I'm awed.
And a bit frightened.
"i" of Newb (and aeou to boot) and post of Troll?
What strange cauldron, what strange charms... brrr.
holding our breath?
We're not holding our breath. In fact, the collective amount of hot air expended should be factored into current climate models.
In Winnipeg, tossing around "The Latest" about that leadership campaign in that other country just south of us is basic conversation fodder where I live. Better than our non-event election. Harper. Feh. blah. pfft. moving on...
Growing up I somehow came to see the US as this crazy conflicted place that didn't seem all that great (sometimes pretty awful, actually)... but it always seemed to be aspiring to some great image of itself. Then (it seemed to me) it stopped aspiring for a while.
I think that apathy might be cracking. "Way" back Obama and Hillary were still fighting it out I remarked to a friend that even if he didn't enact all that much change, Obama as De Prez could effect a great change the mindset of America at Large. He could change the way they thought about themselves and their country. His campaign, and his "image", has always seems to be based on believing people actually want to know details. about things. Like, important things. That affect them personally and stuff.
Sure, I know he's great with the rhetoric, too. But I still stand by the comment.
Keith @ 22
I think that show sort of exists. They called it Eureka.
Conscripted Sherriff? yup.
(mad?) Scientists,and their creations run amok? Definitely.
Parodying Conspiracy Theories? Check!
Not so much with the mass makeouts. At least not the episodes I've seen.
Thank you Patrick, I had not heard of that twisted metaphor until your title compelled me to Google my ignorance away.
I shouldn't be surprised, but someone actually has taken a crack at imagining the Fascist Octopus metaphor. No jackboots or Swan-singing, however.
xeger @ 18,
no. no you are definitely not the only one.
Sterile Ikea homes with spotless futons and unsmudged glass coffeetables scare me somewhat. or the people who keep their furniture in plastic permanent-like. I think it must be a symptom of an altogether different mental distress.
Have to say, though, as a child I knew someone who lived in a garbage house (until it was gutted by fire!). Having seen it, I am as disturbed by real hoarding and 'clutter'. At least "things" cant lurch out of the 'clean empty space' like they can out of the 'piles of oldclothesrags, pop bottles and junk'.
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