More syncs related to the "Glove Puppet" video and crop circles

It turns out (see Debbie's comment here) that my most recent reference to the Locust Grove crop circle (pdf), in "Michael the glove puppet and X the Owl," was posted on the 19th anniversary of the appearance of that formation on August 24, 2003. On the same date in 2004 a very similar formation appeared in Miamisburg, Ohio (pdf).

The glove puppet referenced in the title of that post is from an episode of the British TV show Pipkins. As WanderingGondola pointed out in a comment, the broadcaster's logo features a vesica piscis -- actually, two overlapping vesicae, each with a circle inscribed in it to make an eye shape (as in the Locust Grove formation), and these circles overlap to form a third vesica. The whole thing bears more than a passing resemblance to the 2004 Miamisburg crop formation.

Here's a schematic representation of the geometry of the ATV logo, which is based on four overlapping circles forming two vesicae piscium in which smaller circles are inscribed.

There's another well-known logo that approximates this same geometry pretty closely.

WanderingGondola also calls attention to two other interesting features of the Pipkins video. At the end of the glove puppet story, Johnny asks Moony to ask Michael to say the word it's, which he does. Then a series of images of clocks flashes on the screen for a few seconds, and then the word Time. Johnny then appears, completing the sentence: "[It's time] for me to make a glove puppet."

This fits with recent syncs involving such phrases as "It's time," "Now is the time," "The time is now," and "Time's up." (See "Owl time, and cold noodles." I notice now that the owl featured on that post is blue, like X and Meneer de Uil.)

Also, the credits at the end feature a name which is interesting in the context of the Mormon doctrine that Adam, the first man, is the same individual as Michael the Archangel.

WanderingGondola also notes that X the Owl get his name from the word escape, mispronounced by Daniel Striped Tiger as X-scape, and that Xscape also happens to be the name of a posthumously released Michael Jackson song and album. Check out what, according to IMDb, Michael Eve was doing just before his work on Pipkins.

Of course the series is a decade too early to have anything to do with Michael Jackson's Thriller, but the name is still quite a coincidence. It's not a just a Michael Jackson album; it's the Michael Jackson album, the only one a non-fan like myself would be able to name off the top of my head.

Michael Eve also worked on a series called Knock on Any Door in 1966. In the O. Henry story "The Green Door," the protagonist, Rudolf Steiner (no relation!) is handed a mysterious card with "The Green Door" written on it, and responds by entering a nearby apartment building, seeing a green door, and knocking on it. Only much later does he discover that all the doors in the building are green, and that he could have knocked on any one of them.

The Green Door

I received an email from an anonymous stranger, about how some of my recent posts have tied in with synchronicities she has been experiencing regarding the Green Door.

She relates how she ran into a reference on a message board to "a glimpse behind the green door," which she said is "intelligence slang for restricted information and locations," and then later the same day overheard the 1956 pop song "Green Door," which was part of the soundtrack of a movie her housemate was watching. Looking up the song on Wikipedia, she discovered that it may have been inspired by the 1906 O. Henry story "The Green Door," about a man named, of all things, Rudolf Steiner.  Wikipedia opines that "O. Henry uses the eponymous green door as a symbol for everyday adventures which he encourages us to seek out," and the emailer said that my recent exploration of an abandoned restaurant (described in "Owl time, and cold noodles") seemed to be an example of that.

She can't have known, because I didn't mention it in my post, that in order to enter that restaurant I had had to pass through a literal green door.

My own syncs, of course, have not been about the Green Door but rather about the Owl Door. Nevertheless, I thought I might as well look up the O. Henry story and read it. When I ran a Google search on o henry the green door, one of the first results was this:

Apparently, Owl Eyes -- named after the Great Gatsby character -- is a website that has various literary texts with annotations. I had never heard of it until today.

My own first association when I hear "green door" is Bilbo Baggins. In the first chapter of The Hobbit, Gandalf "scratched a queer sign on the hobbit’s beautiful green front-door," later explaining that the sign meant "Burglar wants a good job, plenty of excitement and reasonable reward."

I suppose that by "breaking into" the abandoned restaurant, and even pilfering a few figs, I have officially become a burglar.

(Note: Original post modified after discovering that the anonymous emailer is actually female.)