Searching for Bobby Fischer

It was the chess match of the century, the eagle pitted against the bear, the tempermental and high strung American Bobby Fischer versus the formidable Russian grandmaster, Boris Spassky.

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I loved to play chess and had participated in many tournaments, so in the summer of 1972, I was glued to my TV watching Bruce Pandolfini run the play by play on my local public broadcasting station.  And now, Fischer pulls a daring rook takes pawn…ooooo my!

I chuckled to myself, noting Pandolfini’s long, wiry hair and blue jeans, not suspecting that I would be introduced to him in the near future.  Pandolfini was conforming to the counter culture’s non conformity.  From my point of view as a young female, he was a refreshing variation from the generally nerdy males that I encountered on the chess circuit.  Pandolfini was clearly a great player in his own right.  That historic Fischer-Spassky match took place in Iceland and made world news every evening as they see sawed back and forth…one day Fischer won, next day Spassky…on and on.  Finally, finally, Fischer took the match.  America had the final triumph at long last and Fischer took flight.

In early ’73, I moved to New York City from the Long Island nest that had sheltered me throughout my childhood, teens and college years.  It wasn’t long before I met Jeffrey Kastner at a chess exhibition at Macy’s.  He was already a chess master and only a few ranking  points from the coveted grandmaster title.  It was Jeffrey who introduced me to Bruce Pandolfini at the Marshall Chess Club.  A few months later, Jeffrey became President of the prestigious Manhattan Chess Club and he proudly invited me over to visit him in his new office.  I was only too happy to oblige.

Bobby Fisher had gone into hiding following his win over Spassky.  He was being sought by every media organization in the world but no one could find him.  His disappearing act was, in itself, big news at that time.  I arrived at the Manhattan Chess Club (Fischer was a member) and Jeffrey showed me around.  We went into his office where he smugly grinned at me and said “Nobody knows where Bobby is, but I do.  He gave me his address.”  I looked at him, smiled and said “I will bet you that I can tell you where he is.”  A bold statement, to be sure.

“Bullshit!”, he snorted.  ”Nobody knows except me and I haven’t told anyone!”  I smiled again, closed me eyes and began….slowly….”He is in the USA…west coast….California…Los Angeles…Wilshire Boulevard…10961…

I opened my eyes to see that all the color had drained from his face.  He was nervously reaching into the back  pocket of his jeans where he withdrew his wallet and pulled out a folded slip of paper.  ”Ha!”, he exclaimed.  ”You missed one of the numbers!”

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Synchronized Universe| The Strange Suicide of Ronald Opus

Strange Universe

March 23, 1994 RIP

Ronald Opus

Synchronized Universe| The Strange Suicide of Ronald Opus

March 23, 1994

It was the habit of the old man, when in an argument with his old wife, to grab his shotgun and wave it at her in a threatening manner.  Sometimes, he even aimed it straight at her and pulled the trigger.  That’s why he never put any ammunition in it.

They lived together in an apartment on the ninth floor of a ten story building with a son who witnessed these shotgun shenanigans many, many times.  So when the old lady cut off the son’s financial support, and unbeknownst to the old man, the son loaded the shotgun and waited.   He hated them both; two birds with one stone.

So imagine the shock for the old man when six weeks later, there he was, for the millionth time, waving that shotgun at his wife.  She was running past of one of the windows as the old man raised the gun and aimed it at her, incoherently ranting and trembling with rage… for the millionth time.  But for the very first time, as he pulled the trigger, a burst of buckshot came exploding out from the muzzle.  It was only because he was trembling with fury that he missed her and the shot went straight out the window.

The old man stood frozen in place as his mind struggled to process all that had just happened.  He knew that gun had no ammo, but that was the least of his problems.  His mind was stuck on something else; that the body of a man had flown by the window just as the buckshot flew through it.   He ran to the window and looked down to see the lifeless body of an apparently young man caught by a safety net at the eighth floor level.  The net had been left in place by a window washing crew that was coming to finish up the next day.

Which is why the young man, who was intent on committing suicide that day in March ’94, did not know the futility of his attempt  and did not expect a net to be there and thus jumped from the floor above the old couple.  He died, not from falling, but from the shots that came through the window just as his head passed… that came from a gun which was thought to be unloaded, but was surreptitiously loaded by an enraged son trying to murder his mother by making good use of his father’s cartoon like behavior.

It was later learned that Ronald Opus, our deceased jumper, had attempted on multiple occasions to arrange the murder of his own mother, and having failed, decided to part from her the only way he could.  He would have survived but for the other young man trying to kill his mother and some exquisite synchronization in our universe.

The irony of this is simply overpowering.    But alas, dear reader, this story is just an urban legend. It did sound unlikely, did it not?

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/accidentsmishaps/ss/ronald_opus_7.htm

Stranger than Fiction|The Knife

Stranger than Fiction

How often have you heard that truth is stranger than fiction?  There are so many bizarre true stories out there.  We think we understand reality, but we don’t.  There will be a collection of these true but stranger than fiction tales added over time, so take the RSS feed or add yourself to the subscribe list to receive email alerts as new articles roll out.  Enjoy-

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This true tale took place in the year 1210, during the reign of King John “Lackland” of England and was recounted in an important book of those times, a book read by the Holy Roman Emperor, Otto IV.  The book is known as Otia Imperialia.

