Saturday, January 12, 2019

The Ortolan Connection at the Golden Globes






The 76th Golden Globes took a bizarre detour into the world of wealthy twilight signaling and secret societies in 2019.

(Warning: Graphic Material: Speculative Conspiracy Theory: Ritualistic American Folklore)

It all kicked into full gear with the flacid humor of Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh when they did a strange supposedly funny skit.

Prior to a commercial break, Samberg announced, “Normally at this point of the show, the host would do something fun and spontaneous to show how we’re all just ordinary people, like ordering pizza for everyone.” Source.
Pizza. What immediately came to your mind?

Pizzagate, the rich and famous, Hollywood, Hollyweird. What was Andy Samberg thinking making this joke?



Who doesn't know about Pizzagate?



In summary, Pizzagate is a conspiracy that became widely discussed, especially by pro-Trump online sites, during the United States presidential election cycle in 2016.
In the fall of 2016, the personal email account of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, was hacked in a spear-phishing attack, and his emails were subsequently made public by WikiLeaks. Proponents of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory falsely claimed that the emails contained coded messages referring to human trafficking and connecting several U.S. restaurants and high-ranking officials of the Democratic Party with an alleged child sex ring involving the Washington, D.C. restaurant Comet Ping Pong. Source.
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I've discussed the Pizzagate shooting at the Comet pizza house here (December 5, 2016).

Numerous emails from the Chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign incongruously refer to food items such as pasta, cheese pizza, ice cream – which 4chan users say is a code language used by child sex ring participants:
For anyone who hasn’t been paying attention, the elite are heavily into pedophilia and satanism because these are ways for them to (1) prove they are sociopathic enough to be trusted with great crimes, and (2) prove that they can trust each other, despite being sociopaths. They all have the dirt on each other. (4) Satanic ritual abuse is used to create controllable split personalities, like in the Manchurian Candidate....
“hotdog” = boy
“pizza” = girl
“cheese” = little girl
“pasta” = little boy
“ice cream” = male prostitute
“walnut” = person of colour
“map” = semen
“sauce” = orgy   
Source.


Of course, Pizzagate is said to be a code for a deeper mystery of secret societies, as shown by Stanley Kubrick in Eyes Wide Shut.

Cryptokubruology haunted the Golden Globes.






Supposedly a message about the oceans and the environment has been seen also as this:




Flu Shots

Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh, after their brief "pizza" mention, then they went on to their flu gag.








Keith Urban registers disgust. That's Nicole Kidman next to him.



Yes, Kidman is Urban's wife (2006-Present), and formerly Tom Cruise's wife (1990-2001). She starred with Cruise in Eyes Wide Shut (1999).


Although it was a stunt that backfired, worse yet, it seemed to have an entire twilight language layer missed by some.

As People put it, in part:
During Sunday night’s glamorous event, hosts Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg paused the awards ceremony to give out something else: flu shots.
“So roll up your sleeves, Hollywood, because you’re all getting flu shots,” Oh excitedly announced, as Samberg joined in, before a large group of people wearing white lab coats and holding syringes appeared on stage.
“You know you wore a sleeveless gown for a reason!” joked Oh, as stars were approached by the white coats and needles, looking understandably freaked out.
“From the Rite Aid at Echo Park,” added Samberg, before noting, “If you are an anti-vaxxer, just put a napkin on — perhaps over — your head and we will skip you.”
BTW, Echo Park, right next to Elysian Park, is the birthplace of LA's first cinematic boom (at 1712 Glendale Blvd, in 1912, via Mack Sennett and his Keystone Cops comedies).

In 1892, Edward Doheny and his fellow prospector Charles A. Canfield discovered LA’s first oil field at Glendale, Colton, and Patton streets, around the corner from where the Bob Baker Marionette Theater now stands. The oil field extended through all of Echo Park, so exploratory prospectors were constantly drilling in search of new opportunities to strike it rich. As a result, excessive amounts of petroleum leaked into the man-made lake (it was originally built in 1870 to be a drinking water reservoir) and in 1907 the lake caught fire and burned for three days — or so legend has it.
This was well before Doheny took part in the Teapot Dome scandal — which served as the basis of Upton Sinclair’s Oil and Paul Thomas Anderson’s magnum opus There Will Be Blood— so Doheny was fairly unknown at the time. Political corruption had yet to ensnare his image. He and Canfield were merely young prospectors looking to make their lives and fortunes in the expansive West. What did it matter that their unregulated prospecting led to rampant speculative drilling and man-made environmental hazards? Oh, right, because it’s the same tactics and mythology of righteous unmitigated greed that have led us to today. Source.

