Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Firestorm

Last week's sampling was a little crazy. Not in the protective landowners way (everyone we met in Santa Cruz was pleasant and actively interested in their watershed's health), but in a different kind of way:
Unfortunately, the fires had all of the destruction of Firestorm but none of its motorcycles launching through the skylights of burning ranger stations, spinning Howie Longs jumping out of planes, or dude's heads getting rammed through the top of a canoe and incinerated by the firestorm. I remember when that movie came out and my buddy E Kafka (a firefighter) was pissed off about how unreal it was..."That's Bullshit!!".

Anyway, sucks for the landowners, and sucks (in a much smaller way) for someone like me who's been meaning to make it to the mountain bikes trails up there. Not sure what all got burned, but sounds like some trails might have gotten torched. As they say, nature is a harsh mistress.

3 comments:

d*pow said...

how many gins would you give Firestorm?

Lord Hayden said...

Firestorm gets at least 4 gins, maybe even 5. If you've seen the end scene with the head through the canoe incinerated by the firestorm, you cannot beg to differ.

Then again, I can only give so many gins, gotta keep some for myself.

d*pow said...

eloquently put, sir.