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threeplusfire) wrote2008-08-05 04:41 pm
threeplusfire) wrote2008-08-05 04:41 pm
nine megton bomb
Anthony Bourdain's most recent episode of No Reservations goes through the American Southwest.
"What with going to kindergarten during the Cuban Missle Crisis and my father taking me to see Dr. Strangelove at age seven, I believed for sure I was going to die in a nuclear apocalypse. Turning twenty came as a rude surprise to me, as I had no real back up plan."
Damn. I felt exactly the same way. Growing up at the end of the Cold War, seeing the Berlin Wall come down and reading too much science fiction, I was sure I would never make it past the year 2000. Recently I looked at the calendar and felt so startled I was planning for something to happen in 2009. Whoa.
"What with going to kindergarten during the Cuban Missle Crisis and my father taking me to see Dr. Strangelove at age seven, I believed for sure I was going to die in a nuclear apocalypse. Turning twenty came as a rude surprise to me, as I had no real back up plan."
Damn. I felt exactly the same way. Growing up at the end of the Cold War, seeing the Berlin Wall come down and reading too much science fiction, I was sure I would never make it past the year 2000. Recently I looked at the calendar and felt so startled I was planning for something to happen in 2009. Whoa.