Walking past a drainage creek, watching a huge fish, something like a bass, only with oranges in near-tropical colors. Watched Radio Flyer on TV--always wanted to see this sad but affirming movie about kids coping with abuse through retreat into the fantasy world of childhood. Dead tired, much to do, moving forward.
The flight mall magazine last night actually had the One Ring on sale for a mere 295 dollars. The ring actually has "elvish inscriptions" of
one ring to bring them all one ring to find them one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
No doubt the language of Mordor would have required additional licensing fees.
I was just puzzling out the potential for the 9-fingered Frodo ring holder when I noticed the ad for the "Revolutionary Guillotine Cigar Cutter". The ad blurb began "the French turning beheading into an art form". Hey, it's always more fun to blame our mercantile society, but this has too much ring of "lit major on a major self-amusement high" to pass muster.
I'm not good at convincing bold pronouncements on when parody becomes simple inhumanity, but things seem a bit wrong to me.
