Magical Prophecies
Saturday, April 07, 2007
The Illusionist was a pretty good movie. It made me wonder how long those old time magic shows would go on. Would people get all dressed up in their Sunday dresses and best suits and hats to pack into a dimly lit theater to watch a performer on stage show them a neat trick? In the infancy of modern magic tricks, would people sit there and be satisfied with a simple 15 minute show where a man tricked them into believing that two solid rings could be linked together and then pulled back apart just as easily?
The movie made me wonder if the attention spans of today's society could be captured by a live performer showing them one trick in a short amount of time. Would it delight them so much to tell their friends and create a local, national, or even worldwide buzz? My first thought was that with so many different people with so many different interests, such a performer could not exist these days. When I popped out the Illusionist DVD, my answer was on there playing for free on Showtime.
I was looking forward to seeing An Inconvenient Truth because I always like to see the science behind a theory so I can understand exactly how the use of 30% of the earth's surface can have such a profound effect on the upper stratosphere 10-50km away. That kind of stuff interests the hell out of me, but sadly this movie had nothing to do with that. The title should have been more specific - An Inconvenient Truth - An hour and a half introspective of how ice melts when it gets warm. I learned that from Mr. Wizard when I was 7. You can learn a lot from an old man that invites children over to his house to film them one at a time.
The plot of this movie was stolen by Underpants GnomesI'm not really a skeptic of this climate change stuff, but I don't think the whole truth is being told. There are plenty of other theories out there as to why climate is changing other than people. Sunspot cycles are hardly ever mentioned in these discussions. To take it a step further, the Mayan Calender runs out in 2012 during a sunspot festival and the earth is supposed to turn sideways and fly through-out the galaxy bouncing off of planets and stars in a game of heavenly billiards until we are sunk in a black hole for eternity.
That snake thing scares me most of allPerhaps the best theory is that of the Titanic. Ol' Unsinkable angered the ice when it intentionally engaged ramming speed and crashed its pointed bow into that poor defenseless little iceberg that was minding its own business on that crisp April evening in 1912. This sent tremors through the iceberg community and they vowed to get revenge on the human blight. However since icebergs communications are slowed by the cold the message took a long time to reach the entire Arctic community. Coincidentally the 100th Anniversary of the Titanic's murderous rampage is 5 years and 7 days from the day I am writing this. April 14th, 2012. That is the date we all need to look out for. That is the date that the icebergs will launch the attack.
With permission I plan on making a sequel to Gore's film. An Inconvenient Truth II - April Snow brings May Controversy. From my back porch, we will be lying on our bellies with our heads cupped in our hands while kicking our feet in the air, with a camera trained on the snow, waiting for the spring sun to bring its melt on. Can you say Academy Award?
Not that this means anything...
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At July 15, 2007 at 2:07 PM,
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So how will WE write it? How shall it read when we look back on December 21, 2012? We certainly have the elements in place to destroy ourselves. The planet has experienced cataclysmic events in its history - polar shifts, ice ages, etc. No one really knows. What the Mayan’s meant with their End-Count calendar will always be up for speculation. It fires the imagination, for sure. SOooo let's write it like we want it. That is what Chris Fenwick did in the #1 Visionary Novel: "the 100th human." You choose...
