Linkin' logs

Is Lin Wood still around? I haven't heard anything about him for a spell.

Back in December, I identified Lin Wood as the "alligator" in "The Battle of New Orleans," because he is an allegator (a maker of allegations), and because he is widely perceived to have "lost his mind." (Why did he lose his mind? Just as in the song, they filled his head with cannonballs. Cannon = QAnon, and balls = a colloquialism meaning either "rubbish" or "chutzpah.")

I have also noted that his name is the equivalent of "Wood Wood," because the Chinese surname Lin (林) means "wood, forest." In Mr. Wood's case, "Lin" is short for Lincoln -- which brings us back to wood by way of Lincoln Logs (a close cousin to Tinkertoys!). In fact, his name, Lincoln Wood, basically is Lincoln Logs.

Recent synchronicities involving doubled words and names -- Tintin, 50/50, Snow Snow, Never Never, Nix Nix -- brought "Wood Wood" back to mind, and I realized that "wooden" alligators are featured in Prisoners of the Sun.

The "trunks" that are not really trunks also makes me think of the old theme of fake elephant trunks discussed here: Fox sewing a hose on Slow Joe Crow's nose, and both Calvin and Ernie putting socks on their ears and noses. Calvin's purpose in so doing is to be "an elephant," while Ernie does it as part of a guessing game. The punchline of the Bert and Ernie sketch is the word "neck." Bert has been tricked into guessing "nose" when in fact the answer is "neck." You know what else neck means? Here's part of a Wikipedia disambiguation page:

Remember that nihhus, the Old High German cognate of nix and neck, also means "crocodile." Bert thought, because of the fake "trunk" Ernie was wearing, that he was thinking of the word nose -- but in fact he was thinking of neck. In Prisoners of the Sun, Tintin thinks he sees "trunks," but in fact they are those close cousins of the neck or nihhus -- alligators!

I suppose these free-association synchronicity posts of mine could themselves be called "linkin' logs," couldn't they?

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war

This album cover has been on my mind lately. No particular reason . . .

And when we touched the powder off . . .

I've already identified Lin Wood as the "alligator" in "The Battle of New Orleans" (allegator = maker of allegations) -- and, like clockwork, they've filled his head with Qanon-balls and powdered his behind. He's just let loose with a rash of highly specific allegations -- including that Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself because he is still alive -- so off the wall that people are asking if he's lost his mind. Vox Day's comment:

Given that some of the objects of his criticism have publicly threatened defamation lawsuits, either Lin Woods is off his rocker or he is in possession of hard evidence. 

By the way, I'm getting a pretty strong Hickory vibe from this guy, who even bears a certain physical resemblance to Andy Jackson, and whose name is basically Wood Wood Wood. (Lucian Lincoln "Lin" Wood. Lucian, from a Latin root that means "grove" as well as "light"; Lincoln as in Lincoln Logs; even Lin means "wood" in Chinese.)

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Also: I'm not sure why I didn't think of this before, after posting so much about Old Hickory and also citing Aleister Crowley on the Kabbalistic interpretation of nursery rhymes.

Hickory, dickory, dock.

I think dickery means something along the lines of "shenanigans," or maybe just being a dick. In this case, though, I think the relevant meaning comes from the old use of dick to mean "detective." Dickery means detective work, collecting evidence.

Dock: "in the dock" means "on trial."

The mouse ran up the clock.

To "run up the clock" means to drag things out, treading water until the deadline arrives. Both sides are doing this, so I'm not sure who or what the "mouse" is.

The clock struck one,

The traditional deadline is 12:00 midnight, so the clock striking one means things not being resolved until after the usual date.

The mouse ran down,

Vehicular assault? Running out of steam? Running down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico? It all depends on the identity of the "mouse."

Hickory, dickory, dock.

Yeah, they ran through the Breyers

 From "The Battle of New Orleans":

Yeah, they ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

The briers = the Supreme Court, as typified by Justice Stephen Breyer -- who, according to allegator Lin Wood, has it in for the President

This may be most important tweet of my life.

Chief Justice John Roberts is corrupt & should resign immediately. Justice Stephen Breyer should also resign immediately.

They are “anti-Trumpers” dedicated to preventing public from knowing TRUTH of @realDonaldTrump re-election.

— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) December 17, 2020

The brambles = ?

The bushes = the RINO establishment, as typified by the Bush family

A rabbit = Justice Amy Coney Barrett -- either individually or as representing the pro-Trump faction within the Supreme Court. (The indirect article is significant: a rabbit = A. Coney!)

The hounds = surely not God! No one can outrun God.

And here's Dolly Parton.