tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post5431085102867521189..comments2024-02-19T07:06:52.139-05:00Comments on Twilight Language: Suicidal Dwarfs, Jokers And All ThatLoren Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705306131201565523noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-49699815580584832652009-04-21T18:55:00.000-04:002009-04-21T18:55:00.000-04:00The Holy Blood of Bruges. It always comes back to ...<A HREF="http://www.rlcresearch.com/2009/04/16/bruges/" REL="nofollow">The Holy Blood of Bruges</A>. It always comes back to the Grail.Emperorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761570379917202477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-22698026755692762182009-03-13T15:32:00.000-04:002009-03-13T15:32:00.000-04:00Administrative note: A minority of potential comm...<B>Administrative note:</B> A minority of potential comment makers (not the ones seen here) are upset because they wish for me to reply to them privately. What you apparently do not realize is the email addresses of the authors of comment submissions are not revealed to me via www.blogger.com, and full email addresses in comments are not published. If you wish to directly email me, try filling out the contact form <A HREF="http://www.lorencoleman.com/contact.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>. Personal emails sent through the comment section are not appreciated, as they cannot be edited and must be deleted, out-of-hand. Thank you.Loren Colemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10705306131201565523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-85513610160220130672009-02-18T20:41:00.000-05:002009-02-18T20:41:00.000-05:00I'd missed the Gerber link!!I was looking around f...I'd missed the Gerber link!!<BR/><BR/>I was looking around for more on <A HREF="http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Elf%20with%20a%20Gun" REL="nofollow">Elf With a Gun</A> and found a good page called the <A HREF="http://gone-and-forgotten.blogspot.com/2008/08/defenders-week-essential-elf-with-gun.html" REL="nofollow">Essential Elf With a Gun</A> and the <A HREF="http://web.archive.org/web/20040805160851/www.geocities.com/Area51/Orion/4895/profiles/elf.html" REL="nofollow">source</A> of the quote from the original link:<BR/><BR/><I>"In interviews, Gerber would reveal that the elf was nothing more than a backhanded metaphor for the chaotic and inexplicable nature of everyday existence, the "beast in the jungle" that you can spend a lifetime planning for but which still comes as a surprise or maybe never comes at all."</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-88103907179184847662009-02-10T02:25:00.000-05:002009-02-10T02:25:00.000-05:00there is an extremely interesting short chapter in...there is an extremely interesting short chapter in Harold t Wilkins"strange mysteries of time and space" entitled"The monster of bruges" . This concerns an ancient home which once housed dominican monks but around 1908 was converted into flats.There where soon however many reports of hauntings and few tenants stayed long,sometime later a grotesque skeleton that did not look human was found within the walls....worth reading if you can find itdr benwayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15347233694652788445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-66291971487337073202009-02-08T22:48:00.000-05:002009-02-08T22:48:00.000-05:00Nice touch that "Elf with a Gun" was created by th...Nice touch that "Elf with a Gun" was created by the same person that created "Howard the Duck."Loren Colemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10705306131201565523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-2821465790793838652009-02-08T22:23:00.000-05:002009-02-08T22:23:00.000-05:00Just ran across this: Elf With a Gun.Just ran across this: <A HREF="http://blogonomicon.eponym.com/blog/_archives/2007/8/29/3193419.html" REL="nofollow">Elf With a Gun</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-84408506028514448102009-02-08T00:52:00.000-05:002009-02-08T00:52:00.000-05:00Perhaps "The Dwarf" or jester is another manifesta...Perhaps "The Dwarf" or jester is another manifestation of The Greys, not as men from outerspace, but as fairy like entities from the interstices of our collective consciousness. Like gnomes or goblins. Rumpelstiltskin. The dark earthen entities that tie us to the Twilight realm of the planet.<BR/><BR/>As synchronicity manifests a now palpable Quantum Matrix through archetypes and interlocking symbols - these are the creatures that are emerging from the dark places of our collective psyche from the veins of Steele and Magma that run beneath us.<BR/><BR/>Bliss,<BR/><BR/>ThuthThuthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07322523524313691725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-63666498938676933012009-02-07T22:43:00.000-05:002009-02-07T22:43:00.000-05:00The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) will be...<I>The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus</I> (2009) will be Heath Ledger's last film. It is directed by Terry Gilliam (<I>Time Bandits</I>), and written by Gilliam and Charles McKeown. Also starring will be Colin Farrell (<I>In Bruges</I>) and Verne Troyer (of dwarf "Mini-Me" fame).<BR/><BR/>Christopher Plummer will play "Dr. Parnassus."<BR/><BR/>There's more.