Mothman

 You've heard About Mothman right? Back in the late 60s a whole bunch of weird things happened in short period of time in a small West Virginia town called Pleasant Point- and then the bridge that connected it to the other side of the Ohio river fell down- during the rush hour- and killed 46 people. After which the weirdness stopped. It's as though the disaster had torn a gash in the fabric of Reality- but one that only stretched backwards in time- if that makes any sense. The phenomena included UFOs, men in black, odd entities of various different kinds and- most famously, a tall winged hominid with blazing red eyes that used to shoot up into the sky vertically like a helicopter without ever stirring its leathery wings. This was Mothman. None of these things ever hurt anyone, simply scared, perplexed and befuddled them. It was all totally bonkers. Disasters were prophesied, but not the one that actually occured. It's as if some paranormally enabled trickster or bunch of tricksters had spotted the rift in the space-time continuum and had come muscling through it with the sole intention of messing with people's minds.

There's a book, there's a film. And Pleasant Point dines off Mothman these days. He's a tourist lure. There's a museum, there's a statue. Wikipedia files him under "folklore" but like many other things that get similarly dismissed he was real enough (though "real" may not be quite the right word.) If you were there at the time you didn't treat him as quaint or funny.....

I was listening to a podcast about Mothman yesterday evening but wouldn't have have bothered to write about if it hadn't then switched over to my my AI art site and there- first thing I saw- was a fellow user's picture of the chap himself in all his looming, red-eyed glory.

Coincidence? Bah, there's no such thing......

Gorton And Denton

 The Greens won in Gorton and Denton. 

They won with a 34 year old woman who works as a plumber.

It was one in the eye for Farage's Reform party- who thought they had it sewn up.

And it humiliates Labour- whose ex-MP was forced out for being an entitled arse.

The values of the Green Party align fairly well with my own so I'm pleased. 

The media- including the bloody BBC- insist on treating Farage like he's a Prime Minister in waiting, but I can't see it and never have done.

1. Because his lot have never performed well in elections

2. Because the only other "names" in his party are ex-Tory sleaze merchants and incompetents.

3. He is associated with the American president- whom the British people loathe and despise and find funny.

The media talk him up because they are owned by people who would find a far-right dictatorship agreeable to themselves and amenable to their aims and because he's a card.....

I sort of know Gorton and Denton- or did. Whether I would recognise it now I'm not sure because it has undergone several makeovers down the years. It used to be Coronation Street, then it was gangland and now, I gather, it's becoming gentrified. Lots of students and Muslims. 

Farage says there was cheating.

O fuck off, Farage.....