Happy Kook Day

Posted at 7:34AM on Thursday, June 26, 2003 in entertainment and hf and kooks and usenet.

In honor of Kook Day we're firing up the rig and putting her on the 'net so we can share the finest kook shortwave entertainment with our friends. At 10AM eastern time, WBCQ will be presenting Jeremiah 33:3 on it's 9330 service, as it does every weekday. You really only need to listen to this guy once or twice -- every broadcast is maddeningly self-similar in it's approach and delivery.

Here is the link to our kook feed.

Weekly World Edmo #7

Posted at 11:42PM on Saturday, March 1, 2003 in kooks and usenet.

Presenting the latest and greatest seventh issue of Weekly World Edmo, a periodic parody of Usenet kooks and crackpots. This time the many frivolous lawsuit threats of Edmond Wollmann, a freakishly bizarre new-age crackpot astrologer, are profiled. Also, we commemorate an honest-to-goodness kook lawsuit brought by another crackpot astrologer named Pete Stapleton, which was recently dismissed.

To fill space, we couldn't help taking a jab at the despicable ghoul and self-described "prophet" Dr. Louis Turi, a failed scam artist who bought his PhD at a diploma mill for $350, and whose predictions never seem to come true.

Kook watch update

Posted at 10:00PM on Thursday, January 23, 2003 in hf and kooks and rants and usenet.

Ah, the paranoid conspiracy theories of kooks and crackpots. The cold weather appears to have resulted in a marked increase in kook activity. As the temperature tops out at 15 degrees with strong winds here at home, we present our top kook list for January.

  1. Jeremiah 33:3 Ministries: M-F 1800 on 17495 WBCQ, Tu-Sa 0200 on 5050 WWRB. Shortwave kook extrordinaire, whose rantings we are using to brush up on out Bible studies (specifically as an example of how not to interpret the King James Version). This kook illucidly rants about David Rockefeller, "the little fella," who traces his lineage back to George Washington the Luciferian worshiper, who was ordained as the ruler of the United Nations, the Illuminati, Tri-lateral Commission, antichrist, five letters in David, five pointed star, Pentagon, Baphomet, Masonic Jewish conspiracy, Albert Pike, New World Order, (ad nauseum).

  2. Edmond Wollmann: Now posting daily to Usenet. He recently failed miserably when he tried to create a moderated newsgroup, which turned out to be neither moderated or propagated. Once again his consistently incoherent postings of bizarre astrological pseudo-new age screed is the subject of universal ridicule, and yet he still manages to threaten fake law suits and complain to ISPs and news admins who killfiled him long ago. He and his sock puppets are now debating weird and meaningless astro-kookery in his new dead newsgroup alt.astrology.moderated.metapsych.

  3. Dr. Turi: A self-proclaimed prophet who recently appeared on Usenet after a long absence. His trick is to make lots of puffed up vague predictions about common events, such as celebrity deaths, earthquakes, horrific crimes and war, and claim that he predicted such events after they happen, in order to sell penny paperbacks and fake "counseling" services to weak minded and stupid persons. This dirtbag claims to have predicted September 11 and the Washington DC sniper attacks, and in both cases he should be reviled as the fraud he is.

  4. Pastor John Lewis: Usually three days a week on the "Black Brigade" radio show on WHRA 5745, Tu-Sa 0130-0200 (You best chance to catch him is early in the week. If conditions are poor you can catch the "angel two" real audio feed from World Harvest Radio). Pastor John is the ultimate far right redneck "independent baptist preacher" who travels around in a bus sporting huge revilingly graphic anti-abortion posters, and who's mastered the art of street preaching. He is in your face, and he dosen't care if you like it or not. Too bad he's so consumed by hate that, combined with his good ol' boy euphamisms, makes him appear stupid and misinformed, when he obviously possesses above average intelligence.

Weekly World Edmo #6

Posted at 7:27PM on Friday, January 17, 2003 in kooks and usenet.

I missed adding this to the archive. The latest Weekly World Edmo, from December 27, 2002, is now available for your amusement. Note that this parody won't make much sense to you unless you regularly visit the Usenet forums alt.astrology, alt.alien.visitors, and alt.usenet.kooks.

The complete archive of Weekly World Edmo is available here, and at Ed Wollmann's personal pages, thanks to our postings on alt.binaries.kooks.

Someday I'll get around to analyzing the situation on the Usenet kook groups for you here, and explaining the Weekly World Edmo.

Weekly World Edmo now online

Posted at 3:46PM on Wednesday, December 4, 2002 in kooks and usenet.

The first three issues and new fourth issue of Weekly World Edmo, a periodical devoted to Edmond Wollmann, Usenet Kook, are now archived here for your amusement.

Updated December 14, 2002 11:30PM with the fifth issue. Dan Kettler confesses, Hidden fantasies of Flagship1 of the Paranormal, and Ed Wollmann goes insane.