It's A Beautiful World For You

[As the physical symptoms of whatever-it-is that inspired my previous whine seem to be giving me a break today, here's what's on my addled mind these days...]

[I know I'm at least a day late in commenting on Michael Jackson, but since I sat thru the entire docudrama, I thought I'd throw in my two cents. (Keeping in mind the only song of his I've ever liked was "Wanna Be Startin' Something") Why are people so much more disturbed by his sharing a room with kids than by his nauseating consumption at that tacky store in Vegas? I want to put this as clearly and delicately as possible: for an adult as obviously sexually stunted as Jackson, it's pretty safe to assume that nothing untoward has ever gone on in that bedroom. In a sane world, an adult's bed would never equal sex when a child was present, but the journalist's continued twisted outrage at what looked to me like an innocent (if overfunded) slumber party struck me more as his problem than either Jacko's or the kids'. I wouldn't let my kids near Neverland, but not because I thought they'd ever be in any danger of being sexually molested.]

[Watched Vertigo last night, for the first time since working at the hotel where it was partially filmed. Trippy to see how things have changed and not changed, but that's true of the whole movie with regard to San Francisco. I always think of Vertigo when I drive 101 south thru San Benito County, and go thru that grove of eucalyptus trees along the highway that James Stewart and Kim Novak traverse en route to San Juan Bautista.]

[Earlier, the clicker landed on VH1 Classic's We Are The 80's, a show I usually avoid because, let's face it, who needs to see another Phil Collins video. However, as I arrived, Shriekback's "Nemesis" was on, followed by the following 120 Minutes extravaganza: "See A Little Light," by Bob Mould; "Pop Song '89" by R.E.M.; "Let's Go To Bed," by the Cure; and "Beautiful World," by Devo. Sigh.]

[To Sonoma tomorrow, for dinner with the folks following a reunion with Susanna, whom I've not seen in 3 1/2 years, but who recently found this site and reestablished contact. Excited, anticipatory, cobwebs being blown out of my psyche. Just what I need.]

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