Red Zeppelin

Imported sparkling water has been heavily discounted at Red Apple supermarket lately, so we've been bringing some home to sample. If you've been reading for a while, you'll know what I mean by the Water of Life, and also how the Red Star is synchromystically entwined with queerness (The Red Star Brewing Co.) So it's interesting to find a product combining (so called) healthy water with the red star - San Pellegrino Sparkling Water:

The town of San Pellegrino in the mountains north of Milan was first made famous by quenching the thirst of Leonardo da Vinci. Today the Fonte Termale, an opulent marbled drinking hall, is a monument to the tradition of "taking the waters."

Blam! Direct sync hit: famous via queer Grand Master Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Last Supper that depicts John as maybe, possibly being a woman: the Magdalene.

Next up is from Germany: Gerolsteiner brand sparkling water, also sporting a red star, though with eight points.

The closest thing to taking mineral supplements in a naturally-occurring water; Since 1888, a famed health tonic, naturally carbonated.

Not quite as good, but with all those eights buzzing around like bees, fairly star gaty.

And finally Apollinaris: the "Queen of Table Water". No red star, but at least a hovering, red pyramid:

Apollinaris originates in a site which has different layers of rock and volcanic occlusions: the Eifel. This unspoilt landscape allows the water to penetrate into the deepest layers of the earth. Natural carbonic acid collects from the volcanic rock stratum. This facilitates especially the absorbtion of many minerals.

It's kinda gay that water with the same name as a Prefect of Gaul AND a bad ass Roman Legion is called the "Queen of Table Waters". Not such a good sync, but it got me going on an Eifel tangent:

Eifel syncs with both the phallic Eiffel Tower of Paris and the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World (AKA Isis, Diana) in NYC - gift of France to the USA in 1886 (Alexandre Gustave Eiffel engineered both structures). Considering the role of Paris and monumental hollow gifts in the Trojan War, it might have been a good idea if the US had looked THIS gift horse in the mouth.

And finally, an exceptionally hot pic from a recent Titan Media production: Damien Crosse going right to the source of the water of life, no bottling required. The movie is Men's Room III: Ozark Mtn. Exit 8. The Ark to Oz is a red balloon - or maybe a zeppelin if you want to make haste. A Red Zeppelin. A big, red, fat, juicy zeppelin. Unlike the previous Wizard of Oz, I have a feeling these guys know how it works.

"Let's Build the Dirigible Fleet in Lenin's Name!"

Interestingly, Seattle has The Red Balloon Co. - gay owned and operated since 1980.

Chariots of the Gods

Jake Kotze has shown (without a shadow of doubt, I think), how the checkered yellow cab (checker chariot) is a Hollywood star gate symbol, and I've been going on about cars being symbolic of the Holy Grail: the divine feminine. Maybe they're the same thing? What I do know is that transportation of all kinds: planes, trains and automobiles, sleds, ships and star ships, are all - symbolically - "vehicles of transformation".

The solar disc chariot motif repeats itself over and over again in automotive badges, The "new" Chrysler winged logo being the New World (Atlantean) version, but it's merry olde England that really holds the key. Both Bentley and Aston Martin prominently feature the winged chariot motif, with the (relatively recent) Mini Cooper logo being the strongest yet, complete with solar disk. And not just any sol - the black hole sun.

The Mini Me can be had with optional checkerboard trim on its rearview mirrors which implies the Masonic tracing board, and perhaps looking into the past - Chronos.

The Spirit of Ecstasy. Really.

Rolls Royce is (symbolically, at least) the capstone of British automotive achievement. Buckminster Fuller called out the grill (a chrome-plated Greek temple miniature) as being an aerodynamic non sequitur, but when viewed with the RR figurehead (a winged goddess) it makes perfect sense. The RR is a solar chariot - the divine feminine - made to convey the "new gods" about their estate (and to hell with air resistance).

Chrysler, like Mini, was originally Anglo, but was purchased by a German brand: Daimler (AKA Mercedes Benz). The Mercedes logo is the three pointed star, AKA the "flux capacitor" of Back to the Future fame. Dr. Brown's Time Machine is a classic star gate, requiring 1.21 gigawatts and 88 mph to achieve warp speed. The octagonal star gate.

