good talk

"The Social Network" was good, "Secretariat" was good and the labored breathing of this equine athlete was a great effect. Secretariat's wins at the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes in 1973 are still the Track Records. When Secretariat died in 1989 he was autopsied and his heart was much larger at 22 pounds than any horse heart ever recorded. If you look at a picture of Secretariat it looked like he had gone to the gym and lifted weights. I didn't know that Ron Turcotte had been in a wheelchair since 1978. The last time I was in Australia was 1999 and I went to their capitol, Canberra, population 345,000 which was a compromise in 1908 between Melbourne and Sydney and sort of in between them. I sat in the gallery of their Parliament and toured their museums and War Memorial, like all of Australia pretty exciting stuff. I then went to Tasmania 140 miles south of Austraia and seperated by the Bass Strait. A population of only a half million it was discovered in 1642 by Abel Tasman the Dutch Explorer. It was first settled in 1803 by the English sending convicts and their guards. I stayed in their capitol, Hobart and thought it to be quite interesting. I then went to tour Port Arthur and the Prison, horrible conditions which were thought to purge the convicts of their eviloughts. I was there 3 years after Martin Bryant ran amock and killed 35 people there on April 26, 1996 (maybe he went there to get his thoughts purged), many of those shot and killed were tourists. I was in the burned-out remnants of the "Arrow Cafe" where all this began, this is known as "the Port Arthur Massacre." Many of the Tasmanians will tell you that they have a convict ancestor. Inbreeding has always been a problem in Tasmania and in the rest of Australia they"ll tell you that Tasmanians all have a scar on their necks from where the 2nd head was severed. We all live in multi-thousands of different dimensions simultaneously, we're not born, we're dead, we're young we're old all at once, there really is no such things as "time."