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|date=vol. 13, no. 39 (September 27 -October 3, 2000)
|date=vol. 13, no. 39 (September 27 -October 3, 2000)
|publisher=[[New York Press]]|accessdate=2009-03-29}}</ref>
|publisher=[[New York Press]]|accessdate=2009-03-29}}</ref>
His influences and noteriety have been found in many publications. He is quoted on the bookjacket of ''Weird N.J. Volume 2'',<ref>

{{cite book
|coauthors=Mark Moran, Mark Sceurman
|title=Weird N.J. Volume 2: Your Travel Guide to New Jersey's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
|edition=illustrated
|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
|date=2006
|pages=256
|isbn=1402739419, 9781402739415
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=J6TxcT7N9RgC&pg=PT1&dq=Alan+Cabal&ei=3lfSSaqmIpTOkwSxkuSfDw}}</ref>
in [[Rob Brezsny]]'s ''Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia'',<ref>
{{cite book
|last=Brezsny
|first=Rob
|title=Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia: how the whole world is conspiring to shower you with blessings
|publisher=Frog Books
|location=page 129
|date=2005
|edition=illustrated
|pages=296
|isbn=1583941231, 9781583941232
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=J5UKYonoTicC&pg=PA129&dq=Alan+Cabal&ei=3lfSSaqmIpTOkwSxkuSfDw}}</ref>
in [[John Strausbaugh]]'s ''Rock 'Til You Drop'',<ref>
{{cite book
|last=Strausbaugh
|first=John
|title=Rock 'Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia
|publisher=[[Verso]]
|location=page 205
|date=2002
|edition=illustrated
|pages=259
|isbn=1859844863, 9781859844861
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=efKHeunsQpcC&pg=PA205&dq=Alan+Cabal&ei=3lfSSaqmIpTOkwSxkuSfDw}}</ref>
in ''Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New Millennium'',<ref>
{{cite book
|coauthors=[[Thomas T. K. Zung]], [[Buckminster Fuller|R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster) Fuller]]
|title=Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New Millennium
|publisher=[[Macmillan]]
|location=page 174
|date=2001
|edition=illustrated
|pages=388
|isbn=0312266391, 9780312266394
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=vqUbe3pSZdwC&pg=PA174&dq=Alan+Cabal&ei=3lfSSaqmIpTOkwSxkuSfDw}}</ref> in ''The American Spectator'',<ref>
{{cite book
|title=The American Spectator
|publisher=Saturday Evening Club
|date=2003
|series=Original from the University of Virginia, Digitized Jul 6, 2007
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=mWcEAAAAYAAJ&q=Alan+Cabal&dq=Alan+Cabal&lr=&ei=SF3SSaTuEoHCkASsmsTyDg&pgis=1}}</ref>
in Francine Hornberger's ''Carney Folk'',<ref>
{{cite book
|last=Hornberger
|first=Francine
|title=Carny folk: the world's weirdest sideshow acts
|publisher=[[Citadel Press]]
|location=page 181
|date=2005
|pages=221
|isbn=0806526610, 9780806526614
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=gq3oQDz9bHoC&pg=RA2-PT102&dq=Alan+Cabal&lr=&ei=SF3SSaTuEoHCkASsmsTyDg}}</ref>
and is acknowledged as influential in the opening pages of ''The Enchanted Formulary''.<ref>
{{cite book
|coauthors=Lady Rhea, Eve Lefey
|title=The Enchanted Formulary: Blending Magickal Oils for Love, Prosperity, and Healing
|publisher=[[Citadel Press]]
|location=page x
|date=2006
|pages=305
|isbn=0806527048, 9780806527048
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=nEdejo3td6oC&pg=PR10&dq=Alan+Cabal&lr=&ei=SF3SSaTuEoHCkASsmsTyDg}}</ref>


==Selected bibliography==
==Selected bibliography==

Revision as of 16:43, 2 April 2009

Alan Cabal
Pen nameGarbled Uplink[1][2]
OccupationJournalist, Occultist
NationalityAmerican

Alan Cabal (born December 1 1953 [3] ) is an American journalist and occultist [1] [5] who has written for New York Press, High Times magazine, CounterPunch, and other publications. In the Nineties, he performed in the band White Courtesy Telephone. His tenure at the New York Press began in the 1990s and concluded in 2005 when he resigned in response to Matt Taibbi's controversial satire titled "The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope". Known for tackling highly-controversial subjects, he has contributed to the upstart political magazine CounterPunch.

