Normally I wouldn’t care about a football team’s mascot, but synchronicity, symbolism, and the circumstantial significance of today’s game means I am absolutely taking notice of what kind of animal South Dakota State University will be sporting on their gear when they play for the FCS Championship 122 miles from where Sean’s family lives in Texas.

It was an Instagram post about a menu offering that clued me in to the fact the JACKRABBIT is the mascot for SDSU. It would take too long to go through ALL the ways RABBITS are significant to me, but to name a few there’s Watership Down, which my little girl recently watched on Netflix, there’s Donnie Darko, with Frank as the time-traveling conduit of Gnostic revelation, and a book literally called RABBITS, which contains all the tropes I’m compelled by, including synchronicity.

There’s also been a bunch of Irish stuff coming up, including my quick dive into the history of Columbia Gardens, in Butte, Montana, so I’ll mention that POOKA, which is described in Wikipedia as a shapeshifter:

The púca (Irish for spirit/ghost; plural púcaí), puca (Old English for goblin) pwca, pooka, phouka, puck is a creature of Celtic, English, and Channel Islands folklore. Considered to be bringers both of good and bad fortune, they could help or hinder rural and marine communities. Púcaí can have dark or white fur or hair. The creatures were said to be shape-changers that could take the appearance of horses, goats, cats, dogs, and hares. They may also take a human form, which includes various animal features, such as ears or a tail.

Another theme I catch, since I’m a poet, are references to poetry, especially if the name WILLIAM is involved (my middle name). A good example of this is the use of William Carlos Williams’ poem, The Red Wheelbarrow, in the tv show, Mr. Robot. So I took notice when the second theory explaining the origin story of the Jackrabbit mascot included a poem:

The second theory comes from SDSU’s yearbook, The Jack Rabbit. In 1907, a poem written by a group of juniors was featured in the yearbook. This poem changed the name of the yearbook from The Quirt to The Jack Rabbit. Many believe that following this, the athletic teams adopted the Jackrabbit as SDSU’s mascot.

Another show I will be writing about soon is called Severence and WOW is it a heavy watch! The symbols and synchronicities are so thick that, even right now, as I am writing this, Jim Morrison was just “selected” by my iPod shuffle, and the song has a reference to time right at the beginning (Soul Kitchen), which echoes the Saturnian time symbolism in the show.

The rabbit reference in the show? It’s quick and subtle–just a simple rabbit on a cheesy sign on the wall as the character, Burt, has his going away party–but it got me thinking about the Burt/Irvine relationship, which veers absurdly toward being romantic (Christopher Walken and John Turturro). Burt and Irvine? Kind of close to Burt and Ernie, from Sesame Street. 

While that reference might be a bit of a stretch, the show really is packed with symbolic meaning–and I think it will be this blog space that I will be using to try and unpack some of the creative content I’ve been consuming recently, and how it fits within a society/culture that can allow black men to be euthanized and executed in a supposed Mecca of WOKEness I’ve called Zoom Town since the fear virus was launched in 2020, around the same time Sean was murdered by…who? 

I’ll tell you who did NOT murder Sean Stevenson: Johnny Lee Perry. And what song is playing from my iPod RIGHT NOW? The Perfect Crime, by The Decembrists, a band fronted by a guy from Helena, Montana–same locale where L. Ron Hubbard grew up. Ok, I think I’ll leave it there for now.

Go Jackrabbits!