So Alive

Another Canuck Hero

Is it possible to love madly and feel a complete stranger inspires your life. Yes. Wade Davis is one of my heroes. I've never met him, but I feel he a brother of mine.

"All people share the same raw adaptive imperatives. We all have children, we all have to deal with the mystery of death, the world that waits beyond death, the elders who fall away in their elderly years, all of this is part of our common experience.

So this shouldn't surprise us because after all, biologists have finally proven it to be true something that philosophers have always dreamt to be true that we are all brothers and sisters. We're all cut from the same genetic cloth. All of humanity is probably descended from the 1,000 people who left Africa 70,000 years ago.

But the corollary of this is if we are all brothers and sisters and share the same genetic material all human populations share the same raw human genius, the same intellectual acuity. And so whether that genius is placed into technological wizardry has been the great achievement of the west or by contrast, into unravelling the complex threads of memory inherent in a Myth. It's simply a matter of choice and cultural orientation.

There is no progression of affairs in human experience.

There is no trajectory of progress.

There's no pyramid that conveniently places Victorian England at the apex and descends down to the flanks of the so-called primitives of the world.

All people's are simply cultural options. Different visions of life itself" Wade Davis

Submission For MTV Tarrantino Spoof Contest

My friends entered an MTV contest this past summer and here is the short film they made. Some visitors may recognize Anita from one of my short films. She and her film buddies have been writing and making short films all this past summer and fall. The spoof above was featured ina montage on MTV which is a pretty cool accomplishment I think.

Adam Ant In Bladerunner!

Wow. If you look at the above stills from the movie Bladerunner, projected onto the architectural details of a pillar, is an image of Adam Ant. I am so freaked out by this cool bit of movie triva, trivia...no, it's huge! The amazing Adam Ant memorialized in one of my major favourite movies. It's too much for a gal to handle.

Thanks Asterisk for highlighting this article. Click on the above photos or go to the article link to read more and see Adam Ant in better details. Too cool.

Survivior: Up To Episode 4,

I mail a set of vhs tapes of the tv show Survivor to our friends Red and Asterisk in the U.K. because the show was cancelled there....who we met blogging over three years ago. They only have tapes this season up to Episode 4...so if you're also a fan try to not make any spoilers if you happen to also watch this program. I am so freaked out by one of the contestants. His name is Russel and he is an owner of an oil company in Texas. He reminds me of the Daniel Day-Lewis character in There Will Be Blood and he is every bot as evil and sociopathic as his character "Plainview". In the very first...opening episode of this season...ths asshole burns the socks of HIS OWN TRIBE (see I had to yell I am so upset. He set his fellow tribe members socks into the fire in the middle of the night while they slept. And he drank all their water and poured out their canteens of what he didn't drink. They all wake up freezing and with o water, get immediately dehydrated and continue to lose all the challenges. None of them have any idea he has been sabotaging them. They think he's great...except one woman who is a cop and he gets every one to vote her off! Anyways...I had some pics I wanted Red and Asterisk to see and here they are...


Am I losing my mind or is it now impossible to take a picture from the tv with some strange new format...like HD? I tried and tried to take a photo...and visitors know, I've taken many pics from the tv with my digital camera...but this time I couldn't get a pic without this strange set of lines running through. So Jeff Probst was co-hosting with Kelli on my mornign talk show (which i watch religiously now for decades)...and they had this really awesome poto...which I've been dying to show Red and Asterisk...

Check out his tight red spandex pants...

I swear I die laughing at this photo. When he co-hosts this program they always bring this hilarious picture out...

Treat

I love it when a food surprises me. I had never heard of dilled brussel sprouts before. I wasn't able to find a picture of the organic pickled brussel sprouts I found a couple weeks ago...but here are some other versions. I was so thrilled to find something I had never tried tasting before. Pickled brussel sporuts? AWESOME!

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