Well, it’s been damn near a month since I felt like writing. I’ve popped in from time to time, but the more prolific writers are intimidating when it comes to keeping up reading and noting.
I keep saying anyone trying to track my movements by hacking my phone would find it pretty boring. The phone sits in the charger in the kitchen. Unless I am leaving the state I don’t even carry the stupid phone with me. “Damn, this guy doesn’t leave his kitchen!”
My buddy who I visited in New Hampshire earlier this summer came up for a few days. We hung out and stretched my site-seeing legs. I live here, seen it all. It is nice to see it through another’s eyes. He and his fiancee will be back later this month to use my guest room. His uncle is having a big birthday bash and I am in a convenient location.
I don’t know that we really had a summer. The weather has been really nice, but never once did the temperature get over 89F. I only made it to the beach 3 times this year. Well, I guess that depends on how you count. I only count the days I get sand between my toes. I was on the coast a few other times without taking my shoes off.
I just finished watching The Lovely Bones - it has been in my DVR queue for months but I never had the heart to watch it. I remembered the trailers when it was in the theaters so I had the gist of the story. It is absolutely heartbreaking. The title “The Lovely Bones” doesn’t reference her bones, but rather the wreckage of her family and friends.
The noon news today told me they had identified the skull of Holly Bobo - the nursing school student - a girl who had disappeared her driveway and whose remains are near her suspected kidnappers home. Then news about cell video of the girl crying and begging to be allowed to go home.
Susan Sarandon plays the grandmother in The Lovely Bones.
I had sworn to never watch another Sarandon movie since she played Sister Prejean in Dead Man Walking. The ending of that movie soured me to all anti-death-penalty advocates. Especially considering the “victim” in that movie basically confessed to having murdered the two people he had been convicted of and was facing the death penalty for.
The justice in The Lovely Bones was more cosmic in nature. For Holly Bobo I just hope Tennessee still has the death penalty for those responsible.
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