I was perusing the local gay rag last week, and I ran across this little duplex ad of queer movers - the HH and the MM companies, your choice. Then today V and I were freewaying cross-country and I spied a truck from Jordan River Moving and Storage - from Kirkland, WA. Their phone no. is 611-0808.
A river runs through it
Some take note how art imitated life prior to 911. Synchromystics take for granted that All is connected to Every One, so that is no Big Thing. Now that we're experiencing World Trade Center SMACK DOWN round two, I cast about, looking for anchors in the whirlwind. The golden CALF of Wall St. is certainly on the chopping block, and it's interesting that the global eye is once again centered on lower Manhattan. Just so we are CLEAR on how to perceive this latest event, please note the emergency signal presented below (pic lifted from Bill in Exile):
This "nuking" of Wall St. is an event long foretold by many and various economic Jeremiahs - you can't get something for nothing - at least not for Ever. Now that we're economically nuked, we'll naturally be casting about for a savior, how wonderful that we are presented with a choice - Sun King Obama or Sarah Palin - note that the race is suddenly all about HER, McCain is DOA.
I know Sarah is down in the polls, but I don't count her out. She's playing an archetype - and a rather big one.
Sarah happens to look exactly like Laura Roslin (spectacles, bangs and all) - the unlikely President of Battlestar Gallactica's Caprica after a devastating nuclear attack. Laura is a schoolteacher, which makes her considerably better qualified than Sarah in political history, but the point is made - she enters office among murmurings about her qualifications. Laura made an unpopular "pro-life" stance early in her career, and is also a religious fanatic. She is known to push people out of airlocks, because well, Cylons aren't "people". Hmmm.
Sarah is a good fundamentalist Christian, jealous of her "husband". Her husband she calls Jesus - Yea Zeus. The wife of Zeus is Hera. Hera is the nemesis of Hercules, that half-god, half mortal fellow. Hercules is a metaphor for Man - fire/water, spirit/matter. Hera hates mankind because we represent the FRUIT of Zeus' love for Adam and Eve, and thus, in her eyes, his unfaithfulness. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
NOTES:
Roslyn is the name of a town here in Washington made famous by the TV series "Northern Exposure" - which featured a transplanted NY (Jewish) doctor in the fictional ALASKAN town of Cicely. The second "movie star" I ever met was an actress in this show, just a chance encounter.
Roslin of Scotland lies on the Rose Line - of Paris and the Da Vinci Code.
Google has launched a new tool in its bid for Total Global Domination - the Follow module. We used to have blogrolls and favorites, but that wasn't quite biblical enough, so now we are told to choose those whom we "follow". It's the RSS feed in new clothes, same as it ever was except that "following" implies a good deal more than simply "reading". Followers are sheep walking in the path of their lead ram - an icebreaker tug towing the flock through dangerous ice flows (remember the Titanic). Can I follow any and all prophets? Do they all lead to the same safe port?
"Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men."
Jesus answered, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me."
Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Some current headlines seem to be channeling gosporn:
Swiss 'rocketman' crosses the English Channel in 10 minutes
Swiss pilot Yves Rossy landed near Dover in southern England after flying across the English Channel on a jet-powered "wing." "It was perfect. Blue sky, sunny, no clouds, perfect conditions," Rossy told the Associated Press.
Note the H insignia on the wings... logo of Hublot Watches, his sponsor. The English Channel (22 miles across) is another Jordan River resonator - a symbolic crossing. Yves was doing 1.1 mile/minute.
Eating lettuce or other vegetables grown in fields irrigated by the Colorado River may expose consumers to a larger dose of toxic rocket fuel than is considered safe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to test data and documents obtained by Environmental Working Group (EWG).
Test results never before made public show that leafy vegetables grown with contaminated irrigation water take up, store and concentrate potentially harmful levels of perchlorate, a thyroid toxin that is the explosive main ingredient of rocket and missile fuel.
California produce is irrigated by the Colorado River, and then shipped all over the country. So... we're ALL eating rocket fuel. (As per, the gov sees no cause for alarm)
The Rocket/Grail in The Rocketeer is fueled by clean burning ALCOHOL, and I remember how my fraternity bros would brew a particularly potent punch for house parties they branded ROCKET FUEL.
The most infamous "fortified" wine in the states is Thunderbird Brand - brewed by E&J Gallo Winery, Modesto, CA.
"What's the word? / Thunderbird / How's it sold? / Good and cold / What's the jive? / Bird's alive / What's the price? / Thirty twice."
