Pasadena Bablon is the incredible true story of John "Jack" Whiteside Parsons. Rocket scientist by day, black magic occultist by night, Jack Parsons led a colorful, yet mysterious, existence that brought him in contact with some of the great luminaries of the 30's and 40's: Aleister Crowley, Howard Hughes, Ray Bradbury, Theodore von Karman, and Robert Heinlein, to name a few. He was also friends with a young, little-known science fiction writer by the name of L. Ron Hubbard. Using an eclectic gallery of characters, Pasadena Babalon takes the audience on a bizarre journey through early...
Pasadena Bablon is the incredible true story of John "Jack" Whiteside Parsons. Rocket scientist by day, black magic occultist by night, Jack Parsons l...
In 1988 a clerk at the United States Department of Energy received a funding request from two scientists working out of the University of Utah-Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann. The application requested money to finance their research into chemically induced room temperature fusion. Normal custom required such grant requests to undergo peer review, and the application was sent to another scientist who was quietly working on similar experiments-Steven E. Jones. Ironically, Jones worked at another Utah university-Brigham Young, a mere forty-five minute drive south from Pons and Fleischmann....
In 1988 a clerk at the United States Department of Energy received a funding request from two scientists working out of the University of Utah-Stanley...
"Welcome to the moon, Chief Calloway." It was the first time anyone had addressed him with that title, and Cal decided right away he liked it. In the LAPD he had been a tiny fish in a monstrous pond. It would have taken him ten years to make sergeant, another ten for lieutenant-and that was only if he lived long enough. L.A. policing was getting more dangerous by the day. Burnout was common, and when his best friend in Rampart Division hung himself over an internal affairs investigation, Cal knew it was time to move on. Now, as chief of North Armstrong's fledgling police department, he would...
"Welcome to the moon, Chief Calloway." It was the first time anyone had addressed him with that title, and Cal decided right away he liked it. In the ...
ROCKET GIRL, stage play script. The year is 1957. The Cold War. An undeclared Space Race. The United States and the Soviet Union are locked in a battle to see which country will be the first to place a satellite into orbit. The stakes are high. International prestige, national pride, and the control of a host of emerging technologies are on the line. As America's Vanguard rocket proves itself a disastrous failure, and word leaks out that the Soviets are close to making their first orbital attempt, U.S. politicians have no choice but to abandon the Vanguard program and plead for help....
ROCKET GIRL, stage play script. The year is 1957. The Cold War. An undeclared Space Race. The United States and the Soviet Union are locked in a battl...
