I recently purchased both Legend and The Dark Crystal on DVD. Both of these are movies that I remember fondly from my childhood, though upon recent viewing, I don't know why.

Both of those films, like many others from my childhood, are incredibly dark. When I really thought about it, I watched some really fucked up movies as a kid. I grew up watching movies like Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Dick Tracy . All films that were incredibly dark and probably not really suited for children. But the one that takes the cake from my childhood is the Sesame Street classic Follow That Bird . Talk about a film that could fuck a kid up. Big Bird is evicted from Sesame Street, and then taken in/kidnapped by a traveling carnival. When Big Bird, who has been painted blue, is sitting alone in a cage in the dark, despondently singing "I'm So Blue," I'm not sure it's possble to avoid the emotional scarring. Didn't the people at the Children's Television Workshop think we had dealt with enough when Mr. Hooper died? Did we really need a depressed Big Bird too?

I guess that these films, in a way, made me the person I am today - a jaded, cynical, bitch. I mean, really, I watched The Fox and The Hound as a child which is quite possibly the most depressing Disney cartoon ever made. What were my parents thinking?

 
Finally. LEGO's for adults. If you're a complete dork, like me, and always wanted to somehow combine playing with blocks and social theory, here's your chance. Go and get some LEGO theorists. I want the Michel Foucault with the San Francisco S & M Dungeon.

 
I would just like to say that I love New Orleans. It is a city that I have a unique love affair with. One that I can't explain, but that will probably continue throughout my life. One of the things that I find at once to be both fascinating and frightening about this city is that we are constanly in danger of total destruction.

New Orleans is a city that is, on average, 6 feet below sea level. Essentially, it is nothing more than a big bowl. The city is basicaly built on drained swamp land. This of course , results in a city that slowly sinks. Not as a whole but, parts of it do. I know countless numbers of people whose houses sink considerable amounts each year. We are surrounded by a unique system of levees, which are there so that New Orleans is not flooded by the Mississippi River.

Honestly, all it would take is for one of the levees to break (which isn't likely) in the spring when the river is high, and the city would be inundated with water. As it is, it's something everyone here is quite used to. I know how to properly drive a vehicle through floodwaters. I also know how to hang drywall, having done it on numerous occasions when homes flood. I am quite used to seeeing house after house with rolls of wet carpet and piles of mildewed drywall outside to be picked up by the garbage trucks.

And now that Isidore may be moving into the Gulf, another possibility for destruction looms near. All it would take is for a large hurricane to come up the mouth of the Mississippi River and it would no longer be a question of evacuating, but having to change your mailing address. The water from both the river and Lake Pontchartrain that would spill into the bowl that is New Orleans would be catastrophic.

Maybe that's one of the reasons why life in this city is the way it is. Maybe the realization that we could easily be wiped out any minute is why we aren't always in such a hurry. We know that each day needs to be savored and enjoyed because it could be our last. We have festivals and celebrations almost constantly because we realize that our life and culture should be celebrated now because we could be quickly mourning our loss of it. New Orleans is a city that seems to flirt with death everyday, and it seems that for now, death is willing to let us slide for one more day.

 
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maybe I should write a somewhat longer post on here just to see what that would look like. Of, course, that would mean that I would have to wax poetic about something that I really don't care about. So instead I wil just blather on about absolutely nothing for a little bit so that this pos would have some length and I could see what a longer post might look like . Let's see.