Book I'm looking forward to, and It's YOUR world, we just live in it.

Back and to the left. Back and to the left. Back and to the left... and then this time travailing guy from Maine shows up. Seriously, this is what Stephen King calls being retired?

I just hope it's not the size of Dome, that thing should have come with membership in gym so you can bulk up enough to pick it up!

Stephen King and J.F.K.

Also the world we see mostly make-believe, says top British scientists.

Well... Duh!

Doing good if you see 5%

If we did see it all, or even more than half we would more than more than likely go 100% bonkers.

The Eyes Have it!

I forget who it was, but years ago I read an article by someone who speculated that the pulp magazines of the 30s and 40s may have fueled at lot of the things that took over the imaginations of the American public in the 50s.

With the Purple Invasion of Operator 5, along with all the other cults, masked armies, wild crime hoards bent on taking over the country faced by him, and others like him, such as The Spider and Secret Agent X, unknowingly primed the public's mind for J. Edger Hover and his all pervasive Red Menace.

And then there were all those saucer shaped space ships showing up on the covers and inside Air Wonder Stories, Science Wonder Stories, Amazing Stories etc... and then the UFO mania of the 50s.

Okay... and?

Well a lot of people have forgotten this, but in the early lore of glowing things seen in the sky, when people said they saw people, or critters getting out of them they were a mixed bunch indeed, with things from ten foot call, “ace of spade headed” giants, to four foot tall “brains with glowing eyes,” to hairy trolls, and more, along with many accounts, of “blonde Nordic” or “dusky foreign” types.

Then Whitley Strieber and his Über creepy Grays come along, and that was it for two thirds of all accounts after that.

Now take a look at this issue of Weird Tales from September of 1952, the cover is by the great Virgil Finlay (July 23, 1914 – January 18, 1971) illustrating a poem by H. P. Lovecraft.

Close enough for me. I'm not saying this proves anything, about anything, I'm just saying it is interesting. Coincidence? Fiction being used to mystery monger? Images entering the collective conscious? Finlay on to something and using it in his art? Beats me. Just thought I would put this up for a view and a thought.

Oh... and here is another one from Mr. Finlay. Any thoughts from the David Icke camp?

August: Holidays & Days of Note

Aug. 1. Lammas or Lughnasadh. The wheel of the year begins to shift from growing time to harvest time. / Swiss National Day (Switzerland) / Civic Holiday (Canada) / Girlfriend's Day (U.S.) How serious can this one be if Mega-Omni Corp hasn't latched on to it to squeeze money out of us yet? / World Scout Day (Scouting). / As of today, MTV is 30 years old, if we had know than what we know now.

Lammas

Aug. 2. National Pretty is As Pretty Does Day (U.S.) Okay, whatever. / as of today the Lincoln penny is 102 years old.

Aug. 3. . National Watermelon Day (U.S.)

Aug. 4. Sunset Festival of the Dead (Ancient Egypt)

Aug. 5. National Mustard Day (U.S.) / on this day in 1924 the comic strip Little Orphan Annie premiered.

Aug. 6. Toro Nagashi (Japan) Floating lantern ceremony held to honor those killed by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on this day in 1945 / Festival of Nut & Ra and the Chief Festival of Thoth (Ancient Egypt) / In the film Gojira, released in November of 1954, the day that the Lucky Dragon was sunk by the monster that we know as Godzilla, which in the original version was a statement against the use of atomic weapons, which is why the film was set between the 6 and 9th of August.

Aug. 7. Sister's Day. Held the first Sunday in August

Aug. 8. Father's Day (Taiwan) Held on this day because Ba Ba (father) also means 8 8 so it's held on the 8th of August. / Peace Day (Iraq)

Aug. 9. National Women's Day (South Africa) / International Book Lovers Day.

Aug. 10. National S'mores Day (U.S.) / Opalia (Ancient Rome) First of two festivals held in honor of Ops, fertility goddess and wife of Saturn.

Aug. 11. Not much going on today, however it seems today was a busy one for the Beatles with: "A Hard Days Night" opening in 1964, "Help" opening in 1965, their last concert tour in US starting in 1966, the launch of Apple Record in 1968. Gear!

