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Disaster! An Inconvenient Truth is almost sunk! Still, Al Gore’s enviroterror crockumentary is doing great business in Texas:
In the audience on the day I saw his movie were three college English teachers and four senior citizens, the kinds of people who are already inclined to pay attention to issues like this. A couple of days after we saw the movie, the theater re-scheduled it for a single nightly showing, at 10:05 p.m., a time which guarantees almost no audience at all.
Suggestion: show a good movie. People might watch.
- The Wizard of WOZ — It’s called ‘television.’ </obvious>Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 27 at 10:14 AM • permalink
- From the first link:
A 50-foot boat speeding too close to the shoreline sent a five-foot wake rippling toward his boat, sending it … and some of its vital contents … sideways into the Hudson’s waters.
Dammit, wronwright, I need the yacht for the weekend ritual gas burn and pillage!
What’s it doing in Hyde Park????
- Well, I grabbed my cane and shuffled off to the 2AM showing of “An Inconvenient Truth” and bumped into- of all people- Nora Noon, an old (I say without a snicker) flame of mine some 60 years back. She’s now an English Prof at Immigrant U. and there she was standing right in front of me in line holding her thumbworn 1690 folio of Hamlet, arguing at the window that she wasn’t old enough to get a senior citizens ticket but that she should get a student discount. She paid attention to issues like that. Well, we ended up in that dark theater almost alone and sitting next to each other , and well, one thing led to another…ah, to be young again!
- So even theater owners are part of the conspiracy to destroy the earth. Mwuuhahahahahahahaha!Posted by charles austin on 2006 07 27 at 10:46 AM • permalink
- As good as random anecdotes are for judging trends, box office information isn’t that hard to find:
An Inconvenient Truth: Screening LocationsBox office guru: Weekend 21 July
“The global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth remains a popular summer flick slipping just 14% to $1M in its ninth weekend. Paramount Vantage has collected $18.8M to date and is enjoying remarkable momentum”
- Something thrown off the top of a cliff has alot of momentum, too, doesn’t it?Posted by andycanuck on 2006 07 27 at 10:58 AM • permalink
- Touche Rich, touche.
#3, Sorry Rob, but I have it booked for the next ‘buster run to Israel, maybe you can use the speedboat.
#4 Glad to see your knee is better Stats 😛
#8, Not at the top, but it does when it reaches the bottom…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 07 27 at 11:07 AM • permalink
- The Burlington man built the boat from scratch in his backyard, fashioning a pair of electric motors to the back of the balsa wood and epoxy resin frame. His seat is a piece of a dock that he found on the shore of the Hudson River. The motors are powered by a chain of seven car batteries, which sit in the middle of the boat amid exposed wires, duct tape and waterproof boxes containing the essentials for the two-month trip … clothes, a laptop with
nautical charts, a lifejacket and an acoustic guitar.Let’s see – A computer Dork in saltwater with a laptop, car batteries, exposed wires and all in homenade boat.
I’d pay to see that.
- #12, you think we can persuade him to cross the pacific?Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 07 27 at 11:16 AM • permalink
- #12, The Burlington man built the boat from scratch in his backyard, fashioning a pair of electric motors to the back of the balsa wood and epoxy resin frame. His seat is a piece of a dock that he found on the shore of the Hudson River. The motors are powered by a chain of seven car batteries, which sit in the middle of the boat amid exposed wires, duct tape and waterproof boxes . . .
Perhaps he can loan it to Sean Penn the next time there’s a disaster.
Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2006 07 27 at 12:56 PM • permalink
- And, trust me on this one for I have direct evidence, elderly academics are the most impressed of all.Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 07 27 at 01:11 PM • permalink
These are writers who aren’t afraid to look unflinchingly at an event that most people are unwilling to contemplate, but which nearly everyone, at some level, must know is coming: the peak of worldwide hydrocarbon production, particularly oil and gas. There’s disagreement about whether that peak is occurring right now or whether it will occur in 10, 20 or 30 years, but nearly everyone who thinks about things like this agrees that it will happen in the lifetimes of many people who are alive today.
Well, I think about things like this and I don’t agree. Not at all.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 07 27 at 03:07 PM • permalink
Let’s see – A computer Dork in saltwater with a laptop, car batteries, exposed wires and all in homenade boat. I’d pay to see that.
I thought much the same, lmassie.
