Encounters at the End of the World

"The sea continuously jerks off."
---George Battaile



Someone was talking about having stocks, or something. I really don't want to miss the boat on getting a lot of money for no reason. There are 2 problems, though.

1. I don't have any money to invest. Will they take like 3 dollars a month? Or 200 one month and then 25 cents the next? I feel like in order to make any real money you have to invest in really risky companies or sketchy semi-illegal guys who have slaves in India that carry big rocks up hills, or something.

2. What if I invest a bunch of money and then the Mad Max scenario finally hits? It's going to be like 200,000 people lined up outside of Wall Street demanding their money, but their money doesn't exist anymore, and there are tons of little pieces of paper-bits flying around everybody in a tornado-thing.

I don't need that. So you either just give your money to a bunch of imaginary guys in suits or you spend it all now and bet on the end of the world. You could always try to prepare for the Mad Max apocalypse, I guess. You could invest strictly in gigantic jugs of gasoline and stock pile them in a fort and buy a bunch of metal spikes for your post-apocalyptic jacket outfit. It's hard to know what to do. Plus, do I need to get metal-spike outfits for the cats? These late 2000's are fraught with peril.

"Encounters at the End of the World"---New Herzog documentary about the end of the geographic world Antarctica, and a little bit about the other kind of end of the world as well. Not much about the end of the world actually, it was pretty subtle. Good movie. It was like a lot of his modern day documentaries with long shots of nature accompanied by ethereal droning music, and interviews with eccentric scientist types. Some highlights:
Herzog wondering why chimps or other animals of higher intelligence haven't learned to exploit lower intelligence animals. We see a painting of a monkey riding off into the sunset on a goat. (Did he commission a painter to paint a monkey riding a goat?) He also says he can't stand the feeling of sunshine on his skin. Sweet! I give it millions of stars.