Sector Jade
Jul. 19th, 2013 07:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaThere's a coconut with a message carved into it that John F. Kennedy was using as a paperweight, which is probably the most important thing in the museum. It looks like one of those spheres from Riven. And some Mayan-inspired gold jewelry, with Aztec gods.
She said we don't hear too much about Laos, that South America is the forgotten continent, that history repeats, as Castro and Ho became self-proclaimed communists because the west offered no support whereas the Soviets offered their support, that Al Qaeda is moving into Syria because the west decided to sit on their hands out of fears that Al Qaeda will take over a power vacuum (those are pretty much my words, both to her and on here).
I said that even in 1987 (referring to Life During Wartime here), people thought the next big war would take place in Central America. I said that Fidel Castro is dead in John Brunner's 2010 but not in our 2013. Or maybe he is dead, but it was on April 1st, so everybody thought it was a joke, and in 2043, we're going to be asking about Fidel Castro, and it will turn out he died in 2009. That South America was less forgotten in 1960 because people were afraid that communists could take right over and then march right over the Rio Grande.
The Freedom 7 capsule was in there and some kid was wondering how people fit inside the thing. They crouched down, of course. It looks very cramped and uncomfortable, but you're in space so I guess it doesn't matter.
When I got out of the museum, the sun was so fierce I was brought to tears.
I can find nothing about the Dominican Republic having a different name during the Cuban Missile Crisis, so maybe it was just a mistake. But I did learn that sometimes shitty or dubious at best intentions lead to good things, like Trujillo accepting Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and Republicans from Spain in order to make the Dominican Republic more white, something common enough to be a TV Trope. Unfortunately, there's no real life examples.
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I saw this on Wednesday: Steve Lurkel was drawn on a bathroom ceiling. I can't describe it to you except it doesn't look like Steve Urkel at all. He wasn't even wearing glasses and suspenders, for fuck's sake.
And Poland has a really awesome national anthem.
Burning Question: Since the aliens from Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure probably learned about Disney World from radio emissions, what made them think Disney World would be there when they arrived?
She said we don't hear too much about Laos, that South America is the forgotten continent, that history repeats, as Castro and Ho became self-proclaimed communists because the west offered no support whereas the Soviets offered their support, that Al Qaeda is moving into Syria because the west decided to sit on their hands out of fears that Al Qaeda will take over a power vacuum (those are pretty much my words, both to her and on here).
I said that even in 1987 (referring to Life During Wartime here), people thought the next big war would take place in Central America. I said that Fidel Castro is dead in John Brunner's 2010 but not in our 2013. Or maybe he is dead, but it was on April 1st, so everybody thought it was a joke, and in 2043, we're going to be asking about Fidel Castro, and it will turn out he died in 2009. That South America was less forgotten in 1960 because people were afraid that communists could take right over and then march right over the Rio Grande.
The Freedom 7 capsule was in there and some kid was wondering how people fit inside the thing. They crouched down, of course. It looks very cramped and uncomfortable, but you're in space so I guess it doesn't matter.
When I got out of the museum, the sun was so fierce I was brought to tears.
I can find nothing about the Dominican Republic having a different name during the Cuban Missile Crisis, so maybe it was just a mistake. But I did learn that sometimes shitty or dubious at best intentions lead to good things, like Trujillo accepting Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and Republicans from Spain in order to make the Dominican Republic more white, something common enough to be a TV Trope. Unfortunately, there's no real life examples.
***
I saw this on Wednesday: Steve Lurkel was drawn on a bathroom ceiling. I can't describe it to you except it doesn't look like Steve Urkel at all. He wasn't even wearing glasses and suspenders, for fuck's sake.
And Poland has a really awesome national anthem.
Burning Question: Since the aliens from Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure probably learned about Disney World from radio emissions, what made them think Disney World would be there when they arrived?