The original image

The inverted image

The actual Capacitor is inverted 180 degrees from the Doctor's original sketch. The mirror cornea of the eye inverts reality 180 degrees before it enters our brains (Imagination Land), therefore, logic dictates that for an idea to manifest into reality (the opposite path), it must also invert, or "capsize".

Interestingly, the Back to the Future star gate was a De Lorean: a stainless steel ("immortal") skinned, rear-engine car, with "gull-wing" doors. Made in Ireland, a stone's throw from Scotland, at least for a Titan.

Diamond in the Back

I wanna (diamond in the back), I wanna (sunroof top), I wanna (diggin' the scene with a gangsta lean)... --Ludacris

The best ride on the block

A while back (way back) I spent a hot summer day out on a ski boat with a bunch of shirtless gay men, cruising slowly through the Lake Washington ship canal (the nautical equivalent of cruising the strip) and the stream of pleasure boats, which were all well adorned with feminine decoration - except for us, all we had was beefcake. Some guy yells at us: "Where's the women?!!" The answer of course was that we didn't need women. We had each other. Bro's before Ho's. Or rather, bro's who ARE ho's.

I was thinking how the Goddess isn't much a part of Christian mythology. It's like, "where the hell are the women?" In the book of Acts, Paul famously preached against the Goddess Artemis (Diana) of the Ephesians, which got him run out of town. Jesus hung out with the bros, and though some say he and Mary Magdalene were an item, you have to read WAY between the lines to get that out of scripture. My take is that the Roman mystery cults infiltrated the early church and quickly turned it back toward Goddess worship (via Mary) but as far as Jesus went, it was all about the Father and the Son. No Goddess needed, and I think, good riddance. The Goddess is a bitch - an insatiable pit of human blood sacrifice. See the Stygian Port's examination of the Goddess in The Medusa Touch. Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon, gives a vivid impression of the dark side of Ceres/agriculture fertility worship. I saw it as a made for TV movie.

The 1982 thriller 'Deathtrap', starring Michael Caine, Dyan Cannon, and Christopher Reeve, features Caine and Reeve as lovers, plotting to do away with Caine's wife - Dyan. Synchromystically, if Reeve is always Superman, then he is always Christ, which would place Caine in the roll of the Father, and Dyan as the divine feminine. The movie poster clearly shows what it's really all about. In the movie, the final triumph is given to Helga the psychic (a witchy crone).

For God to forsake the Goddess would mean he'd be forsaking the ultimate power source in the universe - the thing that makes him God! Since the universe is basically a giant ecstasy machine, he would need to find another place to hide the "engine" - a place nobody would ever think to look. Maybe God put the divine feminine where the sun don't shine, and said to hell with the ol' ball and chain. And to hell is where she went, to become Lucy(fer). Like they say, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

"Long dickin' my ass... nice 'n' slow... it kinda turn m' engine on, 'r somethin'!"

You could say that gay men are "rear-engined", and to bring it all back to cars (as usual), it's interesting that the Lincoln (see The Kentuckian) was famous for it's "integrated spare tire" in the trunk. A tire is a torus, so symbolically, the Lincoln carried a black hole in the back. The Lincoln Mark V was a classic pimpmobile, so I think we're into triple entendres by now. It goes without saying that Lincoln is currently working on their Mark X.

A cross in a box

The VW Beetle is the most iconic rear-engined car in the world, personified as Herbie by Disney. The VW was designed in the 1930's by Dr. Ferry Porsche for Hitler, who wanted a "people's car". The Doctor went on after WWII to create the Porsche sports car brand - its most successful model being the rear-engined 911.

The brand that keeps on giving.

Ralph Nader, the Green Party Messiah, made his reputation with the 1965 publication of 'Unsafe At Any Speed', a crusade against Detroit and the Chevrolet Corvair - a car with its engine in its butt. Due to Nader's success, the Corvair is now quite rare, and has become a collector's item. There's a guy a few blocks away from me who collects 'em, and built a gorgeous garage for his collection, practically a shrine. Personally I think Corvairs are damn homely, but I'm glad somebody loves 'em.

