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February 6, 2014 · 2:47 pm

Kevin 01

https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/slavery-and-reform-1820-1840/anti-slavery-resistance-movements/the-underground-railroad/

The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. This was one of the most controversial acts of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a “slave power conspiracy”. It declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters. Abolitionists nicknamed it the “Bloodhound Law” for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves.

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/whitehead-x-ing-notes/

Oh, Baby, it’s cryin’ time, Oh, Baby, I got to fly.
Got to try to find a way, Got to try to get away,
‘Cause you know I gotta get away from you, Babe.

Oh, Baby, the river’s red, Oh, Baby, in my head.
There’s a funny feelin’ goin’ on, I don’t think I can hold out long.

[Chorus]
And when the owls cry in the night, Oh, Baby, Baby, when the pines begin to cry,
Baby, Baby, Baby, how do you feel? If the river runs dry, Baby,
How do you feel?

Craze, Baby, the rainbow’s end, Baby, it’s just a den
For those who hide, Who hide their love to depths of life
And ruin dreams that we all knew so, Babe.

4 Sticks within Carrcass-3 is about crossing a line to escape, symbolically the Mason-Dixon line as slaves flee the south after 1850’s Fugitive Slave Law or Act. Dogs were often used to track down slaves. The safe labyrinth equals the North, where slaveowners cannot follow their “property.” Dogs will be lost in the canyon of the line. Although free, slaves are often injured in the escape. Legs need mending.

This line (Mason-Dixon) is also dividing point between US tiles 1 (Pennsylvania) and 3 (Maryland). In-between we visit Washington, Oregon, California where we return to Twin Peaks and Blue Jay at the end.

Black Dog is the lead chase dog, also a Zeppelin song and coming immediately before this in Carrcass-3.

http://socialsciencelite.blogspot.com/2009/06/thoughts-on-pixars-up-race-makes.html

When watching the movie, though, something stood out to me that I couldn’t put my finger. It wasn’t until I searched IMDB that I realized what it was. Did anyone else notice that Beta, the Rottweiler, was Black? He is “played” by Black actor Delroy Lindo who some of you may remember from Romeo Must Die (he was Aaliyah’s Dad). I had to laugh because of all the main dogs in the movie the Rottweiler was black. What is more, in looking at the credits, it appears that out of the dogs, Lindo is the only real actor. The rest already work for Pixar as sculptors, writers, or directors like Jerome Brandt, Bob Peterson, and Josh Cooley. In other words, they actually sought out Lindo to play Beta but stayed in house (and white) for the rest of the dog[s] of note in the movie.

Kevin used like *stilts* in Up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_Bay,_Texas

The city is built around a 18-hole golf course and the city’s main water tower resembles a golf ball on a tee.

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January 23, 2014 · 2:09 pm

Gray (S)adler

http://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/shining_tuesday.htm

208 MS Jack. (45:47)

Wendy exiting, as she reaches the end of the rainbow painting, cut back to Jack from the angle of where she had been standing. As we hear her footsteps continuing across the floor, Jack returns to work. The scrapbook shows different images and paper is already in the carriage. This shot of Jack appears out of joint with the others, his temperament and face dramatically different, no hint of rage there, but Kubrick has styled the shot so that Wendy’s departing footsteps heard over it tie the cuts together aurally.

The door beyond is now hidden by the lamp. Jack’s position conceals whether or not the table and chair, which were there then gone then returned, are there or not.

Juli contends this is the *real* (or realer) Jack typing the horror story based on the scrapbook he found in the Boiler Room (in King’s book; not shown in or edited out of Kubrick’s film, however, as discussed previously). The typewriter has changed colors from white to gray in the meantime.

Later on in her “Tuesday” section, Juli reveals her “base plan” starting with the above photo…

Jack’s expression is so different here, I really do feel like this is one of the few “real” shots in the film (there are a couple of others), and that the rest are only Kubrick allegory world and mental scenes from Jack working away on his novel. None of this really happens. It is a story. And that’s all right. After all, it’s only a story anyway. It’s fiction from beginning to end.

The film is full of impossibilities from beginning to end, and I have said repeatedly that one can’t approach this realistically. I really do think we have two stories, that of the writer who is at a lodge typing out his story, perhaps one a lot like Stephen King, an alcoholic with anger problems, and the story is inspired by this and a working out of it. And the story is also an allegory, a vehicle for the story Kubrick is intending to tell.

