let me remember now...tante nini....my swiss-french aunt...

tante nini going all existential...over THE VICAR OF DIBLEY...which she never missed...watched on some BBC overseas channel...the french loved it too, i might add...nini was to talk about it as CLOCHEMERLE...along the lines of the village and church committee...."it is so bad - how can it exist? but it does and that is the ENIGMA..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clochemerle


...for my own part - i was deeply conflicted by the series...having seen the inception of it - at dartington was one thing....to then see the series 'for real' on TV was another...and so i didn't watch it...even though my parents did and enjoyed it greatly...so what was bothering me so much about it?

....having watched 'extras' on that dvd...i was to understand why - in so many ways....beginning with one of the crew talking about matthew parris - who apparently 'came out' as gay - in parliament...in the early hours of the morning...when there were no press around and only 4 MPs to witness what he had said...and so he had to 'do it all again' at a later date, in order to impress his point....the crew member then talks about how they had figured that it would be fun to have one of the village committee do the same thing, on DIBLEY radio...the overall point being?

DIBLEY parish committee was being conflated with BRITISH GOVERNMENT...and that was what had been making me so uneasy about the whole series...the madmen and mad robots in power....

....and so i didn't feel able to laugh at it, at all - even though it was funny...as the french had done...i was to figure "perhaps the french/continentals are laughing at it for the wrong reasons...they are not laughing for the 'same reasons' as british audiences, are they?" i then thought about the french and their reaction to CLOCHEMERLE....a mixed reaction, in relation to audiences - and something along the lines of "we are not that bad, are we?"...for the majority to then say something like..."we don't care - it's funny...we can laugh at ourselves"...

....and having thought the above through and from a continental perspective...i figured...this is all about the destruction of the UK, isn't it? falling apart at the seams...dibley parish council is full of madmen...so is UK government....and the 'enigma' is that it exists at all? what is going on here? there had to be a better way than just laughing about it all in a somewhat helpless fashion....

...and that is where the whole anglo-irish nazi party - allied to the norwegian national socialist party comes up again...and that train journey from wales to cambridge....along with emet and his 'behind the scenes' production of ALEXANDER as a pisstake of the irish nazi party....and mel brooks in relation to the enigma that he was to pose with THE PRODUCERS...."it is so bad - how can it exist? but it does exist and that is the engima..."

...do you see how it goes?....are we just going to laugh about it or do something about it etc etc?...and that is what had been going through my mind, at the time...

'escape to NY' was a way of coping with 'all of the above'...gill and i were happy there, for a while - if it is possible to say that - despite 'green tower' being a hell-hole, in many ways...because we both loved new technology, photography and film...as well as having a hand in scientific research projects etc etc...mcdonald was to lead the CIA LAB onto fresh pastures let us say..."to go where no man has gone before" quips BI ONLINE.

...the one 'fly in the ointment' had been roz, hadn't it? she hadn't wanted to be in 'military intelligence' and she wasn't happy at all - whilst working at green tower, in the CIA LAB...all roz had ever wanted to be - was a HOLLYWOOD movie star...and so one can say that she was also definitely 'on the wrong list'...to then go behind our backs and plan our downfall....in basically, every way that she could do...in order to 'earn it'...to substitute on the system for RENE ZELLWEGER....see previous notes upon 'what happened next'....once the CIA had learned what roz had been up to...