmed that inclination. The intuition, I think, is valid even though Keel is unreliable in practically every particular. The world is weird: not full of MIBs and BEMs, maybe, but teeming with natural enigmas and the impenetrable mystery of man. The formalized expressionism of the film is reassuring in its familiarity - if the surprises the world offered were as inevitable as these they would hold less terror.