[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Eli', 'T')hat reminds me has anyone seen that new movie "Back Door Mountain"?

[Eli]

I call BS on "Bareback Mountain" and all the awards it has already gotten.

It may be a very fine film well shot and acted but who the hell wants to go see it?

It has only opened on 3 screens one in LA, San Fran, and the other in New York and now all the critics are raving about how wonderful it is, bullshit!
Well hell yeah the movie is going to do well on those three screens.

This is just the old Hollywood machine operating through self promotion and manipulation.

Well being that homosexual relationships by there very nature do not lead to more offspring to carry on society, I can see how Euripides would come to that conclusion.

I really think however that homosexuality is just small potatoes compared to the effects that internet porn is having on culture. Every house that has a computer has instant access to the worse kind of smut imaginable, the effects of which we really do not have the foggiest. There are a new generation of kids who have free access to this shit thanks to absentee parents, I do not think it is going to make them stable pillars of the community.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Eli', ' ')I do not think it is going to make them stable pillars of the community.

[Eli]

Now if it was about lesbian cowgirls featuring Angelina Jolie and Natalie Portman, well now there is a movie I could get into. wink (stupid non-wink icon)

About society changing you are damn skippy it is going to change, I think it is likely to get very crazy not necessarily violent but just debased. Like back when the plaque was ripping a part Europe a large part of society threw all restraint aside and just decided "that if we are all going to die tomorrow let us eat drink and screw today". They did it to the point that they would even abandon their own kids and just drink and drink for days on end.

[Eli]

You have obviously never been to Bangkok.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Eli', 'i')f we are all going to die tomorrow let us eat drink and screw toady

[PrairieMule]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Eli', 'i')f we are all going to die tomorrow let us eat drink and screw toady

[holmes]

we have whole generations that are irrelevent. worthless especially post peak. Playing xbox and surfing the net and driving a low ride custom muffler jap car kicking the base is not going to be in much demand. Not many are going to be like wow he/she so cool. I want to be like that. lol. They are going to be surviving and hopeing no one will back door their assses. LOL. Really these little wanna be punks are real weaklings mentally and physically. Its really just a big tuff guy act dependent on cheap oil. Oil has protected them like a body guard. And the parents of the priveledged have no other option except oil culture. scary. Yeah it will degenerate quickly. I am afraid to see Kong. I hate when kong is murdered. but Then it wouldnt have the message that it is supposed to have if Kong Lived. It really is a statement on how we love beuty and purity yet we destroy it as sson as we find it. Pave the valleys!

are there an7y other writers besides Thoreau and Whitman? Poe and Emerson and Twain. Is Poe American?

[AmericanEmpire]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') really think however that homosexuality is just small potatoes compared to the effects that internet porn is having on culture.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', 'I') am afraid to see Kong. I hate when kong is murdered. but Then it wouldnt have the message that it is supposed to have if Kong Lived. It really is a statement on how we love beuty and purity yet we destroy it as sson as we find it. Pave the valleys!

are there an7y other writers besides Thoreau and Whitman? Poe and Emerson and Twain. Is Poe American?

[4StringSlinger]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', 'H')ey PMS! Good to have you back. I am right there with you on the alcohol only I quit smoking and started running again. The Sore knees and irritability are worthwhile trade off for the fresh air and clarity of mind.

As far as Nukes go, yeah it's possible. Just as it was possible during the Kennedy and Regan years.

If it comes, I plan to bug out from Dallas to a spot where the nearest Military base or asset is over 75 miles away(Army Ammo Depot in McCalester, OK). If my number comes up, well I've made my peace. I'll grab a lawn chair play Led Zepplin and watch the light show.

[abbcampbell]

It really is all irrelevant in the long run.

Whether it's Peak Oil or something else, we're all doomed. Everyone here will die someday, whether it's of old age, or whether it's of starvation, or whether it's of violence.

The planet is also doomed...eventually. If we don't blow it up, it will eventually wind down, be engulfed by our sun, or get sucked into a black hole somewhere.

So, with that out of the way, what *does* matter?

What matters to me is how we live the life that we have. We all get to the same destination. It's the road that counts. Enjoy the trip...it's all you have, and you'll be no worse off if you enjoy it than if you make yourself miserable.

