tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74147759772226848122024-03-14T19:03:38.299+01:00Laws of SilenceA blog about religion, the arts, folklore, architecture, conspiracy theory, Freemasonry, politics, photography, strange things and history.Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.comBlogger735125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-6220159644783444082024-01-20T13:56:00.008+01:002024-01-21T12:24:10.909+01:00Hip Knox, an Eye, and a Nipple walk into a bar....So this guy Hip Knox wears a shower cap and in this caper, a queer machine, with a suggestive yoni slash lingam at his crotch and on his chest, an eye. It's in the middle, but in this shot it appears to replace a nipple. This eye-nipple connection is something we've covered quite a bit, but here we just present this example for your pleasure.Hip Knox himself is a pretty crazy comic Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-53628661187580707462023-12-26T00:30:00.001+01:002024-02-03T14:38:28.499+01:00It's always sunny in Kazakhstan It's It's been a while, but because we're a) into flags, b) into suns, and c) into numbers associated with Freemasonry, we thought we'd take a gander at the flag of Kazakhstan.The flag adheres to the basic "rules" of good flag design: not too many colors (2 or 3), meaningful symbolism, no seals or writing, simplicity, and uniqueness.One might argue the vertical band to the left is an unnecessary Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0Astana, Kazakhstan51.1655126 71.427222227.57653540431086 36.27097220000001 74.754489795689139 106.58347219999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-44444107703503428472023-12-25T03:02:00.003+01:002024-01-28T10:19:02.534+01:00Salaam Alaikum, Minnesota!Effective May 11, 2024I just looked into this story after seeing a post about it on Facebook. Minnesota has chosen a new flag. It's a decent flag in my opinion, and better than any of the five other finalists that the redesign commission had chosen. Problematic cultural issues aside, which are by far enough to merit a redesign, the old flag was just an aesthetic mess. It was not only ugly Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0Minnesota, USA46.729553 -94.685899818.419319163821157 -129.84214980000002 75.039786836178848 -59.5296498tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-42960298933666997512023-10-25T13:10:00.000+02:002023-10-25T13:10:00.009+02:00Open Source Band Name List VIIBack on the DDave Chapel PerilousBone BoneTicket to Armageddon The Nun is DunNightmare Alley OopEdward Snowed-InDorkalopolisChicking out the ChecksVlad the InhalerGlue-Huff GillyGarponamous RexDevilled HamboneHarpahock Hilly and GimperimpamusGödsückHellmakerGeronimo's HeadSkull and BumsPooh HabitCorpsedusterCoprophobiaCamino de MierdaHatemakerCalla PreestJoan D'orkSocialist Limp Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-18677064567646902222023-09-19T08:22:00.009+02:002023-12-25T03:47:09.412+01:00Success by Association Originally written on June 20th.So, there I was, drinking a Guinness in downtown Toulouse with my nemesis, in a moment of detente after a hard day of shooting at each other as we ran through the streets and slid over car hoods, watching Toulouse lose to La Rochelle by 3 points in the French Rugby Championship. Seconds remained in the game and the mood was glum.Then we heard a roar rolling down Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0Toulouse, France43.604652 1.44420915.294418163821156 -33.712041 71.914885836178854 36.600459tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-150980031964602872023-08-25T08:24:00.006+02:002023-09-19T07:55:52.713+02:00Gee I'm a TreeReminds of two things: The time people freaked out about pentagrams in a bus's brake lights.The time a guy told me Freemasons in France often use triangles in their logos.Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com031700 Blagnac, France43.635087000000013 1.3970315.324853163821167 -33.75922 71.945320836178865 36.55328tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-39402000698285959692023-08-20T16:16:00.001+02:002023-08-20T16:16:06.338+02:00I am not where I am, am I?Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0Toulouse Borderouge, 31200 Toulouse, France43.64202 1.45736715.331786163821157 -33.698883 71.952253836178841 36.613617tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-11105144025287564622023-07-10T08:26:00.005+02:002023-09-19T08:10:21.189+02:00The The Sound and The Shape: Notes for an expo of collaged poetryThese are are notes I made for a more elaborate essay that never really gelled. It's still a decent starting point for a look at found, concrete, and other forms of "visual" poetry.Letters of the alphabet are images, symbols that indicate a sound. Or not.Strung together as written or printed words, letters communicate meaning via the eyes, not the ears. Hence, what sound lettersDauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0Brazil-14.235004 -51.92528-42.545237836178842 -87.08153 14.075229836178845 -16.76903tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-8520271893649167002023-07-07T23:15:00.003+02:002023-07-08T17:08:36.270+02:00Little Red Barbie Corvette PhenomenonIn light of recent posts, random shit like this has psychick resonancy, boy. Kaos magick, wot?A) Ozymandias and Harriet B) Uncanny Valley of the Dolls Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-61995988566218422762023-07-06T17:50:00.000+02:002023-07-06T17:50:00.054+02:00How long before they notice?Title of an article about the doomed OceanGate vessel:Videos of 'Titan Submersible Implosion' and 'Screams' Flood Social MediaReally?Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-16356233794940491642023-07-03T08:00:00.002+02:002023-07-04T01:23:41.796+02:00Uncanny Valley of the DollsThe Pygmalion story in essence, is as follows:According to Ovid, when Pygmalion saw the Propoetides of Cyprus practicing prostitution, he began "detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women". He determined to remain celibate and to occupy himself with sculpting. He made a sculpture of a woman that he found so perfect he fell in love with it. Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-88810937973001743802023-07-03T01:07:00.007+02:002023-07-05T08:23:58.350+02:00A Million Ducks? Today I noticed that Laws of Silence has had over a million hits: 1,001,035 to be exact. What began as a way to oblige myself to gather my thoughts and set them down coherently has evolved into hundreds, if not thousands of pages dealing with a wide range of topics. Some of it is, in retrospect, disjointed. Some of it is filler. And then there are gems which I think Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-16166335633152874452023-07-01T10:30:00.003+02:002024-01-28T10:56:14.581+01:00R.I.P. Monte Cazazza (1954-2023)Artist, prankster, and industrial music pioneer Monte Cazazza has passed on. His work can be streamed here.Cazazza was an underground legend who deserves wider recognition, He worked with Factrix, Survival Research Laboratories, and Boyd Rice, pioneers to a number. It was he who first coined the phrase "Industrial music for industrial people," popularized by Throbbing Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-46878237487567837042023-06-18T09:56:00.003+02:002023-06-25T04:36:33.680+02:00AI poetry: John Frum and the Cargo Cults of MarsPromptCan you write a few verses, modelled after Bible verses, that reflect the theology of a cargo cult on Mars?ChatGPTCertainly! Here are a few verses inspired by the concept of a cargo cult on Mars:Verse 1:"In the barren lands of Mars, our eyes behold,A fervent faith in cargo's worth, a story yet untold.We gather 'round the Martian soil, our hearts ablaze,Awaiting ships from distant skies, Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0Toulouse, France43.604652 1.44420932.937010135177289 -33.712040999999992 54.272293864822714 36.600458999999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-7511730650529162072023-06-08T06:46:00.010+02:002023-07-03T07:40:02.008+02:00 Ozymandias and Harriet: Homunculi, Androids, and OwlsAnd you, poor creatures, who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too? -- Arthur Frayn/ZardozYahweh And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7"Adam" literally means "son of red earth." A man madeDauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com3Prague, Czechia50.0755381 14.437800523.199252450416918 -20.7184495 76.951823749583085 49.5940505tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-16425786469018914302023-05-30T07:33:00.002+02:002023-05-31T17:56:17.446+02:00Open Source Band Name List VIStart of the EelEurek.A!mouse Béééééééééééb!!King KutletThe FabmaticsThe RondellesBeak LeverJesus WipedMuffin the MewlHear Cums BBQueerdoBattleButtsMortal KumragMortal Kom-RomMortal Rom-KomHelmut Koh-LantaThe Koh-Lanta BravesMortal Wombat Wortal MombatMommandadbatDoor Knob GobblerK.K.KillersMuhammad All-inKirsti AliRubbish Bin Romance (R.B.R.)Air B and BeakBreakdancing w/the StarsKillemallKillDauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-72354663692138037192023-05-24T19:49:00.004+02:002023-06-25T04:38:19.437+02:00AI story.Prompt.OK. My story is about a Physicist named Dr Niko. He goes to the ionosphere to study it and a solar flare creates radiation. He changes into Umbrage Man. His super power is he can take umbrage. He has a sidekick, but they have a falling out. The sidekick becomes known as The Conciliator. Because he is conciliatory. Can you write that as an origin story?ChatGPTCertainly! Here's your Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-84159793354390059842023-04-10T17:51:00.004+02:002023-04-11T20:50:47.934+02:00The Talented Mr. Santos Heisman Trophy winner