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Wednesday, August 10, 2022

BECKETT’S HAPPY DAYS







“Well I thought that the most dreadful
thing that could happen to anybody
would be not to be allowed to sleep
so that just as you’re dropping off
there’d be a ‘Dong’ and you’d have
to keep awake…Samuel Beckett in
preparation for writing his second
most famous surreal play, “Happy Days.”

The woman in the middle of the record 
store line in the 1988 video below might 
be actress Rita Tushingham (Dr. Zhivago, 
Last Night In Soho) or Sally Hawkins 
(Shape Of Water, Wish You Were Here, 
Spencer) 

Dame Maggie Smith is not in the video.
But she was at a *Downton* NYC Houston
St. Whole Foods sitting two tables away 
shortly after the 2022 Oscar ceremonies in LA.

I didn’t watch the Oscar’s but did see 
Dame Smith in “Death On The Nile”
and in the movie production of 
“Downton Abby.” 

I indiscreetly asked the “excuse me” Q-
(yes-tíon) which Mrs (Not Winnie, not 
Winston, not Will) Smith denied.  And 
DID NOT slap me for asking. 

And since “Every Day Is Sunday” I was 
not imbibing.  She was Maggie Smith
just as sure as the music in the Morrissey
video was probably not, as previously 
stated, by “The Smith’s.” 

The girl behind the record store counter 
in the video isn’t former U.S. intel 
specialist, Reality Winner pictured below. 
“Reality” made her initial reality debut a 
few years after this 1988 video was made. 

(Winner sent Trump-Russia classified 
material to The Intercept.  It’s likely
that Glenn Greenwald, of all people, 
directly or indirectly allowed FBI access
to same.  Resulting in her 5 year incarceration)

Is Reality Winner’s nickname “Winnie”
by any chance?   As an intel specialist 
she was involved in state-side language translation and Middle East drone attacks.  

Big change in appearance since this pic 
was taken (by her mom?) after prison and 
home confinement.  Trump stole boxes of
classified docs.  Winnie stole one document.





The Everyday Sunday video locates on a 
British beach resort that’s seen happier days.  

Life’s a beach and then you you die.  
But not before your sleep deprived 
“Happy Days" invite arrives. ¡Dong!

                           


The video is based on the “Happy Days”
Beckett play.  The driver is Beckett’s 
favorite actress Billie Whitelaw who 
I saw playing Winnie at the Old Vic in 
Beckett's “Happy Days" in 1970's London.  

In the play her captivating blonde 
head was the only visible part of her 
looking out over the beach sands 
(of time) stage setting.  

Not to mention the beach sands 
as metaphor for the layers of 
dresses, slips and petty coats 
some women wore in “days of yore.”

Here’s Asian Winnie quarantining 
without Willie with full handbag, 
sans beach and sand and maybe 
making fun of Rosina from 
“The Barber of Seville.”




Naturally after the 1970’s London play
I went to the bar next door and had 
two beers.  While walking down 
underground stairs…

…I can't blame Beckett or the beer.  
The combination along with a full 
backpack and rain sent me free-fall 
surfing down underground subway 
stairs and into to a free British 
dental clinic looking AWIL or 
“American Werewolf In London.” 

From London Underground…




Fictional Brit pub mates saved the day 
for one American.  Many of their
U.S. “Slaughtered Lamb” J6 ex-cop,
ambulance driving Trump moron
counterparts would’ve helped…
…the lycanthrope.  

Wondering what was playing at London’s
Old Vic theater these recent 2022 days?
Was it a multimedia presentation “The 47th?”  Dealing with guess who?





As the late great John Prine in his 
prime said before and, courtesy of
Harry Tuttle’s YT channel, says again…
“Some Humans Ain’t Human”







Speaking of which, below is 2021’s 
“Werewolves Within.”  Rural American 
oil pipeline comedy horror movie. 

The “innocent” female bystander in 
the bar turned out to be…the Irish 
accented xenomorph lycanthrope 
Post Office “Big Gov” Beasty, played 
perfectly by Russian immigrant voice
actor, Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub. 





Back To “Happy Days”









…the “Gong!” sound waking Winnie up 
on the set of “Happy Days” wasn’t a 
storytelling device to keep her and the 
audience from dozing.  Or maybe it was.

Billie Whitelaw died in 2014.  

I've had the “Everyday Sunday” video 

on this page since at least that time.  

It was only in 2016 that I recognized 

Whitelaw in the video and that she also 

happened to be a very close simulacra 

to a post 911 former girlfriend.  


Just my imagination?  Nope, my 

imagination isn’t up to processing 

half the strangeness I see everyday 

including Sunday.


Only after seeing the play again in 2017 

at BAM with Diane Weist as Winnie 

(female *Winston* Smith?) quarantining 

on the beach with Willie did I realize that...