I’ve already discussed this idea of a story within a story (within a story) as well, most likely inspired by an earlier study of Kearns’ massive Shining document. Back to the Base Plan… Juli gives a list of some of the movie’s perceived “90 degree turns” and inexplicable, attached disappearances. She then states…

Fig. 48 – Pyramid and pyramidal trapezoid, monolith, vanishing point and single point perspective, all wrapped up in one, but the apex (and, hence, the vanishing point, the pyramid, the angle of convergence) is obscured.

An expresion for these 90 degree/right angle turns and the disappearances and appearances that seem to be associated with them I again find in the “vanishing point” (angle of convergence) of the trapezoid pyramid shape that is repeated throughout the film. Again, when one views this not as just a trapezoid but a rectangle viewed from an extreme perspective we find in it the disappearing angle of the vanishing point.

Kubrick consistently expresses the trapezoidal pyramid shape in the film with a circle above as if obscuring the angle of convergence. Take a look at the sconce on the wall above Jack’s head and how we have this expressed even in the shadow created by the light and the bottom of the sconce being what obscures the angle of convergence. This is an example of what I’m talking about. A simple expression of light and shadow and geometry.

We see the same later in the peculiar choking poster.

We see it implied in the Colorado flag.

She goes on to give several other examples of this vanishing point, including a corner of the hotel related scrapbook in one shot that appears to be altered by Kubrick to represent this. I personally think Kearns is on to something. She concludes her “Tuesday” section with the following, directly connected to the scrapbook’s sudden, unexplained appearance in the film…

Up to this point in The Shining, things had been going fairly well for Wendy and Danny and Jack at the Overlook, in as much as he hadn’t entered his crisis yet, that state of obsession in which he types over and over again the one phrase, “All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.” But that has now changed. The shift has been made.

Things could even said to be heading *south* from this point on.

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January 20, 2014 · 11:13 am

Grayson/Sadler 02

Why Sadler? Does it really have to do with the collagist I’m acquainted with? See her Collage Clearinghouse for more about the artist. Why South/Dixie attached to Sadler? Julie is not from the South. South may stand for an immersion in an illusion, like Dixie, like Gone With The Wind’s Dixie.

Note: There are *tons* of Dixies strewn across the US, but only 2 “South”s.

But I also think it represent incarnation in a physical form — that kind of illusion. Love Lee. Love Lee (illusion of Lee as South’s savior). Gray is the color of Confederate uniforms. We are all confederates here on Earth, in this school.

Whitehouse, Maryland use to be called Black Rock. 2 Black Rocks in Grayson County, KY, with a White Run on its western side. White, gray, black. Whitehouse is the only *variant* name of Black Rocks in US that’s primary. Black Rock name is most attached to Grayson County, KY (as Sadler is to Grayson County, period).

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Rock

The Black Rock was a fully-rigged 19th century British trading ship that was found shipwrecked on the Island and overgrown by the jungle. The ship carried a cargo of slaves, dynamite, and other equipment intended for mining. In the midst of a large storm at sea, a massive wave swept the vessel inland, causing it to crash violently into the statue of Taweret, thus toppling the structure, leaving only the foot of the statue intact. This wave carried the ship far into the interior of the Island where it finally came to rest in an area known as the “Dark Territory”. The ship was captained by Magnus Hanso, who was allegedly buried somewhere close to the wreck. In 2007, Hugo Reyes destroyed the ship by detonating the remaining dynamite.

We know from 1P that Black Rock resonates with the Twin Peaks’ Black Lodge thru “loss of arms”. There’s also a White Lodge, another black-white duality.

Only prominent US North in Orangeburg Co., *South* Carolina. North is circular, like an orange itself. Nearby are Norway, Sweden and Denmark, all northern world countries. Very Nordic, very white with blue eyes/blonde hair type of places.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2100947/Eisenhower-secret-meetings-aliens-pentagon-consultant-claims.html

The initial meeting is supposed to have taken place with aliens who were ‘Nordic’ in appearance, but the agreement was eventually ‘signed’ with a race called ‘Alien Greys’.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_aliens

Nordic aliens (also known as space brothers) are said by self-described contactees and some UFOlogists to be a group of humanoid extraterrestrials who resemble European racial images, or more specifically Nordic-Scandinavians.