George SantosGeorge Santos, creator of RuPaul's Drag Race I started this post a while back and quickly abandoned it. I conceived of it as a brief catalog of Santos' lies, how his ongoing presence in Congress is linked to Trump's normalization of "alternative facts," and how for today's GOP the end justifies any means. Sadly, the lies started coming in so Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0Washington, DC, USA38.9071923 -77.036870710.596958463821153 -112.1931207 67.217426136178844 -41.880620699999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-24969003501310851832023-01-22T02:53:00.002+01:002023-01-22T17:28:48.596+01:00Runnin' with the Devil....Shout at the DevilThis statue of Lee Roy Selmon sits in a small park near the expressway that bears his name.Selmon wears the number 63, now retired, he wore when he was on the way to becoming a Tampa Bay Bucs and NFL legend (3 sixes? As in 6-6-6?) But over that he wears the casual business clothes that he wore on his way to becoming even more beloved in the Bay Area as an Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com28253 Cooper Creek Blvd, Bradenton, FL 34201, USA27.3927306 -82.4515361-0.91750323617884533 -117.6077861 55.702964436178846 -47.2952861tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-77129988598066120432022-12-04T01:26:00.001+01:002022-12-04T01:26:38.983+01:00I really wish calling this post Necrocomiccon made sense. Punfortunately, it doesn't....Song of my soul, my voice is dead,Die thou, unsung, as tears unshedShall dry and die in Lost Carcosa. "The King in Yellow"Like a lot of sullen, dorky kids, I first became interested in the occult in my early teens, and the subject interests me to this day....as a sullen, dorky adult. I've bought a lot of books over the years, but three books I purchased at that Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-26316504674400813222022-11-28T22:03:00.007+01:002022-11-29T18:03:16.406+01:00The Blood (& Tools) of a PoetIn the Romantic imagination of many, the tools of the poet's trade are a quill, a piece of parchment, a tallow candle, and perhaps a glass of absinthe or laudanum. And of course, plenty of inner torment. from Ode to my Unique and Deeper Anguish than Thine.Hand held to head in squalid garret,bat flying through etched lines where it - the guttering candle - meets Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-5258269535453375152022-11-24T02:09:00.003+01:002022-11-28T12:32:09.127+01:00Across the Wounded Centuries -- How an Enlightenment-Era Poet 'beat' Burroughs to the Punch by Nearly 200 Years....Caleb Whitefoord, 1773 or 74. Sir Joshua ReynoldsOver the years, I've come across several essays about how some of the earliest novels anticipate literary postmodernism's ideas and concerns. To whit, Cervantes' conceit in Don Quixote (1605 & 1615) that the story is translated from an obscure manuscript....the totally black page, the Alfred Bester-like typographical Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-9260799868091975422022-11-17T00:27:00.003+01:002022-11-17T19:09:47.037+01:00Sheeeeeeer Art AttackAttacking art seems to be a thing these days. Actually, it has a long history, but there seems to be an uptick this year.In February we reported on a Russian security guard who drew googly eyes on a painting, after what was described as a psychological breakdown.In May a climate protestor smeared cake on the Mona Lisa. No worries, the painting is protected behind bullet-proof Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0Vienna, Austria48.2081743 16.373818919.897940463821158 -18.7824311 76.518408136178849 51.5300689tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-49102446086617513042022-11-16T06:33:00.006+01:002022-11-16T12:35:10.136+01:00Europe Confronts Conspiracy Theory On an EU website about Europe's COVID response, there are pages about Fighting Disinformation and Identifying Conspiracy Theories. These latter are not just about Covid, but conspiracy theories in general.I think the latter page is especially useful and both pages should be incorporated into every high school student's curriculum. Now that an unnamed orange muppet with tiny hands has Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0Europe54.5259614 15.255118726.215727563821154 -19.9011313 82.836195236178838 50.4113687tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-45026671920144021672022-11-04T23:20:00.008+01:002022-11-07T16:10:39.141+01:003 BookensHere are three books: "Sci-fi" or "SF" or "Science Fiction" or "Speculative Fiction" or "3 dogs flying the Tricolor," singing the Marseillaise and brandishing sickles, whilst ballerinas clad in garbage bags recite the phone book of Tampa from 1979: Aaron, Joseph, xxx-xxxx; Abraham, Jimpernickle Joe, xxx-xxxx; Absalom, Fred P., xxx-xxxx, etc.This will of course, take hours: for the Dauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.com0