La Esponja Grande

May 14-15, 2010

Ultra Bonus

Notes from Dave Letzler

The Ultra, as we said on-air, was Events from the Book of Revelation.

Clue 1 Google Map of the current locations of the Seven Churches of Asia to whom Revelation is addressed
Clue 2 The plant Wormwood shadowing one third of the world's rivers, as the star Wormwood darkens the rivers in Revelation. (The fairy also represents a star, as well as being the absinthe fairy, which is a variety of wormwood).
Clue 3 Four hoarse men
Clue 4 Lit Slits of apocalpytic literature, respectively Left Behind, Yeats' "The Second Coming," and Pratchett+Gaiman's Good Omens
Clue 5 Clips of the songs "Babylon" by David Gray (Revelation features the destruction of Babylon), "Blow Gabriel Blow" from Anything Goes, and Iron Maiden's "Number of the Beast."
Clue 6 Chemical formulas for fire, jacinth, and brimstone
Clue 7 Seven seals
Clue 8 Hans Memling's painting "St. John at Patmos," Albrecht Dürer's sketch "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalyse," and Michelangelo's "The Last Judgment"

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