Aug. 12. Feast of The Lights of Isis (Ancient Egypt) / Queen's Birthday and Mother's Day (Thailand) / International Youth Day (United Nations) /Sea Org Day (Scientology) Special events day for all Sea Organization members, with rank and rating promotion ceremonies.

Aug. 13. Hecate's Day. (Ancient Rome) / Vertumnalia (Ancient Rome) Festival held in honor
of Diana and Vertumnus god of the season and change. / International Lefthanders Day. In honor of the day I'm typing this left-handed. At least for the A's T's E's and such.

Aug. 14. National Navajo Code Talkers Day (U.S.) Day to honor the code talkers of World

War II who supplied the one unbreakable code of the war, the Navajo language. / National Creamsicle Day (U.S.)

Aug. 15. National Relaxation Day (U.S.) / National Failures Day (U.S.) At last a day I can call my own. / Assumption of Mary (Roman Catholic) / World Day of Reiki.

Aug. 16. Raksha Bandhan (Hindu) festival celebrated mainly in northern Indian states, Rakhi is a special occasion to celebrate the chaste bond of love between a brother and a sister / The roller coaster is 111 years old today.

Aug. 17. Rituals in the Temples of Ra, Horus & Osiris. (Ancient Egypt)

Aug. 18. On this date in 1587 Virginia Dare the first white child of English parents is born in America. She later becomes the first such child to go missing during the first American mystery as she and the rest of them disappear. / International Bad Poetry Day & International Lighthouse Day. As for Bad Poetry Day, perhaps these will help:

Make a Poem

Poem Generator


Aug. 19. National Aviation Day (U.S.) / Vinalia Rustica (Ancient Rome) Festival held in honor of Venus Libitina, the Venus of death, corpses and funerals, which today I guess would make her the Goddess of spooky chicks.

Aug. 20. World Union Day / Lover's Day (Taiwan) / and a gibbous eldritch 121th birthday to H. P. Lovecraft.

Aug. 21. Spumoni Ice Cream Day (U.S.) / The first Lincoln - Douglas debate started 151 years ago today

Aug. 22 Be An Angel Day. (U.S.) / Take a Look at Other Points of View Day (U.S.) A day to make an effort to look at things the way other people see them.

Aug. 23. Umhlanga Day "Reed Dance Day" (Swaziland) / Charlie Brown's sister Sally is 52, having been born on this day in 1959. / Vulcanalia (Ancient Rome) On this day in the old Roman Empire small fish were tossed into large fires to appease Vulcan and ask him to restrain wild fires and volcanoes.

Vulcan

Aug. 24. Krishna Janmaashtami (Hindu) festival celebrating the birth of Krishna. / Knife Day (U.S.) / It was 1930 years ago that Mt. Vesuvius erupted destroying Pompeii, Staviae & Herculaneum. See what happens when you skimp on your Vulcanalia observances?

Aug. 25. Opiconsivia (Ancient Rome) Another festival held in honor of Ops.

Aug. 26. Women's Rights Day (U.S.) / On this day in 1920 the 19th Amendment giving women the vote in America was passed. On the stands 40 years ago this month

Aug. 27. Volturnalia (Ancient Rome) feast held in honor of Volturnus, the god of the East wind.

Aug. 28 National Heroes Day (Philippines) / Assumption of Mary (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Aug. 29.More Herbs, Less Salt Day. (U.S.) At least the second one has a theme. / First day of Thoth (Ancient Egypt) / Chop Suey invented in America in 1896. / 71 years later, in the same city, the Beatles give their last public concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, the two events however are not otherwise related.

Aug. 30. International Day of the Disappeared. / National Toasted Marshmallow Day (U.S.) / It was on this day in 1146 that a conference of European leaders outlawed the crossbow, thinking to end war for all time. Nice try.

Aug. 31 - Sept. 9. Ganesh Chaturtai (Hindu) Time to cleanse the household and oneself leading to the reinstalling of the statue's 'presence' of Ganesh in the home.