Maybe this’ll bring you some cheer, or at least a leer, as I return to the foundation for the Reptilicus revelations to come:
Like I said a week and a half or so ago, Svend wasn’t the only manly-man in the pages of Dean Owen’s 1961 novelization of Reptilicus. General Mark Grayson may have been a stuffed uniform as played by Carl Ottosen in Sidney Pink’s movie, but Mark had no prob mixing monster-fighting with satisfying the Danish women in Owen’s version of events. Here’s the General giving what Owen refers to as his “undivided attention” to Connie Miller (played by Bodil Miller in the Danish original feature). After choice pick-up lines like “The day Professor Martens was lecturing on Reptilicus, you leaned forward in your chair… I guess that was the first time I noticed you were a woman,” and “This is a dreadful time to be in love, isn’t it, Mark?”, Mark and Connie steal a shred of lust with two shots of love amid the devastation of the resurrected saurian’s rampage:
He put his face between her breasts. “We don’t know how long it will be before Reptilicus is sighted over Copenhagen, but until he is, let’s make every moment count.”
She was stroking his back. For only a moment did she playfully resist, then she brought him close, hugging him to her, reveling in the riotous sweep of his hands on her naked flesh, instinctively shifting and moving her body to accommodate him.
It was as if he had touched something electric deep within her. For now her whole body seemed to come alive. He felt himself completely enveloped and from his mind fled all thoughts of Reptilicus, of danger, of everything save this woman who was all female, all savage wanting, bringing him to a fruition of pleasurable feeling such as he’d never known.
(Dean Owen, Reptilicus, 1961, page 96.)
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Like General Mark Grayson, President George Bush is man enough to ignore the devastation all around him and savor “a fruition of pleasurable feeling such as he’d never known.”
Like, dig it: Bush doesn’t even have to pretend he’s feeling anything remotely like remorse, concern or a pang of empathy any longer.
The fiscal woes of our country continue to reap the whirlwind,
inflation is the new reality hitting us all in the pocketbook (if you still have one to hit),
and we’re hardly alone in this, though you’ve got to keep an ear to the rail outside the idiot US TV news media to notice.
Even moneybags JPMorgan Chase reported a 53 percent profit decline as defaults continue to plague mortgages and other loans, though sugar-coating it as “better than expected” news.
So what do our leaders do? What does President Bush do? Ignoring for the moment the McCain reading of reality, reportedly, even as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke met with Congress Tuesday to address the “numerous difficulties” the US economy is facing, almost to the minute of Bernanke’s opening volley –
President Bush was in the Rose Garden, blowing sunshine up our asses, announcing a bailout out one side of his churlish maw as the other said, without irony, “”I don’t think the government ought to be involved in bailing out companies,” adding the comforting words, “”If you’re a depositor, you’re protected by the federal government.” This verbal placebo from the President who has essentially bankrupted America.
It’s been quite a week for Bush revealing his peculiar methodology of leadership:
on Monday, Bush lifted a long-standing White House ban his father initiated on offshore drilling, a “largely symbolic” fuck you to environmental laws which can’t possibly have any short-term (or likely long term) impact on high gasoline costs; in his Tuesday blather, he deemed this necessary for “psychological” reasons.
This came on the heels (and I do mean ‘heels’) of his shameful farewell to a private meeting at the G8 Summit in Japan with “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter” and punching the air while grinning like a baboon as, quote, “the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.”
His blatant abuses and obscene claims to imperial Presidential power continues unabated at home, his arrogance and apathy reflected in the behavior this past week of cronies (I can’t say ‘lackeys,’ given their respective power which they, too, shamelessly flaunt) like Karl Rove; “President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice President Dick Cheney and other records related to the administration’s leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity in 2003.”
So much for keeping his fucking word; Bush’s behavior promises only to grow increasingly abusive in the coming days, weeks, months.
The societal breakdown Bush has propelled in our country has its signposts: the legal system can no longer cope with the upended reality,
the once-powerful — how about the Justice Department’s former top criminal prosecutor? That rich enough for you? — find themselves on the government’s ‘enemy’ (read: terrorist) watchlists,
and the trickle-down of powerlessness, despair and the need to scapegoat the most luckless among us drives our young to violence against those on the bottom of the societal pecking order, which in its way reflects the attitudes of our leaders. Why not take it out on the homeless? What the fuck are they gonna do?
Bush insults the world’s most powerful leaders at the G8 Summit; teenagers beat the homeless to death.
It’s all connected, and it’s no longer the underbelly of America.
It’s the face we show the world, “punch[ing] the air while grinning widely.”
HAHA! Al Gore was telling us ten years ago that we needed to implement fuel conservation and convert to renewable energy sources. But the American shit mass media could only scream “GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS” as he voiced his sane and reasonable recommendations.
Fuck the Bush Crime Family, Fuck Ronald Reagan, Fuck Corporate America.
But you know there are still about 23 percent of the American public who actually approve of his performance.
If we had followed what Carter had started with his energy policy we wouldn’t be in the mess we are today. God don’t i wish I could put photovaltaic cells on my roof!
I’ve long thought that Reagan’s removal of the solar panels off the White House was one of the single worst things that a President has done directly to the environment. It was a signal that Americans should go back to the “use all the energy you can” mentality, giving rise to McMansions and SUVs..
G.W. BUTCHER
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–>> ..impeach.
Are we even gonna make it to November ??
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THE WHOLE EARTH REVIEW and CO-EVOLUTION QUARTERLY were proponents of the changes STILL essential to our survival — as a country, species and planet — starting 40 years ago. Reagan was a completely toxic Presidency in more ways than we can concisely assess, and yet was and still is lionized as being some sort of ideal to aspire to, to the ongoing detriment of our nation.
It’s hard to believe even George Bush’s horrific eight years in office still isn’t enough to wake up almost a quarter of the populace — to hell in a handbasket we go!