Early career

Several months after his birth on December 1 1953 in the New Jersey town of Bridgeton to a 15-year-old mother, Alan Cabal was adopted by Albert and Elizabeth Cabal, respectively, a chemical engineer and a housewife; they raised him in Camden, New Jersey.[3][4] Cabal was a child actor in the theatre, performing on and off Broadway. [6][7][1]

Off and on from 1979 to the early 1990s, Cabal worked at The Magickal Childe in Chelsea, NY, an occult shop founded in the mid-1970s as the Warlock Shop by Herman Slater; the shop went out of business in the late-1990s.[8][5] Cabal was described in Christopher Knowles' 2007 book Our Gods Wear Spandex as a luminary of the occult scene in New York City,[5] which Cabal had profiled in the New York Press essay titled "The Doom that Came to Chelsea",[9] when he also shared that he was involved with the administration of the "Caliphate" version of Aleister Crowley's Ordo Templi Orientis for nearly twenty years.[9][5]

In the Nineties, Cabal was a member of the New York online community Echo, using the online name "Garbled Uplink", and was also in the employ of Echo for a while. [10][11] In Stacy Horn's 1998 book about Echo, Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online Town, he is described as "the most extreme Echoid",[12] while also considered many people's favorite "Echoid" in an online survey of the BBS's members. [12] In Kenneth Li's review of Cyberville in New York's Daily News "Garbled Uplink" is reported to have been "one of the most feared members of Echo", "ill-tempered", and "known for his fierce online reprimands". [13]

Cabal also went by the name "Garbled Uplink" in the band White Courtesy Telephone, in which he was one of the two singers. White Courtesy Telephone began as a lark intended for only one concert celebrating the release from prison of "Phiber Optik", a hacker who had worked at Echo. According to Billboard magazine, the band garnered many positive press notices and ended up winning over New York clubgoers. [14] The other singer, music journalist Rob Tannenbaum, wrote a Details magazine piece titled "Rock & Roll Fantasy" about the band's story which was described in Billboard as "hilarious and sometimes excruciating". [15] [16] Billed as the first band to form in cyberspace, White Courtesy Telephone turned down an offer from a record company and instead self-released their debut album, "Everything Is Fun", through an online record label called Monster Island, run by band member Mike Caffrey. [1] [15]

Journalism

Cabal's journalism career began at High Times magazine, writing as "Garbled Uplink", his online name at Echo. [1] [17] He is better known, however, for contributions under his real name to New York City's alternative weekly New York Press where he was a contributing writer until March 3 2005 when he resigned in response to the publication of a controversial satire by Matt Taibbi titled "The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope". [18] [19] [20] Bemoaning the loss of New York Press's iconoclastic edge, Cabal termed Taibbi's satire "a waste of paper, and a mere insult, not in the least bit challenging, to New York City's Roman Catholic population". He has written for other publications, such as Gallery magazine, and has contributed to the political magazine CounterPunch.

