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September 20, 2007
Dead Derelict's Stolen Boots Bum Out Sean Penn
For all the ferocious rhetoric coming out of moonbats about the evils of civilization, few are actually crazy enough to wander out into the wild and try to live without it. One who did is Christopher McCandless, who avoided the trappings of the material world by living in an old bus in the Alaska wilderness for the time it took him to starve to death.
Naturally this makes him a hero to the envirowackos infesting Tinseltown, who live in opulent mansions yet preach McCandless' deranged ideology. The deceased derelict is the subject of Sean Penn's latest movie, Into the Wild.
Visiting McCandless' last home, Penn was angered to find that someone had taken his boots, which had been left on the rotting bus for 15 years.
Grumbles Penn:
I can't help but think it was related to some of the imminent discussion about the movie coming, and somebody hungering to have an eBay item.
That is, someone other than Penn may be planning to exploit the poor lunatic's memory for financial gain. The nerve.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 20, 2007 6:21 PM
Comments
Columbia University, which wouldn't let a member of the Minutemen speak, has invited Mahmoud Ahmedinejad to give a speech.
Un-fucking-believable. Imagine Tojo giving a speech at an American university in November, 1941.
Posted by: Panday at September 20, 2007 6:57 PM
Is ok Panday...let Mr. "Chaos" fly in. Hopefully someone will pop his ass while in NYC and start WW3. Can't be any worse than the leftards winning the 2008 election.
Posted by: fellowes at September 20, 2007 8:20 PM
If they are looking for the dead bums boots why dont they hire a proctologist to check Sean Penn's colon? Im sure its in there along with a gerbil, a dildo and few mice.
Posted by: Anonymous at September 21, 2007 6:09 AM
You know, after contemplating McCandless' great adventure I can't help but laugh. Anybody who is... was... most likely an animal rights advocate and a tree hugger has no business out in the nature they so admire. He probably was unwilling to kill his furry friends for food, unwilling to cut down his buddy Mr. Tree for shelter and warmth. He probably attempted to sustain himself by growing his own veggies... in Alaska! Then dies leaving a bus in the middle of nowhere.
The nature he worshipped was not the reality he envisioned but was soon introduced him to the 'real' reality he had disdained. Thhis guy was no one to be admired. He was a dumbass. He was Darwin fodder and proof that liberalism can be fatal.
Posted by: IOpian at September 21, 2007 6:49 AM
>>"I can't help but think it was related to some of the imminent discussion about the movie coming, and somebody hungering to have an eBay item."
Or maybe it was another bum who needed shoes.
It would be extreemly interesting to read the last dozen pages of McCandless' diary (If he kept one) and find out if he clung to his ileals, or realised that he had figurativly cut his own throat.
Posted by: KHarn at September 21, 2007 3:37 PM
He didn't starve. He ate a poisonous plant (and one that happens to look like an edible one to boot.) Unfortunately for him, he'd decided to throw away his maps of the area when he came in and did not know how close he was to getting to help.
This book by Jon Krakauer covers it pretty thoroughly. I don't feel sorry for McCandless though. If you want to live out in the wilderness on your own, you take your chances.
Posted by: Teri Pittman at September 22, 2007 2:06 PM
According to the link you gave he was starving and thats why he ate the poisonous plant.
The guy was probably a wonderful person, but his story is more of a warning than an inspirational tale as Penn seems to depict it.
Posted by: Freedom Now at September 24, 2007 12:06 AM
