Hey, does anyone notice a similarity?

Ian Whateley · Post by **Ian Whateley** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:31 pm

I was just wondering if anyone had noticed how, in the right light, Barack Obama's face looks a lot like that of H. P. Lovecraft. Spooky.

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:56 pm

i'm gonna have to see this light you're talking about. i've seen them both use a similar sort of stony expression... other than that it's not ringing a bell

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:32 pm

Yah I can't really see the resemblance, if Lovecraft were alive he'd probably be insulted by your comparison, being such a full blown racist and all.

miz redavni · Post by **miz redavni** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:08 pm

a whiney little bitch looking like a hatefiled famous writer? O.o can it get any worst?

Ian Whateley · Post by **Ian Whateley** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:45 pm

I don't know. The more I think about the similarity, the more another one comes up...

Nyarlathotep shall appear as a dark-skinned man. Chaos will follow him, and he shall travel the globe with his fanatic following driving men mad. He will herald the rise of the Old Ones.

Obama, the charismatic presidential candidate, has brough "Obamania" to the nation's youth. He has already upset the status quo of politics by being the first African-American to get his far in presidential elections. He has been on a record spree of international travel. He claims we will bring Change.

None of this, of course, will change the fact that I'm voting CTHULHU FOR PRESIDENT, but it still makes me wonder. Hey, Lovecraft predicted Pluto becoming not a planet, didn't he?

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:08 pm

he did what? you're talking crazy talk now. pluto = yuggoth

Ian Whateley · Post by **Ian Whateley** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:50 pm

Exactly. And Lovecraft said that mankind had discovered Pluto because the Mi-Go wanted, but the day would come when the Mi-Go would decide to change man's attitude towards Pluto, and possibly even forget it was a planet...

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:05 pm

was that in 'the whisperer in darkness'? that's one of the stories i've only read one time, so the details aren't all familiar.

i know there's some non-hpl material concerning yuggoth (example: 'discovery of the ghooric zone'). 'expanded universe' stuff tends to bear less importance for me than the original framework. but it's not always easy to tell one from the other...

TheEdge · Post by **TheEdge** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:32 am

I dont see the similarities at all. Do you mean when he is seen from his side profile or straight on view?

Book: Obama the post modern Coup; The Making of a Manchurian Candidate

Ian Whateley · Post by **Ian Whateley** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:11 pm

Almost straight on, with a slight angle, like the Lovecraft photo at the top of the stack on the
"The Temple of Dagon" header at the top of this page.

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:23 pm

lovecraft518 · Post by **lovecraft518** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:49 pm

Yeah, no.

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 9:26 pm

wait maybe if I stand on my head...no...no, Ian wtf?

lovecraft518 · Post by **lovecraft518** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 2:17 pm

No, this is my friend Jason:

If Jason had a longer face....

Ian Whateley · Post by **Ian Whateley** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:00 pm

Maybe it is just my insanity bar filling up and causing delusions. I could have sworn the ears were the same for a moment.