tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post5676739931739961727..comments2024-03-28T15:55:33.435-07:00Comments on The Big Study: Men In Black, Addendum: A moment in UFO History.The Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-56229539438875604162015-07-31T05:44:19.802-07:002015-07-31T05:44:19.802-07:00Reading the replies above I see good examples of P...Reading the replies above I see good examples of People who have no tact and believing of their own bullshit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-63359270653257249772013-04-09T11:08:40.393-07:002013-04-09T11:08:40.393-07:00I haven't cared enough about Keel's writin...I haven't cared enough about Keel's writings to even read all of them. Sometimes the reading of just a bit of someone tells you what you need to know. Keel seemed to go somewhat nuts around 1967. Probably things written earlier than that are saner. <br /><br />John Keel and John Lear have nothing in common, unless you subscribe to an unusual theory about similar structured names. I also have no insight into the inner workings of John Lear's mind. The Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-62019949573791273222013-04-09T07:44:34.049-07:002013-04-09T07:44:34.049-07:00prof
unlike you and mr clark here who know john k...prof<br /><br />unlike you and mr clark here who know john keel personally, i do not have that luxury. so i want to ask from both of you this : which one of the john keel book you deem LEAST crazy or at least 75% ok. Or did all his books all crap and sensationalist journalism ?<br /><br />is john keel similar to john lear in term of the lunacy and out of this world hyperbolism and exaggerated story teller type of guy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-78808928910128442782012-09-22T08:10:28.717-07:002012-09-22T08:10:28.717-07:00Hmmmm..... well, I prefer not to be quite so depre...Hmmmm..... well, I prefer not to be quite so deprecating of an individual, especially when it comes to speculations about "brain tumors", "personality disorders" and drugs. That for me and this blog is a little over-the-top. John Keel seems to me to be a writer-entertainer who gradually evolved into, as Jerry said, someone who believed his own crap. Because he was such a compelling speaker and writer for a certain kind of thrill-seeking/follower/non-thinker type of mentality, he was capable of collecting a cult-like following. This not only can easily go to ones head, but can create a semi-crazy environment such as Condon witnessed and was appalled by. The Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-27231357586301045892012-09-21T20:37:27.124-07:002012-09-21T20:37:27.124-07:00I had listened to several of Keel's rambles, n...I had listened to several of Keel's rambles, not in person mind you but on Reel - Real, Audio and Video....OMG, I really think he was the first "Shock Jock" without being a DJ...Man oh Man, he came out of left field on everything..In my honest opinion he suffered from lack of human attention so he made his "tales" as tall and a BIG as he could...he needed others to listen in awe (or at least he thought)...he was more of a Bill Shatner on drugs..I often wonder if there was a brain tumor or personality disorder to go along with the paranoia.<br /> Oh well, his "chats" was more of a Tim Burton's daydream...but they did have you on the edge of your seat....Even if it was just to get up and leave.Timnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-15969049327810370592012-09-16T14:01:13.116-07:002012-09-16T14:01:13.116-07:00Mike,
Keel, whom I knew from the late 1960s and t...Mike,<br /><br />Keel, whom I knew from the late 1960s and to whom I was close in my naive youth, was not a good guy, as you correctly observe. <br /><br />The late Alfred Kazin once memorably characterized Richard Nixon as "boringly complex," and that serves as an apt summing up of Keel's ego and psyche. The longer I knew him, the more I came to see him as some species of megalomaniac who had long ceased to recognize his own bullshit -- one of the most fatal flaws to which a human can be susceptible.<br /><br />I have a hard time not popping a gasket (or, worse, flying into a full-throated, spittle-spewing rant) when I encounter sentimental piffle, which continues to be expressed abundantly, about this mean-spirited madman. Good on you for not sparing the needed words.Jerome Clarknoreply@blogger.com