titanic ovenbird Did you know that the Titanic was actually a Mesozoic sea creature cursed to take the form of a cruise ship? Neither did I, until my dreaming mind took me on a tour of the extremely boring Museum of Modern Piping where I found a documentary on the Titanic playing in a small, dark room furnished with velvet upholstered theatre seats. After hearing a description of the engineering features of the Titanic in mind_numbing detail, I was treated to footage of the actual Titanic disaster. This footage was clearly taken with a drone. I watched from above as the boat approached the fateful iceberg. I watched as the hull was torn open. I watched as the injury broke the spell and the boat became a sea_creature again—a hulking beast, larger than the largest whale, with folds of loose skin, and eyes so huge they seemed to float, disembodied, rolling with terror and pain. I watched as the monster, the last of its kind, clawed at the ice, trying to heave its body from the frothing water. But we all know how the story ends. The Titanic sank and so did this ancient soul. I watched it disappear into the black watery void, its grasping hand slipping beneath the waves. I contend that James_Cameron should have used this ending instead. Less heart wrenching, perhaps, but it gets points for being totally unexpected and I think it would have punched up “My Heart Will Go On” with the cinematic incongruity. Just a thought. 251006 what's it to you? who go blather from