tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post6842819150093803840..comments2024-02-19T07:06:52.139-05:00Comments on Twilight Language: Secret Sun SeenLoren Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705306131201565523noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-17160778287176269712012-08-13T20:07:01.516-04:002012-08-13T20:07:01.516-04:00"The Dude abides. I don't know about you ..."The Dude abides. I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh. I sure hope he makes the finals." ~ The Stranger, <i>The Big Lebowski</i>, 1998.Loren Colemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10705306131201565523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-90132471058624111392012-08-13T18:53:30.659-04:002012-08-13T18:53:30.659-04:00The year was 2012. And lo, a gentle man heard a vo...The year was 2012. And lo, a gentle man heard a voice call his name as he slept. And the man asked:<br /><br />Am I to be the next Howard Beale? <br /><br />'Nay' said the voice 'ye are to be the prophet of the red dawn'<br /><br />How can I do that? wondered the man<br /><br />'The method is that of James Shelby Downard and how he divined the blood stains of the slain king, but ye shall divine how the rivers of blood begun on a summer's dark night flow down to fall's red dawn' <br /><br />And the man said 'red dawn'? What does that mean? A nuclear blast? Republicans win the election? More re-makes of 80s' B-films?<br /><br />But the voice was silent. (It's better not to be too specific in the prophecy game).<br /><br />And so a gentle man, who was once a true prophet of the hairy wild-men (so gentle we sometimes call them 'Santa Clauses') trod down the path of blood and so became a true American prophet. <br /><br />And, lo, rightful acclaim followed.<br /><br />Yet some of the Generation called X, who had one foot in a earlier gentler age and one foot in the current Kali Yuga, had downcast eyes. They wondered if again the emotional expectation of a new era - for 2012 was the new-agers' 2001 - was to be again born in a baptism of blood?<br /><br />For did this this new John the Baptist herald the descent of a heavenly dove or a another rough beast slouching toward Washington? Had Bigfoot gone Wendigo? Was a black sun to follow the red dawn? Or was it all just marketing?<br /><br />But all hope was not lost because even though the empire never ended and nihilist stalks the land we all know that deep-down the Dude abides.<br /><br />Luther BlissAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-57338058206038494972012-08-09T13:06:51.110-04:002012-08-09T13:06:51.110-04:00Love this blog! Thank you so much for shining the ...Love this blog! Thank you so much for shining the light into these inexplicable (on the surface) events. I lived in Boulder, CO in 1999 and watched Columbine live on local news. It had a profound effect on me. Keep up the good work! -- EAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-6991057266761805372012-08-09T01:03:44.595-04:002012-08-09T01:03:44.595-04:00Christopher Knowles and myself (Mike Clelland) wer...Christopher Knowles and myself (Mike Clelland) were both story board illustrators in New York City. Whatever that might mean.Mike Clelland!https://www.blogger.com/profile/11369575898695154728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409160.post-83625720091709082732012-08-08T21:52:00.700-04:002012-08-08T21:52:00.700-04:003:33!! Now I know I must link to this interview to...3:33!! Now I know I must link to this interview tomorrow.Red Pill Junkiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14738203580562140501noreply@blogger.com