--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You know Judith, it's precisely these kind of high horse > comments from you that led to the 5 post a day rule. Thank > God (and Rick) we only have to endure you 5 times a day.
Hey Geezerfreak...nice to hear your voice here again. Not that it's relevant, but your post reminded me of a little-known slice of "TM Americana" that many TMers may not be aware of, even though it was created by that Beacon Light Of Sattva himself, David Lynch. It's a cartoon series called "The Angriest Dog In The World," and it's brilliant, in my opinion. David only had to draw the strip once. Then, since it tends to only appear in weekly papers like the L.A. Weekly, all he has to do each week is email the editors the dialog he wants inserted into the "thought balloons." (Or, in this case, the "bark balloons.") The artwork itself never changes. The Angriest Dog himself (or herself...hard to tell) is in all four frames stretched out to the length of its chain, pulling on it constantly, as if trying to get loose and wreak havoc upon all that has made it angry. All day, every day, for years now. In the fourth frame it's night, and the dog is *still* pulling against its chain, even in its sleep. (I think that this may be Lynch's subtle reference to "witnessing" during sleep.) The dialog in the "bark balloons" is almost irrelevant, even though it changes almost every week. All it does is provide a "context" for the dog's anger, although clearly none is really needed. The words in the "bark balloons" merely provide an outlet for and an excuse for the anger itself, which is everpresent (again, in my opinion, a clear reference by Lynch to the eternal and universal nature of pure consciousness). A few times during the years I lived in L.A. and saw this strip there every week, Lynch obviously got busy and forgot to send in any dialog, and the strip ran without them. And it works just as well without the "bark balloons." The basic concept is in the original illustration -- a being so constantly in the grip of its own anger that pretty much *everything* is seen as an excuse to bare its teeth and bark. Anyway, even though it's probably not relevant to anything here on FFL, I thought I'd remind you of the strip, since as I remember you live in SoCal, and thus might still be able to see it in the L.A. Weekly from time to time. http://davidlynch.de/angry.html May it bring you a smile...
