03 June 2010 @ 08:57 pm
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1) Nine more days until Stonehenge Apocalypse!!! It stars Misha Collins, Torri Higginson, Hil Harper, Peter Wingfield, and Brent Stait. That's a lot of something for everyone. Sadly destined to be a horrible Syfy movie of the week crapfest but it's going to be awesome seeing favorite actors trying their best to convince me that Stonehenge is out to END THE WORLD.

*sigh* Once again the archaeologists are cast as the bad guys as they seem to kick off this version of the apocalypse.

2) O HAI Robert Wisdom! Supernatural's Uriel is now Burn Notice's Vaughn. Nice to see him again, this time in suits properly cut for him. He's looking good but I find it hard to trust him.

3) A Quick Guide to Understanding the Channel Mixer by [livejournal.com profile] nomadicwriter -- Handy tool, that channel mixer. Extra happy making is the Teal'c icon on the tutorial.

4) Spent today at the Houston Holocaust Museum. The architecture, more than reminiscent of a crematorium, was disturbing. That was the point of course, but the psychology of willingly walking into it was unsettling; just the first of many, many disquieting experiences. The audio tour was narrated by Mandy Patinkin and was one of the better ones I've ever heard. No point in lingering on the bad other than to say that it never fails to horrify and depress me. I'd heard about Denmark's remarkable actions before but now I know more. One of the few moral bright spots in a dozen years of depravity.
 
 
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Mish[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on June 4th, 2010 07:05 am (UTC)
I highly recommend it for when you're just too damned happy to be tolerable and feel the need to bleed off a bunch of that excess joy. It's worth it to get the chance to talk to Holocaust survivors. One gentleman I met today was Polish had spent five years in camps, starting when he was 13. Unimaginable, you know?

It's good to confront evil and attempt to comprehend it but taking a long, hot shower afterward is mandatory.
tejas[identity profile] tejas.livejournal.com on June 4th, 2010 07:10 am (UTC)
LOL!

I met a survivor once when my kid was still in scouts. One of the girl's grandmothers was there at one event and she talked a little about it. Feisty old gal and man, I would not want to cross her. :-) Like she told me, if someone tells her to go to hell she just says, "I've *been* there!" :-) And, *oh* she had an evil grin to go with that. But she's embraced her life and pretty much nothing else can ever touch her negatively.
Mish[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on June 4th, 2010 07:20 am (UTC)
The sort of survivor that you have to be live through that? That is mental toughness of a whole new level, my friend. I kept thinking, "I don't think I'd be one of those survivors because I don't think I could survive the heartbreak of people doing that to other people." I have a whole different form of respect for those who survived.

I can see how that re-frames one's sense of what Hell is and what its power is over a person.

I've known survivors in the past but that was before I understood the importance of collecting first-hand accounts -- and honestly they would never have told a child about what happened.