2001: A Blog Odessey

I had to do it, the title was too much to pass up. It came to me whilst sleeping last night.

I always had a theory that Stanley Kubrick made 2001: A Space Odyssey as a joke on critics. He made something that no one would understand on purpose just to see what critics thought. For those who claimed they understood it, well that is who the joke was intended to be on, for those who claimed it was brilliant, well in my world Kubrick laughed at them all the way to the bank.

I have no proof of this but again I laugh at people who claim it was brilliant on so many metaphorical levels. Yeah I know that movie is old, laughable by today's standards, but I'm sure a ton of hippies got high and watched it learning that CAT was really spelled DOG and such.

Speaking of bong hitting hippies, the Sea Shepherds have been doing a top notch job at failing on the last three episodes. A helicopter repair didn't go well, another hippie didn't know how much oil the Bob Barker was burning per day (100 liters if you are interested, they thought it was burning half that), ironic they are environmentalists...

So they almost ran out of oil and had to meet the Steve Irwin at a port, which during the transfer of oil and water during the night the two deck boats they offloaded into the water for extra room nearly sank, the newest and most expensive one at one hundred thousand dollars broke the mooring line and floated away. They found it the next day on a rocky shore and instead of hooking a line to it and towing it one of the high hippies put the motor down and fired it up (I'm sure he had fired it up earlier in the day too) and tore up the prop and motor.

Later on when they finally get loose from all of that failure they run into a storm, accidentally find the Japanese whaling fleet, and find themselves surrounded by the harpoon vessels, the faster, more powerful, and more maneuverable harpoon vessels while the factory ship steams away.

But before that happened the factory vessel slowed down to six knots, the Bob Barker was still at full speed. They could have ended the Japanese whaling season right then if they had rammed the tail end of the ship where they upload the dead whales.

But no, they are not men of their convictions at all. They talk, feel bad for the whales, and when they have the opportunity to disable the main vessel they slow down and take no action. Then as I stated above they got surrounded by the four harpoon ships. One of them then side swiped the ship and knocked a hole into its side.

I laughed.