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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 09:48 pm (UTC)
1. I love Tony Hillerman books but I had to stop reading them because if there's an archaeologist in them, that's the evil-doer. I am understandably unhappy to be painted as a murderous grave-robber.

4. You're on the east coast? Very cool! Where are you? I miss visiting both Seattle and NYC. I've spent time in the Boston area and vacationed around NYC. As for the museums, I'm so torn. I know it's vital to understand the depths to which humanity can sink and to understand so that it never happens again but the experience bears a striking resemblance to wallowing in a fetid sewer.
[identity profile] riverfox.livejournal.com on June 4th, 2010 10:09 pm (UTC)
*sigh* That's exactly how I feel every bloody time I see or hear witches depicted as evil. I'm like, "We're not the ones who killed millions!" Grrrrrrr.

I've been staying with a friend and her family in Delaware. Have to find other accommodations though because I've worn out my welcome and not gotten back on my feet in the proper time frame.

I think the experience separates the compassionate and the intellectually wise from the sociopaths who walk in and feel nothing. With all the "Nazi" name-calling by the right-wing, I'm of the belief that they're the ones who really need to visit those museums, if for no other reason than to confirm to the rest of us what they're really made of.
Mish[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on June 4th, 2010 10:20 pm (UTC)
Oh yeah, just like Hollywood's movies like Basic Instinct accurately reflect the way that men are so often the victims of violence at the hands of obsessive women. Or portrays Native Americans as bloody-thirsty, scalping savages. Apparently, being on the losing end of the murder-sprees guarantees that one will forever be remembered as the perpetrator.

Delaware! I have driven through; stopped in Newark for lunch. I always wanted to go back but haven't had a chance. SO much I want to do; so little vacation time and money.

I meant to bring up that a trip to a Holocaust museum was in order for the likes of Glen Beck, who invoke parallels to Nazis and Hitler as if they were garden variety thugs.
[identity profile] riverfox.livejournal.com on June 5th, 2010 02:32 pm (UTC)
Ain't that the sickeningly hypocritical truth.

It's such a *small* state. But then, everything over here is small compared to the northwest. I kinda like it this way. Better service from the gov't, that's for sure.

Yes. The daily offenses that hate-monger and his ilk spew out makes me believe they're all mentally ill juvenile offenders. No other excuse or reason for that crap.
[identity profile] riverfox.livejournal.com on June 4th, 2010 10:17 pm (UTC)
PS --

When I think of archaeologists, I think of Daniel Jackson. I think of Sam Neill in Jurassic Park. I don't think of Indiana Jones, for all his glorified attention to the science. Indy is a relic hunter and archaeologists aren't grave robbers. The two are constantly confused and it's so aggravating. Unfortunately, early archaeologists have soured the reputation because of all that "borrowing". The unmitigated gall of those people.

Speaking of ... Tutankhamun's artifacts are currently on display in NYC. I wish I could see them before the exhibit heads back to Egypt. Last time I saw it was 1973 or 74 and the exhibit was in Seattle. :)
Mish[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on June 4th, 2010 10:38 pm (UTC)
LOL! Funny you should say that. When I was in field school, the archaeologists I worked with would declare, "This belongs in a museum!" whenever we found anything. My archaeology classes watched Indy for "Bad Archaeology Movie" night. It's pot hunting; not archaeology.

Early archaeologists were most definitely grave robbers. As a profession, we have a lot to answer for.

I saw that exhibit in L.A. several years ago. If you don't get to it, I assure you that you're not missing as much you might think. I was shocked at how poorly done it was. It was slick in terms of multimedia presentations but the items were kind of random and less important pieces -- and the signage was mediocre. I hate exhibits that expect you to buy an expensive catalog rather than present a full story in the labels.
[identity profile] riverfox.livejournal.com on June 5th, 2010 02:23 pm (UTC)
LMAO! It's pot hunting; not archaeology.

First thing I thought of reading that? Maryjane. :eyeroll:


I agree. Don't sell me shit. Let me look and read. I remember the Seattle exhibit being well done. Everything in cases against the wall with placards. They had a lot of Egyptian artifacts there that had nothing to do with the pharoah. The one picture I carry from that are a pair of earrings. Go figure. ;)