Stephanie Kelley-Romano observes that “white extraterrestrials are those that are most revered”, compared to other beings like the greys, and argues that claimants may use their stories about extraterrestrials “as a means of articulating racially based fears”.[5]

Grayson = et contact. What happened at Whitehouse?

http://exopolitics.org/Study-Paper-8.htm

At his farewell speech in 1961, President Eisenhower was possibly alluding to the growing power of national security agencies that dealt with the extraterrestrial presence and were gaining great power as a result of the dilemma over what to do with the extraterrestrial presence:

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

If the President was dissatisfied with the non-disclosure of the extraterrestrial presence, then his speech was indicating that the responsible national security agencies were both dominating public policy and taking a ‘hard-line approach’ that was inconsistent with American democratic ideals.

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January 19, 2014 · 6:10 pm

Grayson/Sadler

Hmm.

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/?s=sadler

Sadler (Julie) is a collagist, but she’s changed her name since Pietmond days.

The remaining Grayson, (3rd; sans Sadler):

Ripshin, Grayson County, Virginia.

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Additional note: 2 separate Black Rocks occur in Grayson County, KY.

Additional note: Joe (TX), Cartwright (near TX), Ponderosa (KY).

Additional note: Sadler-Dixie, TX. Sadler-South, KY (obvious!).

Aditional note: *Also*, to reinforce above, Sadler-Southmayd, TX (!).

Additional note: Wax in Grayson County, KY (Bee, Byrd — Poe).

Additional note: Whitetop Mtn. in extreme nw corner of Grayson County, VA, which also contains a Whitetop village. All other Grayson Counties harbor “White” town oddities as well. Whitewright, TX on edge of that Grayson County, and White Mound and White Rock close, as already talked about. Larger Whitesboro, TX near opposite edge of same county. White Run near western line of Grayson County, KY. WHITE reinforced — run of Whites.

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1/21/14 update:

Sadler may instead be referring primarily to William S. Sadler, who helped publish the controversial Urantia book claimed to be channeled from an extraterrestrial source.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Sadler

In 1910, Sadler went to Europe and studied psychiatry for a year under Sigmund Freud. Sometime between 1906 and 1911, Sadler attempted to treat a patient with an unusual sleep condition. While the patient was sleeping he spoke to Sadler and claimed to be an extraterrestrial. Sadler spent years observing the sleeping man in an effort to explain the phenomenon, and eventually decided the man had no mental illness and that his words were genuine. The man’s identity was never publicized, but speculation has focused on Sadler’s brother-in-law, Wilfred Kellogg. Over the course of several years, Sadler and his assistants visited the man while he slept, conversing with him about spirituality, history, and cosmology, and asking him questions. A larger number of interested people met at Sadler’s home to discuss the man’s responses and to suggest additional questions. The man’s words were eventually published in The Urantia Book, and the Urantia Foundation was created to assist Sadler in spreading the book’s message. It is not known who wrote and edited the book, but several commentators have speculated that Sadler played a guiding role in its publication. Although it never became the basis of an organized religion, the book attracted followers who devoted themselves to its study, and the movement continued after Sadler’s death.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book

Or not.

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January 19, 2014 · 3:37 pm

Spilling the Beans on The Residents.

http://www.texasescapes.com/They-Shoe-Horses-Dont-They/Three-Bean-Salad.htm

According to one source he had one blue and one brown eye.

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January 18, 2014 · 3:05 pm

Funny story about 2 mannequins…

… from “The Green Acres Learning Curve” blog of a Whitewright, Texas woman, home of Nazi art thief Joe Meador as mentioned in another of her blog posts (and how I stumbled upon the blog in the first place).

http://uptodatewithjamie.blogspot.com/2011/10/10-year-in-life-of-two-mannequins.html

Note: the woman and her husband now own an art gallery and second hand shop in Denison, Ike’s home. It’s called Et Cetera.

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Hucka D.:

Don’t you think this blog represents the story book? Er, the scrapbook Jack brings back up to the Colorado Lounge from the boiler room? In the King novel, I mean.

bb:

The Green Acres blog is about moving from the big city to small town Whitewright, with its perks and drawbacks both. Unusual landscape/street art comes to the fore. Now she sells it in a compromise mid-size town of Denison. Makes sense. Perhaps I should monitor the shop for articles.

Hucka D.:

Articles. He he.

bb:

Whitewright is white, like the white Adler typewriter, pre-boiler room. Denison is Gray(son), post-boiler room.

