“There are a few reasons why fans and critics agree that the jester is Bob Dylan. The first reason is that simply put, the descriptions of the jester match up to the persona and image of Dylan at the time.
McLean mentions how the jester wears a coat borrowed from James Dean, almost certainly a nod to how Dylan donned a jacket on the cover of his 1963 album Freewheelin, which closely resembles a jacket worn by Dean in the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause.
And then McLean says the jester was in a cast on the sideline, an apparent reference to Dylan’s mysterious 1966 motorcycle accident near Woodstock, New York, which led Dylan to cancel all of his upcoming public appearances thereafter while he nursed his injuries.
But then again, there are those skeptics who believe Dylan’s motorcycle accident was staged, little more than an excuse to get out of those upcoming public appearances. If McLean shared that belief, all the more reason for him to consider Dylan somewhat of a… well—jester.
It may also be true that McLean felt a bit of resentment towards Dylan for his success and the way he changed music in the 1960s.”
There are other reasons to suppose it … Joni Mitchell said Dylan was a fake, he changed the direction of the music, turned it darker. In an interview, he was asked and admitted he had made his pact with the other side. He represented something quite different to DMcL’s notion of apple pie, happy days music … Dylan was dark, so were the Beatles, Stones … music certainly turned experienced, as with Eve in the garden, and we did too.
Which is not to say the 50s were pristine … Timothy Leary got working on kids starting 1960. Kerouac, William S Burroughs, were active in the 50s, all influencing kids, driving in wedges
I saw an article denying that Tuesday Weld was an occult priestess, denying a connection with DMcL, denying all sorts but still Laurel Canyon ruled, Chateau Marmont of evil reputation, Kesey, Manson … so Feb 1959 was not a clear watershed … it was falling apart before then. Rebel without a Cause was 1955.
19. Moosh corner
18. Let’s make that a triple
… said to Xeno brave girl for answering the door these days, esp. as an alt-pundit.
17. Double trouble
16. Think there might be an agenda at work here
… but only for dissident pundits.
Poor Deryl … I mentioned I’m on EE, she said owned by BT, I thought vive-versa or connected … anyway, they sent someone to fix, said he could not fix. Nightmare.
15. Steve at 1209 and war room
Bannon: I’m A Capitalist. This Is Not Capitalism; This Is Corporatism. They Already Looted Your Retirement Savings To Offshore Factories, And Now They Want You To Fund The AI That Kills What Jobs Are Left!
A Decade of Open Doors Ends: Rep. Brian Harrison Celebrates Reversal of DMV Rule That Allowed Illegal Aliens To Get A License
Bannon: Ted Cruz, I Don’t Want To Hear Your Happy Talk. You’re A Total And Complete Scumbag Owned By Israel-First And The “Tech Bros” Oligarchs
Richard Barris: This Swing In Favor Of Democrats Came Almost Entirely From “Undecideds” And Third-Party Leaners Flipping To Democrats, Plus A Wave Of Republicans Saying They’re Just Sitting Out
14. Meanwhile, in Scotland
… charming place, Scotland, all those benefits workers there.
13. IYE
Drawing your attention to page 2 paragraph commencing “Nature of the Action” “….Guiffre was a victim of sexual trafficking and abuse while she was a minor child….” Etc
I’m not sure Peter Cushing was the best Holmes and as for this Watson:
(continued below the film)
JH: I’d vote for Burke, Hardwicke and maybe the sadly alcoholic Marion-Crawford as the Watsons … I’d vote for Ronald Howard, Rathbone and possibly Brett as the Holmeses.
This is a Christmas episode, yes, but am not sure it will be around closer to Christmas.
(1236) Afternoon all, not 💯, as mentioned, won’t go into detail, am under the hammer a bit but there are ways and means all the same. Expect disruptions in the day’s postings, hope not too many.
10. This is about the sum of it
9. This is nine days old …
… but I missed posting it I think, and it appears again. Who in their right mind thought trench warfare was the way to go with largely patriotic youth signing up and white feather women roaming around back home, handing them out?
Who in their right mind thought landing young troops on beaches before heavily defended Turkish positions was the way to go?
Answer is … no one in his right mind. In fact, only arrogant, up themselves, murderous psychos whose intention was to decimate the flower of youth, wipe it out, for control and their own personal safety reasons, those evil muvvers above. 2025 only serves to reinforce that perception, it does not debunk it in the least.
Donkeys? No … deliberate. Agenda. The ones who are going to take me writing this hardest are the very loyalists themselves, the armed forces personnel who must have wondered about the decisions taken but of course, as with the Light Brigade, or in Custer’s last stand … did … and therefore died. Heroic? The troops were.
The “leaders”? You decide. Don’t forget I’ve been in officers school myself, ended up a one pip lieutenant. I was not from some bohemian drug den … my bkgd was straight and orthodox, despite later student activism … but that came well after my military days. After I’d seen things.
