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Saturday, October 14, 2017

Distraction Action Part ∞

Ghost Cat in a rare UNchimerical moment.
This could totally be Coco.
Yesterday, between work, obsessive checks for any possible good (or at least not horrific) news, I watched a lot of cute cat and octopi vids, read more of Robbie Robertson’s brill memoir, attempted to elliptical off the news-inspired fear and rage and cosseted our sweet Princess Coco all to hell and back.

The news I had attempted to duck?
  • I feel certain those same 69 heartless fuckers, as well as the rest of that heinously head-up-their-donor's-asses crew, are cheering on the Orange Menace’s bizarre, hateful, anything-to-erase-Obama deletion of healthcare. Yeah, this one's got me mega panicked.
It is by small steps of incremental meanness and viciousness that we lose our humanity. The Nazis, in the end, embodied the ascension of utter demonic inhumanity, but they didn’t get that way overnight. They got that way through, day after day, attacking and demonizing and urging the elimination of those they deemed their enemies.
And this has been going on here for some time.
Leave aside the fact that he presented no evidence for his charges. Do you think he could find Iran on a map? Do you think if you gave him three possible answers as to what the capital of Iran is, he’d get it right? If you Photoshopped the face of the Ayatollah Khomeini into a photo of ZZ Top, do you think he’d be able to tell you which of the four bearded guys wasn’t in the band?
Ennis House outside
Ennis House Interior
I feel as though I ought to send Mister Robertson a thank you note. He's surely sent my bean, if only for an hour here and there,  to other, better places.

 In the book, he mentions Frank Lloyd Wright’s wild, creepy Ennis House in LA. He and Dylan, on one of their tours, were staying at a house across the street.

Amongst other movies, Ennis House is featured in Bladerunner – one of my fave flicks of all time. Its exterior also appears as "The Mansion,” Angel (as Angelus), Spike, and Drusilla’s digs in one season of Buffy.

JAYzus, I SO want to visit this joint! It’s just been bought by a dude named Ron Burkle – what this means re: tours is unknown.

I can’t head out to visit Ennis House today but I can jump into Bix for a wee drive. Maybe I’ll engage in a little leaf peeping. Maybe I’ll motor up to the tippy top of Hogback Mountain, purchase some fudge and watch the sun make it’s way across the mountains and valleys below. That ought to keep my nerves calmed for a minute or two.

2 comments:

  1. Clearly, not every Republican understands the idea of a US territory. Puerto Rico is getting treated like a stranger who has overstayed its welcome or something. (Granted, new Orelans sort of got treated like that 12 years ago, and there are plenty of people who want to pretend Detroit, Chicago, and parts of the West Coast aren't really America as well.)

    In light of our glorious leader's talk about "talking with the President of the US Virgin Islands," I suspect maybe it is, once again, lack of understanding.

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    1. He has a profound lack of understanding about most things.

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