Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Nora Leggs,
oakey dokey...
more mystery-stuff
Poor old Dr Hall, what with his almost unpronounceable first name, he could never catch a break with signwriters...
Under orders...
Thank goodness there are no inferences about golden morning light eh?
Oh you kidder, invoking that Victorian league of gnostic gentlemen, Yeats, Machen, Crowley, et al...
Perhaps Russell can allude to them during his Mercurial talk (Wingfoot to web afoot) - and after all they were game changers, one of their later members founded Nasa's JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory or Jack Parsons Lives, take your pick - which probably explains NASA's alchemical project nomenclature)
Meanwhile back in Auckland, crosstown there's The Golden Dawn. The sinister sounding All Seeing Hand has played but, just last night (Fri 24th) Golden Dawn played host to Leno Lovecraft & Golden Axe.... -
Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Masonic Youth...
Rainy autumn
Hope that deluge of the great eroder
doesn't 'dis-lodge' any of that masonry...Albert Park?
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Yeah, nah...
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Hark! a Herald?
Hermes as…protector and patron of travelers, herdsmen, thieves, orators and wit, literature and poets, athletics and sports, invention and trade.
That does seem to cover mass media and the internet rather well…
So who is the god of cooking shows?
Gawd n Ramses ?Which leads me to think about the sources of our putative pantheons…
there are strong links from the Egyptian Thoth to Hermes/Mercury, and as Andin pointed out, there are the links from there to ‘the knowledge’ as Hermes Trismegistus – the thrice greatest! – Wow Wow Wow
so, is our future a Pyramid Scheme?
a fire amid other plans…He also has traces in Ningishzidda a Sumerian god
and possibly Quetzalcoatl in South America!
those Winged boots aren’t just made for walking obviously!the airtight garage…
it may also be worth noting that a Hermetic Seal will sustain a vacuum, do we have a Hermetic society, or does it get in, Mrs Marsh?and seeing it is Friday, have another hit…
and as we already have some flowers in our hair…
here is Joni Mitchell – gently lambasting America (powerful stuff, still) followed by the Jefferson Airplane from the Dick Cavett Showof course there is that other Hermes…
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/scarfies-1999
but I don’t think these are the scarves they make… -
Rort irony...
What kind of world has Hermes wrought?
Divine devicesolation?*
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No. 8 why?
The bit that struck me today was the proposition that because the Police thought they were onto to something really 'big' and 'bad,' that justified their gung-ho actions on the day ...
So who gave them (and fed) that perception, that information doesn't seem to be forthcoming.They should just admit it was an exercise - just like the team policing units in Auckland in the '80s that just showed up and arrested everyone coming out the door of various pubs as they closed, I know I was caught by one lot, outside the Liberty Stage, thrown in a van , then a cell then ultimately dismissed without charge - bastards!
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who loves who the most?
Just a reminder that The Dance Exponents documentary is on Prime Rocks tonight (Wednesday May 22) at 9.30pm. -
Hard News: A Golden Age for the Arts?, in reply to "chris",
Can Key stop the spread of…
“applied Christianity”
But… but, isn’t that Marmite©?
rich, white and fey…?
I especially like Key’s reinterpretation of Savage’s:I do not think it is any use talking about national wealth unless we can use it for national purposes
…applying his trader nous, and with the introduction of a little capital, he even spent millions more of our money selling us our own assets, and ass!
I do not think it is any use talking about national wealth unless we can use it for National purposes
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Hard News: A Golden Age for the Arts?, in reply to Lyndon Hood,
The Conversation
...‘New Zealand Story’ project...
a small typo, but it's all fixed now...
see: New Zealand's Tory project,
that's what they meant, and why it's funded...Makes ya wonder what we've been telling people up till now...
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OnPoint: What Andrew Geddis Said, But…, in reply to martinb,
Actually this constant abuse of urgency and process as a way of doing business seems even a little more ominous and totalitarian.
Especially the cynical passing of legislation that has nothing to do with the budget and everything to do with the erosion of democracy, and paving the way for the coming Corporatocracy.
I have a hope that Key and cronies' 'Anchor Projects' in Chchch (amongst other equally egregious decisions) will eventually deep six them next election...
Something's got to give!