I believe Vlad is looking after his troops, curbing the enthusiasm of the generals, proceeding from fortified positions afap, minimising his own forces’ casualties and keeping the warfare limited. Meanwhile, look at Graham, Rubio and other neocons. Saint Vlad? Angel? Not at all … he governs roughly, I was there, remember. But he’s in no hurry … he’s in his land, he’s going nowhere else … he’s absorbing Russian speaking areas back into the motherland.
Maybe it has shades of the USSR, depends on his ultimate goals. I’d expect Donny to do the same in America and maybe Rupert here, needs a man to step up in France. Germany? Dear oh dear. As for Von Leyen and all those? Need taking out.
8. Sometimes, the colloquially put tweet is better
(0838) Morning all. Health issue at this end (dental this time). Shall do as much as I can. (1033)
7. TDS today … Kings College, London
“Avid readers of the Daily Sceptic might recall my occasional accounts of surrealism and insanity I withstood at the hands of my former employers at King’s College London … every now and then, a former colleague sends me a freshly cultured sample from the still-smouldering wreckage of the Department of War Studies – or what one former colleague dubbed the Department of Woke Studies – and I experience a familiar fever: the chills of bureaucratic delirium, the sweats of astonishment, the shakes of uncontrollable laughter.
The latest specimen is a set of grading guidelines entitled ‘Inclusive Assessment and Closing Awarding Gaps’, a document so transcendentally absurd that it should be preserved in a museum of educational decline….”
6. To everything, there is a season
The near impossibility of getting the truth of any matter out, in order to be understood across the land, demands strategies which by definition must be flawed, due to conflicting agendas, differing paths to that point where everyone, on one day, is in one room and all are hearing the same message.
Then come, later, their wildly diverging interpretations of it. We see it in the Sherlock Holmes stories, that divergence of interpretation. How does an online pundit, sometimes tagged “alt”, approach the divergence and the human tendency to look down on the interpretation of others as not worthy of consideration, as it is not his?
Decades ago in my young teaching days, I brought in a system of evaluation of someone’s presentation in two parts … firstly, the other pupils could give their opinions, I then gave mine, the two were combined, though not equally. One girl asked if she could speak with me privately outside … outside she said that she rejected this trial system as the others, particularly her namesake friend, was not in any position to evaluate her work, plus all sorts of personal rivalries could come into it.
I said the idea was that other pupils would need to listen and think, instead of just awaiting their turn. She said yes, commendable (not that word actually but that’s what she meant) but if this mark was going into the record next to her name, and she had gone to all the trouble she had in preparing (she was the star pupil you’d have gathered by now), then … dot dot dot.
I said she was right in this. It was not going in the record … she relaxed but then doubled down and said she did not want the other Rebecca evaluating her work … there were reasons I was not aware of. I agreed with that. The recess bell went, I dropped the idea. My feeling now is thank goodness she was in the class, otherwise I could have caused a major issue.
Now another tale … Creedence Clearwater Revival. Most of the age which listened to that band realised just what a classy outfit it was. True, as with Mark Knopfler, the star was Jon Fogerty … writer, vocals, lead guitar.
And as Fogerty put to the test after the acrimonious end of the band had begun, when he demanded they each submitted a song, in answer to their claims of his highhandedness … and after he had humiliated them (in their eyes) by showing up their inabilities by thus demanding, I feel, now, that he was out of order. Yes, he was the star, as Susie was in the Bangles but Knopfler, Fogerty, Hoffs needed to understand that it wasn’t just them producing that sound … it was the mix of how each added to the sound … for example, the drums, bass, rhythm in I Put A Spell On You … which created the sound, not just Fogerty.
And that was reflected in the album Zombie after he went solo … as with so many stars, they do lose something in the mix, it was nowhere near as good, because it really did need all those elements combined in that particular mix. And I’m sure someone will criticise that I linked to a reaction video, not to the Woodstock performance alone, on the grounds that the audience reaction is just as much part of the mix … so yes, the star Rebecca in that classroom was right … but so was the interest shown by the other pupils … that could not be altogether ditched … often a fellow contributor brings something to the mix …
… and in the end, the right mix, the fertile ground, is where the truth can germinate, not killed off by rival angles … and yes, I am moving towards something unpopular to post … you know me by now.
Some time back, IYE I think … forgive my now shocking memory … dropped a Grifty on us about Andy (not ours here) and the first part was par for the course … since then, I’ve discussed with a few people the Airmiles-VG thing, agreeing that 17 is hardly paedo, esp. as she opted to do it … but I also saw that he, in this case, had not bothered to watch that Grifty episode because the VG thing was not the central matter. No, the central matter, with receipts in the second half, was all about the daughters, plus Fergie herself. Now unless you understand that we’re not speaking 17 here but something far darker … well … enough.
There’s a 14 year old in the States, last night our time, who vehemently spoke, on X, of anyone under 18 being a child, no matter what. Someone said she was too young to know … which was an interesting double-edged argument. This post is not specifically about this issue or Biden or even of that Mexican model who was videoed outside a building, screaming that “they” were “eating humans in there”. She was disappeared that night, never seen again. With what comes next below, I can well believe they were.