<BR/><BR/>But then, you all know, there's always more.Loren Colemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10705306131201565523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-81419249851704134932009-02-07T10:30:00.000-05:002009-02-07T10:30:00.000-05:00And just before my last post I was flicking throug...And just before my last post I was flicking through the channels and jumped into a scene of a van full of dwarves in balaclavas jumping a guy and beating him up.<BR/><BR/>It was from <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_Presents:_The_Naked_Mile" REL="nofollow">American Pie: The Naked Mile</A>, which stars <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Prentice" REL="nofollow">Jordan Prentice</A> the same actor from, In Bruges. Reading the reviews it must be the film with the highest dwarf density and it is all pitched from an exploitative angle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-49945115155430753282009-02-07T07:13:00.000-05:002009-02-07T07:13:00.000-05:00Bruges is apparently the unnamed Flemish city in A...Bruges is apparently the unnamed Flemish city in Alan Hollinghurst's novel The Folding Star, which involves the murder of a schoolboy. Hollinghurst wrote an introduction for an edition of Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach. Both books depict Bruges as a twilight city of obsession and death. Rodenbach's book influenced both Hitchcock's Veritgo and the opera Die Tote Stadt by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-19294363876684848902009-02-07T00:01:00.000-05:002009-02-07T00:01:00.000-05:00Trying to remember the name of the CSI episode jus...Trying to remember the name of the CSI episode just now, I accidentally ended up at <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Small_Killing" REL="nofollow">A Small Killing</A> by Alan Moore.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=a+small+killing" REL="nofollow">Searching</A> Amazon.co.uk's books by that title, gives the expected Alan Moore editions and these are the only other results:<BR/><BR/>* Small Gods Volume 1: Killing Grin<BR/>* Killing and evisceration of birds from the backyard flock (Poultry fact sheet for small flocks) by Leroy C Brown<BR/>* The " small beginnings " of euthanasia: Examining the erosion in legal prohibitions against mercy killing (Law, medicine & society series) by C. Everett Koop<BR/><BR/>Killing Grin? Killing Joke? <BR/><BR/>Poultry and Koop?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-78051811255834525712009-02-06T21:39:00.000-05:002009-02-06T21:39:00.000-05:00A little something for the joker in all of us, esp...A little something for the joker in all of us, especially with this incessant winter we're having. <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/06/joker-skimask-is-men.html" REL="nofollow">Srry, couldn't resist</A>Atrueoriginallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17754487232993372983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-13736844797620930362009-02-06T17:09:00.000-05:002009-02-06T17:09:00.000-05:00Quite intriguing stuff as usual Loren. Something t...Quite intriguing stuff as usual Loren. <BR/><BR/>Something tells me that "little people" are gonna to be all over the news soon. <BR/><BR/>I hope ONLY in good ways.FilmNoir23https://www.blogger.com/profile/08668999935262787884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-41804976200614393312009-02-06T16:37:00.000-05:002009-02-06T16:37:00.000-05:00Thanks to everyone for posting more associations a...Thanks to everyone for posting more associations and links. I enjoy seeing all of these, and going further with them.<BR/><BR/>Ha, ha, cryptidsrus. I team-taught a documentary film course for 14 years at the University of Southern Maine. The object of the course was for students to learn to do mediated readings (insightful deconstructions) of films (docs, docudramas, biopix, news, "based on a true story" narrative fictions). It was very popular (100-200 students per semester for 23 semesters).<BR/><BR/>I guess you can tell I miss teaching about specific examples I see popping up in new films. I guess I need to do a little of it here, from time to time. <BR/><BR/>:-)Loren Colemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10705306131201565523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-32247409899560371412009-02-06T16:18:00.000-05:002009-02-06T16:18:00.000-05:00Great post, Loren. Somebody ought to invite you ov...Great post, Loren. <BR/>Somebody ought to invite you over for Film History Class. I know I'd attend.cryptidsrushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06184539509191478028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-34309148236307180892009-02-06T14:58:00.000-05:002009-02-06T14:58:00.000-05:00Interesting ideas about the "mini-me" type of char...Interesting ideas about the "mini-me" type of character.<BR/><BR/>This all got my thinking about roles played by dwarves and the one that stuck out was Arthur Ramsey (played by <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Dinklage" REL="nofollow">Peter Dinklage</A>) in the short-lived TV series <I><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_(TV_series)" REL="nofollow">Threshold</A></I> (about a secret government team dealing with <A HREF="http://www.transhumanist.com/volume9/risks.html" REL="nofollow">existential threats</A> (in the series it is a kind fourth dimensional energy probe which starts rewriting humanity's DNA - colonisation without the effort of hauling huge numbers of people across the stars. Which always struck me as a clever and different premise).