A Magickal Ritual where they served Hot Dogs?

In the four months since Super Bowl XLVI there has been, at least in some sections of the internet, a lot of fuse and fury about Madonna’s half-time show. With most of them calling it a “Satanic Illuminati ritual and blasphemy against the God of the Bible” or variations on that, over produced yes. Satanic? no.

First of all as far as I know, the Illuminati (if there really, really is such a thing) is pretty much an all-boys club so it seems to me if they were going to go for a spokes priest they would have gone with Lady Gaga (hey it’s what I’ve heard!) second it was more a Pagan / Pop culture fusion and sorry but the Pagans WERE NOT SATANISTS! Only Christians, and ironic Agnostic Post Goths can be Satanists, so cut that out.

Seriously though there was much meat for those looking for hidden meanings behind the symbolism used, references seemingly to Isis, and Anubis, a fusion of X O, what looked like runes, a guy really putting his nuts in danger on a rope, thigh boots, a 53 year old woman bouncing around like that! There was a lot to work with, but if it were a magickal ritual what of it? The theme, such as there was, other than selling as many copies of MDNA as possible, was World Peace.

I know the horror, the horror! Yes, a direct blaspheme against the last millennium and a half of message of the Big Religion, which has mostly been expressed by an endless parade of wars, pogroms, witch hunts, and heaping helpings of oppression, fear, hate and ignorance. I mean who in their right mind doesn’t want those good times to keep rolling?

Was it a magickal ritual? I’m betting almost certainly not, but if it was I’m also betting it was a good thing.

Nazi in Spaaaaaace!

For years there has been an obscure little believed conspiracy theory found mainly is poorly written and cheaply printed books in the back pages of Fate Magazine, that even the more willing to willing to believe just about anything parts of the conspiracy theory community laughed at (there's a conspiracy theory community? Probability, but my clearance isn't high enough to access it.)

It says that Nazi Germany invented the UFO, and may have even made it to the Moon as early as 1942, “evidence” consisting of items such as Barney Hill saying that UFO occupants he say reminded him of Nazi officers, along with a few other scant pickings here and there, that however has done nothing to stop people from speculating and making artwork based on the idea.

Nazi UFOs

Well apparently there is no conspiracy so obscure and crackpot that it won't eventually get a movie made based on it.

Yow!

Well I know what I'll be doing that weekend!

Catching up on my laundry and yard work.

Meanwhile on a Strange Planet Far Away

Another planet that could possible support life has been found, and this time it's only 22 light years away.

At present called GJ667Cc (could you use that in a sentence?) it is four times the size of Earth and close to a trio suns, the closest one to it being a red dwarf.

GJ667Cc? Hell just get it over with and call it Krypton!

Hello Krypton, is that you? This is me Earth.

Before the Four

Here it is, almost 50 years since the premier of Fantastic Four # 1, the comic book that would eventually help change the whole comic book industry.

And I’m sure there will be some whoop de do about it, but what about the time just before FF # 1? Or for that matter what was going on around it when it first came out?

Well take a look, the issues here are the 8 magazines that were being published by Marvel at the time and came out the either one or two months before Fantastic Four # 1, or with a couple, the same month as FF # 1.

Can we conclude anything from this?

Cowboys, Millie the Model and big orange Kirby monsters beating the crap out of empty warehouses.

Yes… Marvel REALLY needed the Fantastic Four!