Tonight's vice-presidential debate between Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin is bound to be in the news for days, maybe weeks, to come. Astrologers, pundits and experts have had their say on the subject of Sarah Palin, governor of one of the nation's most unspoiled, wild and remote states. Further attempt at serious comment by yours truly would be superfluous.
A couple of years ago we had fancied a trip to Alaska - until I investigated the likely cost of a vacation there, from Oklahoma. Instead we satisfied ourselves with a DVD set of the 1990's TV series "Northern Exposure", set in a fictional Alaskan town. We watched about half the set some time ago, then gave it a rest. Returning to it recently, with Sarah Palin's emergence in the meantime, the tales now have a slightly different significance. The quirky characters and unlikely, almost surreal storylines of "Northern Exposure" add a humorous edge to what some of us already see as high farce in the current Republican presidential ticket.
"Northern Exposure" is fiction, but often fiction has a kernal of fact embedded - it needs it to help readers relate to the story. So, I'm wondering whether her years in Alaska have infected Gov.
Palin with the same quirkiness of Alaskan natives portrayed in "Northern Exposure"? Or is her own quirkiness down to the cluster of five oddball Aquarian planets in her natal chart? She could be described as an Aquarian/Alaskan hybrid - the ultimate in quirkiness! I could easily see Ms Palin as a character (or caricature) in "Northern Exposure", should it ever be revived.
Anyway, I expect plenty of quirk will be on show in tonight's debate ! Joe Biden's likely reaction:
UPDATE:
My opinion (for what it's worth): Biden won, Palin held her own but failed to exhibit any in depth knowledge on any subject relating to NATIONAL politics.
She kept reverting to her record in Alaska. I guess "you can take the gal out of Alaska, but you can't take Alaska out of the gal". Two big niggles from me - she should be trained not to say "NUKULAR" - we've seen this from Bush and how the comedians have mocked it - surely she could have been schooled not to follow suit - was it deliberate? If so it's even more ridiculous.
And "Eyerak" - makes me cringe. Give the nation, at the very least, the courtesy to pronounce its name correctly, as Biden did.
A couple of years ago we had fancied a trip to Alaska - until I investigated the likely cost of a vacation there, from Oklahoma. Instead we satisfied ourselves with a DVD set of the 1990's TV series "Northern Exposure", set in a fictional Alaskan town. We watched about half the set some time ago, then gave it a rest. Returning to it recently, with Sarah Palin's emergence in the meantime, the tales now have a slightly different significance. The quirky characters and unlikely, almost surreal storylines of "Northern Exposure" add a humorous edge to what some of us already see as high farce in the current Republican presidential ticket.
"Northern Exposure" is fiction, but often fiction has a kernal of fact embedded - it needs it to help readers relate to the story. So, I'm wondering whether her years in Alaska have infected Gov.
Palin with the same quirkiness of Alaskan natives portrayed in "Northern Exposure"? Or is her own quirkiness down to the cluster of five oddball Aquarian planets in her natal chart? She could be described as an Aquarian/Alaskan hybrid - the ultimate in quirkiness! I could easily see Ms Palin as a character (or caricature) in "Northern Exposure", should it ever be revived.Anyway, I expect plenty of quirk will be on show in tonight's debate ! Joe Biden's likely reaction:
UPDATE:
My opinion (for what it's worth): Biden won, Palin held her own but failed to exhibit any in depth knowledge on any subject relating to NATIONAL politics.
She kept reverting to her record in Alaska. I guess "you can take the gal out of Alaska, but you can't take Alaska out of the gal". Two big niggles from me - she should be trained not to say "NUKULAR" - we've seen this from Bush and how the comedians have mocked it - surely she could have been schooled not to follow suit - was it deliberate? If so it's even more ridiculous.
And "Eyerak" - makes me cringe. Give the nation, at the very least, the courtesy to pronounce its name correctly, as Biden did.