Napkins and Ortolans

Who puts a "napkin on your head"?




Wealthy people eating ortolans do.




A frequently noted way of describing "a single ortolan bird" is to say it is "no bigger than a baby's fist and weighs less than an ounce." This exact description is found, for example, in a 2014 Telegraph article, a 2015 book The Tudor Kitchen, a 2017 Jon H. M. Chan essay, and a 2017 Arabian Post article. It does not seem to be a coincidence that the cooked ortolan is compared to the clenched fist of an infant.

A metaphor for pedophilia?


The birds [ortolan, Emberiza hortulana] are caught with nets set during their autumn migratory flight to Africa. They are then kept in covered cages or boxes. The birds react to the dark cage by gorging themselves on grain, usually millet seed, until they double their bulk. Roman Emperors stabbed out ortolans’ eyes in order to make the birds think it was night, making them eat even more. The birds are then thrown into a container of Armagnac, which both drowns and marinates the birds.
The bird is roasted for eight minutes and then plucked. The consumer then places the bird feet first into their mouth while holding onto the bird's head. The ortolan is then eaten whole, with or without the head and the consumer spits out the larger bones. The traditional way French gourmands eat ortolans is to cover their heads and face with a large napkin or towel while consuming the bird. The purpose of the towel is debated. Some claim it is to retain the maximum aroma with the flavour as they consume the entire bird at once, others have stated "Tradition dictates that this is to shield – from God’s eyes – the shame of such a decadent and disgraceful act", and others have suggested the towel hides the consumers spitting out bones. This use of the towel was begun by a priest, a friend of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Wikipedia.

About 30,000 ortolan are still captured and sold illegally in the South of France, with a single bird going for $180, or about the price of an ounce of coveted white truffles. The New York Times

Secret gatherings featuring the elusive meal have been documented. In 2008, Esquire writer Michael Paterniti attended one such French dinner that served ortolan — the chef, who was breaking the law, "had to call forty of his friends in search of the bird, for there were none to be found and almost everyone feared getting caught, risking fines and possible imprisonment," Source.
Author and TV personality Anthony Bourdain describes his own ortolan experience; the bird, smuggled into New York, was served at a private dinner.


I bring my molars down and through my bird's rib cage with a wet crunch and am rewarded with a scalding hot rush of burning fat and guts down my throat. Rarely have pain and delight combined so well. I'm giddily uncomfortable, breathing in short, controlled gasps as I continue slowly – ever so slowly – to chew. With every bite, as the thin bones and layers of fat, meat, skin, and organs compact in on themselves, there are sublime dribbles of varied and wondrous ancient flavors: figs, Armagnac, dark flesh slightly infused with the salty taste of my own blood as my mouth is pricked by the sharp bones. As I swallow, I draw in the head and beak, which, until now, have been hanging from my lips, and blithely crush the skull. ~ Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw, 2010.

“Zoophagy” is an obscure word that means the eating of animals. It might help if we were to appropriate its adjectival form “zoophagous” to describe the eating of endangered species, still a worldwide problem. When it came to their defining moment, Anthony Bourdain, and his French-chef pals, chose their art over respect for nature, always a poor choice. ~ Henry Voigt, July 15, 2011
In 2018...


the bird has taken wing on the small screen in Showtime’s Billions and HBO’s Succession. Both shows offer clear perspectives on (male) obsession, ambition, and excess. Both invoke the same ritual of shrouds, gluttony, and shame. Source.

Cryptokubrology

The Golden Globes reeked of a mix of Stanley Kubrick syncs and Eyes Wide Shut moments.





Christian/Bale/Baal/Satan

The most unforgettable moment, as mentioned in the following MSM headline of the night for the Golden Globes, was owned by Christian Bale, hands down. Even the Drudge Report had to highlight it.



On this blog, on January 1st, I had noted the remarkable placement of Bale in the current visual melodrama of Trump in the Yankee and Cowboy War of 2019.

Hollyweird: Eyes Wide Shut, Trump and Access Hollywood






PedoHollywood and The Shining








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Another Coat Hook Death (March 21, 2017)

New Hook Death? (February 27, 2014)



The Peter Pan/Hook Deaths (January 24, 2010)



Saturday, January 05, 2019

Movie Award Shows and Cryptokubrology




The movie awards season begins on January 6, 2019, with the Golden Globes. I wonder how Stanley Kubrick will be involved. At the British Academy Film Awards on February 10, 2019, the link is quite clear: The Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film is bestowed.

Do you recall the Overlook Hotel ad during the 90th Academy Awards, in 2018?



