Thursday, January 21, 2010

Winter, Enough Is Enough....

It's been a while since I posted to the blog. Reason being my moto is in the garage for the season, it's too cold to ride. I hate winter, and its only just begun.
My neighborhood looks like a desolate wasteland. Unfinished construction projects, barren trees, the sun low on the horizon. A mound of blackened snow mixed with garbage stands at 4' high, frozen solid where a great parking spot used to be.
I'm on set today, reading the NY times, and I came across this article about people who CHOOSE to live without heat, "Chilled By Choice". The article highlights a group of artists, some landscape designer, a "cat lady" and a few other idiots... The one thing they all have in common (besides frozen toothpaste) is the fact they don't have kids. Eco friendly, "clarifying", "non-isothermal", whatever the case... There is nothing "cool"(no pun intended) about NOT having heat. Utterly ridiculous. Back in the day if you didn't have heat you weren't "saving the planet", you were just POOR. I know this because growing up my family struggled with money. Being poor is not cool either.
The way I see it is that these people choose to live this way because of financial circumstance, the domiciles in which they live are not inhabitable by normal standards, lousy landlords or owners who would rather not invest the time and money of proper maintenance. It's sad that people have to live this way. Just because you live in a summer home during the winter doesn't make you a martyr, it makes you cold. Besides, who wants 5 roomates??? Good luck with that.