NostraDOORmouse returns

[Sorry for the gap in postings. Mrs. Skippy is still recuperating from her bike accident and really pressing me on this "in sickness and in health" care-giving thing.]

I'd like to take an unusual turn in this Weekly Beastie entry.

You remember the 16th-century French seer Michel de Nostradamus (1503-1566), right? He was all over the news back during Y2K. Not so much lately, though.

That's why I was elated to see it's almost time for the release of John Hogue's latest book, NOSTRADAMUS: The War with Iran. 'Bout time, I'd say. For the book, that is.

Hogue's promotional blurb says he "does not only research and interpret the 400- year-old Nostradamus quatrains. He brings his own prophecy gift to bear on the events unfolding now— which no other 'authority' on Nostradamus is able to do."

But Hogue fails to answer the most pressing question of the day: Who will win the NBA playoffs?

I did some of my own research here. Several quatrain seemed to apply:

"Before the coming of Celtic ruin,
In the temple two will parley
Pike and dagger to the heart of one mounted on the steed,
They will bury the great one without making any noise."

Well, the Celtics' season was "ruined" early on and ended with a 91-89 loss to Detroit back in April, so that's obviously out of time sequence. "The Great One," Dirk Nowitzky, although named MVP, went down "without making a noise" with the rest of the Mavs early in the playoffs.

The "one mounted on the steed" would be the Cavaliers, and they're currently down 2-1 against the Pistons. This quatrain says don't bet on LeBron James to pull it out. (I guess a piston probably looked like a pike to a 16th-century guy.)

But I'm really more interested in the Western Division anyway.

Here's something in Century 4, Quatrain 79:

"Blood Royal flee, Monheurt, Mas, Aiguillon,
The Landes will be filled by Bordelais,
Navarre, Bigorre points and spurs,
Deep in hunger to devour acorns of the cork oak."

Obviously, after a night celebrating with French wine, the Spurs will be too exhausted to clinch the victory over the Utah Jazz and later will "devour acorns of the cork oak" in the locker room, referring to an ancient NBA traditional purging after bitter losses.

Although "jazz" is not mentioned at all in the Nostradamus prophecies, music is:

"Second and third, which make prime music, By the King to be sublimated in honor: Through the fat and the thin almost emaciated."

This means the Jazz will win three, but only just scraping by with an "emaciated" victory to clinch the division championship.

And the Championship series itself?

Unfortunately, the quatrains are silent.

UPDATE: The Spurs are in the championship game after all. Perhaps this was really all about hockey.


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