 


Sudden sharp click sounds were used to 

similar effect in the BAM avant-garde 

revival “The Old Woman" costarring 

Willem Defoe and starring Russian 

born Mikhail Baryshnikov.  


Mikhail’s 2022 open letter to Putin: 

“‘World of Fear':…it is your Russia 

that will die from its own horror 

unless it wakes up…”


(Will Putin hear that ¡Dong! “woke” 
sound in his Russian very fast moving
“paranoid style” brain/ train he has to 
live/ travel in while waging Ukraine war?
Also a safe means of pandemic quarantine)

Sharp click sounds were also used in 

“Constellations" on Broadway with 

Jake Gyllenhaal. 


I saw Jake (“hey, it’s all about chu!
Nope, it’s about…) a jammed NYC 
auditorium with Jake talking about 
crime and cops just after playing a 
cop role. 

Female police union reps and US 
Marines at opposite ends of the 
auditorium gave Jake the predictable 
“copaganda” hard time.  (Likely not
the female police union reps making
the drug/ meth selling news recently) 

That’s what happens when movie 
stars try politics.  It happened to 
Matt Damon with Koch owned 
“Reason” magazine reporters 
hounding Matt back in the Obama years.

Back to Beckett:

Elon Musk named his tunneling drilling 

machine "Godot" from Beckett’s  “Waiting 

for Godot” (just leave off the last 2 letters).  

Because both were deliberately made to be 

so "boring."  


Recently the clicks became like angry loud 

cracks of sudden thunder similar in volume 

to that heard in "Personal Shopper" dealing 

with the paranormal.  Full frontal Kristen 

Stewart deserved a 2022 Oscar for “Spencer” 

as Lady Diana.  Lately?  Oiy!  Oi!  Oy!





It just so happens that as I re-edited this mess 
one day after the Aug. 21, 2017 eclipse that 
actual deafening cracks of thunder and rain 
hit my NYC windows.  

No ball lightning.  Ten years before I
actually saw ball lightning in my 2007 
apartment tracing the edge of my 
living room ceiling during a 
nasty thunder storm along with a 
slight static sound. 


Like the Liu Cixin SF novel 

“Ball Lightning” where China and 

the US go to war.  Deploying quantum 

“ball lightning” weapons.  “Stranger

Things” occur when *observing* 

quantum weapon states in the macro-verse. 

Observation?  Or the effects of gravity? 


No Trump Q-Cumber “hurricane guns,” 

alcohol or indoor Chinese spy balloons 

needed.  Ball Lightning is very real.  Let’s 

hope that kind of weaponry stays in the 

realm of fiction.


Like the sound of exploding 

ordinance in the summer of 2020 in 

Manhattan both before and after the 

4th of July COVID19 and BLM 

citywide demonstrations.  Thunder 

echoing off buildings?  Yes.  Fireworks 

by BLM demonstrators?  Leading to fake 

gun shot reports by “Citizen” neighborhood watch.



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On my last day at work a 6' 4" 

black co-worker made a point of 

telling me what I would find among 

what he called “daytime people.” 

I was about to become one of them.


Like many others I refused to 
believe that what I was seeing 
in 2015 and 2016 in NYC would 
somehow translate into the 2016
presidential Electoral College win 
for a 71 year old rich clown New 
Yorker with spray tan painted cheeks, 
hair and eyebrows enabling
him to lose the popular vote to 
Hillary Clinton.  And lose the 2020
popular vote again to Joe Biden. 

One place where he gets his votes?   
Bar, restaurant, hotel, gym, condo
owners in debt.  All rooting for one 
of their own.  Or so they “think.”

After the “2008 Great Recession”
debt/ bank bailout all those 
mentioned above just went further 
into the red which meant owning,
refinancing more bars, gym’s, 
condos and hotels.

In 2020 they were first in line 
for Trump COVID PPP loan relief.  
For employees they had and didn’t 
have and for businesses they didn’t own.  Many had fake and legit loans forgiven.  
Many J6’ers were put in prison.  2025?
More loans and many pardons?  The
MAGA brand of socialism.  

Plus a Mike Johnson 2025 repeal of 
*socialust* ACA, Obamacare.  Or
the Heritage Project 2025?  “Reform” 
of Social Security and Medicare?  
Publicly denied and privately discreetly 
shouted via “Medicare Advantage”
and disguised weekly Medicare update 
adverts for same. 

Trump wants to bomb meth/ 
fentanyl labs in Mexico.  Not a 
bad or smart idea.  Didn’t work 
in Afghanistan.  Mexican cartels, 
with more $, proximity and weapons 
than the Taliban, can do the same.  
To US cities.  



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