Tuesday 2 August 2022

Yeah? Well, MY God Carries An HAMMER..!!



Thor is The Champion of The Gods, of Earth and of The Human Race.

He is The Great Fighter who can be brought out when something is •really• BAD.

You DON’T go to Thor for Wisdom, you go to Thor because 
he's going to PROTECT you 
against The Evil Monsters.

Tales of Thor's adventures provided escape from one of the bleakest periods in human history — 
The Dark Ages of the first millennium A.D.

It was a time when the Norse world, stretching from the British Isles to the Baltic Sea, was in turmoil.

“ The Agricultural Society, 
where people were farming 
and surviving kind of at the very edge 
of how it was possible to Survive, because it was cold, 
it was the northern part of Europe, 
it wasn't around the Mediterranean where it was much easier to grow things, and it tended to be, from everything we can tell, quite VIOLENT.”

War, Famine and Death were Daily Facts of Life 
on the desolate Northern fringes 
of Europe.

But The Myth of Thor brought 
a sense of Order to The Chaos.

“It was a religion of the countryside.
‘Paganism’ actually 
is a Latin word 
that describes that,
what the  Country People believe in, and paganism is not really 
well •organized•, either.

It's NOT like the Greek Pantheon 
in the sense that it's 
very well-organised 
and everybody •knows• 
whose responsibilities 
and who's more important
 than whom.

It's VERY different.

The view of Human Life 
in that mythology was a 
fairly Dark and fairly Stern one — 
Human beings DIDN’T look forward 
to the kind of Salvation and Heaven at The End of Time 
that's promised in the 
Christian stories.

They had a kind of a Darker
a more Sorrowful View of Life.

People have to show 
Great Courage and 
Hardiness in the face of 
ENORMOUS obstacles.

For inspiration, 
The People looked to Thor.
Thor was the quintessential hero.
He was STRONG.

Unlike some of the other gods 
he was NOT DECEPTIVE, 
he was NOT TREACHEROUS, 
but he was STEADFAST
and as this hero figure, I think, people could identify 
with him best.”


In The Myth, 
Two of Thor's Weapons 
help him conquer Evil Forces : 
A Belt that doubles his strength 
and A Hammer that shoots 
lethal bolts of lightning.

No matter how far Thor throws 
his trusty hammer Mjolnir, 
it will return to him 
like a boomerang.
And each time thunder roars
it means Thor's Hammer 
has struck a Giant.

Thor is The Master of Lightning
and this is not uncommon 
in other mythologies.

The obvious parallel here 
is Zeus in classical mythology, 
for He is The Thunder God.

The Thunder and Lightning God is The PROTECTOR God.

He's The Strongest Fighter
so he has that capability 
that Zeus has, 
The Thunderbolt, 
The Hammer for Thor, 
that can 
DESTROY The Bad Guys.













Yeah? Well, MY Love Carries An AXE..!!





“What about Thor?”, you ask..?

He embarked on a new Journey —
because he had found 
something to Live for;
something to Love for;
a little Someone, 
who turned him from 
Sad God, to Dad God….

THOR :
Breakfast is Served!


Thor, The Dad-God :
Remember what 
My Mum used to Tell Me --

Listen to The Grown-ups;
If You See Anyone Scared or Being Picked-on -- 
Look after Them.

But most of all : —
Have Fun.

See those aliens over there?





Love :
They look nice.

Thor, The Dad-God :
They ARE nice! 
That's Why We have 
to Look After Them.



They Will Always Be There for Us -- 
The SpaceViking, 
and His Girl Born from Eternity, 
with The POWERS of a GOD.

Two WARRIORS -- 
Fighting The Good Fight, 
for Those who can't fight good --

They have Travelled Far,
and been given Many Names --

But to Those 
Who Know Them,
They're simply known
as LOVE and THUNDER.











The Skrull Empire :
“Your Hate is Your Own. Your Judgement is Your Own.
We are Here to Save You. We are Here to Change You.
And We’re Here Because in spite of that you’ve done to prove Undeserving of Her —
She is The Goddess.”

The Amazing Spider-Man :
Uh…. She, who?

The Skrull Empire :
Love.

Nick Fury, Director of Nothing :
Yeah? Well, MY Love 
carries An AXE!”

Iron Man :
Right…. 
[mask down]

AVENGEEERRSS!”

ASSEMBLE!

