The Bubbha’s Frontporch

Nebulae are astronomical objects that are an amalgam of gases in a particular region of space. Over the course of millions of years, nodes of gases form and condense and grow in mass and attract more gas and condense and eventually form a star. They are the place where stars are born and in many cases are the most beautiful objects in the universe. Most people are familiar with them because they make really nice imagery for album covers.

But I digress…can you digress before you talk about what you really intend to talk about? Pregress? Foregress? How about preamble…pre-ramble?

Last night I did my star chart or natal chart on two websites. After inputing all my vitals and calculating my birth time into Greenwich universal time, from one website I found out that I’m passionate and complacent. Out-going and a home body. Enjoy Leonard Cohen and Richard Wagner. Probably not anything I should base important life decisions upon. But I’m someone that wouldn’t even if the output had made any sense. The best part of this website is that it provides you with all the houses that your planets (sun & moon as well) fall within. And a nice jpeg of your star chart which I thought was fairly mysterious and nice to look at. I’m not sure what to make of it, but it appears that I’m very much a Scorpio. The other website, Your Sky, required a little more work up front, but gave you a nice rendering of the sky as it appeared during your birth. (Or any other moment in history for that matter) No interpretation however, but as my council suggested today, this is preferred. “Why should you listen to some pre-canned answers?” And he’s right! So I guess the point is you can dig as deep into this as much as you wish. Very much like anything else.

High and drunk. Why is Bob Dylan relevant? should I have to tell you why Dylan is important? Nope. He’s important because Woody Guthrie was too old to take this music into the Rock and Roll era. The music of soul, heart, and mind. Its haggard music. No, not Merle Haggard you bastard. No I’m talking about haggard like the woman in the picture that’s the face of haggardness. You’ve seen it in your day, trust me. It tells a story about us. But it never would have lasted had not Bob Dylan plugged in. He put that music into a time machine and projected it out into the future. A music rooted into the past.

But what do I care I’m high and drunk remember. Anything goes here. So let me tell you why Otis Redding is relevant. Well, he had it all. Man, that guy could sing.

Fuck you if you think you can top that!

Let me preface this post by saying: I’m actually second guessing what to say out of fear of this organization. Then I remember that no one reads this blog, so then that takes care of that. By the way a simple, “hell yeah” would be nice or even a “saaaay what?” I don’t have a traffic tracker, so I don’t know if this crap is reaching anyone or not. OK back to the subject.

So today there was an international protest of all the churches of Scientology. From what I can tell most of the protesters were wearing masks. The protests in Champaign, IL were modest…7 or 8 people were there and I might or might not have been one of them. Everyone here wore black bandannas over their faces. Looks like in other cities the black hoodie was the disguise of choice. Apparently, ninjas don’t want to be Clear and rid their bodies of engrams. L.A. in always cool fashion, had a lot of “V for Vendetta” mask wearers.

These protests were organized by a group of hackers called “Anonymous”, who have declared war on Scientology. You can read the article that I linked, but basically they are pissed at the ruthless suppression of information by the organization that casts any bad light upon the enigmatic religious group. (*cough cult) This obviously isn’t the only thing that Scientology has a bad reputation for, but we’d be here all night if I started going through it all. I’m not sure if Anonymous has a website or not. I tried looking into it, but the most likely candidate had so much traffic I couldn’t connect to it. Either way this group is totally cool, modern day superheros.

Not sure how to put this, but some days I feel like there are greater things at work all around us. As an agnostic, I’m not saying its God, but it could be…it could also be beams in reality that cross each other at certain times…(gotta repeat my mantra) I don’t know. At any rate, I find it interesting that a co-worker sent me a weird Scientology pamphlet (as a joke), Tom Cruise’s wacky video hits youtube, this protest today, and Cher announced her return to the stage all in this week. Cher isn’t in Scientology, but she dated Cruise in the 80’s.

I watched the Cruise video…it wasn’t all that bad. He just sounded like the typical religious fanatic. Nothing too crazy, relatively speaking. He kept saying stuff along the lines of, “we help people like no one else can.” This might be referring to the psychic healing powers that you obtain at certain higher levels. You can only attain these levels by paying for the lessons to learn the knowledge at that level. The higher the level the more expensive it is. Tom Cruise is one level away from the highest, which is 8. The final secret of Scientology is revealed to the adherent at the highest level. My guess to what the final secret is…..a picture of the naked ass of L. Ron Hubbard with a tattoo that says: SUCKER!

Weird bio of L. Ron Hubbard. I’ll let you see for yourself.

Strangeness. Listening to the radio this morning, this gem popped up. Some of you might remember the song by Styx, “Mr. Roboto.” And even fewer of you might remember at the end of that song that it repeats the word: “Kilroy” several times. Now when I was a kid I remember my father, who is a huge WWII fan (whatever that is), told me the story about what that word means.

“Kilroy” refers to “Kilroy was here” a phrase that American soldiers would write on stuff as a way to say to other Americans that the area was friendly or as a joke sometimes. It usually accompanied a familiar cartoon of a character named, “Chad.” The origins of these two things are separate…so forget Chad. But as I thought about this saying “Kilroy was here” I decided to try and find out where the hell this came from and what it means. Here’s the wiki entry for it.