<BR/><BR/>What I thought was interesting was that the character was played pretty straight with little discussion of his size (although it was used to explain his attitude). What struck me, in connection to the above comments, is that he had a beard. It might have been coincidence but few of the dwarf roles involve facial hair (this side of Lord of the Rings, although John Rhys-Davies is actually over six foot so it might not count, the character though is very stern and serious) and this would tend to emphasise the child-like aspects.<BR/><BR/>I am intrigued to see that it has been suggested he'd be the ideal actor to play the supervillain <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Psycho" REL="nofollow">Dr. Psycho</A> in a potential Wonder Woman film. It would work and he is one of the more sinister comic book characters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-41051256222637108592009-02-06T13:16:00.000-05:002009-02-06T13:16:00.000-05:00Oh Michael. . .we share the same brain. I did not...Oh Michael. . .we share the same brain. I did not see your post when I stumbled upon Verne Troyer in my last comment.<BR/><BR/>Wow.<BR/><BR/>TThuthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07322523524313691725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-75158866816659890932009-02-06T13:15:00.000-05:002009-02-06T13:15:00.000-05:00I totally forgot!!! The biggest Dwarf synch of all...I totally forgot!!! The biggest Dwarf synch of all - Verne Troyer.<BR/><BR/>I just did a piece about Verne Troyer being a synch machine on conspiracy grimoire.<BR/><BR/>Mini-me!! <BR/><BR/>Hmmm. . . this will need some deep thinking and research over the weekend. <BR/><BR/>Also - the bizarre murders in Whitehall (in the USA). Whitehall is literally where Big Brother lives in Great Britain. It is the center of their surveillance state.<BR/><BR/>I prophesize. . . a robust article coming to conspiracygrimoire soon. <BR/><BR/>There some links to what's going on now that are starting to reveal themselves to me, and I'm seeing some connections that are pulling the last four months together. <BR/><BR/>Oh what a tangled web we weave.<BR/><BR/>TThuthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07322523524313691725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-30848949829943964252009-02-06T12:57:00.000-05:002009-02-06T12:57:00.000-05:00Great post. I am intrigued by the dwarf used in th...Great post. I am intrigued by the dwarf used in theater as a "mini-me" - a child-like character not in full control of his intellect or ego, which allows his subconscious to speak "through" him. We see this in Fantasy Island's Tatoo (Villechaize) who dresses exactly like Ricardo Montalban and is in fact his second in command of the island. These two nearly identical characters are actually one person - the Ego and the Id.<BR/><BR/>The Court Jester was used for this purpose also - someone who could play the King and court in jest, calling out their failings and errors in a way that wasn't perceived as a threat.<BR/><BR/>According to Villechaize's wikipedia entry, he never got over being fired from Fantasy Island. He had impertinently demanded the same pay scale as Ricardo Montalban, and they promptly let him go.<BR/><BR/>History proves however that he was right - the show died the next year without him. Perhaps it is wise to listen to the little people.<BR/><BR/>Cheers, MichaelMichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00531037998720855468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-73791218144465169772009-02-06T11:34:00.000-05:002009-02-06T11:34:00.000-05:00A couple of things that strike me:Michael Gilden a...A couple of things that strike me:<BR/><BR/>Michael Gilden appeared in the CSI episode "<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Murder" REL="nofollow">A Little Murder</A>" in which the character he plays kills a man by hanging him and then (if I recall the details correctly) he hangs himself. There were rumours that Gilden's suicide was by hanging (I am unsure if this was ever confirmed but I notice it is in his <A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0318402/bio" REL="nofollow">IMDB bio</A>). Which resonates with the <A HREF="http://elluminati.blogspot.com/2008/01/joke-is-on-us.html" REL="nofollow">photos</A> of Heath Ledger from the Imaginarium set. <BR/><BR/>In fiction the court jester (another name for joker) is often shown as being a dwarf. I am unsure how common this actually was, but some of the most famous have been, like <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Hudson" REL="nofollow">Jeffrey Hudson</A> the "Queen's Dwarf" (he was presented to the Queen baked in a pie!! His life story is amazing). The travelling jesters would transform into the commedia dell'arte and on to become Punch and Judy. There is also Perkeo the dwarf-jester of Heidelberg, who Victor Hugo claims was the result of the <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprachicos" REL="nofollow">comprachicos'</A> dwarf-making process, as described in his novel <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Laughs" REL="nofollow">The Man Who Laughed</A> (the character Gwynplaine from the book was an inspiration for the Joker, and more specifically the <A HREF="http://www.wunderkabinett.co.uk/damndata/index.php?/archives/1174-Adventures-of-the-Slit-Mouthed-Women.html#extended" REL="nofollow">slit-mouthed theme</A> appearing with Heath Ledger's Joker). I was amused to note that the comprachicos legend is mentioned in Bruce Chatwin's book <I>In Patagonia</I>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com