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poop beetle: icestorm, camera, Lady Elaine Fairchild
2.2003
North Carolina's gotten another ice storm. The trees are covered with a film of ice- bent over like weeping willows. You can hear them creaking and breaking.
I got a new digital camera recently and tried to take pictures of the ice, but I couldn't get it to look as pretty as it does in real life.
Regular stuff looks real pretty, though - the kitchen table, no longer a regular kitchen table but a bright tiny picture of a kitchen table on my LCD screen. I can take a picture of it and then zoom in on one little part, like the napkin holder.
That's about all I've accomplished so far- walking around looking at stuff through the screen - getting motion sick, playing with the menu functions.
It sucked up all the battery juice before I got around to trying to put anything on the computer. But I'd expected that. I'd done my research and the battery charger is on it's way. I'd had a stash of double A's, but, my mother found them and sent them to Kuwait.
I'm not watching the news any more. Sometimes I'll accidently hear stuff anyway.
Bush wants to pass some (more?) strict(er?) laws re: stem cell research. I wasn't listening - but the government wants to ensure scientists aren't creating human life in order to destroy it, the horrors of human cloning, etc. An important white house guy was quoted as saying "We need to take a firm stand on these issues because the world will be looking to the United States for moral guidance".
I caught a little bit of Mr. Rogers today. My kids like(d) him. More than I thought they would. I watched him as a kid and he scared the hell out of me. His incisor teeth are a little sharp and in the early days his hair was very dark and slicked back, like Dracula.
There're so many great kids shows now, I'd thought my kids would find him boring. But they don't. I believe they like his calmness. My children like wild and crazy, but on their own terms- as in, they want to be the most out of control thing in their environment. Quietness and sweetness are very attractive to them.
The show was a weird one. Weirder than usual.
Again I didn't catch the whole thing, but in the land of make-believe one of the adults was dressed in a goldfish costume (not her character's normal outfit). People were banging frantically on drums. You didn't see the drum bangers, just heard them. There was some talk with King Friday about getting them to stop (it wasn't nice drumming).
She tried to get the adult in the dog costume (which was his normal outfit) to tell her what was going on, but he'd taken some vow of silence.
Later, Goldfish woman found out from Lady Elaine Fairchild (she's the trouble maker, a sharp nosed, freaky looking puppet) that the drummers would drum whenever they saw something different because different was scarey. And it was probably her goldfish costume that'd set them off.
But then everything was o.k. because Lady Elaine had gathered them all in her "S" room.
And what's the "S" room?
It's the "scared and safe" room.
I swear (I'd tell you if I knew) I have no idea what that was all about. Mr. Rogers always said it was o.k. to be scared, (everybody feels that way sometimes) & everybody knows it's important to feel safe.
But there's got to be something up when the word "different" is used. Plus, everybody knows Lady Elaine is not to be trusted. (her evil ways help drive the plot, reveal the theme & aid in the learning of something important).
Lady Elaine goes to check on her "S" room visitors & the woman says "well, o.k."- but worried & skeptical.
The trolley comes around the track and takes us back to Mr.Roger's living room and it looks like I'll have to watch tomorrow to figure out what the heck is going on.
