OWH Memorial Undead Topic

I was there in late October or early November I think. The weather was very nice except the last day of my trip which was spent north of Seattle at Sedro-Woolley, and that day wasn't too terrible until it was time to drive back to Seattle. The rain was constant and heavy the whole trip.

The day before that I drove from Republic to Sedro-Woolley through the northern part of the Cascades. It was a fantastic drive and wild, for me anyway, to go from warm temps to snowy, icy mountain passes in the space of several minutes.

 

I haven’t been to Washington but Portland looked to me like what I think of with Pacific Northwest and then we basically drove into Kansas as we headed for Eugene

 

Washington, as the lady behind the counter at the Republic Inn explained to me, is a lot different depending on whether you are to the right of the mountains or the left of the mountains.

Parts of Portland reminded me of a third world country, but the area around it was beautiful. I spent a few days near Hermiston for work after flying into Pasco, Washington. There to the east, it was neat to see how the river valley was lush compared to the high plains desert where Hermiston is located. I saw my first tumbleweeds in Oregon.

 

I drove through Kansas when 9/11 happened and I was in Denver. There is no worse drive than Kansas end to end

 

Eh, there's a lot of that out west. I drove from Nashville to KC a few months ago, and the stretch from St. Louis to KC is pretty desolate.

Edit: I'm not calling that drive out west, but it's kind of similarly dull.

 

Honestly, I completely expected the whole thing to be just seafood and logging. I had no clue that they produced so much hay in that area. I could have picked this all up from a map if Id have been smart enough to pay attention to it while looking for directions. But would love to explore more of the area.

I also saw my first tumbleweeds on this trip. Blowing across the interstate even, just like you see in movies. Almost hit one with the car.

 

I thought it was a pack of some kind of huge coyotes or dogs at first in the distance running across the road before I got a closer look.

 

Of course the old west had no tumbleweeds. It is an invasive from the Russian steppes that took off in the late nineteenth and early 20th century. The movies are ahistorical. No 10 gallon hats either.

 

Movies aren’t always accurate portrayals of real life!?! Well, my day is already ruined.

 

Oh, I'm just getting started.

 

I think I’d start with the old west actually not being that violent first as the biggest strike

 

And gun check ins at towns. People didn't wear six shooters all over the joint

 

Ya, a town of 150 residents is not having weekly shootouts. Nobody has the time or energy for it, they had things to do. And there wouldn't be a town if it was a regular thing.

 

I know. This isn’t my first day at the 8th.

 

Just Derringers in their sleeves

 

sleeve guns were invented in World War 2, it being a Wild West thing is just movies... made after World War 2. Which is telling.

 

human-pig hybrid kidneys from pig embryos are probably going to rattle some cages, though it seems like an intriguing way to end the organ transplant waiting list problem.

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...n-partially-grown-in-pigs-for-the-first-time/

 

I know, it's always cracked me up

 

Oh man, the mythology from the Old West is rampant. They've gotten better at these things lately, but myth in history is so, so strong. Deadwood got the treatment of women/prostitutes right in a way few movies previously had done. About a third of cowboys were black, not to mention the cowboys were taught their trade by Mexican vaqueros. Barbed wire completely changing the West is rarely given the prominence it required and so on. Unforgiven demystifying the western the gunslinger was a good turn in the silly cowboy vs. Indian movies of the past. Screw John Wayne.

 

Yeah, until PETA protests for Manbearpig having rights.