Leapin' and Hoppin' On A Moonshadow with Gort

Moonshadow, Moonshadow!
And if I ever lose my mouth,

all my teeth, north and south,
Yes if I ever lose my mouth,

Oh if.... I won't have to talk...

Did it take long to find me?

I asked the faithful light.
Did it take long to find me?

And are you gonna stay the night?
Oh, I'm bein' followed by a moonshadow,
moonshadow, moonshadow
Leapin and hoppin' on a moonshadow,
moonshadow, moonshadow
=== S. Georgiou


Yep! Wednesday, March 29, 2006. The day has come. The Total Solar Eclipse tm! will not be visible in North America. :o( boo hiss boo. Annie remembers the first solar eclipse we viewed as children. Very exciting. After the panic anxiety dissipated from all the stern adult warnings about "going blind," a different hushed creepiness filtered into Annie's overactive imagination. What if ... like ... Klaatu and Gort were *really* landing? And the solar eclipse was all made up! And and and .... what should we do??? The Day The Earth Stood Still could be happening! Run chicken little, Run! Well, this is what Annie did after seriously and solemnly heeding the advice of her older brother. In the days preceding the ::::ooOoOoooh:::: Total Solar Eclipse tm! we memorized the infamous words that made *GORT* Stand Still! Do you remember them too?

Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!

It works!

Say them with me now: "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!"

Now, you'll be safe and can keep your loved ones safe. Do you think if *we* ... as a collective society for a return to sanity ... repeated those words over and over and over and over ... that we could make the Bush Administration well, just sort of disappear?? They've already landed and seem hell bent on destroying the planet. hm. Let's try! We started out here last week in preparation. And Look, Ma! It's working! The Card was marked! Chief of Staff resigns. Repeat after me! "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!" Hey, according to the newsy items, many superstitions have become enmeshed with solar eclipse events. Some believe that Kings are born and that Kings die during them. Let's start a new one. As we chant the GORT stopper during this and future solar eclipses, very bad leaders and toxic sorts of Kings will *just* ::::poof:::: and implode like parasitic mold spores left out in the bright light of the Sun rays. A cosmic bleaching so to speak. Now don't go taking Annie's idea too seriously. We do *not* advocate the deaths of anyone. Far from our moral stand. However, a censure and/or impeachment hearing would surely go a long way in salving some of the wounds. In the longest run, it's still a personal spiritual change that has to occur. We do not claim any particular political affiliation. For Annie's "crew," we view most politicians from both "sides" as seemingly cut from the same cloth, groomed genetically, and hellbent on selling out one's soul for greediness of all sorts. It's a message that "Klaatu" from Robert Wise's "The Day The Earth Stood Still" tried to bring the leaders of "planet Earth." Basically, that sci-fi chiller & thriller was rather prophetic, in our humbled opinion. SO! Here we go!

"Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!" Keep chanting!

As you feverishly memorize the line to keep in your memorex forever and ever, here is a very cool news item on The Total Solar Eclipse tm!

Solar eclipse calls on dragons and spirits
Richard Ingham
Agençe France-Presse Wednesday, 29 March 2006

It has been called the Sun-eating dragon, the spirit of the dead and the eye of God.

It has been a harbinger of great events, good and evil - famines, bumper harvests, wars, and the birth and death of kings.

Later today, we'll know it as the total eclipse of the Sun, when the Moon will be perfectly aligned with our star, and the lunar shadow will alight on the tip of eastern Brazil.

Racing eastwards across the Atlantic, the umbra will reach the coast of Ghana, then head across Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Libya, where the eclipse will be at its longest, lasting 4 minutes, 7 seconds, and then northwestern Egypt.

It will then zip across the Mediterranean, passing between Crete and Cyprus before making landfall in Turkey, traversing Georgia, southern Russia and then in Kazakhstan.

The shadow briefly crosses Russia again before expiring at sunset in Mongolia after a marathon of 3 hours, 12 minutes and 14,500 kilometres.

"Nothing can be surprising any more, or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians, has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and ... fear has come upon mankind," wrote the Greek poet Archilochus after an eclipse in 648 BC.

"After this, men can believe anything, expect anything."

Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart
----B. Tyler

1982 Lost Boys Music

GORT! Klaatu barada nikto!