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
Thuth's recent post Hurricane IKE Bearing Down... at Conspiracy Grimoire pings on "Louis" 17 times. In gay news:
"22-year-old gay porn star Kurt Wild was fired from his day job at a SUBWAY restaurant outside of ST. LOUIS when a customer recognized him and threatened to boycott the fast food joint if Wild wasn't fired." --Queers United
"Twenty-year-old LOUIS CHURCH killed Weston Verrette, a popular gay high school teacher in Gretna, LOUISIANA last week and confessed to it, but the police spokesman said he won't be pursuing hate crime charges because Church said he was enraged that Verrette had come on to him." --Towleroad
Let all the dreamers wake the nation.
Well here it is September already again, time for another Twin Towers post!
I visited La Conner on Labor Day - a little seaside tourist trap north of Seattle. Wandering into a nautically themed gallery, I find two '30's vintage airship models hovering over the arched entryway - one being the Hindenburg (see The Hindenburg Stargate Ritual) and the other being a Gee Bee Model R, red and white, No. 11.
The Gee Bee (short for Granville Brothers Aircraft Co.) was a 1930's race plane, and the stubby (phallic?) style has always fascinated me. It was a notorious pilot killer, and a Gee Bee crash (painted hornet black and yellow) creates the opening scene of the 1991 Disney/Touchstone sci-fi adventure film The Rocketeer, starring Billy Campbell as the protagonist.
Bill Campbell has lots of gay cred, having played gay doctor Jon in the TV miniseries adaptation of Armistead Maupin's San Francisco opus: Tales of the City. Doctor Jon dies of complications from AIDS. He also played one of Steven Carrington's lovers in Dynasty, so he's a bit like Heath Ledger - a gay archetype.
Look close: on the hanger "Big Wow" is the DeLorean stargate symbol.
Howard Hughes (double H) makes a few appearances in The Rocketeer, one of the stranger American Icons. Hughes, founder of RKO Pictures and Hughes Aircraft, was truly a Golden Age 'Prince of the power of the air'. An industrialist tycoon, he reminds me of any number of Bond villains (Hugo Drax?). Most Bond villains seem to be channeling the Noah archetype. Hughes leveled several old growth forests in order to build HIS ark: the H-4 Hercules, AKA the Spruce Goose (see In the Shadow of Giants for more about Herc) . The Goose was the largest airplane ever built at the time, and made entirely of WOOD!
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. --Genesis 6:14
Hughes was born in HUMBLE, Texas (in HARRIS County), died in HOUSTON, so we have H's buzzing around like Hornets. Howard spent several years holed up in the DESERT INN Hotel in Las Vegas, entombed like a Pharaoh in the New World GIZA. Egyptian myth has Ra traversing the heavens in a solar BOAT, and the Spruce Goose was a FLYING BOAT.
Interestingly, leftover wood from the ARK project was used to build a 36' racing catamaran in 1962 - Toru. Catamarans signify the H and solar wind power, so yet another Chariot of the Gods. Strangely, this cat sat in mothballs for decades, in a Vancouver CA hanger, finally sold last year.
Vancouver is synchromystic Hollywood, with everything from the X-Files to Babylon 5 filmed there. Vancouver is the "twin city" of Seattle, and in movies it is frequently employed as Seattle's "double" - just swap the license plates.
Which brings me back around to the Rocketeer - Billy Campbell. Bill also played JORDAN Collier in The 4400, yet another apocalyptic vision of human evolution. The show was filmed in Vancouver, but set in mythical Seattle. Jordan is the self-proclaimed Savior of humanity, and his "vehicle of ascension" is a neurotransmitter called PROMICIN. Seattle is renamed Promise City - another moniker for Zion, and the home of the 44,000.
Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. --Revelations 14:1
By the second season, it is revealed that all 4400 have a neurotransmitter called promicin in their brains, which gives them their powers. The government, afraid of what this large group would do with such political power, secretly doses all 4400 with a promicin-inhibitor. The inhibitor causes a potentially fatal immune deficiency as a side effect in the returnees. --wikipedia
Hmmmm. A "potentially fatal immune deficiency".
Jordan is the River Jordan that flows due south to Jerusalem, the Promised Land. The Hudson River is the New World Jordan, flowing to New Jerusalem.
Let The River Run was the Carly Simon hit written for the film Working Girl, starring Grail Seeker Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith. It was filmed in WT 7, and the Gee Bee shows a 7 along with the 11.
"Working Girl" is slang for prostitute, which syncs up with Mary Magdalene (MM) as well as the Sole Survivor from the Battle of Jericho. Jericho (the CBS dystopian drama) is threatened by the 'Hudson River Virus' - according to government propaganda.
Carly crosses the Hudson River in a boat - the Staten Island Ferry - heading for the Twin Towers. She anticipates my own pilgrimage to New Jerusalem (read Pilgrim's Progress). Like Carly, I was ferried across the Hudson/Jordan to New Jerusalem, the only difference being that for my crossing, the twin towers had become a twin-hulled commuter catamaran.
In The Rocketeer, Billy doesn't just FLY a plane, he BECOMES one. Looking at his Vehicle of Ascension (the rocket pack), we find it also resonating the twin motif: two rocket tubes joined by a circular hole - creating an H, and archetype of the HOLY GRAIL and her TWIN guardians. The Rocket Pack = Twin Towers = Catamaran = Notre Dame = H.
I suspect the River Jordan is allegory for the flow of Divine Energy - from the "headwaters" of the Pineal Gland on down, to pool in the "Twin Lakes" and finally rocket out - through the "River Delta".
The AIDS epidemic successfully halted the flow, dammed up by an army of Trojan engineers. But the River will not be denied. The dam is cracking...
We're coming to the edge, Running on the water, Coming through the fog, Your sons and daughters.
Let the river run, Let all the dreamers Wake the nation. Come, the New Jerusalem.
I rarely post overtly political stuff here at Gosporn, holding to the conceit that we're "above all that" here. Not...
The latest shtick from the Grand Olde Party is just too much. The nomination of "Guns, Babies and Jesus" Sarah Palin for the vice presidency, and then the immediate "outing" of her daughter's unwed pregnancy. I mean... COME ON!! This has Rovian fingerprints all over it - the brilliant distraction of a "wedge issue" that sidelines any national discussion over war, class, economics, race or anything of REAL importance to the PTB.
And what is MOST brilliant is that it is the LIBERAL press that is doing it, because Rove tossed them a BONE that they couldn't resist! Now the race is back on the Republican track with the religious right marching to the tune as they always do. Rove is the Machiavelli of our times, and I hate him, but a part of me begrudgingly admires his devilish cunning. Oh, that a devil such as Rove would work for the light.
But wait... Sarah's full name is Sarah Louise HEATH Palin; born February 11, 1964! And she is the 11th governor of Alaska! Something tells me this story has only just begun.
Addendum:
Doug over at Unnatural Devotions just posted a Rare Political Interlude that made me spit out my beer! He conflates this:
with this:
It suddenly occurred to me (thanks V) that an Obama assassination wouldn't be the WORST thing that could happen. Watch yer back, John.
