I was rather eager to leave Los Angeles, despite the fact that my flight wasn't confirmed yet for whatever reasons Delta had decided. Waiting all by myself in the Milner Hotel was far from what I had in mind, so I left with everyone else in the hopes of catching an earlier flight.
It is with a heavy heart that one walks though the public high schools of this country to see the halls crowded with rude, loud-mouthed adolescents mindlessly meandering toward the next classroom.
Movie One: IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
Wong Kar Wai's newest film, starring Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung, is the best film released this year, so far (domestically released in 2000, but in February of this year in North America).
There have only been two occasions in my life when I felt like I was on the brink of true insanity. I don't mean manic-depression/co-dependence/neurosis-du-jour but REAL madness- true dementia.
Maybe it is something about the way they look when they fly. Possibly that they are unusual looking even by a bird's standards. Could be that they are just plain ugly but in any regard, I hate them.
Prophet Muhammad used to say that instead of going after his enemies, he would sit by the shore of a river, and wait for the bodies of his enemies to float by.