Excerpts from the Peanut Gallery

Welcome home Geographer Andrea!!

For Andrea:

In light of having recently kicked the ass of the geog 102 exam, I am now more than delighted to engage in discussion of climate change, paleoclimatology, geomorphology and all those other 'ologies' which have hitherto been the bane of my existence.

regard and pense on this: al gore is making a movie about climate change. I am not sure what to think about that. but you can bet i will at least check it out and for all its glorious cheesy bold headlines and doomsday predictions, sigh, it is probably right about a few things.

However, one caveat: why the heck do documentaries- which might honestly add some intelligence to our society about issues that-oh maybe, just maybe, we should pay attention to- why do they have to employ the cheese-tactics of bold print, "loud stamp" sound effects and headlines with such pithy afforisims as "if you love your planet... if you love your children... watch this film." nope, not gonna cut it. we are saavy consumers these days, we know what you're up to- wink wink. sure, we love our children (except i don't have any)- really, just give us the fireball explosions. the point of the story is- hey those tactics didnt work for us christian doomsday-sayers- minus Jonah, and he didnt even WANT Ninevah to listen to him! Don't bother. We sure have learned our lesson: You have to package it up with Paris Hilton- because she is an authority on life- and then society will sit up and take notice... WTF.

And another thing: what is it with thinking that we christians just want to get a hold of the oil and rape and pillage the earth for all she's worth. thats garbage. and as environmentally sound and responsible as i wish to be- i dont plan on recycling that kinda junk. Good grief.

well andg, here is a rant just for you on the occasion of your homecoming. Welcome back to the western world. i am pretty sure it will still be around for at least enough time for us to enjoy las margs!

posted by Kiki @ 10:19 a.m.