All this time-traveling stuff has officially blown my mind. That said, here are my (somewhat muddled) thoughts going into next week's season 5 finale.
1. The Jughead plot is not going to work. Either it won't detonate, or the detonation won't accomplish what it is supposed to accomplish.
2. Sawyer and Juliette aren't gone for good. They were on their way off the island, but I can't believe that they actually make it somewhere else. Those other people on the submarine get back to the "real world," but I can't believe Sawyer and Juliette are completely out of the picture.
3. Locke has gone off his rocker. I think Ben and Richard are going to take care of him, like kill him or something. I've never been a fan of Locke, and now he seems especially menacing and crazy.
4. Richard Alpert has something up his sleeve. Maybe Richard is Jacob?
5. The cataclysmic incident caused by release of large amounts of electromagnetic energy isn't going to kill everybody. The Dharma Initiative and the Others are still around in the 1990's, because that's when Ben kills them all. So, I don't see why Faraday felt the need to evacuate the island. But a hydrogen bomb explosion. . . well, it would at least give a lot of people cancer and radiation poisoning and cause birth defects in the future. None of which we see in the future Others. Maybe the hydrogen bomb explosion is going to happen, and that's what always happened, and the island is "course-correcting" as it goes along. After all, that's what Eloise told Desmond back in some earlier season: "History always course-corrects," and that's why Charlie had to die.
Whatever happens, it's going to be epic. Setting us up for an epic season 6. Or maybe they're heading for the final scene of the series being a massive shoot-out with everybody dead at the end.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Oogrook
Melody and I heard early this afternoon that there was someone butchering a seal down near the store. We went down to see. They were outside the house of the mom of the guy who had killed it. We watched her (Helga) cut off the meat she wanted. The guy who killed it said he would probably give most of it away because it was the first one and they would catch more seals (and belugas, too!).
Just from watching her, I could tell she had been carving up seals and other animals for most of her (long) life. She was so quick to find where the bones where and where to best carve out the slabs of meat.
Helga taught us the Eskimo word for seal: oogrook. There were a couple of garbage bags of blubber sitting on the guy's sled. Helga and Ruth (another elder who was standing there talking with us) told us that they would put the blubber in a bucket and just let it sit. It would render into seal oil. Seal oil is what they used to use to light their lamps, and they still use it in a lot of recipes. We also learned that seal intestines are a delicacy.
Apparently, they scrape the meat part away from the skin of it and boil it up. Talk about using every part of the animal! :-)
Just from watching her, I could tell she had been carving up seals and other animals for most of her (long) life. She was so quick to find where the bones where and where to best carve out the slabs of meat.
Helga taught us the Eskimo word for seal: oogrook. There were a couple of garbage bags of blubber sitting on the guy's sled. Helga and Ruth (another elder who was standing there talking with us) told us that they would put the blubber in a bucket and just let it sit. It would render into seal oil. Seal oil is what they used to use to light their lamps, and they still use it in a lot of recipes. We also learned that seal intestines are a delicacy.
Apparently, they scrape the meat part away from the skin of it and boil it up. Talk about using every part of the animal! :-)
Crabs
Hard as it may be to believe, I've never tasted crab before. That being said, I was excited when Melody bought two crabs from a couple here in the village. They had just come back from their crab pot set out on the edge of the ice, and we got fresh, still-alive crabs. Melody had to go back up to the school right away, so we put the crabs in a box to cook later.
The big one in the bottom is upside down, and the other one looks like he's about to make a break for the exit. They were scrambling around a lot for the first hour or so. I thought they were going to get out and terrorize the apartment. At one point, the right-side up one managed to get himself halfway out of the box.
When Melody got back a couple of hours later, we boiled some water. The crabs were still moving a little bit, but were mostly dead. She picked one of the them up and almost got pinched as she dropped it in the water. As the steam from the boiling water hit the crab, he started scrambling and she dropped him to avoid a painful pinch. Good thing he was over the pot of water already.
We did the same thing with the second one while we were eating the first one. Fresh crab dipped in warm butter is good, I've decided. Cracking it open didn't work too well, but scissors worked perfectly. Just thinking about it, I think I need to go eat a couple of crab legs that are chilling in the fridge just waiting to be ingested. :-)
The big one in the bottom is upside down, and the other one looks like he's about to make a break for the exit. They were scrambling around a lot for the first hour or so. I thought they were going to get out and terrorize the apartment. At one point, the right-side up one managed to get himself halfway out of the box.
When Melody got back a couple of hours later, we boiled some water. The crabs were still moving a little bit, but were mostly dead. She picked one of the them up and almost got pinched as she dropped it in the water. As the steam from the boiling water hit the crab, he started scrambling and she dropped him to avoid a painful pinch. Good thing he was over the pot of water already.
We did the same thing with the second one while we were eating the first one. Fresh crab dipped in warm butter is good, I've decided. Cracking it open didn't work too well, but scissors worked perfectly. Just thinking about it, I think I need to go eat a couple of crab legs that are chilling in the fridge just waiting to be ingested. :-)
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