49 YEARS AND STILL WAITING

I’m one of that generation who gave up on the concept of democracy when JFK was gunned down in Dealey Plaza 49 years ago today, except I’ve always had my own spin of the deal. When they shot Jack – CIA style – that was tragic, but when Jack Ruby took out Lee Oswald – Mob style – I knew instinctively something was wrong. Very wrong.. 

“November 22 marks the 49^th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The memory of the tragedy in Dallas seems to be fading in America's collective consciousness. Few people younger than myself (I'm 54) have any memory of the day it actually happened. 9/11 has certainly replaced 11/22 as the time stamp of American catastrophic angst. Yet the JFK story still acts as a gravitational vortex in America's pop culture galaxy. ABC News released of audio tapes of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy conversations shortly after her husband's death. The factually grounded but over the top Jesse Ventura blamed JFK's assassination on "the same old military industrial complex  " Stephen King published a time-travel epic called November 22, 1963. Bill O'Reilly wrote an uncharacteristically wimpy JFK book. And next year, Tom Hanks plans to release a big-budget assassination drama called Parkland, the hospital where JFK died. In this media spectacle, the Internet is a mixed blessing. The Web keeps the JFK story alive by providing a platform and audience for ever more fantastical theories about the death of the 35^thpresident. More constructively, the Web has made the government's troubling records about JFK's death available for the first time to millions people outside of Washington and the federal government. I believe this diffusion of knowledge is slowly clarifying the JFK story for everybody.” (Click here for more)

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The secret words are Bolt and Action

MARILYN SEZ…

“I’d already left the building.”

HIT THE ROAD, JACK

WHO YOU GONNA CALL?

THANX

Thanx to all my friends in the USA for being my friends in the USA.

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The secret word is Baste

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GRATUITOUS AND ARMED

31 SHOPPING DAYS TO INFINITY

If my arithmetic is correct we now have just 32 days remaining until, according to the Mayan calendar, reality is switched off and all of everything just kinda winks out like the final episode of The Sopranos. I’ve always had a fascination with End of the World theories from the panic of 999AD to the 19^th century Millerites who, in March of 1844, when The Rapture failed to materialize and they didn’t rise bodily into the sky and go with God, were plunged into what became known as the “Great Disappointment.” In more recent times, we’ve had Nostradamus’ bad boy in the turban in 1999, Y2K in 2000, not to mention the slightly more real Cuba missile crisis, plus the 1962 incident when a bear almost kicked off World War III by triggering the wrong alarm, or the other cluster-fuck in January 1995 when a Norwegian research rocket was mistaken by the Russians for incoming US ICBMs and a vodka-drunk Boris Yeltsin was minutes from nuking the shit out of the United States. And now it’s the turn of the Mayans. Hey, bring it one. We’re even planning a party down here in Brighton – but more of that later.

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The secret word is Countdown 

WE’RE GONNA PARTY LIKE IT’S 1984

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SPACE OPERA (Another Frazetta)

GRATUITOUS SHOES