Charissa’s Comments (group member since Nov 17, 2008)

Charissa’s comments from the Axis Mundi X group.

Oh! OK... so Joss Whedon created Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (TV Shows)... Firefly was his Opus. they destroyed it when it was aired on TV but he released it on DVD after the show was cancelled during it's first season... and it's hands down some of the best sci fi ever filmed. There was a film released as well... "Serenity". I highly recommend both the series on DVD and the film.

good god. that sounds horrific.

that's a shame, Larry. I think I spent the early part of my life so buffeted about by tragedy and misery that now I tend to roll with the punches a bit better. I also tend to steer clear of extra drama as well... so the misery that finds me isn't bracketed by clutter.

Thanks Joe.

coolio... I'll have to put that in my line up.

I'm still looking forward to seeing Benjamin Button.

shiny is, indeed, a Firefly reference. But I have incorporated it so firmly into my vocabulary it is impossible to extricate.

::::hands Larry a can of sardines:::::

::::hands BunWat a pillar candle::::::

I don't mind violence if children aren't involved, and if there isn't torture scenes... do you think I would like it?

it's our memories that tend to brush the edges off the severity of past winters. past hurts. past mistakes. we look back from some tragedy and say, "surely I have never been so wretched in all my life." however, if we truly remembered every past wretchedness in it's full glory, most of us would never get out of bed in the morning. forgetfulness is the heart of survival.

Lori... Seattle is in a very good location. The trade winds would blow the ash to the east and South. Eventually there would be some ash fall on the PNW, but it would be tiny in comparison to the rest of North America. And you are far away from the initial blast zone. Eventually the weather would likely drive everyone south of the Mexican Border. But you'd have time to do that if it came to that. the weather would take a while to really change.

At least that is my understanding of it.

Jackie... did you like it? My mom saw it an said it was too violent for her.

I agree Larry... hands down funniest movie I saw all year. I just love those boys.

mmmmmm.... TOS.... Jackie is the shiniest Trekkie in GR.

Everything I have read about the Yellowstone Caldera predicts that it is due to blow sometime in the next 10,000 years. In geologic time that is a blip, but obviously in terms of whether it happens in our lifetimes or not.... it could either impact human civilization.... or not! But I would say that if it happens... all our other troubles will seem pretty goddamn trivial in comparison. Economy schmeconomy. Frikkin new Ice Age. West Coast of US will probably survive the initial devastation.... but none of us would survive the climate change that would follow. Make the current little tiny alterations seem pretty damn petty. Which, when you think about what the earth has already survived... really kind of are.

It's the one thing, short of asteroid impact, that could actually bring about a serious apocalypse in our lifetimes.

HA HA HA HA... Rusty. Cloverfield was hysterically bad. My daughter and I laughed our asses off through the whole film. I think it can be summed up thusly:

They were stupid, and they died.

ah, the decline of western civilization. it smells like.... bubblegum.

holy shit.

good lord, is that Peter Sellers?

Pokey and Gumby

usually it's because that is the size of the image you uploaded.