Just wait until you read the sequels.
Shamrock shakes have sequels? How could I have missed that?
A public art thread might be really cool.
What else am I missing?
In addition to global finance, we also control the entertainment industry.
The whole world is connected. It's connected by Bill Gates, and that Rain Man Zuckerberg. He and his Jews have connected the whole world and now they're toppling regimes, and Egypt, and Japan, and the Jews are all...peacefully together.
Not art per se, but similar and just a fair piece down the road, the Very Large Array.
Or we could have a Catron County thread. In addition to the Lightning Field, other local attractions include Pie Town, the Gila Cliff Dwellings, and the Very Large Array.
Heh. 11 before seeing 10, but it's nice to know we're on the same wavelength.
meanwhile, closer to teo, it ain't art, but it's kind of insane.
3: Eh, I'd rather see or Forevertron
7: every thread is an antisemitism thread. Why can't this one can be about antisemitism and public art?
12: Most of the VLA is in Socorro County, but yes point taken. I froze my ass off in a campground at Datil Wells one November night many years ago.
17: weird. I was thinking about blogging that earlier today.
The Lightning Field is really great. If you have the chance, go see it. (This involves booking a 22-hour visit well in advance.) When I went (in my late 20s), my parents, who'd lived in ABQ for nearly as many years as I'd been alive, hadn't heard of it.
I guess it's not really that weird, after all.
The VLA, on the other hand, is a thing I visited several times with my dad and our whole Boy Scout troop.
20: It's merely ironic.
I've been on the phone with someone from Wilmington 3 or 4 times in the last day or so for work.
I had actually heard of the Lightning Field before, but it was from someone who it seems didn't actually know where it was. I think she said it was in Utah or something. I have of course never been there.
Most of the VLA is in Socorro County
Yeah, I checked on Google Earth to make sure all the things I mentioned were actually at least partly in Catron County before posting.
13: I went by it on my way up, actually. I needed to pull over to change CDs and it just so happened that the next pullout was at the entrance to HAARP. It was such a weird, enigmatic facility that I went up to the gate to see what it was and took a few pictures, even though it was right around sunset and there was very little light left. I did manage to get one reasonably legible picture of the sign in front, though, and when I posted it on Facebook one of my friends recognized what it was and linked to that very Wikipedia page.
Here's what it looks like, and here's the sign.
On the OP: In college I used to get random fiction reading by going to the 20th century fiction stacks in the Regenstein and picking up midcentury stuff I didn't recognize, figuring that anything that had made it into the collection probably had something interesting about it.
Picking up The Turner Diaries (if you don't know, it's sort of a founding document for modern racist/white supremacist militia types. It's a fantasy about the coming race war where the oppressed white man finally rises up and kills everyone else) shocked the fuck out of me.
The story "The Book of Kings and Fools" by Danilo Kiš is partly about the PotEoZ. Good story. It's in the collection .
...the collection The Encyclopedia of the Dead.
You've heard of The Family Circus, right?
27: In graduate school, I did the same thing. Except I found Robert Ludlum instead because our library wasn't stocked by McVeigh.
Has anybody written Protocols of the Juniors of Zion where a bunch of kids complain about how they don't want to run the world?
32: That one's about how the Charleston Chews control everything.
At summer camp, we had a focus on Appalachian Appreciation, so there were lots of Deliverance jokes, which I didn't get. I assumed Deliverance was a movie about sincere appreciating Appalachia, but that maybe it had sex or adult themes that they didn't want to expose us to.
When I eventually saw it, I hung onto that belief for like 2/3 of the movie, and was doing some crazy mental gymnastics trying to figure out how they were going to salvage the plot they'd set up. "Wow they're digging themselves a hole with these hicks. How are they going to redeem themselves?!"
The people involved in making Deliverance all (well, all the ones I know about from the DVD special features, which means the writer, director, and stars) had a pretty sincere appreciation for Appalachia, oddly enough. From what I remember for many years afterwards some of them would go back to that river to run it again.
18: I'll believe that you'll take about history on your history blog when I see it.
What else am I missing?
Captain Beefheart.
I have to say that this is the one thread where the TOS could probably add some value. What other insane racist fantasias should we know about?
41: There's the Fred Hiatt-approved feed Palestinians to the sharks and pirates and astrologists one. Uhh... The Franklin Prophecy? The Myth of the Twentieth Century, with its Nazis-as-inheritors-of-Atlantis lunacy?
There's the theory that many of our leaders are actually lizard people in disguise. Louis CK asked Donald Rumsfeld to deny that he was a lizard on the record and Rumsfeld refused to, so maybe there's more to that one than we might think.
A stargazer is an icky bottom-feeding fish! Who knew? I thought it was some crazed reference to "astrologer" functioning as "Hellene" or "goy," but no, it's a kind of gross fish that eats shit at the bottom of the sea.
Holy shit:
GILAD!!! He's free and he's home in the bosom of his family and his country. Celebrate, Israel, with all the joyous gratitude that fills your hearts, as we all do along with you.
Then round up his captors, the slaughtering, death-worshiping, innocent-butchering, child-sacrificing savages who dip their hands in blood and use women -- those who aren't strapping bombs to their own devils' spawn and sending them out to meet their seventy-two virgins by taking the lives of the school-bus-riding, heart-drawing, Transformer-doodling, homework-losing children of Others -- and their offspring -- those who haven't already been pimped out by their mothers to the murder god -- as shields, hiding behind their burkas and cradles like the unmanned animals they are, and throw them not into your prisons, where they can bide until they're traded by the thousands for another child of Israel, but into the sea, to float there, food for sharks, stargazers, and whatever other oceanic carnivores God has put there for the purpose.
The Christian Identity movement has some good ones, but honestly the NoI's Yakub stuff is better.
"hiding behind their burkas and cradles like the unmanned animals they are" is particularly inspired.
45: I love that Rubin defended her re-tweet of that disgusting tripe by saying that "to re-tweet is not to endorse." You could clarify that, Ms Rubin, by saying if you do or don't!
I like the "oceanic carnivores" reference. Presumably sharks and stargazers were put there by God for the purpose of devouring the Arabs the children of Israel plan on dumping into the ocean, but were all oceanic carnivores so intended? Moray Eels? Dolphins? Deep Sea Anglers?
45: Huh, the woman who wrote that is the wife of Eliot Abrams and the step-daughter of Norman Podhoretz.
Given the mention of Eco in the OP you may have heard about this on Diane Rehm, but, in any event, this is good on the relevant history and pretty to look at.