Daily Archives: October 16, 2010

Born in 1915, Barbara Billingsley (the ‘Leave It to Beaver’ mom) has died

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

And she spoke two languages: suburban 1950s house mom and superfly 1970s jive. Here she is in her mid-60s in the 1980 film, Airplane:

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Groovy Park Instrument Players Led by a Singing and Dancing Kybele

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

Some male devotees accompany their chain-wielding goddess: Below are some fit lines from Euripides’ Bakkhai  (from scene 1) describing Korybantes—ecstatic drumming and pipe-playing young men devoted to the Phrygian mother-goddess Kybele: Triple-crested Korybantes Devised for me The circle of stretched hide! In … Continue reading →

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Carl Jung, Alien Longing, Dante’s Beatrice—and Sarah Palin?

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

In a recent Washington Post review of a couple of UFO books that have just come out, there’s a sentence that I think nicely summarizes Carl Jung’s thesis on UFOs: [P]sychologist Carl Jung proposed that UFOs symbolized a wish that … Continue reading →

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