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Had to happen sooner or later - finally signed up.....

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Aliens Caught Jester In The Act

Just as every King must have a Court, so every Court must have a Jester. The Jester is another variation of a Jungian archetype, linked inextricably for better or worse with The Fool (Tarot), The Scapegoat (they're everywhere), The Monkey (Buddhist mythology), The Trickster (poor old Carlos Castaneda was a victim of that one!), and to a lesser extent The Black Sheep (say no more). Originally one of the most important pivotal characters of medieval life, History has sadly reduced him to a kind of anachronistic clown-like figure of fun, stripped of all his powers, which apart from his role as entertainer-in-chief, included giving advice and informed opinion on many state and political matters. His very existence was in a constant state of flux, walking a thin red line between total respect or death by execution, depending on his King's whim or mood of the moment. This precarious lifestyle no doubt helped fuel his incessant search for Truth and Wisdom, as many of the Kings were certainly not very bright, being mostly a bunch of inbred aristos, with varying degrees of dysfunctionalism, not to mention subject to the occasional bout of total barking madness. So pleasing some of these demagogic loonies was not an easy task - you know what it can be like - for example being interviewed by someone official (Social Security and Housing Benefit Officers are probably one of the best modern examples), with the knowledge that you almost certainly have more intellectual capacities than them, but have to be very careful not to let them realise this, because it will piss them right off. In other words you have to dumb down simply in order to survive. Closely connected to The Jester is of course The Fool - in Tarot symbolism The Fool is the very first card in the pack - poised and ready to walk blindly over a cliff-edge - this is a metaphor telling us that the search for truth and knowledge starts with blind ignorance - The Fool is an empty canvas, waiting and ready for the first splashes of paint which will eventually develop into a picture, if not A Work Of Art. (To Be Continued).

Who's holding up the sky?

New Ex-Wise Heads CD "Holding Up The Sky" just released.

http://www.exwiseheads.co.uk

Cover statue/title by Lucianne Lassalle.

http://www.luciannelassalle.co.uk/recent_work.htm

And You Thought I Was An Alien?

Well it's Daughter Number Two's 26th birthday tomorrow (22nd August), and she seems to be carrying on one of the family traditions of extreme weirdness and other-worldly-strangeness! Check out http://www.hipsick.nl for more info and crazy photos from her merry troupe of performance artists / pranksters, apparently creating mayhem and chaos in the Netherlands and elsewhere - all sounds very familiar!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NADIJA!

LOVE YOU TO BITS BABY!

Photo-Shop Alien Cover Up

Well I don't normally blow my trumpet too loudly, but.....joking about Condoleezza's Photo-Shopped legs in my last post was in fact right on the button - never believe anything you read / see in a newspaper - only days later & what to we get - proof of doctored photos from the Middle East, & who was 1st on the case? The Blog Community - nice one. Difficult to take sides in such a war of dirty tricks from all sides.....but the Yanks have got the motivation, power, money, & resources to continue their lust for total control of the planet, & it's impossible not to sympathise with the Arab world's reaction to years of subjugation by the Western Bloc & their allies. All this ranting on about Nuclear/Biological Weapons in Iran, Korea, Pakistan.....where do you ever see any mention of exactly how many nuclear & biological weapons the USA or UK have stockpiled? Let alone Israel, the main recipients of American aid in the Middle East. Of course the information is all there, you just have to search a lot longer to find it, while we can read about "The Enemies" pile of horror-weapons everyday & everywhere. For all those non-political folk out there, wake up, get real - go to http://www.ceasefirecampaign.org & sign what is now becoming the biggest online petition in CyberHistory. Time to stand up & be counted.