The Furious Spinner

This is bizarre. There is now a reality show in Iraq where they rebuild houses that were bombed by the U.S.I remember when Network came out most of us thought TV would never get as awful as it was in that movie. What a joke. It's far more extreme than the writers of the movie ever imagined. I suppose with this show at the least the houses are getting rebuilt....so they can be bombed again. But it still seems bizarre.

Did you watch the second evening of the Democratic Convention? I'm sure you've figured out, then, that the best place to watch it is on C-Span. With C-Span you just see the event from beginning to end without any interruptions. All the other places—including listening to it on NPR—have talking heads who tell you what you just heard. For instance, we were driving when Jimmy Carter was speaking so we listened on NPR. We thought his speech was great. The talking head said it was humiliating for a former president to give this kind of speech. Huh? I guess he was a Republican talking head. And none of these "news" organizations are covering the event beyond saying, "How'd he do?" "How'd she look?" "Do you think he overshadowed Kerry because you know he's boring in case you haven't heard us say that 12,000 times before." Dennis Kucinich speaks tonight but they don't say when.

And now for the critical news...the poison ivy on my hands is drying up. I look like I've been burned, or had a bad encounter with handcuffs. I started watering the garden again, although I still can't weed. Apparently I shouldn't have been watering either because I left the hose on all night. That should cost us a pretty penny. I read Mercy Unbound yesterday, and I think I like it. I'll send it off to my agent after Mario looks at it. He's also reading Lady Liberty. I hope to get started on outlines for my nonfiction books today, too. 0 comments

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