1. As in De Janeiro
   Never been. Would I go? I think Louisiana is on my list first for a mardi gras/carnival style event. Better go before the ocean breaks through and wipes the city away. The big Jesus goes kinda nuts.
2. As in The Animated Film
   Having never watched it and being in the recent mind numbing mood to veg out to a kids flick I put it on (finding none better on my girlfriends stolen hulu account). Hoping to pass out instead of really watching I found myself paying a strange attention. Not due to a unexpectedly compelling plot or character deep dive or anything. Although seeing Anne Hathaway in the title cards perked me up in one sense or another. I didn’t know when the movie came out. Though, having not seen it I couldn’t place it chronologically except maybe before Frozen came out? Not sure, and googling now.
   2011. Which begins to put the peices together for me. What struck me was the eerie animation style. Its almost fully polished. But every now in then you can see the rendering. The screen is never all that populated. I found the scenes strangely empty with very basic backgrounds. Whatever isn’t in the main view of the plot is obviously less detailed. And many times I found myself reminded of Scary Godmother. Like I could see the coded cgi. It was very off putting and I did not finish the film.

3. As in River.
The Rio Grande River has been dry for weeks. Literally dry water bed. Looking for any historical examples of the Albuquerque river going dry shows nothing but record lows and records use of groundwater. I saw something about how the Southwestern US watershed is diminishing for the first time in history. I cannot believe there aren’t more news stories, street signs, protests, social media posts, anything about this issues. Its right in your face. Given the months people are waving signs and ass in the streets about whether they like tacos or bratwurst more but god damned nothing on the MISSING water.
I get it. This past ski season I waited around for the first snow to buy my season pass. I woke up in April and realized, shit, it never snowed. No runoff. Low rivers. yatta yatta. And yet there are talks of data centers being erected all across the southwest US. Utah is going to run dry. Who gives a shit about texas or arizona. There the Meta data center in Las Lunas. And who knows where else. Its a shameful damn thing and they aren’t advertising tours for a reason.

Doing my best not to get labeled in any sort of database, as I’ve seen that social media posts being upset about data centers are getting flagged. As they say in isolation safety, “Don’t tag it if you’re not going to lock it up”. Let that analogy lay I guess. I just don’t understand why you wouldn’t but the mega water consuming plant somewhere with extra water and the places where there is notoriously, almost, wait a minute, definingly less water.

4. As in totally unrelated to the previous numbering

Son there are dragons. They drink the water. There is a dragons lair. Follow what used to be the river. Kill the dragon. Tear down his lair. And the water can flow again.
“Used to be” Dragons hid their hoard and you couldn’t ever track one down. And if you did it would avail nothing. “What’s going on here?” The dragons have a known place taking up a known resource and the benefit to its destruction would be the immediate renewal of the resource?
“Are the dragons stupid?”

No.

The people just don’t care.

This post is a work of fiction. Any reflection on reality, characters, places, events, or suggestions, are purely coincidental and in no way intended to support any course of action by any party ever for any reason.