Never mind election brouhahas for now (I’m allowing myself a 30-day period of denial), there are enough headlines to hold my attention without delving into that topic. Let’s start with the bad:
“Police use stun gun on 6-year-old boy” and how on earth this could possibly be okay. Sure, something needed to be done to stop the poor child from further injuring himself, but there must have been another way.
Am I the only one to think of Donnie Darko after reading this?
Investigators are trying to identify the source of ice chunks that smashed through the roof of a house in this Seattle suburb last week, landing on the bed of a 7-year-old girl.
Moving along, I’ve never been much for dead flowers. Sure, they can be pretty, but they don’t strike me as practical. Yet when the situation calls for some such thing, I’ve been known to pick up a nice, living plant. But now my florist of choice, Stems & Vines on Grand, has burned to the ground. Doh.
And now for a little good. After awful, and false, rumors of a House of Blues buyout, First Avenue is set to reopen next week, though there’s no mention of the anticipated name change. Curious to see what happens with that.
And finally, about one of my favorite authors…Philip Pullman has returned to fairy tales to carve a new story about goodness. I can get behind that. Now back to my own fantasy world, and it’s growing a little bigger every day.
NaNo word count: 20119/50000