drinking in antarctica

Modern Drunkard Magazine interviews one of the folks who stays in Antarctica over the winter. Lots of fun. A snippet:

MDM: I think most people’s ideas about life at the South Pole comes from watching The Thing starring the inimitable Kurt Russell. Homicidal aliens aside, how does the movie compare to real life in Antarctica?

FSR: It’s almost entirely accurate except for five things:

1.) There are no aliens here.

2.) We are not issued flamethrowers.

3.) There are no guns or dogs.

4.) We don’t store explosives in the main building.

5.) There are fewer cowboy-hat wearing helo pilots than there are syrupy Human Resources Representatives and Administrative Coordinators.

Other than that, it’s kind of like an impressionistic documentary. The station manager is usually a nincompoop, the doctor is usually nuts, and if our station burned down there would be nothing for it but to get drunk and die.