Good Syncing

Man! What a great big beautiful synced up day. We had wonderful pre-Spring weather today, so V and I walked the terrier to Kirkland, and we stopped at Kidd Valley for lunch.

The Circle K Ranch strikes again

Kidd Valley has ten outlets, and as we stood in line to order, two very hot guys got in line right behind us. We tried not to devour them with our eyes, so as not to ruin our appetites. V even called one of them "a perfect 10". We both ordered fish burgers (a Dagon sandwich) with a side of fries and onion rings, which are sort of calamari like, and with the French fries, lend a certain vibe. But the main course was inside the newspaper dispenser:

The Kirk(church)land Sun, showing an image of a Scottish savior (the solar-powered Superman), who is busting out of his disguise (Lincoln, anyone?), and the big question:

"Can Stuart McLeod save downtown Kirkland? Will the city fathers allow it?"

The Wreck of the Zodiac

The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter. --Revelation 8:10-12

This post was inspired by Newspaceman's Feb. 8 post: Rateral Thinking, but it began years ago - on the Whidbey Island beach where my hubby found a driftwood Enterprise. We've held onto it for years, laughingly calling it our "grilled cheese Virgin Mary".

Spencer Spit

Fast forward: The summer of 2007 found us camping at Spencer Spit, a marine State Park on Lopez Island (part of the San Juan Islands of the Pacific Northwest). Spencer Spit has a certain desolate charm, and besides being a shorebird sanctuary, it is also a navigational hazard, jutting out into a channel that forces vessels to navigate a narrow line - a rocky cliff on one side, a shallow bank on the other. Groundings are common, given the tides. Anyway, this time it was the 1924 schooner Zodiac which was caught, and it remained so for hours, waiting for the tide to finally lift her to freedom.

Another interesting thing about Spencer Spit is that Oliver (the Aussie Terrier) loves to roll in a low lying vegetation that covers the sandy shore. We called it "Terrier Nip", but after a bit of research, we discovered it to be a variety of Wormwood.

A wooden sailing ship, a wooden star ship, and both found stuck on a beach. The apocalyptic Wormwood is thought to be a massive meteor or comet striking the earth (by we Christian nut-cases). But somehow, I can't help thinking that the name 'Wormwood' is a fabulous pun, much like the names of Scottish author Iain M. Bank's 'Culture' starships (Infinity II, The Just Testing, etc.).

Ship of the Line, or Pirate?

Two Arthur C. Clarke events are scheduled this year, the now infamous Cassini/Saturn/Lucifer Project, but also, the beginning of production on 'Rendezvous With Rama'.

In the early 2000s, actor Morgan Freeman expressed his desire to produce a film based on Rendezvous with Rama. After a drawn-out development process — which Freeman states has been due to difficulties in procuring funding[2] — it now appears this will indeed be happening. IMDb, as of August, 2007, upgraded the status of the project to "announced" with an estimated release date in 2009.[3] The film is to be produced by Freeman's production company, Revelations Entertainment. --wikipedia

'Rama' is a starship that passes through the solar system, using the sun as a sort of gravitational marker. The ship rounds it like a sailboat rounds a mark, then heads for distant shores. Star ships probably navigate the cosmos via the shear between two forces - perhaps gravity and photons - which is also how sailing ships navigate - via the shear between two forces - air and water. Rama is like a starship, beating to windward, navigating a narrow channel between a rock (Sol) and a shoal (Earth). Maybe Rama is Wormwood, and maybe it misses the mark, thus running aground - on the planet.

Yesterday, a spectacular meteor was sited over the Pacific Northwest:

SPOKANE — An apparent meteor streaked through the sky over the Pacific Northwest early today, drawing reports of bright lights and sonic booms in parts of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Although a witness reported seeing the object strike the Earth in a remote part of Adams County, in southeast Washington, it had not been found.

A meteor, seen in the state named after the first President, landing in a county named after the first man. Earth, of course, is Adam's planet.