Hucka D.:

Something to think about.

bb:

This is a pretty good collage itself (!) And she has some even better ones later on in that same post.

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So’s this…

If Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall Traded Characters in The Shining (1980)

Just some bizarre (and funny) stuff from Martha the mannequin mother.

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January 11, 2014 · 4:37 pm

Bean

Tom Bean ghost sightings (multiple):

http://www.ghostsofamerica.com/7/Texas_Tom_Bean_ghost_sightings.html

Tom Bean turns White Mound into ghost town.

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrw20

When the St. Louis Southwestern Railway’s right-of-way missed White Mound by three quarters of a mile in 1887, the community declined. Tom Bean was built on the railroad and attracted 75 percent of the population, many businesses, and all of the churches from White Mound. White Mound quickly became a ghost town.

Nearby White Rock (also of the White Mound – White Rock – Whitewright triangle) doesn’t even seem to exist in a manner, not listed in the otherwise extremely thorough Texas Almanac atall. It has this in common with White Rock, Robertson County. And another White Rock that’s listed in the GNIS database as being in Fannin County immediately east of Grayson County is actually just inside Lamar County to *its* immediate east. In this blog post, I compare this to a similarly GNIS displaced Herbert population place from Alabama.

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/more-whitehead-related-maps/

Void, null.

White Rock, Lamar County, Texas (near Petty) on Ghost Creek.

I’m going to quote something directly from this post now:

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/more-whitehead-related-maps/

There is no article in the Texas Alamac for White Rock, Robertson County, unlike for nearby Headsville and Bald Prarie. However, this comprehensive almanac has a listing for a White Rock in Fannin County, which happens to be near a Petty according to the below stats, as White Rock in Robertson County is very near a Petteway (Pett—y + ewa in effect).

White Rock population places in Texas. Notice that White Rock, Robertson County is on a Petteway topo map and White Rock, Fannin County is on a Petty map. This clued me in to their possible association.

4/11/13:

But getting back to the White Rocks of Texas, I noticed that the above mentioned White Rock near Petty is actually not in Fannin County but just over the east line in neighboring Lamar, about a mile and a 1/2 from Fannin County. So the GNIS database got this wrong, harkening back to the Herbert error discussed several months ago on this blog. But then in looking at that listing again, it’s interesting to note that a White Rock lies on a Whitewright topo map, and this particular White Rock is just beyond the *west* Fannin County line, in Grayson County in this case, about 4-5 miles in. Besides Whitewright we also have a White Mound near this White Rock, making a type of White Rock – Whitewright – White Mound triangle, with two more interestingly named population places within this established triangle, or Tom Bean and Kentucky Town.

This is where I originally uncovered the White Mound – White Rock – Whitewright triangle, then.

Continuing…

Another perhaps odd thing here: White Rock in Lamar County, unlike the great majority of population places on the topo map involved, is marked with a black dot. So is White Rock in Robertson County. If we make White Rock, Lamar County the retrograde inversion of White Rock, Robertson County merging these two black dots, we find that each lies about 2 1/2 miles from their Petty (Lamar County) and Petteway (Robertson County) and in the same direction.

Retrograde Inversion of White Rock-Petty, Lamar County. You can kind of make an animation by toggling this with this.

Call me crazy, but I think these black dots standing in for Texan White Rocks have something to do with the meaningful placement of *black dot* like specks in various Shining shots, most prominently, for now, in the scene involving the Danny-psychiatrist interaction — another interview of sorts, per the title of the movie section (“The Interview”).

But which ones?

Read about what I called the film flaw occurring right where Wendy walks over the spot where Jack later axes Scatman Cruthers’ Hallorann character. I’ll quote a key sentence of mine from the “strange? 03” blog post on this:

I think there’s a strong possibility that mad genius Kubrick purposely constructed this as one of those “burnt toast” spirits.

Spirits… ghosts. White Rock, Robertson County next to Ghost Creek, a White Rock that doesn’t seem to exist in a way. Another White Rock (Grayson County) made a ghost town by nearby Tom Bean, named after a denizen/alien or pseudo-extraterrestrial. Tom Bean itself as haunted by ghosts. Another White Rock in Fannin County a ghosted or basically non-existent population place, and forming a retrograde inversion through PETT(EWA)Y with the similar White Rock spirit ghost thingie in Robertson.

Burnett County, Texas pronounced like “burn it”, as in burnt toast. 125 = 1.25 = 1/8.

