I know! Most of y’all will get a few more of these, but no so, those of us up here in Barrow. Our last sunset was yesterday. I’m told we can expect to be overrun by vampires any moment. We hear about that every year, actually, but this being 2020 and all, it seems like it actually might happen this time.
Ah well!
Anyway, I was flying up from Anchorage yesterday, caught a couple pictures of the sunset as the plane came in for a landing. Turns out, my nephew, Danielito, was filming the sunset on the ground, and he caught my plane coming in.
Danielito is a good kid.
I hope the vampires don’t get him!
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Looked up your town today on the map. You really are the most northiest place in the country and probably the most northern town in the world (didn’t check that.). You’re definitely the most northern “librul” I know. Also read some of your older posts, like the one about chthulhu, the “elder one.” He is coming.
I haven’t found any posts I disagree with yet, which bothers me. Don’t ask me why. Liked the way you let that commenter hang himself— AZ something. I would have argued with him but it was so long ago, he’s probably changed his name.
Anyway, I approve, even about Custer and the Sioux— another subject I seem to know a lot about. They weren’t interested in peace but we treated them wrong anyway.
Enough. Time for you to burrow in and me to enjoy the eight hours of sunlight I get every day that much more by comparison. Blogging is finally paying off, in a way I didn’t expect.
Excellent comments. One other note on the Sioux, but not Custer per se, is that, yes, the Black Hills were sacred ground to **American Indians** for many centuries, but not necessarily that long for the Sioux. They were just crossing the Missouri in large numbers at the same time Lewis & Clark were canoeing up it, having been kicked out of Wisconsin by the Chippewa.
Right. And they were being forced west by … more tribes, and on the Far East, by the Europeans.
Agreed. I think Richard White had a great article o Sioux expansion out onto the great plains and into the territories now associated with them.
Hi Conrad, There are definitely some northier towns, but we are as northy as you get in the U.S. anyway. The C’thulhu-themed post was a favorite of mine. I really do see climate denialism as a form of C’thulhu cult, and I can see no long term benefit for its members but the hope that they will benefit right up until it too takes them and theirs away. Thank you for the kind comments, and welcome to my blog.
😱😱😱😱Plane load of garlic headed your way.
Thank you. We will need it.
Besides the vampire jokes, you could make pesto with garlic and Arctic Ocean seaweed. Or buy a head of cabbage, get some good New Mexico chiles and plant you a jar or four of kimchi in the ground before it freezes into a block.
Isn’t it permafrost— or not anymore due to chthulhu?
👍🏻As a side note, that was the best and most frightening vampire film I ever watched.
SG: People make kimche here all the time. I should learn how. (We have a sizeable Korean presence in town. They run most of the restaurants.)
CS: We still have permafrost, but it melts further down during the summer than it used to and there are concerns about what long-term thaws can do, including release of methane, etc.
DW: I enjoyed 30 Days of Nights too. I stopped thinking of it as about barrow within a few minutes, but I enjoyed the story. I’m told a few characters in it are inspired by real people here, but Barrow itself if hard to recognize.
I was just busting your stones but is there an actual date that someone figured out with sectors and slide rules?
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Hi Robert, I’m missing the context for this question.
Haha Daniel, humor good. Where’s the location? Don’t worry they’ll be plenty of sunsets in other places to compensate and vampires won’t come close.
Cheers.