Elsewhere I’m hoping I’ve written about the origin of “Godzilla” – in which the direct/creator (or someone from the original ‘Godzilla’ movie) used the lizard monster to portray the horror wrought upon Japan by the twain droppings of the A-Bombs.
I e-mailed my old roommate, Marty (who has been residing in Japan for the past 22-years) to see if he was OK. He reported that he was, and, that things didn’t seem so bad from where he sat (though he had had a 4-hour walk home after his train had stopped, and, that his electricity had returned a mere hour before I e-mailed him). I haven’t written to him since that particular missive – but I’m betting that he has amended his initial sentiment.
I’m thinking that the situation is relatively serious – particularly if the wind changes. Nuclear meltdowns are not to be trifled with – and we Yanks — tend to cover such accidents up better than most, to wit: the Lockheed plant in Santa Susanna and the Enrico Fermi plant in Detroit.
How many cancers and birth defects have been served up to Americans who live too close to toxic materials? And, can we keep storing radioactive waste indefinitely?? We reportedly do a pretty good job of it – but Russian storage might be questionable, and the Japanese don’t really have room to put a whole lot of radioactive waste (and with 55-or-so nuclear reactors – I’m betting that the Japs have a-whole-lotta radioactive waste!). And now we’re hearing reports of elevated radiation content in everything from milk to spinach to chrysanthemums.
For those So Cal readers who heard about the sardine drama in Redondo Beach; the initial report suggested that the sardines jammed Redondo Harbor in such numbers that they ran out of oxygen and all drowned. A secondary report suggested that a toxin (perhaps produced by red algae) made the little buggers go crazy…and why does red algae growth seem to be on the rise as well, lately?
The more I think about it – and get lectured by my mystic buddies about it – the more I’m wondering about the significance of the Mayan Calendar and 2012. I haven’t watched the movie, but my Illuminati buddy suggested that the planets of our solar system will be lining up the month of December 2012.
Unlike the 2000 computer scare (where folks like myself would have been happy with a computer crash and a return to a simpler time) – this 2012 thang is starting to get many more people to sit up and take notice – with most people suggesting that something is going to happen (will it be the proper dawn of the age of Aquarius – or, will the rough beast finally make its way back to Bethlehem to be born?).
I guess if we had known what happened to those furshlugginer Mayans – this whole calendar thing would be less cryptic. Did they vibrate into another dimension as HG suggests they did – because if they did, then what are we doing to them now with all-of-our satellite, cell phone, radioactive and other digital transmissions? We are probably throwing the Mayan safe house into an uproar along conquistador proportions.
I guess we will have to-wait-and-see, much like Y2K – but, in-the-meantime – it’s probably a good time to contain Godzilla…permanently! Still plenty of sun and tides and wind and bio-fuel and refuse to keep us racing humans going…