The more I’m around people, the more I like the idea of all that space.
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Wyoming might be a bum fuck state, but at least they’re not taxing you for the privilege of being bum fucked.
Plus Sheriff Walt Longmire and his trusty Injun sidekick Henry Standing Bear hail from there.
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Interestingly (to me), Longmire was filmed in and around Albuquerque, NM. I was an extra in several episodes, often playing a lawyer. Central NM and most of Wyoming look virtually the same.
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So you’re saying DON’T give you a home where the buffalo roam and the deer and antelope play? Where seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day??
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Lads, just to settle this from a neutral, outsider perspective: there are about five states that anyone gives a shit about. None of the ones mentioned are on that list.
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Been to Bethany beach … to me a beach is a beach … reminded me very much of Harwich on cape cod … now ocean City is where the parties are …
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I mean, the whole northwestern quarter of the country looks like that. You can be an extra anywhere west of Chicago and north of Utah!
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As well as large swaths of the southwest and center! Colorado had mountains…and also lots of sage-covered dirt hills.
You could probably say this about counties or cities in every country.
TBF I think in most countries there’s zero states/provinces/counties that anyone gives a shit about. The US is really leading the way with 5.
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I confess that, with more freetime, I have taken to binge reading “Atlas Shrugged”, as it was my grandfather’s favorite book and I wanted to better connect with him.
And that, after reading it for 6 hours a day, I have been having some weird dreams.
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I’ve read the first 3/4 of that book 3 times … for whatever reason I stall at Galt’s speech
Goddamn dude: spoilers.
That’s not a spoiler … a spoiler would be that Howard Roark dies at the end
EDIT: Also didn’t give away Who Galt is…so…there’s that
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I haven’t gotten to the point where Galt is introduced as still existing. Still a thing of legend. Its 1100 pages: even putting in near full work days of reading, it’s a slog.
Apologies … assumed you were familiar with the basic story
It is a bit of a slog - I hear her philosophical writing is much better. That being said I really liked Anthem, haven’t read Fountainhead which I’ve heard is better than Atlas but I can’t say.
Anthem was far easier to digest. Her characters are so painfully on the nose. It’s almost like reading a parody of a parody.
I see them as tending towards caricatures - then I turn on CNN and see AOC and am like … hmmm, pretty life like
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That speech is soooo painful to get through.Skip the speech and read For the New Intellectual.
The Fountainhead is a much better book but she really is just a bit-better-than-mediocre writer of fiction. Her essays in The Voice of Reason and The Virtue of Selfishness are outstanding and do a much better job of conveying her philosophy than two 1,000 page works of fiction.
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Reading how she writes dialogue is definitely a look into the mind of someone that struggled with basic human interpersonal relationships. It’s like an alien (poorly) trying to convey human thought processes with a mad-libs approach to adjectives.
“He told the drive through speaker ‘Cheeseburger’ with the kind of happy sadness one conveys through a hint of both defeat and victory, resigned but with a hint of smugness. The attendant said ‘$1.99’ with a mocking sense of serene violence, befitting an executive playing at being a schoolteacher”
I have completely abandoned trying to in any way envision what these dialogue sound like in my mind’s eye (ear?)
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