Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Apollo and all that
Okay, I'll add my bit to the 40-year anniversary.
Where was I on 7/20/69? I was in the Ohio State Reformatory, doing time for possession of one seed of the forbidden herb. I was trying to survive daily beatings by my cellie Charlie Manis and avoid daily rapes by everyone else. (Manis, not Manson ... though as it happens Charlie Manson was also a proud OSR alumnus!) I was learning many new facts about the wondrous rainbow of human racial and sexual diversity, the human capacity for evil, and the idiocy of American state, local and federal governments. All of this material was new and hard to digest. Thus I didn't have abundant time or energy to ponder the "heroism" of the astronauts.
Even before that, I wasn't highly impressed by manned spaceflight. Perhaps an unusual attitude for a pure nerd, but I just didn't see the point, didn't share the admiration for "heroes".
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Polistra has already handled the subject anyway. ¶ 6:12 AM
Where was I on 7/20/69? I was in the Ohio State Reformatory, doing time for possession of one seed of the forbidden herb. I was trying to survive daily beatings by my cellie Charlie Manis and avoid daily rapes by everyone else. (Manis, not Manson ... though as it happens Charlie Manson was also a proud OSR alumnus!) I was learning many new facts about the wondrous rainbow of human racial and sexual diversity, the human capacity for evil, and the idiocy of American state, local and federal governments. All of this material was new and hard to digest. Thus I didn't have abundant time or energy to ponder the "heroism" of the astronauts.
Even before that, I wasn't highly impressed by manned spaceflight. Perhaps an unusual attitude for a pure nerd, but I just didn't see the point, didn't share the admiration for "heroes".
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Polistra has already handled the subject anyway. ¶ 6:12 AM