Ostraphobia






Hook :
Good evening, 
Ladies and Gentlemen, 
Your Captain again.

Please do not allow 
this minor turbulence 
to disturb you.

For now, please sit back, relax. 
Enjoy the remainder 
of The Flight.
Thank You.

Maggie :
Look what Jack drew.

Peter :
That's very nice, dear.
….what's that? 

Maggie :
Fire.

Peter :
Fire. Really?
Is that our plane? 

Maggie :
Yep.

Peter :
Who are these people?

Maggie :
That's Jack, that's me
that's Mom...
...and that's you.

Peter :
Where's my parachute?
I won't make it to 
my next birthday….

Moira, Peter’s Wife :
You won't die without A Phone 
and A Fax Machine

Peter :
I got The Phone, 
and The Briefcase.

Moira, Peter’s Wife :
Talk to him.

Peter :
…why didn't I have 
a parachute, Jackie?

Jack :
Take a wild guess.

Peter :
Jackie.  Jack.
Will you stop? 
You can break a window.

Jack :
They're double-layered
You can't break ‘em.

Peter :
Give me that.

Jack :
You're afraid you're 
gonna get sucked out.

Peter :
I'm not afraid of being sucked out.

Jack :
YES, you are, you're afraid 
you're gonna get sucked out.

Peter :
Just stop.
Jack, next season, 
I'm coming to six games. 
I promise.

Jack :
Yeah, be sure to buy 
enough videotape.

Peter :
Hey. Jack.
My Word is My Bond.

Jack :
Yeah, junk bond!

Peter :
What's the matter with you? 
When are you gonna stop 
acting like a child?

Jack :
I AM a child.

Peter :
Grow up.

Sunday 31 July 2022

The GOAT



Capt. Steve Rogers 
Thor, What's His Play?
[ King Lear, obviously. ]



Thor
He has An Army, called The Chitauri

They're not Of Asgard or any world known. 
He means to lead them against your people. 
They will win him the Earth. 
In return, I suspect, for The Tesseract.

Steve Rogers
An Army. From outer space.

Bruce Banner
So he's building another portal. 
That's what he needs Erik Selvig for.

Thor
Selvig?

Bruce Banner : He's An Astrophysicist.

Thor
He's A Friend.

The Widow
Loki has him under some kind of spell. 
Along with one of ours.


Steve Rogers
I wanna know why Loki let us take him. 
He's not leading An Army from here.

Bruce Banner
I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. 
That guy's brain is a bag full of cats. 
You can just smell crazy on him.

Thor
Have a Care How You Speak! 
Loki is beyond reason
but He is Of Asgard — 
and He’s My Brother.

The Widow
He killed eighty people in two days.

Thor
…he’s adopted.

Daphne Dwarman


Any Rational Society 
would either Kill Me
or at least put me 
to some Use….
— Lecter.


“There is a problem in that 
Feminist Movement, isn’t there? 
From its inception in America 
there has always been 
a racial component
When Susan B. Anthony 
was having that meeting 
and Sojourner Truth’s 
Black ass showed up. 

Read your history books

All the White women asked 
Sojourner Truth not to speak. 
They didn’t conflate the issues of 
Women’s Rights and Slavery

But you know how Black bitches are
so Sojourner Truth went up there anyway.

[laughter]

[applause and cheering]

She did a famous speech, she said 
“Ain’t I a woman?” 
“Ain’t I a woman?” That’s right. 

And listen, listen, listen. 
I supported the “Me Too” movement, 
but the whole time, the whole time I thought 
that the way they handled it was stupid



Loyalty means everything 
to The Clones.

Amanda Waller :
I wanna Build a Team of 
some very BAD people 
who I think can do some Good
Like Fight The Next War
Defeat The Next Superman. 

General Lane :
Not on My Watch. 
You're not putting 
those monsters 
back out on The Street 
in Our Name. 

Amanda Waller :
General, we run them covertly
non-attributed. Strictly 
need-to-know.

And if They get caught
We throw them 
under The Bus





“Before I go, I want to share this story with you because it is important to this point. I want your community to know that one of the coolest people I ever met was a transgender woman. And this is not A Man that I knew that became 'A Woman', This Woman was Trans when I met her. Lived in San Francisco, Daphne Dwarman is the name. I would do 18 shows in the Bay Area sometimes in Oakland and Dirty Hood night club and she would be there, White Trans-Woman, laughing loud and hard, at everything I said. Especially the trans jokes, very puzzling… because she was obviously Trans. And one night after one of the shows I met her. 

