April 23rd, 2007
The gf and I went to the movies this weekend and saw Fracture. It was a good movie, but what impressed me was that it was an old fashioned closed-room mystery. The kind that Agatha Christy wrote, or something like the movie Dial M for Murder. These stories were solved by deductive reasoning and a little imagination and not by finding the one piece of forensic evidense that seals the case. In Fracture, there is never any doubt who commits the act or why or how. All of the mystery, is in how he manipulates events to get away from it and how the young lawyer from the district attorney’s office tries to prove it. After all, the law isn’t about what happens but what can be proved in a court of law, to have happened.
It’s nice to sit through a ‘thinking’ movie that is more about performance and personality and a devilishly clever killer then chase scenes or the like.
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April 17th, 2007
I’m not even sure what to say, to this. I know I’m not the only one having a hard time putting into words what this massacre is like … the news casters and public officials keep repeating words. Like, “this is a terrible, terrible, terrible tragedy” or “this is just horrible, horrible …” Repetition amplifies the meaning because they don’t know what other words to use to express how terrible or how horrible this really is. Language has failed them and it fails me, too.
Is there no end to this? No end to he misery and heartache and infinite loss associated with each incident of mass murder? Last week it was an
office shooting in Troy, Michigan. Last year it was the
Amish children murdered by a lone gunman. It looks like this is the face of our century: Random acts of terror, death, and mayhem. We all get to play the reverse-lottery, in which going to school, or work, or just walking the streets may make us one of the victems. And while the officials try to legislate this away and law enforcement does a good job of clean-up after the fact … I don’t see any effective means of making this stop.
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April 3rd, 2007
I haven’t written in a long time, and I have lot’s of news. Some of it, not so good.
First …
My gf‘s uncle, Frank, went into the hospital for an Angioplasty. Instead, they found much more blockage then they expected and performed a quadruple bypass with heart valve replacement. He’s been in Intensive Care ever since. We went to see him on Sunday, and he looks very frail and week. After the bypass he had a stroke which affected the left side of his body. They can’t tell how much was affected by the stroke because he still has a breathing tube in his mouth and can’t talk. When they finally take the tube out (hopefully tomorrow, or sooner!) he will be much more comfortable and then they’ll perform some tests to see if his swallowing &/or speach were affected by the stroke.
Prayers on behalf of Frank are certainly welcome!
Second …
A few weeks ago I found some more lumps on Snow, my senior, female, all white, cat. I took her to the vet last Monday where the Vet confirmed that they were tumors and recommended surgery. She had the surgery on Friday and I got to bring her home Monday evening.
For what it’s worth, she seems to be doing very well. She is active and acting very normal … albeit with an E-Collar on her head (to prevent her from licking out the staples over her new scar). This time the vet cut significantly more and the scar wraps about 60% around her body! I have to keep it clean, apply an antibiotic ointment, and give her two doses of antibiotics, daily. For everything she’s been through, she seems to be doing pretty well.
Here are a few photographs.
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