Into the Wild

[wendigomountain]

So, they recently found the body of a young man in the Seattle area who left his home in Arizona and apparently wanted to drop off the radar like Christopher McCandless from Jon Krakauer's book Into the Wild.

In case you haven't heard of Into the Wild, no it's not a Broadway show about Little Red Riding Hood.  It's about a college student,

Comments

[msstacy13]

1. I saw the DVD at the library last week, and thought,
   "That sounds really stupid. Who the hell would wanna watch an idiot wander off and die?"
   Well, of course, ANOTHER FRIGGIN IDIOT...
2. I have to admit,
   when I lived in Denver,
   I considered going up into the rough terrain for forty days
   to see if God would call me as a prophet.
   That wasn't the dumbest thing I ever thought of, either.

[wendigomountain]

Little known Biblical fact. Most prophets who go off into the wilderness started off weighing in at over 350lbs. By the time they get home, they look like Ghandi.

[asakiyume]

Some people are in love with extremity. Like Philippe Petit, tightroping between the twin towers. What if he had fallen? But he didn't. But he knew he could. Death is very near, he said. Um, yeah