Sars describes her response to Grizzly Man<\/i>.<\/a> Not to be missed.<\/p>\n One excerpt – but go read the whole thing – it made me want to see the movie again:<\/p>\n And then you’ve got Timothy Treadwell, giving the bears cutesy nicknames like “Mr. Chocolate” and “Wizard,” and touching <\/i>them in the face<\/i>, and capering around <\/i>in the foreground with his back turned<\/i> on the bears as big as New York one-bedrooms in the background, and repeating baby-voiced incantations of “I love you, I love you” at bears as they amble away from him before he turns back to the camera to characterize various bears as “grumpy” or “cranky,” and it’s just utter insanity <\/i>to watch. I don’t camp, I don’t bird, I don’t raft, I don’t know anything about the outdoors except what I had to learn about a narrow stratum of New Jersey botany twenty-five years ago to get a Girl Scout merit badge — by design<\/i>, because nature is dangerous<\/i>. Nature is lovely, but you might have noticed that man as a species moved inside <\/i>eventually, because nature is also scratchy, bitey, sting-y, scrapey, cold (and also hot), sandy, damp, and hungry<\/i>. Nature can eat you. Nature wants <\/i>to eat you.<\/p>\n And bears\u0085don’t care if you give them little names like you think you live in the ursine version of Watership Down<\/i>, or that you “love” them or are “in love with” them. Bears do not make allowances for the fact that you have some kind of disorder in relating to other human beings, to the point where, instead, you excessively anthropomorphize the bears, and also the foxes that live near your camp, and to the point where, when one of the foxes makes off with your baseball cap, you chase it for like ten minutes and yell at it, angrily, like it’s personal, like the fox is a sassy eight-year-old who is deliberately disobeying you, and you explain to it that you need that hat back and you’ll get really mad if it takes the hat to its den and hides it, which of course it is going to do, because it is a fox. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yup. Great stuff. Go read<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sars describes her response to Grizzly Man. Not to be missed. One excerpt – but go read the whole thing – it made me want to see the movie again: And then you’ve got Timothy Treadwell, giving the bears cutesy … Continue reading