A woman was sitting at her kitchen table in Bristol, England.  Her husband, a sailor, had been gone for many, many months on a sea journey. She was startled to witness a knife come hurtling through a dormer window which embedded itself in the table just in front of her.  She stared at the knife.  It looked so familiar.  She knew her husband’s knife well and she knew it was his.  But how could it be?  She pulled it out and stored it in a drawer thinking to show it to her husband when he returned.  She knew it was his.  She knew it, but where had it come from?

When the sailor finally returned, his wife listened to his stories as she went to the drawer to fetch the knife.  She quietly laid it before him and his buoyant chatter  suddenly seized.  He stared, his eyes grew twice their normal size.  After some time, he was able to relate his astonishing tale that would at last explain where the knife had come from, but to this day, not how.

He told her “I was eating supper with the crew.  When I finished, I went to the side of the ship to wash my knife in the water but as I leaned over, it slipped from my hands into the ocean.”  The couple then compared the date and time of the wife’s incident and the husband’s loss of his knife.  The two events had indeed happened at the same time.   How strange is that?

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http://www.unknowncountry.com

Was Amy Winehouse Channeling Janis Joplin?

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Or was Amy Winehouse the reincarnation of Janis Joplin?

I was watching the “Back to Black” video and something suddenly struck me….was Amy Winehouse a reincarnation of Janis Joplin…Joplin’s evolution?  They both projected so much powerful  soul into their music.  Janis was harder, more fierce and energetic.  Amy was a more restrained and polished version of Joplin’s expression. Winehouse’s look was 1965, especially in the “Back to Black” video…the eyeliner, the beehive hair, the dress.  Joplin hit her prime in 1968 and by then, the look of the period had changed radically.  Janice adopted the hippie persona of her time.  But the voice…that voice.

Janis drank and drugged herself to death and Amy the same, both at age 27.  How odd….both at age 27.

Janis Joplin was the queen of rock and roll and the queen of soul.  She concentrated on songs from the blues category and sang them like no one else could.  Her voice had amazing range and you could feel that it was coming deep from the core of her.   She died from an overdose of heroin in 1970, just sixteen days after Jimi Hendrix.  Joplin’s  voice was described at the time as being “devastatingly original”.

And “devastatingly original” describes Winehouse as well.

Janice Joplin

So watch the two videos.  Maybe you will hear what I hear.  Enjoy…

(Hit the play button….walk away for a few minutes and let these videos load….then hit the replay button. Otherwise, the stop and start will drive you crazy)

Planet X

Dreams of Planet X

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Back when I was still living on Long Island, I had a dream.  It was forty years ago, but it never stopped haunting me.  I was reminded of it a few days ago when a woman called in to the Coast to Coast am radio show and  told a story.  I knew it was time to write down the dream.  She said this:

I am out on Long Island quite a bit and for the last year or so, when I look at the sun, I can clearly see another round shape near it.  It is large, bigger than size of the moon as it looks from earth.  It has a crisp outline, not fuzzy like the sun. Does anybody know what it is? Has anybody else noticed it?

So, this was my dream.  I was in the house that I actually lived in.  I walked outside.  It felt like I was leaving a party and I remember feeling happy in the dream. I was talking to someone who stood off to my right. When I turned my head to the right to answer, my blood ran cold.  In the sky, huge….I can’t even explain how huge, was this glowering, black-orange planet hanging in the sky close to earth, so close to earth.  In the dream, I thought “What the hell is it?”  Fear, immense fear shot through me.  Shock.  Awe. Abject terror.  I think that was 1971.

Periodically, I have dreams that feel just as real as daily life.  I have all my senses functioning in these special dreams, sight, smell, hearing, changes in temperature.  The planet dream was one of those.

Sumerian scholar, Zacharia Sitchen contended that there is another planet in our solar system which he called Nibiru.  He said that it has a very different and elongated orbit, taking 3600 years to complete each orbit around the sun.  Therefore, it has the potential of intersecting with another planet’s orbit.  It does not circle the sun like the others and he said that it was inhabited and that those inhabitants created us with genetic splicing.

Lately, I hear about Planet X, the topic of something called “Zeta Talk”. Here, it is described it as a dark star, primarily iron and it affects our planet something like a strong magnet.  Uranus, we learned from our probes,  has a deeply tilted axis, as though it was tipped over by something.  What caused that?

The Earth’s magnetic field is weakening and the North Pole has been wandering. Airports have had to realign runways because of it. Solstice sunrise was off by two minutes in the high north latitudes,  I believe it was this past spring.  What caused that?

And now a woman on Long Island says she is seeing something next to the sun.

You can explore Zeta Talk here: http://www.zetatalk.com/poleshft/p00.htm

And here is yet more shifting of the magnetic pole demonstrated in a photo you can see here. This compass was taped down on a table surface aligned with true north.  Remember, there already was some magnetic pole shift in play when this person taped the compass down, so what you see here is not the whole story. It has been shifting gradually since 1946, but this photo isolates a very large jump immediately following the 9.0 quake off Sendai, Japan on 3/11/2011.

Photo: Courtesy www.Coasttocoastam.com

UPDATE 1/29/2012

Holy Christ!  Was any of this on our news here in the U.S.?  Look at this!

filmed over U.K. Aug 2010

And over China March 6  2011

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