"Creepy scenes play off plot points from [The Shining], including a hotel manager inspecting a door that’s been shattered to smithereens (from an axe by the looks of it). The faux spot faux-wraps with the number (833) 888-0237....The true advertiser [was] the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, a new museum dedicated to the art and science of movies that will be opened in Los Angeles in 2019 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (which runs the Oscars)." Source.

Will Stanley Kubrick be remembered overtly or covertly at the movie award shows, such as the Golden Globes, British Academy Film Awards, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the Academy Awards?

This is the 20th anniversary year of the release of Eyes Wide Shut and the death of Kubrick (1999).


#Cryptokubrology is alive and well, and people are thinking about the "twilight language" that Kubrick left behind for us to ponder...all the time.

If you haven't seen the following YouTube selection, take a moment to watch it (with the sound on, as the music is beautiful):





Will Cryptokubrology haunt the memorials?

The Golden Globes usually do a memorial reel to recall those who died during the last 12 months. Will R. Lee Ermey be included?


The first major cast member of Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987) who died was R. Lee Ermey. He was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actor for his role in that movie. Born March 24, 1944, Ermey passed away on April 15, 2018.


Will you be watching? With your eyes wide open?

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Friday, January 04, 2019

Three Nicknamed Celebrities Die on January 2nd...and Joe Turkel in 2019



Will 2019 make people lose their minds in the sync world? It is starting off fast and furious.



On January 2, 2019, the death of three Caucasian male celebrities - each of whom used "nicknames" - each of who died at the age of 76, all occurred on the same day.


"Fans notice 'spooky pattern' of celebrity deaths," writes Yahoo Australia, and a tweet alert about the story flashed across sites like The Anomalist.

"Super Dave" (Bob Einstein), "Mean Gene" (Okerlund), and "Captain" of "Captain and Tennille" (Daryl Dragon) died on Wednesday, the second day of the year.

Einstein was born Stewart Robert Einstein in Los Angeles, on November 20, 1942. He is the older brother of actor and comedian Albert Brooks (born Albert Lawrence Einstein), and the younger brother of Cliff Einstein, a retired advertising executive. Einstein created the goofy stuntman Super Dave Osborne character.

Okerlund was born Eugene Arthur Okerlund in Sisseton, South Dakota, on December 19, 1942. Okerlund was given the nickname "Mean Gene" by Jesse "The Body" Ventura.

Dragon was born Daryl Frank Dragon in Los Angeles, on August 27, 1942. Dragon's familiar image and stage name came from his time as a keyboard player with The Beach Boys from 1967 to 1972. Beach Boys lead singer Mike Love gave him the nickname "Captain Keyboard," and it stuck; Dragon began wearing a nautical captain's hat to go along with the name.

All were born in '42 and, all were thus 76: 7 x 6 = 42. Daryl Dragon died 237 days before his 77th birthday. H/T #AlexFulton (@Cryptokubrology on Twitter) and Ronald Christopher Walker.
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Some cryptokubrology notes...


Was the last #Cryptokubrology death of 2018, the passing of Herb Ellis (1/17/1921-12/26/2018)? Herbert Ellis, born on January 17, 1921. He was in Kubrick’s The Killing (1956) and in Paths of Glory (1957).



Joe Turkel, who is still alive, was also in Paths of Glory. Turkel, it may be recalled, was "Lloyd" in The Shining (1980). 


Will 2019 be a key year for Joe Turkel (born 7/15/1927)? 



Turkel played "Tiny" (The Killing, Stanley Kubrick, 1956), the doomed "Private Arnaud" (Paths of Glory, Kubrick, 1957), "Lloyd" (The Shining, Kubrick, 1980), & Eldon Tyrell (Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, 1982). 

Wednesday, January 02, 2019

Da Vinci and Violence Activate 2019


2019 begins...




Tokyo 


Tokyo

Nine people were hurt, one seriously, when a man deliberately rammed his van (shown above) into crowds celebrating New Year’s Eve along a famous Tokyo street, just after midnight, Tuesday, January 1, 2019.

With an “intent to murder,” 21-year-old Kazuhiro Kusakabe from Osaka (250 miles sw of Tokyo) drove a small vehicle into Takeshita Street in Tokyo’s fashion district of Harajuku at 10 minutes past midnight, a police spokesman said. About 20 liters of kerosene were found in the vehicle. Kusakabe told police he was acting in “retribution for the death penalty,” without giving more precise details.

