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Friday, July 25,
2003 at 10:31:51 (EDT) |
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Hey man, I wanna have a fight with you
Mr. Bones has been terrorizing the cats. I think he thinks he's just
playing around, but the other cats aren't getting this at all. To
them, he's just this dump truck of a cat coming at them at full speed.
Mr. Bones waddles over to Hubcap, who cowers in the corner like
a sissy.
Mr. Bones makes his move. Hubcap uses an old Navajo trick of screaming
and begging for his life, to no avail.
Mr. Bones spies Decatur and plans to chase her up and down the
stairs, despite her hissing and screeching. At least he's getting
some exercise.
Hubcap covers his face in shame because despite his macho posturing,
he's a big wimp and he knows it. For shame, Hubcap!
Note: No cats were harmed in the production of this blog. A few
humans were injured, but for some reason that's okay.
Posted By Jimmy Legs
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Thursday, July 24,
2003 at 10:04:23 (EDT) |
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Making nothing out of something
I'm very sorry to hear of James
E. Davis' murder at City Hall yesterday.
His offices were down in the neighborhood, between Mike's Coffee Shop
and that pizza shop on Dekalb. It's a sad incident but what I want
to know is, how is it that some nut gets to stroll in with Davis bypassing
the metal detectors so he can shoot him and panic the populace? This
morning's NPR coverage confirms that nearly everybody who came in
contact with the alleged shooter, Othniel Askew, was repeating "He
ain't right." Or words to that effect. I can't wait to find out
the full story on this clown. Today Bloomberg went through the metal
detector, as will everybody who enters City Hall now. Well, duh.
I'm getting a little wary of our country's methods of protecting
its citizens. Our response to every problem is to make that specific
error impossible to repeat. If terrorists hijack a plane with box
cutters, we reinforce the pilot's door and put a better lock on
it, we give all the nonterrorists a hard time at the security gate.
Some freak hides plastic explosive in his shoe, so (for a while
anyway), airport security would check suspicious shoes, usually
mine. So now that somebody gets shot in City Hall, they've decided
to use the metal detectors that were there already. It just seems
so reductive.
On the other hand, when I took my trip last week, I was pleased
to find that the airports had dropped a lot of the stupider security
methods put in place in the past few years. The self-service check-in
kiosks
were in full force. Using one if you have no baggage to check takes
all of 10 seconds (although as always there were a lot of people
making it take way longer somehow). My ID was checked only once
while waiting in the security line. Shoes were only checked if they
set off the metal detector (is there a plastic explosives detector?).
There were no random bag searches in evidence. So then what good
were all those things when they first implemented them? It simply
gave the impression that the airports were doing something in response
to the terrorist acts. Not that it was effective, not that any real
terrorists were caught in this ingenious trap. It really only produced
annoyance, so I'm glad if they finally dropped it. But it just proves
that's all it was, a superficial action.
This whole thing also reminds me: it's not like this has never
happened before. Anybody remember Harvey
Milk? He was the first openly gay Board of Supervisors member
of San Francisco who was murdered by the heterosexual fireman who
was a former board member (Daniel White entered City Hall through
an open window to avoid the metal detectors). White (who also killed
then mayor George Moscone) basically got off easy through the use
of the mythic "Twinkie Defense," claiming that overindulgence
in junk food made him temporarily insane. He got 7 years. This sparked
a riot in San Francisco, which despite the injuries I think is totally
understandable. White got parole and committed suicide.
In other depressing news, Jessica
Wing passed away over the weekend. Playbill has a nice article
about her. She was not a close friend of mine, more a friend of
a friend, but even if I didn't know her that well, her death means
one less talented person is around to produce music and art for
the rest of us schlubs. That's a real loss for everybody.
Posted By Jimmy Legs
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Tuesday, July 22,
2003 at 10:04:12 (EDT) |
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You give it away like free samples
Here's a rundown of some of what I did in Seattle last week, with
what few pictures I remembered to take while I was there. I have to
find a way to remember to bring my camera with me all the time. I
guess that's why they have them in cell phones these days, though
I can't always remember that, either.
 Anyhow,
this is the first installment.
Later I shall write of my trip to California, not because it is
interesting, but because I enjoy talking about myself and there
is no one to stop me.
Posted By Jimmy Legs
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Monday, July 21,
2003 at 16:31:19 (EDT) |
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People are (still) meat
Just a quick placeholder so I can archive the site. I am back in the
sweet bosom of Brooklyn, there is very nearly no place I'd rather
be for now. Also I'm pleased to find it not unbearably hot here after
all. East Bay California, on the other hand ...
I'm putting together my few meager pictures and copy concerning
my time away, but for now I must continue to deal with the fact
that nobody really did anything to cover my position while I was
away, and so I have a week's worth of backlog to finish today. It's
a good thing this stuff is only tedious and not mentally taxing
or I'd be one grouchy bastard by this time. Soon follows the meat.
Posted By Jimmy Legs
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