Friday, May 1, 2026

Guy Fawkes mask

On April 29, I watched what I assume is some kind of LARP on the alt-Mormon channel Zion Media (run by Shane Baldwin, who has some serious red-flag physiognomy but often has interesting guests), an interview with a man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask and claiming to have inside information about the arrival of a mysterious figure prophesied by Isaiah.


The next day, April 30, Debbie left some comments on my post "From the Jolly Switzer to Dark Spirits and savagery" bringing up V for Vendetta, the film that made the Guy Fawkes mask part of our shared cultural vocabulary. (The link to my post was rather tenuous; an image of piano keys in my post reminded her of dominoes, and dominoes feature in the film.)


And the next day, today, May 1, I withdrew some cash from an ATM and found that they had put up a sign warning people about fraud, with the fraudster portrayed as a man in a Guy Fawkes mask.


Just a few weeks earlier, on April 11, I had written a summary of the story of Guy Fawkes for use on an English test. I chose the topic somewhat randomly. I needed to include certain key words, including parliament and penalty, and the Gunpowder Plot was what happened to come to mind.
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Guy Fawkes mask

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