Bottrop

Essen

Meanwhile, a 50-year-old German man plowed a car into a crowd in Bottrop, Germany, injuring four, then drove to Essen and hit four others in a similar fashion. The second incident occurred near the Museum Folkwang in North Rhine-Westphalia, Essen. He appeared to be targeting people from Syria and Afghanistan. One Syrian woman victim had life-threatening injuries.

Manchester

Within about the same timeframe (across time zones), on Monday, December 31, 2018, at the Manchester, U.K.'s Victoria Train Station, a stabbing of three, including a police officer, took place as people were heading to New Year's Eve celebrations. The man was heard shouting “Allah” at Victoria station.

And how will it end?


h/t MP

Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Trump in the Yankee and Cowboy War of 2019


Before Christian Bale became the character of Patrick Bateman in the movie American Psycho (2000, director Mary Harron), there existed the fictional Patrick Bateman in Bret Easton Ellis' 1991 book American Psycho. The Bateman in the novel is obsessed with the businessman and celebrity Donald Trump.
In [the book] American Psycho, [Donald Trump] is the person Patrick Bateman idolizes above all others. Bateman talks about him constantly, citing incredibly specific details of his life of luxury, and is often distracted by the thought of seeing Trump or his wife Ivana out in New York City. Bateman’s obsession often irks Evelyn, who wishes her boyfriend would talk about something other than Trump. Ellis’s inclusion of Trump as an idol in the novel (he never actually appears) grounds the book in a reality of late 1980s Wall Street New York and also shows the obsessive nature of Bateman’s mind. His love for Trump clearly indicates to the reader the things that Bateman values most in another person: wealth, success, extravagance, and beautiful women. Source.
Celebrity Donald Trump has incredibly moved his personality-driven fantasy story tale to the reality of the conspiracy movie that is his present political life.

So I have to ask the question again: What would the late Carl Oglesby (July 30, 1935 – September 13, 2011), the author of The Yankee and Cowboy War, say as which side Donald Trump is on? One thoughtful answer came to me recently.
Despite being from New York, I think Oglesby would rate Trump as pretty firmly on the Cowboys side. Trump is 100% in favor of the oil and gas industry, favoring almost no environmental or other business regulations on that industry and supporting unlimited use of fossil fuels as opposed to alternative energies. Like the oil companies he opposes the climate change treaty.

Oglesby also noted that while the Yankees supported defense, they also favored international alliances and arms treaties. Cowboys favored huge spending on defense and distrusted international alliances. So on that perspective Trump would also fit in more with the Cowboys, as he has increased defense spending a record amount, got us out of international treaties like climate change treaty and Iran nuclear treaty, the TPP, intermediate nuclear arms treaty and has been weary and negative about international agencies and alliances like the UN and NATO. 
Trump's announcement of the sudden withdrawal of all US troops that are in Syria would not fit with the Cowboys so much. But that's because I think Trump has his own prior deals and understandings with Turkey and Russia that he gave them the huge gift of abandoning the Kurds to be slaughtered and Russia to claim total victory in Syria and keep their troops there forever.
But overall I think he fits on the Cowboys side. He has continued the JFK cover up, following the request of the CIAA and other intelligence agencies to keep the files suppressed even when the law keeping them secret expired. Source: Andrew Wilkins. December 23, 2018.
Caleb Oglesby wrote (on December 23, 2018) to my Facebook page, and stated: "Andrew Wilkins, I think my dad would concur."

This discussion made me feel comfortable with what I earlier wrote on June 17, 2017: “There seems little doubt we are seeing a Yankees (Yates, Comey, Rosenstein?, Mueller) vs Cowboys (Flynn, Sessions, Trump) battle occurring right before our eyes.”

Funny how the Cowboy allies of Trump seem to have "resigned" or been fired, of late. But others have been recruited.

The Senate Judiciary Committee public hearings, regarding Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, merely played out this melodrama for the media lights and television cameras.

