Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Weirday
Weirday was actually yesterday, but I didn't finish writing and posting what I was going to post....
I woke up from dreaming I had been reading the last Harry Potter book. The details of the plot are lost in the mist, but I didn't think it was very good. And even worse, the last 20 pages or so contained about a dozen alternate endings, added in case the reader didn't like the first one! (None of those were any good either.) I guess I have a highly critical subconscious.
The other weird thing that happened was that a crazy person tried to shoot our governor. From what I've read, it was probably not an intentional case of 'suicide by cop', but that's how it ended up. The most surreal thing in the coverage was a quote from a visitor from Los Angeles who saw the incident, and at first thought it was a show staged for the tourists. So very likely, right there in our capitol building.
Kind of ironic that the cause our governor's wife has been touring around promoting is mental health and the need for better and more accessible treatment.
Naturally the media is all over this, elbowing each other frantically to find new angles. I actually like the little human interest tidbits you get as a result. For instance, the State Patrol Officer who shot the armed, self-proclaimed Emperor used to be the official driver for the former Colorado Gov and his family. And their favorite story about him was the time he hit the brakes and shook them up in the First Vehicle, rather than race through a light that turned red unexpectedly. You have to admire someone who holds the attitude, "Yeah, you're the boss of me and the whole dang state, but THAT'S a red light!"
The other good story I've read so far is how Governor Ritter came out of his office, once the scene was secured, and started going around to all the witnesses, separating them and explaining that they must not talk to each other about what they saw until they had given their statements to the police. Y'see, before he was governor, Bill was a DA. He knows about this stuff. :)
I woke up from dreaming I had been reading the last Harry Potter book. The details of the plot are lost in the mist, but I didn't think it was very good. And even worse, the last 20 pages or so contained about a dozen alternate endings, added in case the reader didn't like the first one! (None of those were any good either.) I guess I have a highly critical subconscious.
The other weird thing that happened was that a crazy person tried to shoot our governor. From what I've read, it was probably not an intentional case of 'suicide by cop', but that's how it ended up. The most surreal thing in the coverage was a quote from a visitor from Los Angeles who saw the incident, and at first thought it was a show staged for the tourists. So very likely, right there in our capitol building.
Kind of ironic that the cause our governor's wife has been touring around promoting is mental health and the need for better and more accessible treatment.
Naturally the media is all over this, elbowing each other frantically to find new angles. I actually like the little human interest tidbits you get as a result. For instance, the State Patrol Officer who shot the armed, self-proclaimed Emperor used to be the official driver for the former Colorado Gov and his family. And their favorite story about him was the time he hit the brakes and shook them up in the First Vehicle, rather than race through a light that turned red unexpectedly. You have to admire someone who holds the attitude, "Yeah, you're the boss of me and the whole dang state, but THAT'S a red light!"
The other good story I've read so far is how Governor Ritter came out of his office, once the scene was secured, and started going around to all the witnesses, separating them and explaining that they must not talk to each other about what they saw until they had given their statements to the police. Y'see, before he was governor, Bill was a DA. He knows about this stuff. :)
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