the future

(Annie, who will be one year old on Viernes, pets Fripp)

Martes 11:31

Let's tell the future
Let's see how it's been done.
By numbers. by mirrors. by water.
By dots made at random on paper.


By salt. by dice.
By meal. by mice.
By dough of cakes.
By sacrificial fire.


By fountains. by fishes.
Writing in ashes.
Birds. herbs.
Smoke from the altar.
-Suzanne Vega

I have watched no NHL hockey this year, outside of a glorious 2 week period at New Years, but I predict San Jose over Washington in the Stanley Cup Final. C-A-P-S, CAPS CAPS CAPS!!!! I guess they should have changed back to the red uniforms years ago.

Did you know? - That the last time the Caps had new uniforms (white and blue with the eagle) in '97 – '98, they made the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in history by finding holes in Dominik Hasek and the stingy Buffalo Sabres defense. Unfortunately they were dismantled, brick by brick, by the mighty Redwings in four straight games.

Other predictions:

• Obama becomes president

• Savvy marketers for the Olympics and government officials seek to assuage the stemming tide of bad publicity by suddenly denying that Tibet exists. Bejiing issues new maps to school children that simple have a black spot where Tibet should be. They explain it as a new hole in the ozone layer.

• Hillary Clinton, unable to understand how she ever lost to Obama, winds up spending the rest of her days in a Brooklyn opium den, where of all people, she runs into and befriends Monica Lewinsky.

• Coca Cola, in an effort to reach consumers and form habits at an even younger age, begins to make baby formula that has only half the caffeine of regular coke.

• Harrison Ford runs for president in 2012

• Calista Flockhart becomes president in 2024
  

• The dormant file the CIA has on me is meticulously re-examined after word reaches them of my trip to Russia

Here comes the sun out onto the terrace!

Note to self: Do not get candle wax on your good jeans. It's ball buster to get out.

Miercoles 10:15

Jerry Lewis meets CS Lewis

I showed the Narnia movie to one c;lass on Monday. Nuria, who has a pretty low level, said, “ahh, the Lion, the Bitch and the Wardrobe.

“Not quite,” I said. “Bruja (witch), not puta.”

I am not the actor

this can't be the scene

but i am in the water

as far as i can see

-The Who

I find it so easy to believe that i am not really in Madrid but on some Hollywood set. I have always been suspect of this when i travel, ever since i was a kid. What if they put you on the plane and fly you around in circles? It's all an elaborate ruse and then they just take you to a different terminal when you “land?” I guess I was really influenced by the movie “Capricorn One, " as a youth where they faked a mission to Mars. But then the capsule disintegrates on re-entry and the Feds need to kill the astronauts who are really in a TV studio. OJ Simpson is the only one who survives and arrives at his own funeral where there is an eternal flame. If only they had got him! It would have spared two lives and the tax payers of California!

I think i've painted myself into a corner here. Time to quit while i'm behind.