I also wondered how he’s recharging those batteries. Either he’s docking every night in a marina with an outlet, he’s rigged an electrolytic cell using saltwater and dissimilar metals….or someone forgot to mention a gas powered generator on that “boat”.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 07 27 at 03:17 PM • permalink
- #12 Let’s see – A computer Dork in saltwater with a laptop, car batteries, exposed wires and all in homenade boat.
I’d pay to see that.So would I. And he named it “An Inconvenient Truth”. He might as well have named it “Crappy Homemade Boat” or “Hippie Yacht”. Real boaters would have snickered just the same.
- #22, RebeccaH,
Well, I’m a real boater and I laughed out loud! I started laughing when I read that a 5ft. wave was sufficient to knock him down. Then I went to the article and I’m still wiping the tears away. I can’t wait to read it to my husband, the Captain.
I would love to have a picture of this abortion (just because it floats don’t mean its a boat; lots of stuff floats, like turds, for instance). There are friends around here with whom I would love to share. Good company, a beer, a knee-slapper, good times.
OT: (So Richard, how’s the project going to enlarge that door?)
P.S. For those who don’t know, I live on a boat and am a blue-water sailor born and bred. And my husband is a Captain (USN, ret.); calling him that isn’t just a boaters affectation.
- Climate Maximum” to which I either get a blank stare OR I get a some comment about needing to stop watching Fox (which I don’t) or listening to Rush (which I don’t).
And I even agree that some of the global increase in temperature is due to human factors. I just (i) do not think all of it is and (ii) that some global warming might be a good thing as it allows wheat to be greown at higher latitudes and altitudes.
As for Pluto, I blame George Bush not ratifying Koyoto.
- Preview is my friend:
1.Whenever I run into a global warming nut, I always ask “What about Medieval Climate Maximum” to which I either get a blank stare OR I get a some comment about needing to stop watching Fox (which I don’t) or listening to Rush (which I don’t).
And I even agree that some of the global increase in temperature is due to human factors. I just (i) do not think all of it is and (ii) that some global warming might be a good thing as it allows wheat to be grown at higher latitudes and altitudes.
As for Pluto, I blame George Bush not ratifying Kyoto.
- So, lessee:
Texas + July = Africa hot
Algore is sanctioning pissing away the power it takes to cool this whole theater so that 3 or 4 of his followers can sit there and wank off to his money-losing enterprise of a movie. That’s hardly the act of a carbon neutral kind of guy.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 07 27 at 07:41 PM • permalink
- Saltydog—first I have to reinforce the crossbeams on the trimaran and then get a better running start. The rest should be easy.
And in case anyone is interested, if you should happen to find yourself trapped on a small boat with someone carrying an acoustic guitar, and you are not a character in an old Rover Boys novel (or the Chuck Jones Dover Boys parody), it is not, repeat not a violation of the Law of the Sea to take a boat hook and beat them about the head and shoulders.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 27 at 08:43 PM • permalink
- #29 richard mcenroe:
This is a true story, even truer than usual because it actually happened:
-Saturday last saw some really impressive thunder storms building up over Lake Michigan, so our marina had a lot of non resident boaters scrambling to hook up to a pier before the ugly hit. One of these transient yachters was sailing a 27 footer flying the Canadian flag, and hailing from Montreal. The storm blew around our little haven, it turned into a lovely evening, and we were treated to one of the Canucks (male) strumming on his guitar and serenading the other Canuck (also male). Ever heard “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” sung in French-accented English? Woo-Hoo!
- #30, Sorry Salty, same here.
#32, It is, but only outside the 12 mile limit. You gotta love that 12 mile limit…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 07 27 at 11:23 PM • permalink
- RebeccaH — Consult your local EPA regulations first.
RobC — If the guitar is on a neighboring boat, case shot is legal. If the boat is full of poofy quebecois crossing the freaking Great Lakes just to gay at you in public, double-shotted.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 27 at 11:25 PM • permalink
- #34 richard mcenroe:
If the boat is full of poofy quebecois crossing the freaking Great Lakes just to gay at you in public, double-shotted
Oh, I believe in even more disproportionality than that; I always keep a Blue Oyster Cult live CD on the boat, just for these occasions. On your feet, or on your knees indeed.
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Nah, how can we brainwash the ignorant masses with popular entertainment?