Michael Carlson writes, in part for The Times Literary Supplement, of  his thoughts on the matter in "Cowboys and Yankees: The forces that led to Trump" (October 31, 2016):
Positioning Trump as a political outlier ignores reality. His candidacy is crashing on a late questioning of his “character”, but character is a bullfighter’s cape, distracting attention from more systemic issues. Trump is far from being an exception, even if you believe exceptions that prove rules. Only eight years ago, for example, John McCain chose Sarah “Going Rogue” Palin as his choice to stand a heartbeat away from the Presidency. The roots of Trump’s success can be traced to America’s post-war transition from the grey flannel 1950s to the 60s.
Politically, Trump is the reductio ad absurdum of half a century’s decline in America’s relative balance. Yes, parts of Trump’s personal history and quirks of his performance are unusual for a candidate for the nation’s highest office. But his candidacy represents the ultimate convergence of two realignments in American politics which have taken fifty years to resolve. The Republican Party has been devolving, and the resolution of this process is Trump.
The internal conflict among Republicans lay between what the American writer Carl Oglesby described as the “Yankees” and the “Cowboys”. Yankees represented old Eastern aristocracy and money, the Wall Street lawyers and investment bankers. They founded the party before the Civil War, partly through a noblesse oblige desire to end slavery. Their ranks were joined by nineteenth-century robber barons who gained respectability through wealth and the adoption of that noblesse oblige. They tended to be internationalists. Cowboys represented new money: independent Texas oilmen, aerospace and defence contractors, gigantic retailers, the rising power of the Far West. They offered little noblesse and no oblige, and advocated American exceptionalism which bordered on isolationism, unless America’s dominant interest dictated otherwise. They included groups such as the John Birch Society, funded by the Coors brewing fortune – right-wingers who considered Dwight Eisenhower a communist.
In 1964, their standard-bearer, Barry Goldwater of Arizona (“extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice”) won the Republican presidential nomination. He was trounced in the election by Lyndon Johnson, and the Yankee-backed Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford regained power within the Party. But by 1980, the Cowboys found a more presentable spokesman. Former television host Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter by running against the Washington establishment, with George H. W. Bush, the son of a Yankee investment banker turned Texas oilman Cowboy, as his vice-president. Since then, opposition to “government” has become the Republicans’ default position. Career politicians run against “Washington insiders”, in pantomime rebellion against the very interests who bankroll them into office and whose needs they service.
The second realignment came from a schism in the Democratic Party, which, at the time Johnson beat Goldwater, was an uneasy alliance of northern working class and “liberals” alongside the so-called Dixiecrats. Dixiecrats represented the “solid South” that for a century had refused to vote Republican, for the simple reason that Abraham Lincoln had won the Civil War and freed the slaves. They were conservatives committed to segregation in the guise of “states’ rights”; many were also born-again Christians.
It was also in 1964 that Johnson enacted the landmark Civil Rights Act. In 1965 he pushed the Voting Rights Act through Congress and as he signed that bill, he remarked presciently “there goes the South”. Four years later Richard Nixon introduced a “southern strategy” to the Republicans, and by 1980, when Reagan defeated Carter, the only southern state Carter captured was his own Georgia.
When the Right and Left were mixed between two parties, the art of compromise was the essence of politics. But now all the hard Right was in one party, and these radical, religious and overwhelmingly white Republicans shared a commitment to ideological purity, exerting extreme pressure on “moderates” to tack firmly to the right or face challenges, funded by unlimited money from backers like the Koch brothers, in the primaries. Co-operation with the Democratic Party became anathema.
Into this maelstrom, Trump’s advantage over his sixteen opponents in the primary was his very lack of a political “paper trail”; he replaced positions with personality. Polls before the first primaries showed that although he commanded less than 30 per cent support, none of the other candidates ran ahead of him one to one. A party united only in its opposition to government failed to offer an attractive leader from within, leaving a vacuum for a would-be demagogue to fill. Once he won the nomination, his campaign attacked blacks and Latinos, and a thrice-married and self-confessed Lothario somehow convinced religious leaders such as Pat Robertson to channel messages of support from God.
Trump benefitted from one other evolution of politics since the 1960s. In 1960 a televised debate helped propel John Kennedy to victory over Richard Nixon. In 1964, a commercial broadcast only once, showing a little girl picking flowers before being obliterated by an atom bomb, killed the Goldwater campaign. Fifty years later Trump realised shrewdly that modern American electioneering is exactly the kind of “reality” television he has been starring in for the past decade. In a system dependent on hundreds of millions of dollars to fund television adverts, Trump’s celebrity and outlandish behaviour guaranteed him a fortune’s worth of free exposure. As one network chief said, “he’s horrible for America, but he’s great for us”. This proved a boon until the focus narrowed into a head to head battle, and the spotlight began to show Nixonian sweat beneath the makeup.


We already known that the personality of Donald Trump has been seeded into our culture for decades. Trump has inspired several movie characters


Gordon Gekko from the Wall Street films.

Yet it is amazing there has not been more analysis of where Trump cryptopolitically resides in the Yankees vs Cowboys landscape.

Let us not worry about 2020 yet. We have 2019 to live through first, in a script that seems to have unfolded at the movies.











The answers could be over the rainbow, with eyes wide shut. 
We all need to have ours opened. 

I miss the musings of Carl Oglesby.



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