5 4 3 2 1... Thunderbirds are GO!
NOTES:
Yves calls himself "FusionMan", and considering his name, EVE Rosy, hmmm...
V and I lunched at a Thai (Tie) restaurant today that served us a tiny green salad starter covered with a milky white dressing. Considering the lettuce/Min/Jizz line, I almost sent it back! But hey, who am I to turn down the secret sauce o' love?
Via Newspaceman:
...golden hearted Prince William is to train with the RAF Search and Rescue Force as a "full-time pilot", furthermore stating that he wishes to "serve operationally"within the service.
Search and Rescue is part of 22 Squadron, their badge as pictured a curious combination of a Maltese Cross with the symbol for pi fimbriated.
I was intrigued by this post, drawn in by the 22's... a repeating signal.
The Maltese Cross is the symbol of the Knights of Malta, AKA the Knights Hospitallers, those Catholic rivals of the Knights Templar. It is a white cross made of 8 points - stargate material. See The Moses Channel for the start of my white cross fetish.
Interestingly, the Rocketeer nearly flattens the antagonist (played by 007 Timothy Dalton) when he accidentally tips over a heavy set piece - emblazoned with an enormous white cross - the cross keeps on ticking.
The Republic of Malta is a strange little European micro-state south of Sicily (Sicily contains a triskelion in its logo - see previous post) that was at one time the island home base of the KH. (HH=KK according to Mr. Hotze). Malta is most famous to Christendom as the site of St. Paul's biblical shipwreck and even today it is 98% Catholic - seriously monotheistic.
The Mosta Dome in Malta sports the TWIN TOWERS flanking a circular center - the GRAIL. Pi, that "sacred" circular number, is positioned over the Maltese cross, signifying protection or perhaps guardianship? Strangely, the oldest religious structures on the PLANET reside on the Maltese island of Gozo - the Neolithic Ġgantija. The temples are considered by modern archeologists to be the site of an Earth Mother Goddess Fertility Cult. The Divine Feminine goes WAY back in Malta. The temples are said by Gozitan legend to have been built by GIANTS!
The Maltese Cross has become the sign of ambulance drivers and... MARKSMEN. The Greek word hamartia (ἁμαρτία) is usually translated as sin in the New Testament. In Classical Greek, it means "to miss the mark". I remember my dad taking us boys out behind the shed to learn to shoot with a .22 RIFLE. I recall having difficultly hitting the broad side of a barn.
The Geneva drive, a device that translates a continuous rotation into an intermittent rotary motion, is also sometimes called a "MALTESE CROSS MECHANISM" after the shape of its main gear. This syncs with the white cross of Switzerland and their clock fetish. "Because the mechanism needs to be WELL LUBRICATED, it is often enclosed in an oil capsule!"
Strangely, the latest offering from the Time Lords of Cambridge has shown up like clockwork - the Chronophage. See the Daily Behemoth for more.
I was thinking about kilts today, that Scottish anachronism. Yes, I'm witnessing the meltdown of the global financial markets, and I want to talk about FASHION!
Seattle is home to the Utilikilts Co. - devoted to making "Men's Unbifurcated Garments". They're a pretty cool company, and about ten years ago I was "this close" to getting one, even though it was way over my budget (which is closer to Salvation Army chic than I like to admit). I was totally into the idea because a guy wearing a skirt is so counter-culture, and this was like a manly skirt, so rock on! So why didn't I?
Two reasons: 1 - tall guys with wimpy calves do NOT look good in kilts, and 2 - kilts pretty much ruin any chance of showing a basket - so basically, it didn't make me look HOT. There was a brief gay kilt fad back in the 80's, and some guys did look kinda sexy in them, like hairy Catholic high school girls.
Utilikilts mocumercial: Don't Ask
A pair of Scots
Utilikilts sells "freedom" - and they make some good hay out of that. But it's freedom with a smirk, because phallic-shamed Adam can't actually show his phallus in public without risking arrest from the protocol droids. In a way, a tight pair of jeans reveals more freedom than all the kilts in Scotland (the liberation of bondage paradox). Whatever, their heart is in the right place.
The Utilikilts logo is a grunge rock triskelion - a radial pattern of three.
It reminds me of the flag of the Isle of Man: three legs. A man is essentially a three legged beast - two for man and one for Min. Sorta gives "walking with God" a whole new swing. In War of the Worlds, the tripods from Mars invade earth.
Men are from Mars
Tripods in Seattle