And what it was, turns out it was Her Dream to be A Comedian. 

And I was Her Hero

It was very moving. I could not dislike somebody that felt that way about me. We became fast friends. 

And when I made that special Sticks and Stones right as it was coming out, I happened to be in San Francisco and I wanted to do a show. But I needed an opening act, and I remembered… that trans woman I had met, so I called her on the phone. And I called her myself, I said, “Hey Daphne, this is Dave Chappelle.” She couldn’t believe it. And I go, “I’m in San Francisco.” And then she started saying a bunch of wild stuff, I was like “Relax now, I don’t want any pussy, I was… [laughter] I’m just calling, because I’m doing a show and I need an opening act. And I was wondering if you’d open the show?” And she was like, “Fuck, yeah.” 

Now… I didn’t know this at the time but this woman had only done stand up comedy eight times in her life. This was little to no experience and now she’s about to open a show for what many call The  GOAT.

[audience cheers]

[applause]

She’s an amateur in stature, but in practice, she was very professional. She showed up early, which is something I appreciate ’cause I like people to be on time. She was dressed to the motherfuckin’ nines, I mean, I’m transphobic and even I was like, “You look nice.”

[laughter]

Went up on the stage with all the swag of a professional comedian, grabbed that mic and walked right down the middle and looked at the crowd like a gangster. Man, you should have seen her work. This bitch bombed for 45 minutes, straight.

[cheers]

And I’m not exaggerating, Young Man. That show was terrible. Stunk. Stunk. And then she brings me on, and you know, I was like a glass of water after a handful of salt. The crowd was happy to see me. I was killing it. But here is what impressed me. Any other comedian I’ve ever seen, if they had bombed as bad as she did, would have snuck out of the back of the theatre and went home and cried or something, but she didn’t do that. Not only did she not leave, she found a seat, right up in front. You know, when a new comedian watches an experienced comedian in comedy we call this “taking class.” And this bitch took my whole class, she sat up there and was laughing as hard as she always laughs as if nothing bad had even happened to her. 

And I saw her show. 

Something bad happened to her.

[audience laughs]

She was drunk. So she starts talking to me, while I’m onstage but the way a person would talk to a television when they were alone. She was talking to me like that. That didn’t bother me ’cause I knew her. 

But the crowd didn’t like that shit at all ’cause she sucked

And a guy in the back of the room stood up and Daphne’s hair was dyed blonde at the time and the guy screamed out, and his energy felt Wild as Fuck. 

He said, “Hey Daphne!” and everybody got clamped, they got tense. 

We didn’t know who was a heckler or active shooter, and… [laughter] …he said, “Does the carpet match the drapes?” It was fucked up. The whole crowd kind of groaned, ’cause it was so like, mean

Everybody groaned, except for Daphne. She kind of laughed, which was weird

And she didn’t even look all the way back. 

She said, “Sir, I don’t have carpets, I have hardwood floors.” Just like that. [laughter] Just like that.

[applause]

Boy, when she said that shit, it blew the roof of the place. Cut through all the tension, with that one joke. She had made up for 45 minutes of a stinker of a show. And after that, she could Do No Wrong. And I kept on rocking, and she kept on talking to me. 

And then The Show became something cooler than A Show. It became like A Conversation between a Black Man and a White Trans-Woman and we started getting to the bottom of shit

All of them questions that you think about that you’d be afraid to ask, I was just asking them and she was answering them and her answers were funny as shit. The crowd was falling out of their chairs and at the end of the show, I go, “Well, Daphne”… I said “Well, that was fun.” 

I go, “I love you to death, but I have no fuckin’ idea what you’re talking about.” 

The whole crow laughed except for Daphne. 

Man, she looks at me like I’m not her friend anymore. Like I’m something bigger than me, like I’m the whole world in a guy. 

Then she said, “I don’t need you to understand me.” 

I said, “What?” 

She said, “I just need you to believe…” 

Just like that she goes, “…that I’m having A Human Experience.” 

And when she said it the whole crowd kind of gasped. 

And I gave The Fight Club-look. 

I said, “I believe you, bitch.

[laughter]

Because she didn’t say anything about pronouns

She didn’t say anything about me being in Trouble. 

She said, “Just believe I’m a person and I’m going through it.” 

