...in a car somewhere between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. It's the only time of the year that the desert can be described as "lush" and it lasts just a few days...
Tom has his hands gripped tightly on the wheel and is already mentally in Vegas with a pair of dice in his hand. He's focused on the mountains in the distance and can't help but think that they seem to be walking away as fast as they drive - never really getting any closer. Damn, this drives takes forever.
Karin sees a cloud. A rare sight out here. It's pretty small and seems to be awfully lonely. As if by magic the cloud transforms into two. With that problem solved, her eye catches a reflection high up in the mountains - way off to the right. She imagines that it's broken piece of mirror lost by a long forgotten prospector and starts reflecting about his life - just as naturally as you put on your pants - she has created a wonderful world of gold, horses and a touch of little house on the prairie in her mind.
He's sure he just saw "disco lights". Yup here they come down the other side of the highway. Looks like they're after that - what is it? Looks like a beemer. Hard to tell from this distance.
Man, they are absolutely screamin. Yup, they're able to get away from the mountains without a problem. Oops, he's swerving now...hold on buddy. He grips the wheel tighter and watches as the now clearly identifiable BMW starts to quickly lose control - using up both lanes on the other side of the highway.
Her prospector is riding his mule through a desert valley of flowers. She comes to the surface long enough to perceive the colors of the desert bloom that have found their way into her story. The colors! Wow - she never imagined after all these trips to see colors like this out here. Fine paint brush strokes on a canvas dominated by large and awkward dimensions. She's transported. Absorbing the sights, taking it in; remembering, memorizing, absorbing. The clock stops ticking. She's alive.
Tom watches the BMW's first roll, the second and my god - that wasn't a body that just flew out the side window like a puppet? The action is just about parallel with their car now - he slows a little, but just a little, mindful of the truck behind him and stares to the left trying to remember the movie where he saw a scene just like that.
The accident and the bloom now behind them. The mountains getting closer: They turn to each other and say - almost simultaneously - while pointing behind them - one to the left and one to the right, "Did you see that?"
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Nastiness Pays
I never really thought about Rosie O'donnell. Saw her on TV...but never really ever did a Rosie contemplation. Until this week. Was watching the dual between her and the Donald in the media and suddenly, it went click. Rosie's right, Donald really sucks as a role model. But Rosie is part of the problem too.
It made me think about the fact that there's too much popular nastiness out there. Donald and the apprentice - making a game out of firing people. Come on, that's the kind of callous we really don't wanna develop. I've had to fire several people to save a company from going belly up and it was very, very difficult. The impact on the people fired: devastating. That`s why it should be difficult, rotten and nasty. I really don't like that show. A bunch of wannabees that can talk the talk but haven't a clue how to walk the walk, couple that with "the Donald" and I'm flipping the channel.
Simon Cowell is another example of pop-nasty. Hey - they've not only franchised the show to different countries, but also the personalities. We have a German version of Simon - his name is Dieter Bohlen (former Modern Talking popstar). I watch this show- and usually agree with Simon's opinion. But the difference is, I wouldn't say what he says - 'cause it's hurtful.
Just last month Simon became the highest paid UK TV personality ever...
It made me think about the fact that there's too much popular nastiness out there. Donald and the apprentice - making a game out of firing people. Come on, that's the kind of callous we really don't wanna develop. I've had to fire several people to save a company from going belly up and it was very, very difficult. The impact on the people fired: devastating. That`s why it should be difficult, rotten and nasty. I really don't like that show. A bunch of wannabees that can talk the talk but haven't a clue how to walk the walk, couple that with "the Donald" and I'm flipping the channel.
Simon Cowell is another example of pop-nasty. Hey - they've not only franchised the show to different countries, but also the personalities. We have a German version of Simon - his name is Dieter Bohlen (former Modern Talking popstar). I watch this show- and usually agree with Simon's opinion. But the difference is, I wouldn't say what he says - 'cause it's hurtful.
Just last month Simon became the highest paid UK TV personality ever...
Core Competence?
The next G8 conference will be held in Heiligendamm, Germany this June. That's over in the east (psst...former east Germany...). Anyway, to provide extra security they are putting a fence - if that's what you can call a 8 and a half foot tall cement wall with barb wire on top - all around the town. Seven and a half miles of "fencing" to keep all those pesky protesters out. Can't have them throwing paint balls at the Kempinski hotel again. Anyway, at work we were joking about east Germany finally being able to show off their core competence! Who knows where this might lead, George may fall in love with it and the ossies (that's what we call East Germans) could be the ones to put up "fencing" along the Mexican border! There is something really, really bizarre about this story. But hey - you don't have to take my word...here's the link: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,457017,00.html
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