One theory identifies James J. Kilroy, an American shipyard inspector, as the man behind the signature. During World War II he worked at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, where he claimed to have used the phrase to mark rivets he had checked. Thousands of servicemen may have potentially seen his slogan on the outgoing ships and Kilroy’s omnipresence and inscrutability sparked the legend. Afterwards, servicemen could have begun placing the slogan on different places and especially in new captured areas or landings. At some later point, the graffiti (Chad) and slogan (Kilroy was here) must have merged.

Sorry about the long quote…but that’s what I read. BTW you should definitely check out the entry for Styx’s rock opera album about robots taking over the world and the end of Rock and Roll. OK end of this part of the story.

Later on today a seemingly unrelated search on my part yielded some interesting things. Over the weekend I decided to teach myself Irish Gaelic. In my search to find some text in Gaelic to hone my skills, I found a link about the ancient writing used by the Celts that predated the Latin alphabet. It was a primitive writing system called Ogham. And as I was searching through websites discussing Ogham, I found out that most of the evidence for this writing is found on stone monoliths all across the Irish countryside. One website said that most of the inscriptions on these stones say: “Kilroy, son of here” I read this and started laughing.

This happened at lunch so I didn’t have much time to investigate and corroborate. So I spent the afternoon at work marveling at the synchroniscity. I should have stopped there and remained in that state of wonder… but this goes against my nature. This was the only website that said anything close to this. In fact, I doubt if the name Kilroy, even existed that far back. My conclusion is that this particular website for whatever reason was referring to “{insert Irish surname here}, son of here” And used Kilroy as a kind of nod to to the most famous example of “somebody was here.” Nevertheless, I learned alot today and that’s always good, I still count it as a cool synchroniscity.

None the worse for wear.

I don’t know what it is…but I love an election. So I’m very excited to see what happens tomorrow with the voting. My prediction is…not much. OB and HC will split the delegates fairly evenly and McCain is going sew up the spot for the GOP. Still I’ll sit and watch the results unfold over the course of the evening. Tim Russert is gonna pull out his dry erase board and breakdown the myriad of hypotheticals that pop into his head. Should be a good time. I must admit though…I’ve got a good feeling…I mean the Giants won the Super Bowl. Obama is the tallest candidate…ergo…Plaxico Burress is the next president. USA’s First Black President.

What is a rumor of war?

Dude 1: I hear there’s a war on..

Dude 2: You don’t say?

Dude 1: Yep. That’s the word on the street.

Dude 2: News to me. Where’s this war ahappenin’?

Dude 1: Er, one of those stans I think.

Well, good thing we got Jack sorting all this out for us assholes. I think the actual quote is something like: “wars and rumors of wars.” As if a rumor of a war is somewhere at the same level of an actual war. Well, this is the kind of thing that happens when one starts to scratch at it. If you scratch too much the area around it gets red and sore. Put some ointment on it. What’s that ointment…blind acceptance and ignorance. The Prophets of Doom are here, not to worry! 2012 is right around the corner, you have just enough time to squeeze in as much sinning as you can. No man will know the day, time, shape, form, essence, style, genre, modality, function, medium, place, parking meter, park place, boardwalk, do not pass go, do NOT collect $200, you my friend…you are going to get it!

I gotta stop writing this garbage when this show is on..its disturbing me.

Not sure when I first read about the auspicious prediction that the ancient Mayans (people that brought you the zero) made almost 2 millennia ago, but, apparently, on either December 21 or 23 of the year 2012 some shit is going down. I know no one reads this blog, but if you do happen to stumble upon this, then I’d let you know now that you will be bombarded with this info more and more up until December 25 or 26 of 2012. This date was uncovered quite some time ago, and has been in books that I’ve read from the late 70’s early 80’s. This date marks the end of a b’ak’tun cycle that occurs about every 5125 years. In fact, this date was a reference point for the Mayan calendar. But no one really knows what the Mayan thought would occur on this particular day. But not to worry, us non-Mayans will fill in the blanks.

I’d say I first heard about it late in the 90’s and always thought it was kinda cool, but nothing more. I loaned the books out that it would be in, but my guess is that it was either Terrance McKenna or Robert Anton Wilson…(unfortunately neither of these guys are going to see this day) Point is: I really thought this day would remain in obscurity, only to be discussed amongst psychedelic toting intellectuals, but I knew that wasn’t the case when my sister brought it up and the bloom was really of the rose when Jack Van Impe talked about it on his show. Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? Ah well, you know those things that you’re sure not many people know about, you start to personalize it…it becomes…yours. But now.. come next Christmas I’m sure Grandma is bound to say something about it.

Horoscope: a look at the hours (Greek)

I wonder what mine said today. I didn’t bother looking. Actually I never look, but still I wonder what mine said today. I doubt if it could have shed any light on today’s events. And now that I think about it…its probably better that skeptics like myself should look their horoscopes after the fact to filter out any bias. Alas, most people read them beforehand and proceed accordingly. “Signs point to a high energy day for crabs. Romance could be right around the corner if caution is heeded. A business opportunity may require some action on your part. 12-32-2-4-18-29″ Of course, I always love the numbers tacked on at the end, as if they have EVER yielded any millionaires. Really, I still have to settle into the old axiom: whatever stokes different folks float…or something like that. Always good to merge metaphors, which is different than mixing them. To return to my erstwhile topic…I’d still like to see what the horoscope said today. Gotta chalk this one up to life lessons and remember that tomorrow is another clean slate day.

Oh, man…I gotta go. My favorite…Jack van Impe and Rexella!