If you've need for an otherworldly stocking stuffer this season, here it is, hot off the Chicago U Presses today, John Corbett's compendium of blount hermeneutics and the eternal cosmic message and wisdom of Sun Ra yours for $20, a fraction the price being asked today for Egyptian Healing Stick Reflexology, and galaxies better for you ...

While in Chicago during the mid-1950s, Sun Ra preached on street corners and occasionally created scripts to accompany his lectures -- intricate texts that invoke science fiction, Biblical prophecy, etymology, and black nationalism. Until this point, the only broadsheet known to exist was one given to John Coltrane in 1956. These newly unearthed writings attest to the provocative brilliance that inspired Coltrane. Sun Ra annotated many of them by hand, and together the sheets reveal fascinating new aspects of his worldview.
[ Sun Ra: The Wisdom of Sun Ra ]

Yes, it is already on my wishlist -- for those who maybe need some sense of why they might need a tour of the mind of Mr Mystery, our tipster blogbud Ibiblio Jones also hands an aside on the full You-tube of the BBC's Brother from another Planet