Wednesday 5 June 2019
Tuesday 4 June 2019
The Cause
Monday 3 June 2019
RELICS
" I was in Richmond two weeks ago giving a lecture. A woman came up afterward from New York or Boston, born and raised in the North, and she has just moved to Richmond.
Oh, she’s just full of enthusiasm and she’s the cultural attaché director or something for the city of Richmond now.
And I was speaking at this new museum about the Civil War and she came up to me and she said, “I want to know what you think of my idea. I think the first thing we need to do in Richmond is just tear down all those Confederate monuments.”
I said, “Oh.” Oh dear.
Oh dear. I didn’t even know what to tell her.
She said, “If they can just take down that Robert E. Lee statue and then that Stonewall Jackson statute. Just take them down. Wouldn’t everything be all right?”
I went over in the bookstore, I got her a copy of Race and Reunion, this book I did on Civil War memory, and I said,
“Here ma’am, just start here.”
Sunday 2 June 2019
Friday 31 May 2019
THEIR LAW
Thursday 30 May 2019
The Celestial Ship of the North
Time Suit, Go!
Mason Lang:
“I remember looking at the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia when I was a little kid.
That's what I love about illusions; they're right up there in front of you but somehow you don't see them... until suddenly you do... and I saw that I lived in a world where the symbol was more important than the reality.
Where the menu was supposed to taste better than the meal.
They're bombing planet Hollywood... those terrorists know exactly where the power lies.
None of it's real.
Kennedy was a good man.
Nixon was a bad man.
Is that true or is that just what we've been told is true?
Half of the stars in Hollywood are gay pretending to be straight...
(Walt Disney) was a shit.
The moon landings happened in a studio.
The America I thought I lived in was a trick; I'd only ever really seen it on TV, in comic books and movies... especially movies.
The Rosicrucians who built this country wouldn't know where they were if you brought them here, would they?
Not until you showed them Independence Day.
That night when I pissed down over Manhattan, I saw time. I saw time itself...
America has been in a declared state of national emergency since March 9th, 1933, giving the president powers to suspend freedom of speech and take control away from all communications media at any time.
Who cares? Bruce Willis is here to save us all. The more I looked, the less real America became.
And the less real it became, the stronger it got.
Planet Hollywood.
One of their agents said to me... "however things turn out, you'll be working for us."
That's what I was hoping he'd say.
When they discover that the liquid processors in the decoy time suit work, they'll have to call me.
I'll have to give them all my technology.
They haven't quite figured out how to fight the wars of the 21st century yet... too bad.
My homeopathic processors will be standard military issue by 2005.
I've already installed trapdoor access into all of those systems.
By 2012 I'll have control of the entire western military industrial complex.“
Wednesday 29 May 2019
HAN
It's a State of Mind; of Soul, really.
And yet still, there's Hope. "
What's your name, son? Han. Han what? Who are your people? I don't have people. I'm alone. Han... (TYPING) Solo. Approved. Proceed to transport ID 83 for the Naval Academy at Carida. Good luck, Han Solo. We'll have you flying in no time. Read more: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=solo-a-star-wars-story
Saruman of Many Colours
Monday 27 May 2019
Thor Was Something of a Yorkshireman
E: Sir, I come as emissary of the Prince of Wales with the most splendid news. He wants your daughter Amy for his wife. H: Well his wife can't have her! Outrageous, sir, to come here with such a suggestion! (stands up angrily) Why, sir, or I shall take off my belt and by thunder me trousers will fall down!
“The whole point about Odin was that he had the Right but not the Might.
The point about Norse religion was that it alone of all mythologies told Men to serve Gods who were admittedly fighting with their backs to The Wall and would certainly be defeated in The End.
‘I am off to die with Odin’ said the rover in Stevenson’s fable, thus proving that Stevenson understood something about the Nordic spirit which (Nazi) Germany has never been able to understand at all.
The Gods will fall. The Wisdom of Odin, the Humourous Courage of Thor (Thor was something of a Yorkshireman) and the Beauty of Balder, will all be smashed eventually by the realpolitik of the stupid giants and misshapen trolls.
But that does not in the least alter the allegiance of any free man.
Hence, as we should expect, real Germanic poetry is all about heroic stands, and fighting against hopeless odds.”