Monday 21 January 2008

Name Magic

Weyland Smithers. Spotted that before. Weyland the Smithy. Good pseudonyms, place names, Norton Disney, Boothby Graffoe, etc..

Coincidence Theory: By shear chance things just happen repeatedly and coincidentally to benefit their interests without any conscious connivance by them, which is most uncanny. There is also: Stupidity Theory, Innocence Theory, Momentary Aberration Theory, Incompetence Theory, Unintended Consequences Theory and Innocent Cultural Proclivities Theory."
-- Michael Parenti
Doesn't just apply to convenient political happenings. I see Cloverfield is out, although I don't know anything about it. Something to do with 9/11. A monster movie. Godzilla in a turban, mayhap. 7/7, there's a coincidence. Wouldn't have caught on if it had been two days earlier, 5/7, they Americans wouldn't have used our dating convention but couldn't have just made up their own. Had to be like this.


Two big brother posters. But where's his moustache? Poster by the CIA. That's where. It's from the movie version of 1984, made by the CIA for cold war purposes.

Idea caught on.

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