Just Reminiscing

ishie keeps on going on about The West Wing at the moment which has had me drag out my old DVDs and remember just how much I adore that show. I was just watching The US Poet Laureate, which is probably the wankiest episode of TV in existence. In a plot aimed directly at the fandom we are compared to both The Lord of the Flies and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

_{CJ: Let me explain something to you. This is sort of my field. The people on these sites? They're the cast of 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.' The muu-muu-wearing Parliament smoker? That's Nurse Ratched. When Nurse Ratched is unhappy, the patients are unhappy. You? You're McMurphy. You swoop in with your card games and fishing trips.
Josh: I didn't swoop in, I came in the exact same way everyone else did.
CJ: Well now I'm telling you to open the wardroom window and climb on out before they give you a free frontal lobotomy and I have to smother you with a pillow.
Josh: (pause) You're...?
CJ: (nodding) I'm Chief Bromden, yes, at this particular moment. I'm assigning an intern from the press office to that website. They're going to check it every night before they go home. If they discover you've been there I'm going to shove a motherboard so far up your ass... What?
Josh: Technically I outrank you...
CJ: So far up your ass!}

Since that was particularly aimed at the TelevisionWithoutPity boards, which I was active on at the time, that is my wanking claim to fame. Good times.

It’s okay, Aaron Sorkin. I still love you.

I’m going to finally see An Inconvenient Truth tonight. I’m hoping it will give me a kick up the arse and out of my current apathy towards everything. Goodness knows I need it.

An Inconvenient Truth

Many of you will have already heard this from gunderpants last week, however when it comes to matters of global importance, you can never hear the message to many times. Though I'm tired and it's nearly midnight so please forgive any incoherence.

I have been particularly lucky in my life in that I have already seen and experienced many things that the planet has to offer that others go a whole life never managing to do. I’ve witnessed a volcanic eruption, geysers and boiling mud. I’ve swum in the ocean many many times and I’ve skied. I’ve seen the Milky Way in an unpolluted sky and dolphins in the wild. I’ve slept under the stars and in glow worm filled cave and I’ve always assumed that no matter what, somewhere in the world these things will always exist and I predict they will still do for some time.

Though I was watching An Inconvenient Truth and it occurred to me that one of the things I’ve done in my life my children may not have the opportunity to do – I’ve walked on a glacier.

Now, I don’t own a car to sell and take up walking. I recycle and I use energy efficient light bulbs. I am a member of the Captain Planet generation and my parents raised me to be very environmentally conscious so I’ve always had an awareness of global warming and done small things. I can’t fathom how anyone could question the science. Really, me watching that movie was preaching to the already converted. Though for the past few years I’ve been rather pessimistic about humanities ability to bring its head out of a hole in the ground long enough to save our own collective butts. But seeing that move I’ve gained a new appreciation for the problem the world is facing and somewhat of a renewed sense of purpose.

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