JOHN KEEL NOT AN AUTHORITY ON ANYTHING

buy gabapentin online cod This next batch contains several brief and incomplete entries. I can only wonder what John meant to do with “monitor” and “monitoring disk.” And what would he have thought of mongering in the age of the internet?

The next group of definitions takes us from “materialize” to “Menzelform.” One less familiar term here is “Men in Gray,” entities that John associates with the Romani. According to Gray Barker (in They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers), the word “Menzelform” was coined by Richard Hughes, publisher of the Flying Saucer News in the UK. The man credited with the term “Men In Black” should be Albert Bender, not Binder; maybe John’s typo was inspired by his friend Otto Binder.

John died on July 3, 2009. Here’s how he looked if you ran into him on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, checking out the sidewalk book tables. Rest In Peace, John!

Out of curiosity, I tried to find out what book he was holding. On the original photo, you can make out part of the title and the author’s name: it seems to be Say “Cheese!”: Looking at Snapshots in a New Way, by Graham King. I mentioned this to Mamie Caton, who knew John, and she said “That’s exactly the kind of book he would be looking at.”

I don’t recognize the man next to him; he may just be another book shopper.