Since moving to SWFL, I notice I do not have the angst that I got back in CNY around March. Up there I'd be stark raving mad, almost Jack Nicholson in Shining, after the long winter with crappy weather and little sunlight. The last 4 years I worked a lot inan underground quarantine facility where I'd go to work in the dark and return home in the dark, never hardly seeing the sun. Longer daylight hours are best.
I was living in Venezuela in 1997-1998, right in the midst of when Chavez came into power. Caracas back then was an absolutely horrible, incredibly dangerous city. I can't even imagine what it's like now. I've been lucky enough to travel quite extensively and Caracas is legitimately the only city where I felt spooked just being out and about in it.
The Guardian article makes it sound like it was a lovely haven before Chavez got it. It stopped being one many, many, many years prior. Chavez turned the entire country into a disaster, let alone having Caracas decline even further.
All pretty gross and unfortunate. Venezuela has tonnes of beautiful places to see and the people are great.
Finally got around to doing the math. Using the article’s numbers, a passenger has less than a one in a million chance of falling off of a ship. Here are some comparisons.
I agree it's probably the best film ever. The core asset is the story, the struggle between honor and greed, between duty and pleasure, between one's own happiness and the fate of the world. Everything else: the fine actors, the setting, the comic relief, all add whipped cream to the experience.
It's not the authoritarian and cruel part that makes 1984 so memorable. After all, like you said, Colin, there's a long list of autocratic, authoritarian and cruel empires/societies/governments throughout history. It's the absurdity of it, particularly how language is used as a tool of repression. That's how the English language got the terms Big Brother, doublethink, Newspeak, thoughtcrime, etc (as part of the "Orwellian" adjective).
I remember a lot of my dreams and I don't sleep well. I also have all the senses in my dreams, which can be unpleasant at times. And there are times I am aware I am dreaming and force myself to wake up if the dream is irksome.
The Guardian article makes it sound like it was a lovely haven before Chavez got it. It stopped being one many, many, many years prior. Chavez turned the entire country into a disaster, let alone having Caracas decline even further.
All pretty gross and unfortunate. Venezuela has tonnes of beautiful places to see and the people are great.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
High Five! ...GAACK!
All of these are a cut above the usual repertoire of Medieval art.
..moan..