Forgive the self-congratulation, but last night, on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert launched into a convoluted faux-conspiracy theorist rant that concluded, “…Marilyn Monroe disguised herself as Howard Hughes and flew the Spruce Goose into the JFK motorcade.” Of course, it was spoken and not written in pink type, but it would seem that the Marilyn meme, as instigated by Doc40’s ongoing series of weird, disjointed, multi-reality Flash-Gordon-on acid snatches of fiction around ancient and retro photos of Marilyn Monroe is spreading. Which causes me to think hard about what might be happening here. Could it be that, instead of promoting global utopian revolution, we find ourselves simply spreading conceptual weirdness. Or maybe, somewhere deep in the sub-conscious culture, they are one and the same.
“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.” – Marilyn Monroe
Patrick McGoohan – RIP
Ricardo Montalban – RIP
"We're run by the Pentagon, we're run by Madison Avenue, we're run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don't revolt we'll have to go along with the stream to the eventual avalanche..."
ReplyDeletePatrick McGoohan 1977
Rest in peace indeed.
For those who weren't around in the 60s take some time to check out "The Prisoner."
Before the remake hits.
Revolutions are waged by those who can appreciate weirdness in all its manifestations and realize the implications regarding the ever changing state of "reality."
ReplyDeleteI too am saddened by the passing of my childhood hero. I will miss Number 6, Patrick McGoohan very much.
Be seeing you, Sir.
Indeed, it was arguably the best tv show ever, an allegory, radically different from anything else ever broadcast, so, yeah, do watch it.