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About the author: Descended from old English money, Vidicon was raised by spiny echidnas in the mountainous rainforests of the North American Southeast. Lured back to society by time-traveling gray/reptiloid alien hybrids posing as renegade Jesuits, he has managed to maintain his outsider's perspective and an appetite for crunchy insects. Today, Vidicon is a world-class synchronicity surfer and an unlicensed quantum mechanic. He has a fourth-degree black belt in weird. About his bi-weekly column: Tales from the Third Lobe are the unfocused meanderings of the World's Smartest Moron. Topics range widely over the sciences, religion, philosophy, technology, modern culture, mysticism, Vidicon's personal history and viewpoints, and whatever pissed him off in the media last week.

All articles by Laszlo Q. V. St-J. "Vidicon" Xalieri, 2HC Columnist

Tales from the Third Lobe - The Memory Trick

Sep 11, 2006

Tales from the Third Lobe - The Empress's New Boots: A parable for older children

Aug 28, 2006

Tales from the Third Lobe - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Still Dead

Aug 14, 2006

Tales from the Third Lobe - More Than Less Than Human

Jul 31, 2006

Tales from the Third Lobe - What's That Smell?

Jul 17, 2006

Tales From the Third Lobe - Worshipers of the Goddess Reason

Jul 03, 2006

Tales From the Third Lobe - <i>Quidnam Est Vester Patris</i>: A Review

Jun 19, 2006

Tales from the Third lobe - No boom today. Boom tomorrow.

Jun 05, 2006

Tales From the Third Lobe - Castles in the Sand

May 22, 2006

Tales from the Third Lobe - Still-Life Parable, With Moral

May 08, 2006

Tales from the Third Lobe - Elf Shot the Food

Apr 24, 2006

Tales From the Third Lobe - You Make Me Sick

Apr 10, 2006

Tales From the Third Lobe - Today's article written by Vidicon's dog Bacon, age 8

Mar 27, 2006

Tales from the Third Lobe - A Sutter Home Companion

Mar 13, 2006

Tales from the Third Lobe - The Fortunate Ones

Feb 27, 2006

Tales from the Third Lobe - Sonata for Lard-Ass and Television in Bacon Minor

Feb 13, 2006

Tales from the Third Lobe - Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

Jan 30, 2006

Tales from the Third Lobe - Show Me The Way

Jan 16, 2006

Tales from the Third Lobe - Hold On A Second...

Jan 02, 2006

Tales from the Third Lobe - Where I am now

Dec 19, 2005

Tales from the Third Lobe - The Silverback Transformation

Nov 21, 2005

Tales from the Third Lobe - Unprintable

Nov 07, 2005

Tales from the Third Lobe - Did You Feel It?

Oct 24, 2005

Tales from the Third Lobe - Vidicon's Cable Guide to the Afterlife

Oct 10, 2005

Tales from the Third Lobe - Doom with a View

Sep 26, 2005

Tales From the Third Lobe - Network of Holes, Diet of Poison, Monster of Love

Sep 12, 2005

Tales from the Third Lobe - Title Track

Aug 29, 2005

Tales From the Third Lobe - October Country

Aug 15, 2005

Tales from the third Lobe - Who the hell is Valerie Plame and why should I care?

Aug 01, 2005

Tales from the Third Lobe - Is There A Dog?

Jul 18, 2005

Tales from the Third Lobe - Wormwood and Crickets

Jul 04, 2005

Tales from the Third Lobe - The Smoke of the Burning

Jun 20, 2005

Tales From the Third Lobe - Why We Hate Clowns

Jun 06, 2005

Tales From the Third Lobe - SELL OUT Hawk vs. Dove, with a side of Crude

May 23, 2005

Tales from the Third Lobe - Persistence of Identity

May 09, 2005

Tales from the Third Lobe - In Pursuit of the Drepung Loseling Marching Band

Apr 25, 2005

Tales From the Third Lobe - Kennelly-Heaviside Prayer

Apr 10, 2005

Tales From the Third Lobe - This time the woodshed visits you

Mar 28, 2005

Tales from the Third Lobe - Tar Head

Mar 14, 2005

Tales From the Third Lobe - In Search of the Higgs Bison

Feb 28, 2005

Tales From the Third Lobe - Lupercaliflagellisticexpiatatrocious

Feb 14, 2005

Tales from the Third Lobe - Changing the World Without the Use of High Explosives

Jan 31, 2005

Tales From the Third Lobe - That's Life

Jan 17, 2005

Tales from the Third Lobe - Portrait of the Artist Wearing a Bib at the Dissection Table

Jan 03, 2005

Tales From the Third Lobe - Join the Majority of One

Dec 20, 2004

Tales From the Third Lobe - Fact Versus Fiction and the Chimera of Sentience

Dec 06, 2004

Tales From the Third Lobe - Relatavistic Relativism

Nov 22, 2004

Tales From the Third Lobe - Spotted Dick

Nov 08, 2004

Tales From the Third Lobe - Close Shave Ahead?

Oct 25, 2004

Tales from the Third Lobe - All Dressed Up (And These Heels Are Killing Me)

Oct 11, 2004

Tales From the Third Lobe - Won't you guess my name?

Sep 27, 2004

Tales from the Third Lobe - The Death of Speculation?

Sep 13, 2004

Tales From The Third Lobe - Coming Soon: Anything-Can-Happen Day!

Aug 30, 2004

Tales From The Third Lobe - Too Early for the Endgame?

Aug 16, 2004

Tales From The Third Lobe - TUESDAY! TUESDAY! TUESDAY!

Aug 02, 2004

Tales From The Third Lobe - No, Not Dubuque

Jul 19, 2004

Tales From The Third Lobe - Zen and the Artemia nyos

Jul 05, 2004

Vidicon's Picks

Jul 01, 2004

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Jun 21, 2004

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Jun 07, 2004

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May 24, 2004

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Apr 26, 2004

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Jan 19, 2004

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Dec 22, 2003

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Aug 18, 2003

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Aug 04, 2003

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Jul 21, 2003

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Jun 23, 2003

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Jun 09, 2003

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May 26, 2003

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Apr 28, 2003

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Apr 14, 2003

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Mar 31, 2003

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Mar 17, 2003

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Feb 03, 2003

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Jan 20, 2003

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Jan 06, 2003

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Dec 23, 2002

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Dec 09, 2002

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Nov 25, 2002

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Nov 11, 2002

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Oct 28, 2002

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Oct 14, 2002

Interviews - Shannon Wheeler

Sep 30, 2002

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Sep 30, 2002

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Sep 19, 2002

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Sep 02, 2002

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Jul 22, 2002

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Mar 18, 2002

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Mar 11, 2002

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Jan 21, 2002

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Dec 24, 2001

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Oct 01, 2001

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Sep 17, 2001