What happens when I can’t write a full entry
It’s good to be the queen…
and wander down to the hot tub at 2 a.m. and have a good soak.
Can’t help myself…
when a Governator movie comes on. I am transfixed. I waste the next two hours on The Running Man. It’s almost a rule.
No wonder people no long have faith in the space program…
I feel as if everything I ever believed in as a child, hoped to be one day, is gone. Astronauts heavily drinking before launch. Does that sound like a good idea? And who would want to sabotage equipment? And the story earlier this year about the astronaut trying to kidnap her perceived romantic rival?
I always idolized astronauts as being perfect. They’re better than everyone else. Now I find out they’re human, and probably just as fucked up as the rest of us, despite their elite status.
Well, who can blame them? We haven’t supported the space program in a very long time, and it runs on a small budget with antiquated equipment. I used to rail at the people who say the money could be better spent at home. Now I’m not so sure.
At the very least, we need some re-examination of what we should be doing in space.
I still want to go in space one day. I hope space travel will be commercialized enough before I die.
And now I’m not so sure.
I vividly remember Jan screaming “I’m queen of the world” once when we were at a Casino. Hope you are not turning into that kind of Queen
Have you see THE ASTRONAUT FARMER? It deals the same sort of idealism and critique that you mention above. Pretty good film, too.
The Running Man… well worth the time. Richard Dawson alone was worth the time. That, and the Bakersfield massacre…
Money *could* be spent better at home, at least at this point in our country’s history. Then again, if the money used to occupy countries (plural if you count both Iraq and Afghanistan) under false pretenses was used at home, maybe we could do something truly inspirational with our space program. what the hell am I thinking??. especially considering millions of taxpayer dollars were used to investigate Bill Clinton and his blowjobs, whereas only a fraction of that was used to investigate the Reichstag Fire - erm, I mean - 9/11.