Comments | greygirlbeast: My people were fair and had sky in their hair...but now they're content to wear stars.

greygirlbeast

My people were fair and had sky in their hair...but now they're content to wear stars.

Feb 26, 2006 12:33

After Friday's unexpected warmth, we're getting another small dose of late winter. And here I am, slowly coming back from the dead, again. I have to be alert and working by tomorrow, so today I'm going to clean my office and do some other housework and try to shake off all the dust I've accumulated whilst convalescing this past week. I suspect this ( Read more... )

human population, darren mcgavin, don knotts, video, downtime

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sovay February 26 2006, 18:12:00 UTC

some old video that was shot in September 1999 at the water works tunnel in Birmingham for an aborted Tales of Pain and Wonder documentary

Is this material that is ever likely to be released (as you have discussed a Daughter of Hounds documentary, for example) or is it pretty definitively off-limits?

a bunch of Death's Little Sister stuff from '96-'97

That would be worth hearing.

greygirlbeast February 26 2006, 19:06:49 UTC

Is this material that is ever likely to be released (as you have discussed a Daughter of Hounds documentary, for example) or is it pretty definitively off-limits?

Well, considering that I once swore I'd never allow The Five of Cups to be published, I never say never about these things anymore.

Like I said, maybe a DVD from subpress someday.

sovay February 26 2006, 19:22:35 UTC

I like the idea of authorial multimedia.

stardustgirl February 26 2006, 18:48:52 UTC

I'd love to see that make it to DVD as well.

And yes, I'm up for trading a billion humans for some more rainforest, wetlands, farmland, forests, whatever. We're in danger of losing part of the Hoosier National Forest .

It's doubled since the mid 70s? Oh jeez. So that's why we're being invaded by all these plastic-clad slab homes eating up space where there used to be woodlands. And what's scarier is you know the segment of humans that seem to be breeding the most aren't exactly the best and brightest.

greygirlbeast February 26 2006, 18:53:18 UTC

It's doubled since the mid 70s? Oh jeez. So that's why we're being invaded by all these plastic-clad slab homes eating up space where there used to be woodlands. And what's scarier is you know the segment of humans that seem to be breeding the most aren't exactly the best and brightest.

No. I think it's gone up by about 1/3rd since the '70s. I shall check. Not that a third isn't horrifying enough...

greygirlbeast February 26 2006, 19:05:10 UTC

The numbers I'm seeing online have the human population reaching 4 billion in 1974. So, that means there are about 2.5 bilion more people today than in '74. That's about a 62+% increase, right? More than I thought.

stardustgirl February 26 2006, 22:18:11 UTC

That's over 62% more depressing, though. Ah well, there's always the bird flu potential to balance things out.

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ixion75 February 26 2006, 20:26:19 UTC

6.5 billion-- sheesh. I agree with you. To quote Bill Hicks: "Can you stop your rutting already, and let's figure out this food/air deal first?"

kambriel February 26 2006, 23:31:40 UTC

The problem is the dodo's are voting! ;)

I'm with you completely though about trading... thing is the world will eventually take care of that on it's own. We've been here for such a minute blip on the earth's timeline, and I don't get the feeling that in the long run we'll be half as enduring through the millenia as say, the sea turtle. Much like any relationship, both sides have to provide ~ it can't just be the earth giving and humans taking.

greygirlbeast February 27 2006, 00:19:46 UTC

I'm with you completely though about trading... thing is the world will eventually take care of that on it's own. We've been here for such a minute blip on the earth's timeline, and I don't get the feeling that in the long run we'll be half as enduring through the millenia as say, the sea turtle.

I try to take solace in this fact and hope that there will still be sea turtles left when the hoomans are finally done and extinct and quietly fossilizing. Or have at least been reduced to a reasonable component of the terran fauna. I would take much less issue with a human population of, oh, let's say a hundred million or so...

Much like any relationship, both sides have to provide ~ it can't just be the earth giving and humans taking.

Hoomans are sort of like a particularly abusive boyfriend (or girlfiend), in that respect. :)

related or unrelated? mellawyrden February 27 2006, 02:19:47 UTC

I'm not sure how this relates to the population numbers...

but as I was taking my inhalers today at my mother's house, she said they're going to stop making inhalers entirely, because we asthmatics are punching holes in the ozone layer with the things.

Right. It isn't fossil fuel usage. It's the damned asthmatics and farting cows.