I prefer to live my life as though I have a future. I know for a fact that one day that will be wrong...at least without getting into speculation of an afterlife...but living like there *is* a tomorrow will be right for all the days of my life except one. You can hardly find better bets.

[oowolf]

"Nothing matters..." Last words of that famous Nihilist Louis B. Mayer.
This is bound to be the last thought of the super redundant.

"We blew it, Billy, we blew it." (Wyatt to Billy at the end of Easy Rider)
will probably be the final judgement of some on this site.

I'm opting for braised elk backstrap dipped in homemade/grown horseradish sauce, parsnip and salsify mashed up like potatoes, and fresh kale and wintercress from the garden (the cress is still in bloom) all washed down with a flagon or 2 of industrial strength malt liquor. I love dining on elk and beer while "La Traviata" plays on the victrola, the fire crackles, and snowflakes the size of silver dollars swirl down gently in the gloaming beyond my window.
Works for me.

[PrairieMule]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('4StringSlinger', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', 'H')ey PMS! Good to have you back. I am right there with you on the alcohol only I quit smoking and started running again. The Sore knees and irritability are worthwhile trade off for the fresh air and clarity of mind.

As far as Nukes go, yeah it's possible. Just as it was possible during the Kennedy and Regan years.

If it comes, I plan to bug out from Dallas to a spot where the nearest Military base or asset is over 75 miles away(Army Ammo Depot in McCalester, OK). If my number comes up, well I've made my peace. I'll grab a lawn chair play Led Zepplin and watch the light show.

[PrairieMule]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oowolf', '"')Nothing matters..." Last words of that famous Nihilist Louis B. Mayer.
This is bound to be the last thought of the super redundant.

"We blew it, Billy, we blew it." (Wyatt to Billy at the end of Easy Rider)
will probably be the final judgement of some on this site.

I'm opting for braised elk backstrap dipped in homemade/grown horseradish sauce, parsnip and salsify mashed up like potatoes, and fresh kale and wintercress from the garden (the cress is still in bloom) all washed down with a flagon or 2 of industrial strength malt liquor. I love dining on elk and beer while "La Traviata" plays on the victrola, the fire crackles, and snowflakes the size of silver dollars swirl down gently in the gloaming beyond my window.
Works for me.

[hotsacks]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oowolf', '"')Nothing matters..." Last words of that famous Nihilist Louis B. Mayer.
This is bound to be the last thought of the super redundant.

"We blew it, Billy, we blew it." (Wyatt to Billy at the end of Easy Rider)
will probably be the final judgement of some on this site.

I'm opting for braised elk backstrap dipped in homemade/grown horseradish sauce, parsnip and salsify mashed up like potatoes, and fresh kale and wintercress from the garden (the cress is still in bloom) all washed down with a flagon or 2 of industrial strength malt liquor. I love dining on elk and beer while "La Traviata" plays on the victrola, the fire crackles, and snowflakes the size of silver dollars swirl down gently in the gloaming beyond my window.
Works for me.

[PenultimateManStanding]

National Review and Peter Jackson's King Kong, in which is discussed the history of Kong movies going back to 1932. (There is even a discussion of the comic book spin-offs). Here the reviewer writes about the 70s version:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')If there was a touch of Teddy Roosevelt about the attitudes underpinning the first King Kong, so the movie that marked the franchise’s return to America in 1976 mirrored a suspicion of big business that was, along with an environmentalist subtext, hints of corruption in the White House, and refreshing honesty about the real nature of Kong’s interest in his latest blonde, very characteristic of its time. In the same way, the blonde, played by a Jessica Lange hot enough to bring Godzilla to his knees, was, in contrast to the passive Ann Darrow, an emancipated woman of the ERA era perfectly capable of telling her simian seducer what for. Hear her roar, monkey boy. More than that, the erotic attraction went both ways. Kong’s earlier sweethearts may have felt sorry for the big lunk, but that was it; with Dwan, there was, in the end, something…else. And if you think I’m wrong, just check out the look on her face when Kong, ahem, dries her off.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Jessica Lange in King Kong, 1976: