October sky

Froze my ass off walking from the bus stop, feels like winter out there. The noon news, however, forecasts a few 70 degree days next week. That would be lovely.

Also on the noon news, several protesters said they'll stay in the park protesting "until the country is made right." Well, how about that!? Clones of Bartleby. Brings to mind a story idea, in the sixties some protesting college students vowed to stay "until the country is made right," and now it's 2011 and they are still there, in their 60s and 70s. But a new mayor is going to get rid of them -- he's a PROGRESSIVE mayor, you see, and understands that it's the past right wing governments that kept them in the park because then they were easy to keep tabs on and weren't out overthrowing the government. OR, alternatively, a group of young protesters today remove the old fogies who've been there half a century because now it's THEIR turn to take over the park and protest. Lots of dark political comedy possibilities in a premise like that.

Life would suck if the human condition wasn't so comic.