Topic: Arts & Literature

"I Saw John Kennedy Today" has been featured internationally on roots and Americana radio stations. A music video has just been released to mark the anniversary of Kennedy's "disappearance."

The latest Americana "hit" is a quirky song about the 35th president written by singer-songwriter Luke Powers. "I Saw John Kennedy Today" records a close encounter between the songwriter and avery much alive and freewheeling JFK, who has been traveling the country in a pickup truck ever since his supposed "demise."

A music video of the song has just been released in mark the anniversary of the assassination. It is available on YouTube and Radio-Submit.com.

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I Saw John Kennedy Today photographic evidence.

Will any of the modern Christmas movies have the staying power of "It's A Wonderful Life," or "Miracle on 34nth Street?"

As the public flips its calendars from October to November, December remains only one thin calendar page away, which means movie studios begin rolling out their holiday releases within the next several weeks. The question of whether or not these new Yuletide pictures will ever match up to the classics of old remains to be seen, but some films have a better chance than others, based on a number of factors.

A new historical fiction thriller "The Rozabal Line" by Shawn Haigins has claimed that Jesus Christ may have survived the crucifixion, traveled to Kashmir and that his present-day bloodline could possibly be fighting an Islamic Jihad in the ongoing strife along the Indo-Pak border.

The Rozabal Line, a Da Vinci Code type potboiler, has claimed that the body that lies in the Rozabal tomb in Srinagar (Kashmir) is actually that of Jesus Christ.

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The Rozabal Tomb in Srinagar that is at the heart of the controversy.
Present-day shrine in Srinagar, Kashmir, India

Novelist Margaret Evans pens second installment of Mayan mystery trilogy.

Pieces of jade kept finding Amy Parrish. In the mail. Passed by strangers. Rare, polished jade from Guatemala that were left in secret but intended to unlock one.

Author Jayel Gibson promotes female friendly fantasy fiction in award winning new Ancient Mirrors Tale, "Damselflies." Spanning two generations, "Damselflies" sweeps readers into a tangled web of twisted legends and broken promises, desire and deception, fear and fallacy, and the endless struggle to control the minds of humankind.

From television's Bionic Woman to movie and book heroine Hermione Granger and gaming-sensation Halo3's Commander Miranda Keyes, the leading ladies of fantasy fiction are realizing a new wave of capable and strong women.

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"Our Gods Wear Spandex," traces the histories of both American comic books and the superheroes who came to define them. It reveals the deep and abiding religious, occult and magical roots of legendary characters like Superman, Batman, Spiderman, and Wolverine. Ultimately, this work argues that these fantastic characters are not mere entertainment, but also serve as de facto deities for our modern technological society.

Was Superman's arch nemesis Lex Luthor based on Aleister Crowley? Can Captain Marvel be linked to the Norse god Thor?

A medium claims to have written a book with the help of a ghost. Her story combines a supernatural thriller with actual events from the hard rock underground in the 1980's and 1990's. The book features various exciting characters such as vampires, angels and demons and deities from various pagan mythologies.

Lily Strange, a clairsentient medium, has released her first novel, Eternal Death I: Lost Beneath the Surface. Ms. Strange claims that she wrote the supernatural thriller in cooperation with a spirit that she befriended in the latter part of 2005.

For anyone wanting to know what it was really like or for those who lived through the "Flower Power" era, "The Other Side of This Life" offers a candid street-level perspective of life in mid 1960's America.

The Other Side of This Life, by G.C Glasser simply and eloquently presents a harsh and uncompromising perspective of the Viet Nam era military and San Francisco street life during the mid 1960s.

Crazee Comics of New Jersey has announced the upcoming release of three "crazy" new titles. We've got pictures!

Crazee Comics announced yesterday it has developed several children stories to be published in 2008. The decision to release the titles as individual picture books or as a collective has not yet been reached. The first in the series of Children books will be Doodie's Adventures; a spin-off from the critically acclaimed and fan favorite series "There's An Alien in my Toilet". The main character, Doodie, is a child on his home world Uranus who must do battle with the Diabolical Egomaniac Overlord Nemesis Pooh-Pooh in order to save the universe. He believes himself to be a superhero, although we know better.

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Just in time for the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival comes I Would Have Gone to Woodstock, a delightful new children's book that will take you back to the psychedelic sixties and the cultural revolution.

Too young for Woodstock? Never! This six-year-old boy is all set to pack his best bandana and blankie and head out to New York to jam with Jimmie Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and The Who, but Mom and Dad simply won't allow it to happen.