Wow! I just found a stash of Tom Orr videos on Youtube. Tom Orr is basically the Court Jester of the gays. A brilliant satirist (or is that satyrist?), performer, song writer - Tom makes us laugh at ourselves, and finds the common humanity within... a common wealth of inspiration.
From Dirty Little Showtunes:
I Love Men
I Am the Very Model of a Modern Homosexual
Today is the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - the "911" of WWII. Probably don't want to go too far down that rabbit hole.
I've been grooving on apocalypse "literature" lately. This cover is a classic: Twenty experts explain it all for us. The bio-hazard sign over the Borg green background, DNA spiral helix all crowned by a mushroom/ring/bomb. This is how Cosmic Consciousness is perceived by ego.
Everybody run, the homecoming queen's gotta gun!
Downtown Julie Brown - before MTV.
She did it for Johnny
Note: At the very end, you just KNOW it was the drag queen who took her tiara.
Finally. The 2012 hysteria machine is really getting into gear.
BTW, your Apollyon Gym membership renewal is past due. Please remit at once to avoid Armageddon.
The Abysmal Fitness Team
My neighbor has been blowing leaves for hours. The demonic whine pierces the walls of my house and the skull of my head, even earplugs can't block it. He stops occasionally - to refill the gas tank. He blows to protect his investment - a bank owned quarter acre that he never could quite afford, especially now. He works all day and so does his wife, to pay interest on the loan - for the rest of his life. He would like to spend his time otherwise, but the bank needs blood - must be fresh.
When we were living on San Juan Island, I decided to go to a Sustainability Conference at the local fairgrounds. A conference carefully managed by local realtors and banks. I was like, "Dudes! Haven't you read Ishmael"? You can't 'loan' yourself out of this one.
The sons of Cain have ruled and ruined the earth for as long as history. Their weapon is control. Money, media, mostly just food. Gain no weight without a piece of eight.
Build that pyramid, slave boy!!
Sometimes it all gets too much for me, and I walk outside and stare up into the dull gray sky and ask: "How long, oh Lord?"
The Mark of Cain
After Cain killed Abel, he was given a mark of protection:
Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."
But the LORD said to him, "Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden. --Genesis 4:14-16
WTF? Why does the murderer get a magic mark of protection? Hell, I don't know, but I suspect it has something to do with the role Cain was to play. Which history proves, has been the role of unbridled ego made flesh. Hercules unchained, so to speak. Secretly (OK, not so secretly, since I blog about it) I wonder if Cain had to build something, some "Great Work". Something like a pyramid or a tower, or like a rocket. Something like... oh I dunno... a stargate?!
Maybe VALIS knew that a bunch of peace loving, pot smoking hippie types would never get around to building a stargate. It's just not our nature. So he gave that nature to Cain. And Cain has been really busy. In just ten thousand years or so, he's gone from a skull smashing ape to an atom smashing... ape. And now he's smashing particles in the Large Hadron Collider that even Cain admits is "Looking for the God Particle". In the infamous words of Madeleine Albright - maybe God thought "the price was worth it".
In a small way, my next door neighbor, blowing the leaves, annoying the shit out of me, paying the banks, is contributing to (or rather, is coerced into contributing) the Great Work of Cain, which IS the stargate.
I was actually heartened by the strange fact that the Hadron Collider (starting up again on 11/20) seemed almost to summon a Shiva archetype - a "gate crasher" to the State Dinner on 11/24. The most paranoid and self-satisfied venue in the world, and Shiva's trident waltzes in as if it was a scene from Wedding Crashers. In true illusion shattering style, the Salahis held up an outrageously unflattering mirror to the sycophants of Capitol Hill.
The mystical aura around CERN continues to grow. It has suffered set back after set back, to the point where one frustrated physicist publicly wondered if it was trying to sabotage itself from the future! Early November saw it put out of action by a errant piece of baguette - dropped by a bird. I am reminded that the first line of the Lord's Prayer (an invocation for God to return to earth) is "Give us this day our daily bread".
In a perfect co-mingling of NASA crypto-science and Masonic mystery religion (Secret Sun would say "same thing"), Tom Hanks (of Apollo 11 and DaVinci Code fame) was invited last year to push the START button. The machine has also been accused of being capable of destroying the earth via creation of black holes. Speculation on the immense project's "true purpose" continues to mount, and one does have to agree that the "moonshot" style budget and effort invites speculation.
It almost seems like CERN is a new tower of Babel, Great Pyramid and Atlantean stargate, all rolled into one. I wonder if Cain realizes what kind of matches he's playing with.
Updated 12/5.
Today is International AIDS Day. Coincidentally, it is also the day that Var finally got his meds. 01/12/2009 = 11 22 9 = 42.
This image is by Keith Haring, died of AIDS at 31, on 2/16/90. I'll leave the red cross symbolism to you.
