open up your mind, and [ku ku ku, baby]

[intertribal]

I've taken to spending my mornings watching the crisis shows on NatGeo - Seconds From Disaster, Critical Situation, Final Report, and of course, Air Emergency (which is what the Brits call Air Crash Investigation).  By the time the lame-o historical shows come on in the afternoon, there's Law & Order on TNT.  I have to say, I've learned a lot.  I think they're genuinely useful programs.  The Air France Hijack episode has a lot to say about counter-terrorism - what works (negotiation, concession), and what doesn't (refusal to compromise, refusal to accept international help) - and the avalanche in Galteur, well, changed conceptions about the existence of safe zones.  I can't say there's much to learn from the Columbia disaster, sadly - I think the lesson the U.S. has taken home from that disaster is "abandon the space program, the deaths are too dramatic". 

I bought the soundtrack to Sunshine.  It's good, but very creepy - creepier than I remember the movie being.  I also bought "Ku Ku Ku," "This Golden Wedding of Sorrow," and "Bring In The Night."    God I love Death in June.  

New layout inspired by both Death in June and Air Crash Investigation is now complete! 

Comments

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

antifreeze is poison :)

not all of the books i read were about survival, either. esp. the non-fiction. i used to want to be a biologist.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

nor does having a fiction book about somebody surviving in the wilderness necessitate that the book is about survival...rather than ecology, or coming-of-age, or family, or nature/culture, or whatever.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

what I'm saying is this guy had a house and food (mice) and tech equipment. survival was not a plot point - the survival of the wolves was the plot point.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

he ate mice?

all i'm saying is that i didn't mean to imply that my chief interest was in survival, and nothing else, such that a book where 'ecology' was the chief interest would not have been grouped by me into exactly the same category just now, whether survival was a plot point or not.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

yes, he ate mice. there were many, many mice. even the wolves ate mice (that was what they ate when the caribou herd was elsewhere).

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

yeah, I remember when you wanted to be in physics too.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

i still kinda like physics... i s'pose i remember what attracted me to all of these things, but i still like where i am now better.

because i didn't want to buy a new razor when my luggage went away, i now have armpit hair for the first time in years. it's entertaining to me. also apparently i've stopped half of my leg hair from growing at all. it just grows in splotches. ew.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

years? good lord.

that is weird about the splotches though.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

i let my legs go often, but i shower almost every single day (because i am greasy and smelly), and occasionally i forget to shave my armpits, but rarely long enough that anything significant grows back.

yeah, i dunno.