Breaking Bottles w/ Strelnikov

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on June 27, 2011 at 8:15am

Once upon a time its contents could have destroyed the world...and now: a bottle-breaking playground!

Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on June 27, 2011 at 5:29pm

Bleak out there. Must have been satisfying to do this activity. I know it would have been for me.

Comment by Strelnikov (Стрельников) on June 28, 2011 at 12:30am

Quite cathartic.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on June 28, 2011 at 12:42am

woh, that is SOOO cool - mean this sincerely. Little masterpiece

Comment by De Villo Sloan on June 28, 2011 at 12:44am

There's a book called "Shooting Rats in the Bibb County Dump" - Georgia or some place - that would make a good video too.

Comment by Strelnikov (Стрельников) on June 28, 2011 at 12:52am

Ahh yes:

 

Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump
by David Bottoms
Loaded on beer and whiskey, we ride to the dump in carloads to turn our headlights across the wasted field, freeze the startled eyes of rats against mounds of rubbish. Shot in the head, they jump only once, lie still like dead beer cans. Shot in the gut or rump, they writhe and try to burrow into garbage, hide in old truck tires, rusty oil drums, cardboard boxes scattered across the mounds, or else drag themselves on forelegs across our beams of light toward the darkness at the edge of the dump. It's the light they believe kills. We drink and load again, let them crawl for all they're worth into the darkness we're headed for.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on June 29, 2011 at 1:28am

Yip, David Bottoms - pretty much a one-hit wonder - but he left us with one great title and one ok poem. Not bad in the scope of things

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on June 30, 2011 at 4:09pm

if i had the money, i'd send you the box of china that the PO won't mail for me.

Comment by Strelnikov (Стрельников) on June 30, 2011 at 8:02pm

Now I'd love to get my hands on some china.....

 

FYI - I'll break, blow up, or burn anything you can send me!

Comment by De Villo Sloan on June 30, 2011 at 8:10pm

I think this video is really powerful for the same reason Katerina Nikoltsou stated in the first comment in the thread. I understand this was a site for nuclear weapons - I'll assume that. As Kat said, the power to destroy just about the entire world (by chain reaction) was there. The breaking bottles are minascule, a kind of irony. Tossing pebbles in the ruins...

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