http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:35:32 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/28/015703.php#comment-752306 Timothy Treadwell was a great man. He may have been a little bit as you say "Crazy", but I believe he was the greatest. He was trying out for Cheers, and that made him heartbroken, so he went mad and did drugs and drank alcohol, and then..he saw the grizzlies...And that is what made him stop. If Woody hadn't been the bar tender for Cheers, Timothy Treadwell would have never been know as well as he is. Thanks 752306@blogcritics.org Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:35:32 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/28/015703.php#comment-715546 K. 715546@blogcritics.org Mon, 5 May 2008 11:44:14 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/28/015703.php#comment-715512 Yes, thats what i said. although i will grant you that i agree that NASCAR types need to DIAF. He got exactly what any person with a lick of common sense knew would happen. People who climb rocks know the risk, rocks are relatively predictable, gravity is 100% predictable. Same goes for car racing, and with both of those the sport and equipment is DESIGNED with safety in mind. What this idiot did was no different than swimming in shark infested waters wearing a seal suit with a dead tuna in his pants. 715512@blogcritics.org Mon, 5 May 2008 09:13:23 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/28/015703.php#comment-715018 So everyone who rock climbs, races cars and works with animals deserve to die a painful death? Interesting. Real deep there. 715018@blogcritics.org Fri, 2 May 2008 11:09:12 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/28/015703.php#comment-714852 It's really too bad that he took someone else with him, although she should have known better. It's true what they say "Stupidity should be painful" and his his case, stupidity of that magnitude deserved to be fatal. No loss, none whatsoever. 714852@blogcritics.org Thu, 1 May 2008 15:19:33 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/28/015703.php#comment-714035 Good review. Sounds like an interesting book if I didn't already know the story well. "It would be too easy to dismiss Treadwell as a mentally-disturbed amateur" No it isn't. I read Treadwell's own book, "Among Grizzlies," and the man's thought process about bears was about as crazy a thing I have ever read. He anthropomorphized the bears' actions and misconstrued his luck at not being killed sooner as some insight into the bears' thinking process. His jumping into this life with no training after recovering from his drug overdose does have some bearing on his mental facilities. 714035@blogcritics.org Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:28:41 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/28/015703.php#comment-714011 Great review, I didn't realise there was a book out about Treadwell - I loved Herzog's movie and would love to read more about this poor doomed fellow. 714011@blogcritics.org Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:50:56 EDT