I know I believe youbecause it takes one to know one.

[cheers and applause]

Then I told the crowd “Good night.” 

And they started going crazy and before the applause gets to it’s crescendo I was saying, “Don’t forget my opening act, Daphne.” 

And the crowd stood up. And I looked at her, tears came out of her eyes she couldn’t believe it was happening. 

I couldn’t believe it was happening ’cause her show stunk. [laughter] And it was a great night. And I remember, the late great Paul Mooney was there bunch of flyers, comedy n*ggas was there.

[cheers]

[applause]

And we all went backstage and was just drinking and talking shit and laughing and Daphne stole the room, she had everyone cracking up. 

Spinning the yarn, telling us all these crazy stories about shit, she’d be into. We all laughing real hard, and there she is telling us and everyone is laughing. 

I’m looking around, I’m like, “Oh my God, she is  funny.” 

I pulled her aside, I said, “You’re hilarious. I didn’t know that when you were onstage.” [laughter] 

I said, “You’re doing some things wrong but I can help you.” 

I said, “Anytime I’m in San Francisco why don’t you open the show for me and I’ll just try to give you some pointers and see if you can work this thing out.” 

She said, “Are you serious?” 

I was like, “Yeah.” 

And she grabbed me real tight, hugged me, squeezed me. And I pushed her off violently, ’cause I’m transphobic. 

I said “Boundaries, bitch!

[audience laughs]

When Sticks and Stones came out… a lot of people in 'The Trans Community' were furious with me and apparently they dragged me on Twitter -- I don’t give a fuck, ’cause Twitter is not a real place.

[audience laughs]

[cheers and applause]

And the hardest thing for a person to do is go against Their Tribe if they disagree with Their Tribe, but Daphne did that for me. She wrote a tweet that was very beautiful and what she said was and it is almost exactly what she said. She said, “Punching down on someone, requires you to think less of them and I know him, and he doesn’t. He doesn’t punch up, he doesn’t punch down he punches lines, and he is a Master at His Craft.” That’s what she said.

[audience cheers]

Beautiful tweet, beautiful friend, it took a lot of heart to defend me like that, and when she did that the trans community dragged that bitch all over Twitter. For days, they was going in on her, and she was holding her own ’cause she’s funny

But six days after that wonderful night I described to you, 

My Friend Daphne killed herself

Oh yeah, this is a True Story, My Heart was broken. Yeah, it wasn’t the jokes. I don’t know if was them dragging or I don’t know what was going on in her life but I bet dragging her didn’t help. I was very angry at them, I was very angry at her

I felt like Daphne lied to me. 

She always said, she identified as A Woman. 

And then one day she goes up to the roof of her building and jumps off and kills herself

Clearlyonly A Man would do some gangster shit like that. 

Hear me out. As hard as it is to hear a joke like that I’m telling you right now, Daphne would have loved that joke. That is why she was my friend.

[cheers and applause]

I was reading her obituary and I found out, she was survived by A Daughter. And the moment I found that out, and this is true Anderson Cooper from CNN texted me. And all he says, it’s very nice, he said, “I’m sorry to hear about your friend.” And I texted him right back. “New phone, who this?” [laughter] He said, “It’s Anderson Cooper.” 

"Oh," I said, “Anderson, look I need to find Her Family.” 

And he texted me right back with all the phone numbers and all this information. I say this to say, if you ever want to know about anything gay call Anderson Cooper from CNN. This n*gga is faster than Google. [laughter] 

What I did is, I got in touch with Her Family and I started a Trust Fund for Her Daughter ’cause I know that is all she ever really cared about.

[applause]

And I don’t know what the trans community did for her but I don’t care, because I feel like she wasn’t Their Tribe, she was Mine. 
She was A Comedian in Her Soul.

[applause]

The Daughter is very young, but I hope to be alive when she turns 21 ’cause I’m going to give her this money myself. 
And by then, by then, I’ll be ready to have The Conversation that I’m not ready to have today. 
But I’ll tell that little girl, “Young Lady, I knew Your Father… [audience laughs] …and he was a Wonderful Woman.

[cheers]

[applause]
Empathy is not gay. Empathy is not Black. Empathy is bi-sexual. It must go both ways. It must go both ways.

[applause]

Remember, 
Taking a Man’s livelihood 
is akin to killing him

I’m begging you, please do not abort DaBaby.

