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So, gathered in a little pack not far from Suntec City, was a bunch of Singaporean teenagers doing their best to dress as, well, punks. They had the crisp clean leather jackets, tidy blue jeans, sparkling chains, French Connection UK T-shirts, hair gelled into a nice solid wave, standing quietly around not quite at parade rest. It was kind of endearing to wander through a pack of teenagers doing their best to rebel on the weekends, in convenient locations, where they won't be troublesome to anyone and can still get their homework done on time. I don't mean to mock them, really, and I'm glad they're enjoying their teenage years. But the visual effect was like getting a Mirror Universe episode of Fame.
Also I'd wandered down to Merlion Park, hoping to find a stuffed merlion doll for a friend (I could probably run a good little export business in merlion tchochkes if I really wanted). You'd take it for granted you could get merlion dolls at Merlion Park, but, no. Shiny little statues and keychains and T-shirts and stuff, sure, but not dolls. The middle-sized merlion there sits up by the edge of the water, and I tried for a while to catch a picture of the waves crashing into the stairway around the statue that leads into the water, but I just couldn't time it right to get a wave. Too bad.
Trivia: The 10 April 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora, on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, spewed about twelve cubic miles of ash into the atmosphere. The volcano erupted again in 1819, 1880, and 1967. Source: 365: Your Date with History, W B Marsh and Bruce Carrick.
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You don't know me
Date: 2005-04-10 04:29 pm (UTC)The question arises: Why would anyone really actually enjoy that cartoon? Its like watching rocky and bullwinkle but worse. But I love it.
Re: You don't know me
Date: 2005-04-10 05:08 pm (UTC)I think the reasons for watching Crusader Rabbit are pretty straightforward -- after a bit of roughness in the earliest installments, you had the same sort of blend of off-the-wall plotting, wordplay, and globe-hopping adventure that turned up later in Rocky and Bullwinkle. It was better done -- more practiced, better animated -- in the later show, but it's still done admirably in the first, and there's a particular delight in seeing talented artists in their earliest crafts.
Re: You don't know me
Date: 2005-04-11 12:55 am (UTC)I hadn't realized that it was the anniversary of Tambora's big eruption, for all that I was pondering the other day some fellow from Monash who thinks that the recent earthquakes in Indonesia are piling stress on the fault that runs through Toba and Krakatoa. There's a potential to live in very exciting times if several of the big Indonesian volcanoes break loose at once.
Re: You don't know me
Date: 2005-04-11 11:06 am (UTC)I've even got the two videotapes that were put out before some bizarre licensing issue -- I mean bizarre even for Jay Ward cartoons, which were a whole new legal universe unto themselves -- cancelled the deal. Between the two adventures they covered Texas, pirates, and mer-bunnies.
The potential for Indonesian volcanoes to make my day unexpectedly surprising has been on my mind lately, as has wondering what I'd do if I woke up to find a half-inch of ash covering everything. So far that's mostly been keeping the windows closed at night, which I do because of the risk of severe showers and windstorms, but with the air-conditioning on that doesn't seem like enough.
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Date: 2005-04-13 07:24 am (UTC)--Chiaroscuro
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Date: 2005-04-13 10:20 am (UTC)I don't remember that one, but I have only seen a couple of crusades. The stories are slower and the relentless un-animation or brief walk cycles get to be funny in their own right ... but it is generally odd enough that I like it that way.