tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131844.post2934937545321797807..comments2024-02-28T19:37:14.696+01:00Comments on moments of perfect clarity: #2 - not what i thought it was going to bejulochkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884096685015570257noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131844.post-56079876146706436212008-07-10T16:52:00.000+02:002008-07-10T16:52:00.000+02:00Debi--that's a relief. :-) in retrospect and with...Debi--that's a relief. :-) in retrospect and with the president currently in office, reagan seems kinda harmless now...and he was a good speaker and a snappy dresser. :-)julochkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10884096685015570257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131844.post-18829860738564493952008-07-10T16:49:00.000+02:002008-07-10T16:49:00.000+02:00Julie - Cool. But just a note - I'm not Republica...Julie - Cool. But just a note - I'm not Republican. Just a Reagan fan. And a struggling maker of art. <BR/><BR/>:) Debid smith kaich joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13450581639610967780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131844.post-15555664200944282992008-07-10T15:29:00.000+02:002008-07-10T15:29:00.000+02:00hi robert--thanks for stopping by. i'll admit i ge...hi robert--thanks for stopping by. i'll admit i get a lot for all those tax kroner. like full coverage medical without any worries about insurance premiums and deductibles and people who actually go around cleaning the reflectors by the side of the highway with a special machine for just that purpose. it's all a matter of perspective. and of course, the fact that running denmark is like running a moderately-sized city. with embassies.julochkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10884096685015570257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131844.post-41223055544481260422008-07-10T14:07:00.000+02:002008-07-10T14:07:00.000+02:00If you are giving half your own salary, that you w...If you are giving half your own salary, that you worked to earn, to a government agency, no WONDER you were traumatized by Reagan!Robert Langhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16497658569363397644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131844.post-72435755622846866402008-07-10T10:31:00.000+02:002008-07-10T10:31:00.000+02:00celeste--fearmongering indeed! but it guess i act...celeste--fearmongering indeed! but it guess i actually came to be grateful for my reaction to it.<BR/><BR/>glenn--i'm sure you're right...canadian and american growing up experiences couldn't have been all that different. i remember seeing the coen bros. "fargo" in a theatre in macedonia with a girl from saskatchewan and we were the ones laughing most uproariously at the accents in the movie. everyone else thought we were crazy, but they were just so much like "home" for both of us!<BR/><BR/>barb--i hope your father's doing better. and i have to say that i no longer really think that anything's just a coincidence.<BR/><BR/>polona--i actually love some of the tenses in some of the slavic languages. macedonian has a past tense that you use for an event you didn't witness yourself. we always called it the "gossip" tense.<BR/><BR/>tangobaby--i didn't really think about how manipulated i was by the media at the time. but that's exactly what it was. thank goodness it ended as a positive manipulation for me.<BR/><BR/>hele--i hope you write about your influences! i'd love to read them!!<BR/><BR/>debi--i grew up in the only democrat family for miles, so i'm used to being surrounded by republicans. my goal is to finally have enough money to be able to afford to be one. ;-)julochkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10884096685015570257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131844.post-85867782881190525962008-07-09T16:42:00.000+02:002008-07-09T16:42:00.000+02:00Well reading this & all the replies, I must admit ...Well reading this & all the replies, I must admit I am NOT very influenced by the media or movies. I remember laughing at this movie - what parts I actually made it through. But I am older than you, so perhaps that makes a difference. I was in elementary school way before Reagan & we had bomb drills, hiding under our desks (like that would do any good?). I was scared during Kennedy's years - I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis & my mother hoarding bottled water & non-perishable food under the bed just in case. It was very real - not just a made-for-tv movie. By the time I was grown, I'd been through Kennedy & Johnson & the Vietnam years, Nixon & Watergate, Carter & overtaxation & his awful economic policies. Reagan felt like a breath of fresh air. <BR/><BR/>I hope this doesn't stop you from visiting my blog? We can still be friends?<BR/><BR/>:) Debid smith kaich joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13450581639610967780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131844.post-17594879137583237792008-07-09T09:19:00.000+02:002008-07-09T09:19:00.000+02:00I spend most of yesterday reflecting on this post ...I spend most of yesterday reflecting on this post and the people who influenced me most.helehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00500335410678018061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131844.post-72434428287252766412008-07-09T01:34:00.000+02:002008-07-09T01:34:00.000+02:00What I love about this story is that you overcame ...What I love about this story is that you overcame the mindset of the media to seek out and learn about people you were taught to be afraid of (seems to me that this is the main role of the media these days anyway, to either incite fear or invoke fantasy).<BR/><BR/>You befriended Russian people, visited their country and became your own ambassador. I think that is simply marvelous.<BR/><BR/>(I have to commend you for sticking with your Russian studies. For a time, I was married to a Russian fellow and tried desperately to learn Russian. My brain just could not do it. To this day I only know a handful of words and cannot read or write any of it.)tangobabyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01288974184200212536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131844.post-22765633840342659092008-07-08T21:47:00.000+02:002008-07-08T21:47:00.000+02:00slavic languages do have this strange and complica...slavic languages do have this strange and complicated and altogether irrational grammar.<BR/><BR/>and then i grumble about french being difficult and irrational :)<BR/><BR/>i remember watching that movie while on vacation and it left quite an impression. we still existed as yugoslavia then... oh wellpolonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12631341810150848122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131844.post-73947262621313305672008-07-08T14:01:00.000+02:002008-07-08T14:01:00.000+02:00Oh Julie, this post was a heart stopper as I read ...Oh Julie, this post was a heart stopper as I read "Jason Robards" name. As you know fromy blog, my dad is very ill and yesterday (Monday) when I went to see him he had let his whiskers grow which are pure white as is his hair. When I walked in the room, I looked at him and said, "Dad you look just like Jason Robards". <BR/><BR/>Remember how he looked in Magnolia?? <BR/><BR/>So you can see how when I read your post it seemed it struck me as one of those unexplainable things. <BR/><BR/>Coincidence or something else????? BBarbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08653940993739799006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131844.post-12035366134472275652008-07-08T07:30:00.000+02:002008-07-08T07:30:00.000+02:00I remember The Day After quite well. It freaked me...I remember The Day After quite well. It freaked me out a bit as it was pretty believable. The whole cold war thing was weird for me. I remember thinking that I would probably never grow up to be an adult as getting nuked seemed so imminent. I was half right. I never grew up.<BR/><BR/>I also remember where I was when Reagan got shot. I was visiting my grandparents in Victoria (where I now live). I wasn't hoping he'd die though. I was pretty ambivalent about American presidents back then. Not so much now.<BR/><BR/>It is interesting that my Canadian experience isn't that different from your American experience.Glenn Kachmarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11271522925669315573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131844.post-47658268646798332962008-07-08T06:56:00.000+02:002008-07-08T06:56:00.000+02:00Oh...I remember that movie. Well...the adds for th...Oh...I remember that movie. Well...the adds for that movie. It literally scared the shit out of me! It was fear mongering...and it worked big time!enchantedartisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313891229819372088noreply@blogger.com