the duchy of hetkettle trophish

i can’t seem to shake off images of each contender’s eight years. this, that, or the other face of the government. rings outward from there, the administration, the congress, the lobbyists, the public/private bureaucracy, the military, and all the working people who keep things humming. this isn’t my quadrennial chance at making a dent. this is the unanswerable question about america’s ability to get real stuffed inside a name, a face, a point of view, whatever.

i banned all the mac and apple rumor sites from this computer along with the statistics page. fussing is not the right alternative to thinking or laughing. but i haven’t found good stuff other places. i drift through this topic or that topic and the assumptions bug the crap out of me and i move on.

there’s got to be something i can do to help.

saurabh has been thinking about robot babes.

as it happens, i have been watching, for the second time, the original babes in battlesuits anime.

the mercenary babe in the blue metal armor is injured. here is another scene from the same episode, where a pilot babe is distraught with her family responsibilities.

you’re probably wondering now, though, where is the water? what does any of this have to do with the future?

bubblegum crisis is the first anime i can think of portraying tokyo’s experience of a strictly environmental meltdown. set in 2033, this episode was created sometime in late 1987, early 1988 (around the time of the money crash it wasn’t named for but that did cause it some production problems).

the series predicted something they called “the polar war” — it’s not clear why — but as the cap melts, the rush is on, isn’t it.

their future seems to have lost little more than real estate.

ps. meanwhile, in a robot world created by war…

pps. honestly i don’t know how you, on the right, are supposed to fuck her, on the left, but

conceptual simplicity + structural complexity achieves a greater state of humanity, right?

ppps. you — no. you have to listen to me.

mar 9. the polar war. headline asks, “could arctic ice melt spawn new kind of cold war?” hey — don’t be so hasty — still life in th’old one.