you're getting warmer

up for a scary movie? you bet! i may have shied away from the texas chainsaw massacre at christmas, but that was only because it didn't seem festive. cars was a better choice. an even better choice would have been nacho libre ... but that's just me.

on any day other than the one on which most of us celebrate the fact that we can all get an approved line of credit: bring on the blood and gore.

it's important to note that i don't watch scary movies by myself. when i'm alone and it's dark and aliens and zombies are falling thru ceilings or showing up under porches, i tend to let my imagination run riot. i end up unable to look in the bathroom mirror - who knows what the heck is going to jump out of that thing - or to sit near an open door to a dark room - who knows what the heck is going to jump out of that thing, either.

speaking of gore ... not knowing exactly what i was getting into, i popped in an inconvenient truth last nite.

holy hell. we are sacrificing not only ourselves but also the existence of all life on the planet in the name of "progress". we're perpetuating our own demise and mother earth is doing what she has to do in order to save what she can of herself.

it's kind of like when i convinced debi to get her belly button pierced.

with a click and a scream, there it was. debi spent the next few weeks doing what she could to help the wound heal ... and, well, it never did. what appeared to be healing was actually rejection. her body decided that the foreign substance was harmful to its careful balance and of its own volition, forced the ring out.

in the seemingly infinite life of the earth, the last 40 years are equivalent to the click and scream. carbon dioxide is the unbalancing substance. we're getting ourselves forced out.

already, thousands of people are dying because of the climate changes we've unwittingly caused. people are dying in unnatural heat waves, hurricanes, tornadoes and floods. soon enough, millions of people in costal regions such as, say, florida, will be displaced. what do we do with them? we've already had to relocate new orleans.

i read a BC comic strip in which BC says, "if man keeps polluting the air, how will future generations breathe?" and thor responds, "through their gills."

the strip was written in 1967.

this isn't jumping out from behind anything. it's more like the fog ... rolling in slowly so you don't notice it and then before you realize anything is wrong, hal's at your door with his hook ...

thwack!