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Saturday, August 31, 2024

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) 

The late 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, are 
you…?” 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 below isn’t former U.S. intel 
specialist, Reality Winner.  “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 star reporter at the time 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.  











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.”

The monologue is based on but isn’t from 
the original.




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 subway stairs and into 
to a free British dental clinic looking 
AWIL or “American Werewolf In London.” 

From London Pub to underground moors…



Brit pub mates were late to the rescue. 
U.S. “Slaughtered Lamb” J6 mutant 
counterparts would’ve helped…
…the lycanthrope.  

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
actress, Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub. 





Back To “Happy Days”



Chinese Lip-ups?


Billie Whirelaw and Beckett:






…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 1st video and that she also 

happened to be a very close simulacra 

to a post 911 former girlfriend.  How

possible?  


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 lives in 
while waging Ukraine war?  The train was 
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 choo! 
Nope, it’s about…) a jammed NYC 
auditorium with Jake talking about 
crime and cops just after 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…
or maybe they were) 

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.  Kristen lately?  





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 Manhattan 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,” no

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 city-

wide 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, 
Aryan dyed 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.  2025?  
Maybe more loans and many pardons?  
If the MAGA brand of $ocialism prevails.

Plus a Mike Johnson 2025 repeal of 
*socialust* ACA, Obamacare?  Replaced
by the Heritage Project 2025?  “Reform” 
of Social Security and Medicare?  
Publicly denied and privately discreetly 
shouted via “Medicare Advantage”
and disguised weekly Medicare 
Advantage adverts aimed at seniors.

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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