Dept. of Thinking out loud

Very nice overheard at the Cirque du Soleil, by MJK's "roommate."

And I loved this post by Badger, on vacation in San Diego:

About Sea World. It is our dystopian future -- in the future we will always be in places like that, standing in line for 2 choices of lunch... with gross music and advertisements inescapable... we will live there and never be able to leave. They search you at the gate to make sure you don't bring your own food, there's nowhere to experience unmediated "reality". Never ever! You think you've found a quiet spot and some fool starts yammering with a canned "interaction experience" right into your ear! The best moments were when the auditorium would empty out. Seriously... the "show" would be over and everyone would leave on cue, even though Shamu was still leaping just the same (but without the loud Interaction Experience.) Then the microphones would go off. About 5 or 6 people would linger down by the front to continue watching. We talked with the trainer of the blind walrus after everyone else had left. But how eerie! They all left because it was The End. Narrative trains people.