His "sympathetic"[21] article on holocaust denier Ernst Zundel published in CounterPunch in 2004 titled "Star Chamber Redux: the Prosecution of Zundel", attracted the attention of the media, internet forums and blogs, and the Jeff Rense radio show,[22] which Zundel called "An amazing break-through" in a letter to the Adelaide Institute.[23] [24] Jason Maoz, a senior editor of The Jewish Press, opined in 2003 that Cabal's byline had "appeared atop some memorably anti-Israel writing" in the New York Press. Cabal had sent an email to The Jewish Press responding to an opinion piece they had published, in which he described Zionists as "an aberration and a blasphemy against an otherwise noble faith".[25]

Influence

Wayne State University Department of English professor Steven Shaviro lists, as one of his favorites, a quote from Cabal's New York Press essay "Best Things About Being a Middle-Aged Guy In New York" (noted by Arts & Letters Daily in 2000 with an 'offense advisory')[26] in which Cabal stated, Honestly, at this point, all I really care about is novelty and making sure I have ringside seats for whatever awful spectacle is about to unfold.[27] [28] His influences and noteriety have been found in many publications. He is quoted on the bookjacket of Weird N.J. Volume 2,[29] in Rob Brezsny's Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia,[30] in John Strausbaugh's Rock 'Til You Drop,[31] in Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New Millennium,[32] in The American Spectator,[33] in Francine Hornberger's Carney Folk,[34] and is acknowledged as influential in the opening pages of The Enchanted Formulary.[35]

