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COSMIC RELIEF: THE GENUINE ARTICLE
*Isn't it time to take a break from enlightenment?*
COSMIC CONNIE'S OFFICIAL
CSMIC RELIEF
Honoring & Celebrating the Global Paradigm Shaft
*Being a satirical romp through the New Age and other related sub-cultures, led by the rescinded spiritual master...* Connie Louise Schmidt NEW: Cosmic Connie's Blog: Whirled Musings I need more poetry in my life. Take me straight to the Bad Poetry page! Home \| Email Cosmic Connie
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*Cruise and Travolta's wacko beliefs are just the tip of the iceberg...* Silly beliefs, practices and buzzwords are everywhere, and they have been for many decades now. Silliness is not the exclusive domain of Hollywood, and it certainly didn't all start with L. Ron Hubbard -- without whom Tommy Cruise would have had to find some other basis for his complacency and arrogance -- although Hubbard's contribution to the silliness quotient can never be overstated. If you don't believe that the particular genre of silliness we're talking about here has run rampant even in Middle America, just take a look at one of those ubiquitous free-publications bins the next time you're out testing your credit limit at a snooty boutique, or cooling your heels in a trendy bistro while waiting for your chance to purchase some over-priced pine-nut-encrusted scale model of an entrée ("just like a real meal, only smaller!").* * Okay, we realize that as a whole, low- to mid-priced American restaurants are more likely to serve mega-portions, which supposedly is one reason that we're all so fat, but the really exclusive or trendy restaurants are far more stingy with their portions. And everything is a la carte. And there are no free refills. But anyway... Browse the freebie bins in any even marginally trendy joint in virtually any town with a population in the triple digits or higher... and among the real estate mags, sports/fitness tabloids and horrendously over-designed city guides, we bet you'll find at least one of those new-age, "wholistic-lifestyle" publications. One glance at the articles and ads in these rags should convince you that there's a thriving, no-holds-barred, we'll-believe-anything sub-culture out there. Only it's not "out there" anymore. Ponder some of what's on the "nonfiction" best-seller lists these days... and add in some of the stuff you see on the "news" shows during sweeps week (angels, miracles, UFOs, weeping Jesuses everywhere)... and it's pretty darn easy to come to the conclusion we've reached: There's a whole lot of silliness going on. Well, we think it's high time the world got a little relief from all this stuff. Our motto is, "If ya can't lick 'em, lampoon 'em." Which basically translates to... Fight silliness with more silliness. So... if you're ready for a respite from enlightenment, Cosmic Connie welcomes you. Leave your therapist, guru, spiritual path, "way of life," or "powerful new technology" at the door. You won't need these things where we're going.
A few tawdry tourist attractions along the road less traveled...
			Wherefore *Cosmic* *Relief* ? It's not just a web site; it's a critically acclaimed book! The obligatory FAQ.
			The Cosmic Relief Sampler Platter: A taste of what it's all about... some sample ad and article parodies (plus some stuff, new and old, that's not in the book).
			The critics say.... Skeptics, believers, and lotsa folks in between like Cosmic Relief. There's no accounting for taste.
			How to get it: No, not that, silly; Cosmic Relief. Here's how to get relief at a special CyberCynics' discount.
			Cosmic Connie confesses: "Hello, my name is Connie, and I'm a personal-growth survivor." An apologia in two parts, this is the tangled tale of how Cosmic Relief came to be. Just like a meeting, but without the cigarette smoke and coffee. Bonus: includes a link to the twelve-and-a-half steps of Personal Growth Survivors Anonymous.
			Ranting, raving, and ROFL: An ongoing forum for laughing at, complaining about, and farting in the general direction of pop culture. You can join in the fun; we'll print the best letters here.
			Write to us! E us. Snail us. Send us winning lottery tickets. Just let us know you're out there. Here's how...
			Other ways to spell "Relief": Links to other like-minded loonies, misfits, loveable cynics (and a few "serious" folks too). And, just to show how fair-minded we are, we've provided a page of links to "the other side" as well.

"The sage is a fool." -- Lao Tzu			Persons who are easily offended should ~~bite us~~ probably not enter this web site, and certainly should not purchase the book, COSMIC RELIEF.		We're for anything that's free.
Warning: This site contains very little, if anything, about guardian angels.		But at least we haven't been listed on **Web Pages That Suck. So far, anyway.**				YOUR ad could be here, seen by literally dozens of people every year... ..if we were selling advertising space. Which we're not; we just needed something to fill this cell.

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