I’m writing some things that are more unruly than usual. I’m also sleeping 12 hours a day for very good medical reasons. Rumors that I am addicted to Hulu are completely incorrect, although I did enjoy watching the maiden voyage of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea last night.
You must watch this at some time. It is in black and white (I think the second season may have gone to color). The “enemy” is a Sino-Russian mix where some individuals have Lenin hair/beards and others look like the bad guy in Manchurian Candidate. We are learning to fear this unnamed enemy which has certain characteristics that make it impossible for us to ever know when we can STOP being afraid of them. In other words, this episode of Voyage is the ultimate Cold War rhetoric.
And there is a squid that tries to eat the divers, of course.
Anyway, I have a few things to recommend for you to read. First, there is this item: Top 10 Anti-Gay Activists Caught Being
Gay. You might find this Ranker site interesting for various reasons.
Check out this movie they seem to be making.
Recent discussion on facebook has reminded me of coffee shops. At the moment, coffee shops are off limits for me, but I can reminisce. Here are three earlier blog posts about coffee shops:
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If you enjoy Cold War films (and who in our age cohort doesn’t?), you need to track down a 1959 Brazilian film called “O homem do Sputnik” (The Sputnik Man). AFAIK, as a USAian, you can only get this on the Internet, and only via bittorrent feeds. (It’s not exactly illegal, but I would call it “grey market.”)
It’s a classic Cold War comedy, with all the usual tropes, but told from the point of view of a non-aligned nation. The plot involves a chicken farmer in the hills outside Rio de Janeiro who believes that the Sputnik satellite has fallen on his chicken coop. When an unscrupulous journalist leaks the story, agents from the U.S., France, and the USSR descend on Rio to try to get the satellite back. I couldn’t find any English subtitles when I watched it, but if you’re vaguely familiar with romance languages, you should be able to follow it, since most of it is physical comedy.
Also, capoeira! Woot!
Very good for convalescence, unless it only hurts when you laugh.
“. . . although I did enjoy watching the maiden voyage of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea last night.
You must watch this at some time.”
I would, were it not for the fact that Hulu discriminates. I am a U.S. citizen, with just as much right to watch hoaky old American science fiction as any other citizen, but since I choose to live in a country with universal health care they deny me that right. Fie on them all!
Commies are not allowed to watch Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.