Energies

Winter. And ghosts. I suppose there is some logic to it, the nights are longer, we are lower and therefore more sensitive.

On Ellen Degeneres' show yesterday, her guest was Jennifer Love Hewitt, she of Ghost Whisperer and the horrendous couture. She seemed to be wearing a dress that was a cross between what used to be called a baby doll nightie and a wedding dress. But she showed us frames from the show's dailies that it was hard to argue didn't show ghosts, the real McCoy. Not just stills either, in one clip there was movement. Apparently the show attracts viewers from beyond. But the clips were impressive, very impressive indeed.

My friend Ree pointed me towards a story that was breaking not far from her yesterday, that of two missing boys who had been found alive in St. Louis. I can imagine a lot, but I can't imagine, and hope I never will, the sheer torment that the parents of Shawn Hornbeck must have been through for the past four years, nor the joy and elation that they must feel now. I am sure that more is to come from this story as we find out what his life was like during the four years that he was held in captivity. I phrase it like that deliberately, to take away an innocent person's freedom is to treat them like an animal.
When he was first missing, the parents consulted psychics, so I am wondering why he was not found before, or perhaps they were close, circling his location, never quite able to zoom in. And then, what information were they given? Was their hope of finding him kept alive?

We watched a documentary about the power used by the city of Las Vegas. They drain everything they are able to generate themselves and from the surrounding area. There is a completely pointless squintillion Watt light on the top of one of the buildings that can be seen from space. They are damned lucky that they haven't been the object of terrorism, representing as they do, excess and greed. Nineveh. And then they send up a beacon to guide the visitors in, welcome or unwelcome.

Has David Beckham sold his soul to the devil? Everyone knows someone whose level of incompetence is rewarded with being paid more. Real Madrid, we are told, had finished with him, his contract was not to be renewed. So his salary was doubled as he was snapped up by some LA company. Beckham is to proselytise the United States, convert them to true football. He may think that, but the opposite is true. LA has already taken the football out of Beckham. In a statement that is better read than listened to in his reedy little voice, he refers to football, 'the beautiful game' as 'soccer'.

The devil damn thee black thou cream-faced loon.