I think I have spent the entire day eating and sleeping while trying to also get caught up with my work. The Mad Kitten is completely overwhelmed…grass is a novel idea and just the sights and sounds are too much. I carry her around for about 15 minutes and expose her to things and then put her back in her hidey hole and she just sleeps for hours as well.

We really pushed it on the trip out and I realize now that because of the heat I was also barely eating.

Her too.

I remember, way back when in my first year of college...actually no, before that, when I came up for the summer session at what was going to be my college that there was this woman, Juanita, an artist and she had built a kit car. And she loved that car and it was just the bizarrest thing. Half dune buggy, half race car, all 70s orange speckle flecked fiberglass. And the funny thing is…I have never forgotten Juanita and her car and now I get it.

Its funny the changes that have been going on in the world. Michael Jackson, who everyone was all too happy vilifying when he was alive, died suddenly and now the world is morning the loss of his tremendous talent and genius. I wonder what his life would have been like if there had been a little more focus on that and not his weirdness. I wonder how much of his weirdness came from his feeling completely isolated from normal human life. It is odd what we do to genius, we crave it, and then once it is found – we try to find a reason to make it less then; we put things on genius as if there is something in it that renders the person who bears it uniquely capable of withstanding the stress of judgment and examination and completely deny them the range of human needs and emotions. And then when genius is lost, we mourn it as if all along we were there being supportive.

It is hard to even say anything about the whole child molestation charges. Unfortunately, the way the system works, when you reach a certain level of fame it is preferable to settle out of court to keep something from becoming a rumour mill rather than pursue the legality of the charges. Our justice system, is not in the courts but in the newspapers. People who know this are more willing to settle to prevent giving the media food then to wait out the process of legal justice.

And Laura Ling and Euna Lee received a sentence of 12 years hard labor. Such a tragedy, and then, the evidence of their crossing over into North Korea was shown and it was all questionable except for the…rock. One of them had picked up a rock to commemorate the trip and that was so human and so believable. It does not justify a 12 year sentence, but it does kind of change the manner in which all this is approached. It is difficult because Ling and Lee have gone from two people unjustly imprisoned and accused, to two people who did exactly what they were accused of and are still, what we would interpret as unjustly imprisoned.

Says the country that puts drug addicts in prison for 10 + years. Are we not the bastion of temperate justice ourselves?

I still think they should be freed, hands down, but it must be done so in a way in which it acknowledges the fact that they willfully violated a countries borders. Whether or not I think that country is good or not, nobody has the right to just sort of run over rules and borders willy nilly just because they want to get something.

Its like “Daisy of Love”, that was the show I was watching in the motel room and was just shocked at the very clear portrayal of the social sense of entitlement and the confusion of sexual attraction with actual emotional connectedness.

I am rambling.

I am still tired but I need to stay up more and finish up my work.

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