It has to do with Texas.

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January 11, 2014 · 11:06 am

Denizen? I think not.

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This…

… in combination with this…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower%27s_farewell_address

… makes sense. He was a Texan from Denison. But apparently there are denizens.

In the same county (*Gray*son) as Denison, the b-place of Eisenhower, appeared this seemingly peculiar triangle of Whites: White Rock, White Mound, Whitewright. Tom Bean (center figure) is a denizen, and maybe even of that [extreme] type we’re talking about here.

Mr. Bean the alien. We never find out his first name.

Meador meaning? Settlement? See here for one that could have been made.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/eisenhower-met-aliens-says-timothy-good_n_1277133.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_aliens

On the other hand we have Bald (Prairie) Head(sville) also highlighted by a resonant White Rock, Texas, Ike being famously bald. Cube Brick knew something.

Eisenhower is part of a mindf*ck.

Words of caution from the Corbett Report…

But I think Chris White has his own emotional agenda. We all do, and maybe that’s his point.

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January 10, 2014 · 2:14 pm

3 Whites don’t make a wright.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewright,_Texas

Quedlinburg treasures
Main article: Theft of medieval art from Quedlinburg

Whitewright was the home of US Lieutenant Joe Tom Meador, who after World War II looted several major pieces of art from a cave near Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

On April 19, 1945, American troops occupied Quedlinburg. Various treasures of art were secured in a cave near the castle Altenburg. Meador was responsible for the security of the cave.

Meador, a soldier with good knowledge of art, recognized the importance of the treasures (among them being Gospel of Samuel and the Crystals of Constantinople). He sent the treasures to Whitewright via army mail, and the art was placed in a safe at the First National Bank of Whitewright.

Meador died in 1980, and his heirs tried to sell ten pieces of Beutekunst (looted art) on the international art market. After a long search and judicial processes, the art was returned to Germany in 1992 and were investigated because of damages to the pieces. At first those stolen artefacts were exhibited in Munich and Berlin but were finally returned to Quedlinburg in 1993. However, two of the pieces stolen by Meador are still in the United States at an unknown location.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_of_medieval_art_from_Quedlinburg

On April 20, 2000, the IRS and the Meador family settled for $135,000.

Kentucky town.

http://www.texasescapes.com/They-Shoe-Horses-Dont-They/Three-Bean-Salad.htm

Tom Bean
Tom Bean was a mysterious character that showed up in Grayson County one day – having just traded his horse and pistol for a wagon with a yoke of oxen carrying a barrel of whiskey. He had everything needed to open a saloon and so he did – naming it the White Elephant for what he considered his end of the trade. His profession other than saloonkeeper was said to be that of surveyor.

He bought or traded his services for so much land that it was said he could ride to Austin (a three day trip) and camp out every night on property he owned. Reportedly he owned 25,000 acres in Grayson County alone.

When asked where he hailed from – his usual reply was “from a Bean patch.” Bean carried books with him and volumes of Shakespeare and Dickens seemed to be favorites. He was a Mason and a clean-shaven man – rather unusual for that period. According to one source he had one blue and one brown eye. He was not married, although he had a woman with him and quite a few children running around the place. He was described as always carrying an umbrella and wearing a bee-gum hat – whatever that was.

He granted 100 acres of land to the railroad – having the town named in his honor in return. When he died, over 100 people filed claims against the estate, making it one of the most famous of Texas civil law suits. Tom Bean is buried in the Willow Wild cemetery in Bonham, Texas.

The Tom Bean Tom Cats are the local high school football team.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant

Mr. Bean.

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January 7, 2014 · 6:18 pm

Lemon

1967, January 22, Gus Grissom, an American astronaut, held an unauthorized press conference in which he told reporters that the United States was “at least a decade away” from even contemplating a lunar mission. He was severely rebuked for giving that interview without permission. Following this reprimand, Gus Grissom later came out of a water tank reduced gravity simulation of the supposed lunar landing module, and hung a lemon attached to a coat-hanger in front of a NASA emblem to indicate to any cameras present, without speaking, what he and his fellow crew members, Roger Chaffee and Edward White, thought of the Apollo programme.

1967: January 27, Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were killed on the launch pad when a flash fire engulfs their command module during testing for the first Apollo/Saturn mission. They are the first U.S. astronauts to die in the line of duty.

Thomas Baron and astronauts killed to keep Apollo program http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfYBJFPuiwE