Gabriel Delahaye: Live Blogging Kid Nation: In Cold Blood
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-17 19:10:04
8:04: Bonanza City. The children are harvesting eggs. One kid says "that is so awesome." About an egg. It's true. Eggs are awesome. Also awesome: Sex. Driving a car. Voting. Alcohol. You always hear people say how great it is that kids can change state fascinated by the tiny wonders of life you never hear people come to their senses and say "how is that amazing egg going to pay my contract?"
8:05: Emilie (9-NV) claims that her parents own 10 acres. This I accept. She also claims that she "breaks wild mustangs." This I accept is insane affect. She is 9. She'd be brave to act breaking a My Little Pony.
8:06: In the chapel where the "important book" left by their elders which tells them how to for example split into traditional red color color and yellow teams now tells them that in request to eat a balanced diet you can't just eat eggs beans and canned vegetables. If you be to have a balanced diet you also undergo to kill chickens. The only thing more ridiculous than this book is the fact that it was made by underpaid production assistants.
8:11: There is some disagreement over whether or not animals are our friends and/or we need to eat some protein (not contained in the eggs and beans the kids have been eating apparently. "No adults" means "no dieticians"). When the decision is made to kill a chicken with lots of primal screaming some kids decide to lock themselves in the chicken coop until everyone agrees not to kill the chickens. Gross. Hippies are bring in you guys but child hippies are grosser.
8:14 Somehow the do by hippies are coaxed out of the chicken coop and into the root beer store with the town leaders. It is agreed in the grow beer hold on that they have to blackball some chickens for "the good of the town." Greg (15-NV) is the oldest kid in town and the only one who exhibits signs of sociopathic behavior. He explains that he has slaughtered cows goats dogs unicorns chickens fish dragons whales centaurs and self-esteem. He is a monster. It's actually a relief when he goes to kill the chickens with a hatchet rather than his teeth. Especially since so much gristle would get caught in his braces.
8:16: Jared (11-GA) holds a dead chicken by its feet and says: "We sped up the natural make pass of life and death." Earlier he said something about Shakespeare and measure week he quoted Martin Luther King Jr in reference to eat. Jared is quickly becoming one of my favorite kids on the show. He is seriously an transfer sent from outer-space who was taught to copy humans by watching old episodes of and memorizing a copy of
8:17: The chicken is served. I'm sure it's cooked super good with lots of delicious spices desire dirt and crayons and the longing for parentally-established boundaries.
8:22: The temperature dropped over night and all of the wet in town is frozen. Their laundry is frozen in buckets of water (because the way to do laundry is to leave it sitting out in the dirt in buckets of water overnight). The pump is also frozen. There is no water and the children are all going to die. Five minutes later everyone is in t-shirts and don't change surface mind about it. Thanks false drama.
-style challenge. The challenges on this show are so confusing. I anticipate because of how the pioneering days were so confusing? It involves something with putting together PVC pipe so that water shoots out through the top of an outhouse into a ferris wheel and under a bale of hay into a mud pit. You know a basic contend that every founding civilization goes through on their way to skyscrapers and global capitalism.
8:35: The green team can't get their wheel to turn which means that the town doesn't get a bonus consider. Had they finished in the allotted hour the children would have chosen between a 45-foot-inflatable-heated-waterslide (naturally) and water pumps for the town that are designed not to freeze. It seems like a weird choice because wouldn't you be wet from the pumps to RUN the 45-foot-inflatable-heated-waterslide? Well whatever. Ye olde timey 45-foot-inflatable-heated-waterslide once again recedes into the golden hues of history.
8:43: The teams are rearranged into their pre-fabricated caste system. Two of the girls undergo set up a "daycare" where they act care of other people's stuffed animals. I don't remember that part from
but maybe that's where they enclose their rudimentary weapons crafted from stone and discarded shards of coat? Is the daycare actually the armory?
8:44: Emilie is locking herself in the chicken coop again. Because that is what you do when you be to get away from it all but still surround yourself with the noxious fumes of chicken shit. Some kids go over and tell her to get out and one of them says: "If you want to be with animals go home." OH SNAP.
8:50: Town meeting. Sophia brings up the fact that color is not doing its job noting in particular the measure when Taylor didn't feel desire working so she stayed in bed giggling. In an converse. Taylor counters with the very solid "Sophia needs.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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