At the Crossroads of Tigerland?

I came across an article about a brilliant young artist named Joel Rea in a news story in the Sunday paper pictured at the top of this post.
The news story mentioned the painting of a tiger at an inner city intersection, or crossroads, which was titled 'Crossroads'.
The Richmond Tigers had just won their first Grand Final in 37 years to the score of 108 to 60 over the Adelaide Crows.
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"The number 108 is found typically in esoteric and religious systems such as in Hinduism, though it can crop up anytime in much the same way as other enigmatic numbers."

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FLIGHT 815 T-SHIRT

"Chinese astrology and Tao philosophy holds that there are 108 sacred stars.
In ancient India, vedic seers had calculated the following distances which modern scientific measurements have reconfirmed: the distance between the Earth and Moon is 108 times the diameter of the Moon, the distance between the Earth and Sun is 108 times the diameter of the Sun, and that the diameter of the Sun is 108 times the diameter of the Earth."

"Hindu deities have 108 names.

Recital of these names, often accompanied by counting of 108-beaded Mala.

The human body is thought to have 108 pressure points where consciousness and flesh intersect giving rise to the living being."

"In the television series LOST, a underground bunker, or "hatch," controlled a leakage of electromagnetic energy by computer, and the computer had to be reset every 108 minutes. The heiroglyphs on the wheel of numbers are said by the creaters of LOST to stand for "underworld." The other numbers of LOST which appear in many places and incidents surrounding the characters all add to 108: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42."

"In 2016 the Chicago Cubs (MLB) won the World Series for the first time in 108 years, ending the longest championship drought in North American professional sports.

The Cubs' win came in the 10th inning with 8 runs (108)."

Today is the 8th of October, or as Americans write the date 10/8 and I just saw this news story on the net -

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ELEVATION

DEPTHS OF A MEMORY

Oh, we're from Tigerland

A fighting fury, we're from Tigerland

In any weather, you will see us with a grin

Risking head and shin

If we're behind, then never mind

We'll fight and fight and win

For we're from Tigerland

We never weaken 'till the final siren's gone

Like the tiger of old

We're strong and we're bold

For we're from Tiger yellow and black

We're from Tigerland

"...'till the final siren's gone"?!

"Jack Malcolmson is credited with writing the words to the song in 1962, adapting them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row" (Monaco/Jerome), a show tune from the Ziegfeld Follies of 1912. Richmond were using words sung to the tune of Waltzing Matilda at the time and approached Malcolmson, a cabaret singer who was performing regularly at the Richmond Football Club Social Club, to write the lyrics.

The current version of the song used by the club is a 1972 recording performed by the Fable Singers.

In 2014, the Herald Sun named it the top club song of any AFL team."

Wave or particle?

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CONQUEST

Watching my team take on the
Richmond Tigers
 at the MCG, June 2016

Richmond certainly came a long way from when I saw them play my team at the same venue last year when Richmond finished 13th - 
Reflections and Refractions of Richmond

The final placings for the 2016 table

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The weird thing from my weekend in Melbourne last year was the day after I saw the Brisbane Lions/Richmond Tigers play I went to AMMI Park to see the Melbourne Storm play Wests Tigers.

My view at AAMI Park on June 26th, 2016

The Melbourne Storm would lose to my team the Cronulla Sharks in the 2016 NRL Grand Final, but would win the 2017 NRL Grand Final the day after Richmond won the AFL Grand Final.

The cowboy statue in Las Vegas
in the 'Twin Peaks' TV show;-)

I was hoping that the Cowboys would win, but I guess we can't all be heroes just for one day;-)

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Joel Rea's 'Mick Fanning: Edge of Infinity'

I just hope that The Storm winning this year isn't a bad omen for the rest of 2017.

Joel Rea's 'THE TIME HAS COME'

Joel Rea's 'THE PROMISED LAND'

'Maybe it's the calm before the storm,' Trump says as he gathers with military leaders

Let's hope Trump's storm warning is nothing but a storm in a teacup like the 2016 NRL Grand Final turned out to be;-)

Yours truly at the 2016 NRL Grand Final celebrations

And while it was good to see the Tiges breaking their 37-year drought I'd have to say that as much as I think tigers are a cool totem, I'm more of a crow person ... though not really an Adelaide fan.
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UPDATE: 9th October, 2017

I saw this news story this morning at the BBC news website.

"A keeper at the park near Bangalore was reported to have been injured two years ago by lions."

Joel Rea's painting 'Solo'