Sunday!

Will Truman says:

I ran across a documentary/reality show called Edge of Alaska (or something like that), from which I had two takeaways:

1) Unsurprisingly, the people of the Alaska town value their independence a great deal. It’s hard not to admire the extent to which they go to live outside of society.
2) They are clearly insane. In an episode I saw their dog had been killed by a pack of wolves. I’m sitting there saying “People! You don’t have to live this way!”

(It should be said that by Alaska geography, the town its from isn’t even that remote. The lack of infrastructure makes adds distance, though, and by rest of the US standards a two day drive to civilization is pretty crazy.)

Now that I have DirecTV, I’ve been able to channel surf for the first time in a few years.

It’s just amazing to me how many TV shows there are right now. I was fiddling with my remote last night and ran across one on Applause called Rogue, which had some familiar faces. And looks kind of good! But I’d never heard of it despite it having Toby Ziegler and Mr Texas in it.

I also saw a couple of Arena Football games (or parts of them) while teaching my phone the ways of DirecTV.

I finished Currents of Space (which was good!), and am now listening to the Revolutions podcast on the English Civil War. Thus far, everyone involved seems to be a moron. Oliver Cromwell is just now becoming a major player, though.Report