Selected bibliography

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Matthew McAllester (October 20, 1996). "Life in Cyberspace: Banding Together To Make Cybermusic". Newsday. "'I have two choices,' says Garbled, whose real name is Alan Cabal but whose online name has carried over to the real world." & His biography "includes being a child actor, a stockbroker, a card-carrying Satanist and a roustabout circus worker"
  2. ^ Stacy Horn (1998). Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, And The Creation Of An Online Town. New York City: Warner Books. p. 336. ISBN 446-5190952300. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid prefix (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  3. ^ a b c Cabal, Alan (vol. 13, no. 6 (February 9-15, 2000)). "Badlands: Burying Camden and My Mom". New York Press. pp. archive. Retrieved 2009-03-29. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ a b Slivka, Andrey (vol. 14, no. 32 (August 14, 2001)). "Jersey Shore Diary: Oh the rain keeps a-fallin?, as the great Freddy Fender sang..." New York Press. Retrieved 2009-03-29. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) "We passed through the village of Bridgeton, where Cabal was born to the mother who abandoned him."
  5. ^ a b c d Christopher Knowles (2007). Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes. San Francisco, Calif.: Weiser Books. pp. 197–198. ISBN 1-57863-406-7. Luminaries like former Village Voice writer Alan Cabal, occult writer Peter Levenda, Bonnie Wilfrod (then wife of X-Men writer Chris Claremont), filmmaker Kenneth Anger, and assorted fans of sci-fi and other genres were all drawn into the scene. Note: Cabal has never written for The Village Voice: the error was first committed by astrologer Rob Brezsny and subsequently perpetuated by others.
  6. ^ Dan Sullivan (September 7, 1966). "Theater: Wilder Is Given; 3 Early Plays at Cherry Lane in Limited Run". The New York Times.
  7. ^ Walter Kerr (April 14, 1967). "Theater: Lincoln Repertory's 'Galileo'; Anthony Quayle Plays the Title Role Brecht Drama Offered --Hirsch Is Director". New York Times.
  8. ^ Daniel Harms and John Wisdom Gonce III (2003). The Necronomicon Files: The Truth Behind Lovecraft's Legend. Boston, MA: Weiser Books. p. 39. ISBN 1-57863-269-2. ... a group associated with the Magickal Childe bookshop, then known as the Warlock Shop. Though now closed, this store was for many years the center of New York City's occult community. The shop's owner was Herman Slater, a showman-occultist of the old school.
  9. ^ a b Cabal, Alan (vol. 16, no. 23 (June 10, 2003)). "The Doom that Came to Chelsea". New York Press. Retrieved 2009-03-29. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ John Seabrook (1997). Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace. New York City: Simon & Schuster. pp. 134–136. ISBN 978-0684801759. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  11. ^ Joshua Quittner (January 23, 1995). "Hacker Homecoming". Time.
  12. ^ a b Horn, Stacy (1998). Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online Town. pages 13, 20-21, & 168: Warner Books. p. 340. ISBN 044651909X, 9780446519090. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
  13. ^ Kenneth Li (March 8, 1998). "The Net's Horn of Plenty". Daily News. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
  14. ^ Larry Flick (August 21, 1999). "Continental drift". Billboard. "Tannenbaum found himself jumping over to the other side of the industry fence after accepting a magazine assignment to front a rock band. The result was White Courtesy Telephone-a lark that took on serious life after the act won over New York clubgoers and gleaned a pile of positive press notices. Now, he's committed to making the transition, and it's easy to envision left-of-center rock fans digging this in a major way."
  15. ^ a b Doug Reece (August 14, 1998). "Popular uprisings". Billboard.
  16. ^ Rob Tannenbaum (July 1997). "Rock & Roll Fantasy". Details. pp. 132–137, 152–153.
  17. ^ "Garbled Uplink: "Whitley Strieber & The Visitors"". archive. High Times. vol. 240 (August 1995). Retrieved 2009-03-29. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  18. ^ Alan Cabal is listed as a "Contributing Writer" on the New York Press Masthead as late as July 2004, according to the last accessible Internet Archives mirror of the New York Press masthead prior to his resignation in March 2005. His last published article with them was in January 2005.
  19. ^ Matt Taibbi (March 2, 2005). "The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope". New York Press.
  20. ^ Ryan Underwood (March 7, 2005). "Take This Job and Shove It!". Fast Company archives.
  21. ^ Grobman, Alex. "Holocaust Denial: A Global Survey - 2004". David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. Retrieved 2009-03-29. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  22. ^ "Some Good News in the Zundel Case: Weber On The 'Jeff Rense' Show". Institute for Historical Review. March 26, 2004. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
  23. ^ Zundel, Ernst (June 2004). "Letter from Ernst Zundel, March 20, 2004". Issue #217. Adelaide Institute. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  24. ^ Alan Cabal, "Star Chamber Redux: the Prosecution of Zundel", CounterPunch (reprinted at HistoriansBehindBars.com), February 1, 2004.
  25. ^ Jason Maoz (March 19, 2003). "Media Monitor". The Jewish Press.
  26. ^ "2000 Archive". Arts & Letters Daily.
  27. ^ "Steven Shaviro's Web Pages". Retrieved 2008-06-25.
  28. ^ Cabal, Alan (vol. 13, no. 39 (September 27 -October 3, 2000)). "Best Things About Being a Middle-Aged Guy In New York". New York Press. Retrieved 2009-03-29. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  29. ^ Weird N.J. Volume 2: Your Travel Guide to New Jersey's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (illustrated ed.). Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. 2006. p. 256. ISBN 1402739419, 9781402739415. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  30. ^ Brezsny, Rob (2005). Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia: how the whole world is conspiring to shower you with blessings (illustrated ed.). page 129: Frog Books. p. 296. ISBN 1583941231, 9781583941232. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
  31. ^ Strausbaugh, John (2002). Rock 'Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia (illustrated ed.). page 205: Verso. p. 259. ISBN 1859844863, 9781859844861. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
  32. ^ Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New Millennium (illustrated ed.). page 174: Macmillan. 2001. p. 388. ISBN 0312266391, 9780312266394. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
  33. ^ The American Spectator. Original from the University of Virginia, Digitized Jul 6, 2007. Saturday Evening Club. 2003.
  34. ^ Hornberger, Francine (2005). Carny folk: the world's weirdest sideshow acts. page 181: Citadel Press. p. 221. ISBN 0806526610, 9780806526614. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
  35. ^ The Enchanted Formulary: Blending Magickal Oils for Love, Prosperity, and Healing. page x: Citadel Press. 2006. p. 305. ISBN 0806527048, 9780806527048. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
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