Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home: The Day After

Thursday, November 29, 2018

The Day After

Oh wow. The Amazon Prime subscription now includes, I am noting today for the first time, 3 seasons of the Russian television series "The Day After" set in Moscow, Russia.

A few years ago, noted here on my blog, I started watching it and I watched all 12 episodes of that first season, afterwards assuming they weren't going to make another season to explain the cliffhanger final season 1 episode.

I think I'll watch tonight a few episodes again of that first season and eventually make my way through all seasons.

Not crazy about subtitled video but the series got my attention.

I have since then thought again about one particular scene that was humorous to me, illustrated below.

But now I cannot now recall precisely why it was humorous.

Vaguely I recall it was again something prescient I had written and that was humorous to me. Might have been something I heard on television news with their live dialog from the teleprompters and that I did not record any details about, which happens sometimes with references I make in my posts. Reading through the series of posts I made on this subject several years ago I am thinking that is most likely what happened. Something I heard them saying on television as I was watching the video on another screen. Or maybe I watched the video first and then I heard the dialog on the live tv news.

I've got to stop watching the television news as much. I watch every live news broadcast that is on during my waking hours. I don't have cable television anymore so I don't watch CNN now. Tv news isn't going to tell me anything, anything I've been waiting for 15 years to hear. Recently though a news story they've been running has been making me think. I was thinking about that news report about the researchers in China and their human gene editing. What I had been thinking of in days just before I heard about that was slightly different but still, the immune system. I was thinking of my possible responses if anyone were to ask me for serious input on the claims of a pending global climate crisis. My response would have been to consult a crisis-management expert and develop details about the statistical relevance of another major polluter that KILLED THEMSELVES OFF *before* all the combined pollution reached the point of crisis and inevitability. My thoughts had been to think about China and how it killed itself because of several of the traits of its population. I am vaguely aware of how they all live in congested cities with acrid pollution that has got to be wreaking havoc on their immune systems and thrown in to that all those pigs and chickens they have on every city sidewalk and all that's just one big melting pot for some massive regional epidemic that kills off their population. Crisis averted. All because China couldn't go Vegan. America can continue polluting at its normal rate and not have to worry about long-term damage for an extra few decades. And maybe even never. Maybe people finally, with a respite from catastrophe, finally fully embrace renewable energy sources and with the extra time to adopt those methods of power generation, the atmosphere never reaches a point of pollution saturation. Donald Trump gets the last laugh.

Related to the television news broadcasts, sometimes I don't describe the precise details simply because they are watching me and I am watching them and they know precisely what it's supposed to mean. Sometimes I have written about stuff I do that is prescient of stuff I see later.

Now, I know many of you dullard dim-wits out there want to say that stuff you see is also prescient but I CAN GUARANTEE YOU ARE WRONG.

First of all, you're too lazy to document it as methodically as I.

And it's BECAUSE you're a lazy-minded dim-wit that causes your WISHFUL THINKING that you have had similar experience.

What you have is a lazy, dim-wit mind.

Those of you, many of you, that claim to be "Star Trek" and "Stargate" fans are fans ONLY BECAUSE you're LAZY.

You're not a fan of science. Science is hard work. You are a fan of anything that helps you escape ANY work. You're too lazy to think for yourself.

All you do is pollute and breed more polluters and you crap and then you crap some more and you pollute some more and you always try to find any way to avoid ANY work or thinking for yourself.

http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/07/zombie-comrades.html

Posted by Kerry Burgess at 6:33 PM

Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Zombie Comrades

D'oh! I guess I should have seen that coming last night. They aren't giving away for free the television series "The Last Ship." They only gave away for free the premiere episode on tntdrama.com. The second episode requires cable television authorization to view it. I don't have cable television so I'm not watching it.

Instead of finishing my next highly compelling report about our good friend Barack Obama and his crew at the National Academy of Sciences and breaking away from television news for a change I decided to scan through hulu.com for something else to watch, at least for a while this evening.

One listing I found is kind of interesting for these first few minutes I have watched it so far. The title "The Day After" seems to set in Moscow Russia and it is not my desirable choice to watch because it has only English subtitles and I hate subtitle movies. Imdb.com has it confused with the 1983 film "The Day After" starring Jason Robards.

So far it isn't that bad. The soundtrack reminds me of that British television series "The Survivors" that I wrote about on here a while back.

The actors are I guess speaking in Russian and it isn't as annoying as I thought it would be although I don't know what they are saying other than the subtitles. I also pick up on subtle differences in their humor. Don't know how many of the 12 episodes that are listed for free that I am going to watch. I plan on watching the entire first episode.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/642737

hulu

The Day After Episode 1

http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi719432729/

IMDb

The Day After

Title: The Day After Full Episode (Episode 1)

Description: Eleven strangers find themselves locked in a bunker with no recollection of what happened night before.