I cherish being unpredictible. Sometimes I fail. Virtually every Saturday and Sunday one will find me at the local grocery store, having breakfast (yes, they're damn good, and damn cheap) - and reading the local newspaper. Sometimes I laugh at the stories, sometimes I cry, sometimes I avoid them...
Today - Pizza driver stabbed in Westport. Man approaches girl walking home from Elementary school.. Two women killed in wreck in Leavenworth County... Local Mayor investigating deaths of policeman's wife and stillborn child - over his religious beliefs and no apparent effort to get proper medical help.
Nationally, the female astronaut who was gonna kill another female astronaut for moving in on her man (although it wasn't the man who happens to be the father of her two kids).. Does beckon a new meaning to the line "we have liftoff" though... Anna Nicole and three potential possible fathers to her young son...
Yuck, yuck and more yuck. Oh there was news of a public memorial for the recently deceased Secret Santa.. A little girl 11 honored for taking a ladder to a fire scene so a young man could escape... Thank goodness - good inbetween...
So, I get home and search "newspapers"... Hooks you up to any state, any newspaper you'd wanna see... after some quick browsing -
Lucky... Decatur, AL... This hound was found in a dumpster, his jaw shut with duct tape, his leg partially gnawed off by something... anyways - an APB was put out and offender caught.. Fundraiser after fundraiser for Lucky.. He's doing great, rules the roost at the local vet's office (the vet who started the campaign) and is the headliner of a new calendar highlighting abused animals...
Anchorage, AK.. two reporters out on a quest to find sex, drugs, rock & roll... Takes them awhile - but an hour into their hunt, onea the reporters gets outta the car - so gal jumps in... and it was revealed the going rate is $100 for intercourse, $20-$50 for BJ (depending on how strung out the lady is) - and they generally make $200 to $500 per night.. Another twenty minutes later and they're in possession of $20 worth of crack cocaine.. and then the easy part - flicking their Bics at a Nirvana concert later that night....
Colorado Springs... A father and son have been linked to 26 car break-ins in the Pikes Peak region... The hell happened to "a game of catch?"
Orlando, FL.. Disney characters gone wild... Oh my.. "Beast" actor @ Disney arrested for having child porn.. "doesn't see difference in looking at 8 yr old's naked body and 18 yr old's... Also performs as Goofy... Not the first time- once in 2004 13-year-old girl accused an actor dressed as Tigger the tiger of molesting her at Walt Disney World. ..1995, when a worker who portrayed Pluto was one of seven Disney employees charged in connection with a murder in Osceola County.
Boise, ID.. Local lady undergoes gastric bypass surgery... went from 300 to 161... divorce... emotional changes.. health for the better - Diabetes gone, high BP gone, no knee problems, no more breathing issues... She usedta go up to men and ask them to dance "Hey big boy, wanna dance" - now, it's perceived she wants something futher if she does so...
Evansville, KY police - Latino community trying to break barriers - setup meetings, language lessons - striving to gain a greater understanding from each side....
Cadillac, MI.. Volunteer Grandma Bertha uses quilting to teach letters in local elementary .. Sr Volunteer.. 8 yrs.. 900 squares of material.. .Kindergarten made quilt... "Everybody loves Grandma Bertha," stated Julie Harmon, curriculum secretary. "It’s because she brings a very calming and loving touch. The kids light up when they see her."
Interesting the quilt of our society. Good shit, bad shit, all intertwined. Wouldn't it be nice if for one day - or for one week - there were no murders, robberies, sexual weirdos - and reporters would ALL be forced to write human interest stories? Ah, it'll never happen - but Ok to dream.
Have a happy weekend - and I hope you're on the good sidea the news. Love, Victurd
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