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The weather has been unsettled lately.

Within electricity, I am electric.

At extremely low frequencies, lightning crackles above me, the power grid buzzes around me, and my footsteps shoot out sparks as they strike the Earth.......

Recorded using a McGreevy VLF/ELF receiver with antenna first pointed toward sky and then down toward earth as I walk.

37 seconds

Zozobra is an imposing 51 foot tall male effigy puppet who wears a long dress, is gaudily lipsticked and is the personification of repressed weirdness. His public burning has become an annual tradition in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he is affectionately called "Old Man Gloom". Every September there is a night when the townspeople gather to ritually curse him, taunt him, burn him up and blow off his head with small explosives. In this 8 minute 12 second recording you can hear Zozobra groan in pain as he is tortured by the fire and the crowd cheers "Burn him! Burn him!" in an ascending and cathartic frenzy.