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What are you doing in Montana? We were just there.
1: yikes.
2: I can't figure out if this is due a sarcastic answer or a straight answer! My in-laws live there. I don't think I even piped up about it in your Montana thread because I assumed you knew that we drive there every summer and it's a big colossal undertaking.
I was just telling TWYRCL that I dislike true crime books, podcasts, etc., because the abyss between the listener and the obscene suffering behind the ironic, concerned stage-whisper of the documentarian is too jarring. I'd like to think that this reflects some gentle sensibility on my part but I think I'm just squeamish.
I'm going to assume you're sexist because these ladies are fucking hilarious.
3.2; ogged's living in his own personal Montana.
I'm sorry for being mean to everyone on this thread. Please come back and talk to me.
I wasn't avoiding you. I assembled a sofa.
It's not even from Ikea because we didn't want to invest that kind of money in it.
Further to 1, right now, if you can conjure up some excuse for crossing the divide at Marias Pass, that would be good. Should be good where you're going, barring either (a) new events or (b) a fairly significant shift in the winds.
It's really day-by-day here. I can watch the massive smoke plume from the Lolo Peak fire from my office, but prevailing winds keep that well south of town. (LP is, what, 10-12 miles south/southwest of town, nearly 6,000 feet higher than the valley.)
We got immersed in smoke Sunday and Monday from the Tarkio fires, and 50 miles west, but that tracks south of us as well most days.
+s
/fooling around about a serious issue
Would you mind heading down to Hamilton for a few days? Week or two?
is it a rhetorical question or a request?
I guess the answer is "no, I wouldn't mind" either way, but it's not something I'd just do on the spur of the moment. Like I can't go right NOW, I'm not packed!
Not only did I not remember your trip, I didn't remember that I'd posted about mine.
5: If they're the same ladies I'm thinking of, it's a little creepy how obviously one of them hungers to kill the other one and assume her more popular identity.
Hmm. I'll let you know if its the same ladies after I log some hours in the car listening to them with that planted in my mind.
I was just telling TWYRCL that I dislike true crime books, podcasts, etc., because the abyss between the listener and the obscene suffering behind the ironic, concerned stage-whisper of the documentarian is too jarring.
I have a similar dislike, though it's less a rejection of that distancing than that I simply don't care about the specific cases unless they're actually detailing or uncovering some systemic problem. I just can't engage with most crime reportage and the whole big trial culture in the media. Something horrible happened to people I don't know, and you're telling me this for entertainment purposes? Great. Now my life is worse too for knowing, thanks.
Now if the aim is to highlight prosecutorial abuse or failure of the social services, then that's another matter, but true crime for true crime's sake? No thanks.
Something horrible happened to people I don't know, and you're telling me this for entertainment purposes? Great. Now my life is worse too for knowing, thanks.
To be fair, this describes most of the news, arguably even the fashion pages.
I don't read the fashion pages either.
Basically, if it's something I can in principle do something about, through political action or a donation or something like that, then I'm (potentially) interested. But if it's just something shitty that happened to someone, I'd rather not know.
I read Maggie Nelson's two books about her aunt's murder and its impact on her (born after it happened) and her family and appreciated/recommend those for people looking for a slightly different take on true-crime stuff that indicts the true-crime news world.
Re: true crime, I'm a bit over half way through watching The Keepers on Netflix.
If you're running short on things to depress you, I highly recommend it.
If you have 160 minutes to spare, watch The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford for another indictment of true crime.
A film almost as pointlessly long, annoying and prolix as its title.
Agreed. It needed a leaner, harder adaption. I can recommend Ralph Fiennes.
Finally watched Hinterland, and enjoyed it.
Did you finish the whole series? I'm still on season 2.
28: It is too long, and the Coward is annoying, but I don't think it's pointless at all. It tells exactly the story it wants, and it does damn American celebrity/gun/heroic psychopath culture. It probably bites more today than it did on release, and will bite deeper in future. And the photography! And that gunfight in the bedroom where our badass gunslingers fire off about 15 bullets between them and only *one* of them hits anything? Perfect.
And that's why we need RPGs for deer hunting.
It was a sad day in my life when I realised that now I used RPG to stand for ruchnoi protivotankoviye granatamyot far more often than I used it to stand for "role-playing game". End of innocence.
When Ajay Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous Russian.
It turns out that a $40 hotel room in Raton, NM, booked blind on priceline, is actually super shitty and not on par with la Quinta or Days Inn as was proclaimed.
Daze Inn would be a good name for a cheap hotel.
Anyway, it might be nice to not have to worry if the kids pee on the carpet.
Slightly better hotel, Sheridan, Wyoming. Day of beautiful driving.
So can they pee on the carpet or not?
Raton has a section of cute storefronts, though. At least when viewed from the Amtrak bus to Denver.