[laughter]
[applause]

Kevin Hart dreamt his entire life of hosting the Oscars and when he finally got the job They just took it! It’s not fair. 
They didn’t kill him, Kevin is a strong guy. 
But I’m sure it broke old Clifford’s Heart. 
It’s over. LBGTQ, L-M-N-O-P-Q-Y-Z, it is over. I’m not telling another joke about you until we are both sure, that we are laughing together. I’m telling you this is done. I’m done talking about it. 
All I ask from your community, with all humility. 'Will you please stop punching-down on My People?' 
Thank you very much and good night.
[audience cheers]

Ostraphobia






Hook :
Good evening, 
Ladies and Gentlemen, 
Your Captain again.

Please do not allow 
this minor turbulence 
to disturb you.

For now, please sit back, relax. 
Enjoy the remainder 
of The Flight.
Thank You.


Look what Jack drew.

That's very nice, dear.
- What's that? - Fire.
Fire. Really?
- Is that our plane? - Yep.
Who are these people?

That's Jack, that's me, 
that's Mom...
...and that's you.
Where's my parachute?


I won't make it to 
my next birthday….

You won't die without A Phone 
and a fax machine

I got The Phone, 
and The Briefcase.


Talk to him.


…why didn't I have 
a parachute, Jackie?

Take a wild guess.

Jackie. 

Jack.
Will you stop? You can break a window.
They're double-layered. You can't break them.
Give me that.
- You're afraid you'll get sucked out. - I'm not afraid of being sucked out.
Yes, you are. You're afraid you'll be sucked out.
Just stop.
Jack, next season, I'm coming to six games. I promise.
Yeah, be sure to buy enough videotape.

Hey. Jack.
My word is My Bond.

Yeah, junk bond!
What's the matter with you? 
When are you gonna stop 
acting like a child?


I AM a child.

Grow up.

My Great and Worthy Opponent









You can always Judge a Man
by The Quality of His Enemies.









Capt. James Hook :
Is it You?
My Great and Worthy opponent?

But it can't be.

Not this pitiful, spineless, pasty, bloatedcodfish I see before me.

You're not even 
Shadow of Peter Pan.


(To Mr. Smee)
You have an obligation 
to clarify this Pan problem.
This Disaster.

….which must be remedied.
Expediently.

Peter :
I want My Children. 
The stakes can be no higher.

Capt. James Hook :
And for Me, sir, they 
could have sunk no lower, 
And I want My WAR!




Soldierisation




“So that's it —
You're making me The Goat :
The only completely innocent man 
in this whole affair.

I have only one last thing to say to you, George :
The Man you stabbed in The Back, 
is A Soldier.










The Hive Switch 

In September 1941, William McNeill was drafted into the U.S. Army. He spent several months in basic training, which consisted mostly of marching around the drill field in close formation with a few dozen other men. At first McNeill thought the marching was just a way to pass the time, because his base had no weapons with which to train. 

But after a few weeks, when his unit began to synchronize well, he began to experience an altered state of consciousness: 

Words are inadequate to describe the emotion aroused by the prolonged movement in unison that drilling involved. 

A sense of pervasive well-being is what I recall; more specifically, a strange sense of personal enlargement; a sort of swelling out, becoming bigger than life, thanks to participation in collective ritual. 

McNeill fought in World War II and later became a distinguished historian. His research led him to the conclusion that the key innovation of Greek, Roman, and later European armies was the sort of synchronous drilling and marching the army had forced him to do years before. He hypothesized that the process of “muscular bonding”—moving together in time—was a mechanism that evolved long before the beginning of recorded history for shutting down the self and creating a temporary superorganism. Muscular bonding enabled people to forget themselves, trust each other, function as a unit, and then crush less cohesive groups.

McNeill studied accounts of men in battle and found that men risk their lives not so much for their country or their ideals as for their comrades-in-arms. He quoted one veteran who gave this example of what happens when “I” becomes “we”: 

“Many veterans who are honest with themselves will admit, I believe, that the experience of communal effort in battle … has been the high point of their lives. … 

Their “I” passes insensibly into a “we,” “my” becomes “our,” and individual fate loses its central importance. 

… I believe that it is nothing less than the assurance of immortality that makes self sacrifice at these moments so relatively easy. 

I may fall, but I do not die, for that which is real in me goes forward and lives on in the comrades for whom I gave up my life.