Which brings us to something Toodles said: “James, I will finish watching that link I sent you. Do you know I hear people discussing things you and IYE and his former nom de plume were discussing years ago … you had that video about it. I could not get a soul to watch it when you had NO.”
Very true. But times change … I replied: “Yes, I’m discussing it on the blog tomorrow. Everything has its time, Toods. Those who see too far ahead must always wait for others to catch up … in their time, can’t be pushed. Cognitive development stages as they used to teach us.”
Maybe it’s changed circumstances in the world which suddenly enable those with eyes to see. Of course, the hardwired still don’t have eyes. Also, in my long book, at the end, the angel character was asked why she did not make people see. “To be no better than the other side?” replied the angel.
In that chapter, I had the angel say that time is not linear there (in her sphere) … it’s a matter of an event only occurring once all the elements (in the mix) are present, neither before nor ever again.
One of those elements is the presence of a metaphysical sphere, of which she is/was part and not only … that there is an ancient war going on right now, with one side mocking: “What utter balderdash, what bollox. Sky fairies?” And the other side replying: “Well of course you’d push that … anything to dismiss it, so that the common people can never see it. Trillions of dollars expended to buy enough people, over sufficient generations, to create the illusion thst there is no such thing. Despite evidence all around, even symbolism.”
In a similar way, there is no way to show the hardwired wokerati, who were got at early in life, that there’s an alternative, more logical and likely reality, which unfortunately involves a sky fairy and his earthly manifestation two millennia ago. They can’t see it, but in 1820, they could very easily have seen it. Why not today?
Now to this lady presenting the talk. My first feeling was woke feminazi, psychologist in academia … the hair, the look … but there was something in her voice which kept me watching. At least I felt she needed a fair hearing, if we are to get close to the essence about this political world, combined with the sum total of all the things we’re presenting, all of us, at the old NO, plus the current Unherdables.
Just a quick note … if you are not in a position to be au fait with both biblical plus classical learning at a somewhat deep level, then we’re not even on the same page yet … let’s see what near future events have in store … and just who the baddies might be.
(0240) Awoke too early, too cold to be up, even with heater on, shall post item 1 then try for a second sleep till maybe 0730, optimistically. So this same post will go on, over a few hours. Note at 0745: one more sub-item to go in this post. Done. (0801)
5. Keep your eye on this lady
Screenshot only above
Seems to lil ole me that conservative forces led by Jenrick did not cut it … Tory is now too tainted as a brand to win an election, Reform is making the running, except for the egregious disciple of Yusuf, plus Tice at the top. “Sarah” as a brand seems the only way to the movers and shakers to appease us, the totally p-ed off section of the nation, plus redeeming Reform to those in it for “pragmatic reasons”, plus appeasing the DEI clowns.
Note … it seems that way to the movers and shakers. What about to lil ole me? Well, were Yusuf and disciples be expunged, if Sarah invited Rupert in … it would be the end of the war. I’d certainly vote for those two, for “pragmatic” Sarah and ideologically aligned Rupert, plus so many Reform and Advance people, even TRites, combined.
However, please see Thurs 6, a most difficult post, based around some you tube videos.
4. Steve at 1208
Reports of US-Russia Secret Negotiations, Zelensky in Turkey To Restart the Talks… Will Peace Break Out in the Ukraine War? JH: Look at Thur 1 today, then at TGP framing … quite different takes.
University of Notre Dame Will No Longer Require Staff to Support its ‘Catholic Mission’
Sen. Lindsey Graham Pledges to ‘Sue The Hell Out Of’ Jack Smith For His Illegal ‘Arctic Frost’ Surveillance Operation
Jon Stewart and CNN Hack Christiane Amanpour Admit Anti-Trump Bias: ‘We Have to Just Keep Doing It’
Kiev Regime Falls Apart; Calls Yermak To Go Umerov In US Ministers Flee; Huge Strike Siversk Stormed
Cloudflare crash exposes terrifying vulnerability of the modern internet
The Naufrage of Belgium Is a Wake-Up Call for Europe
a) Macron’s legacy is toast. What will remain of Emmanuel Macron’s two five-year terms? Not much good…. To save the Prime Minister’s job (or rather, to buy himself a few weeks, since history repeats itself, and it’s hard to see how Sébastien Lecornu could escape the fate of his predecessors), Macron’s government agreed to bury one of the few reforms it could claim to have achieved: the pension reform….
b) In Rennes, in the Bréquigny district, a kindergarten teacher at the Clôteaux school has been on sick leave since an altercation on October 10th with parents who threatened him with death. According to reports, these parents refused to allow their daughter to be in a class taught by a male teacher….
c) The marriage between a 20-year-old woman and a 36-year-old Algerian man residing illegally in France was prevented. This followed doubts raised by civil registry officials who questioned the couple before the wedding ceremony, and then an investigation launched by the Valence public prosecutor’s office….
d) Texas: Greg Abbott classifies CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) and the Muslim Brotherhood as “terrorist” organizations.
1. Russia
Don’t trust the MSM, from FT to Politico but this is what we have so far:
