It is interesting that you were mad and frustrated because some reporter had gone ahead and taken your idea for reporting on the Latinos. Of course, if you had completely, unanimously wanted to to act on that idea, you would have started working on it some time ago. There obviously is a part of you that did not want to do it at all, a bigger and more influential part of you than the part that did want to do it, since it's the one that got to have his way. So while the part of you that wanted to do it is now mad and frustrated, I would think the other part of you would be rejoicing and saying "Yes!" Do you feel that at all, or do you only feel the anger and frustration?
By the way, was the article in the Tahoe Daily Tribune? I tried to google "Tahoe King's Beach Latino" and it looked like there had been an article in the Tahoe Daily Tribune, but it said the article had been removed from the site. I wonder why.
I never saw Straw Dogs, and now I'm so old and sensitive that it's too late. The movie would be too suspenseful and shocking for me now. Here is an interesting fact -- the title "Straw Dogs" is taken from the most famous text on taoism, the Tao Te Ching, which supposedly collects the sayings of taoist sage from about 2500 years ago, Lao Tzu. There is a passage there that says "Heaven and Earth are ruthless; they treat all creatures as straw dogs." Straw dogs refers to little disposable straw figures that were used in certain Chinese religious ceremonies. They were carefully set up to create a little diorama-like scene that was important for the ceremony, kind of like Christians might set up a little creche scene showing the baby Jesus and the wise men and all that. As soon as the ceremony was over, they'd just crumple up the little straw figures and throw them away, or burn them. So basically, it's saying that's how god treats all living things.
I'll have to watch There's Something About Mary again. I think I've only seen it once and I remember it was very funny.
Yesterday and today, I chopped and dug out five large brambly thorn bushes that have been growing on the edge of our property ever since we moved here. It's some kind of invasive species that apparently is hated by most gardeners, though I didn't think they were too bad. One of the negative things about these bushes is that these horrible vines were growing up near the base of the bushes. They'd grow out every year. These vines were dark green and almost oily, and they'd make they nasty looking seed pods that reminded me of something from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Also growing up beneath one of these bushes was another nasty vine, a great big woody thing that was about two inches in diameter at the base, which grew up and wrapped itself all around a nearby tree, like a python, and was made of a weird, spongy kind of wood that was very elastic and flexible. I could never really get at these vines before, because they were protected by all the thorns of the thorn bushes. Anyway, the point of all this is that is was interesting how these semi-evil plants were all growing together, all basically protecting and supporting each other, like some kind of gang. It was satisfying to finally eradicate the whole mess, once and for all though I am now sore all over, from all the chopping and yanking and sawing. The inner wood of the thorn bushes was a weird, almost fluorescent yellow. A lot of the digging out of roots had to be done with a crowbar.
It's looking like I'd be coming out to Tahoe probably the afternoon of June 22, and leaving the morning of June 26. Does that sound okay?
--edward
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