If both rats and oil escape from a grounded ship, it makes me wonder what might escape from a grounded starship. And perhaps most intriguing, what would be her cargo?

The Captain's Stash

NOTES:

Originally designed by William Hand Jr. as an ocean racing yacht, the schooner Zodiac was built with painstaking care in 1924 in East Boothbay, Maine. Robert Wood Johnson and J. Seward Johnson of the Johnson & Johnson family were her first owners. The wooden schooner Zodiac's career includes being used in the 1993 (TNT movie of the week) 'Sea Wolf', Charles Bronson as Wolf Larson, Christopher Reeve as Humphries, and Catherine Mary Stewart. The vessel is now operated by Star Sail Cruises.

The Schooner Zodiac

As I was putting these pieces together, Gosporn article 'Go West' received a comment from 'Daedalus', on Feb. 11. Daedalus was the father of Icarus, who flew too close to the sun, and fell into the sea.

In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Latin, also Hellenized Latin Daedalos, Greek Daidalos (Δαίδαλος) meaning "cunning worker", and Etruscan Taitle) was a most skillful artificer, so skillful that he was said to have invented images. --wikipedia

Daedalus resembles the Egyptian Ptah, the god of craftsmen, and is no doubt the Greek equivalent. As Christopher Knowles tells us in Osiris, The Oscars and The Babylon Gate, Hollywood's Oscar is modeled after Ptah, AKA Daedalus. Things named Daedalus.

Daedalus launching the Icarus

Absinthe - the elixir of Bohemian Paris - is made from wormwood.

'The Wreck of the Zephyr', by Chris Van Allsburg.

Spencer's spit?

The Kentuckian

Been musing a bit about dead presidents, considering the season. Washington and Lincoln - the twin pillars of American mythology. Masonic Washington is given due credit as the Father, but Lincoln was the Savior. Lincoln preserved the Union, and like a certain other savior, Lincoln paid the highest price for his service.

The American Civil War was essentially between two economic systems - agrarian (feudal) slavery vs. industrial Capitalism. Perhaps that was also the germ of dissent in the War of Heaven - as above, so below - and always follow the money. Lincoln freed the slaves. Jesus came to set the captives free.

Another rebel, another X

Rebels vs. Loyalists; Gray vs. Blue; North vs. South; Israel vs. Judah; Brother vs. brother. The archetype that repeats itself in an endless loop, until pattern recognition software finally kicks in? It's deja vu all over again. It makes me wonder... the only downside to Capitalist magic is that it requires an ever expanding pizza pi - the American Way (Amway) - an infinite pyramid scheme. Foolish? No doubt.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness"; --1 Corinthians 3:19

Like Elvis and Jesus, Lincoln came from humble circumstances, and, sightings were common for years after their deaths. To put an end to the rumors and conspiracy theories, the government finally had Lincoln's grave exhumed (with his son as a witness) and the body encased in a solid concrete block - again echoing an earlier Messiah. It almost goes without saying that Lincoln was married to Mary.

As a boy, I loved playing with my Lincoln Logs®, and (scatalogic jokes aside) the association of Lincoln with the towering conifer is yet another phallic symbol. Judging by his ectomorphic proportions - Abe was hung like the proverbial horse. Naturally, the Gay Republican caucus calls itself the Log Cabin Club. If Lincoln was the beginning of the Republican party, then George Bush is the end - a perfect, reversed image of everything Lincoln stood for: the anti-Lincoln. The Shrub.

Lincoln was shot while seated in a box seat of the Ford Theater, and it's syncnificant that 'Lincoln' is the only automobile named after a president. Lincoln is a Ford brand, and interestingly, was co-joined to Mercury. The Lincoln logo is a cross sitting in a box. Lincoln was done in by a Booth, which makes me suspect the Doctor was involved. Kennedy was shot while riding in a Lincoln Continental presidential limousine - the X-100.

In Tim Burton's 'Planet of the Apes' (see Marky's Mark), The Lincoln Memorial shows Lincoln to be a giant ape - Thoth. That Tim is very clever.

Gay Bar, by Electric Six