Saturday, February 25, 2012

Cab Thoughts 2/25/12

"Safe House" is, square inch per square inch, the most relentlessly violent strip of celluloid I have ever seen.

The primary continues. I wonder if we can surrender. Wait..maybe that's their plan.

There has been a reissue of Ellis Peters. Her mysteries are well plotted, with likable characters and of historical interest. In one, a complex murder is resolved in a savage day long trial by combat and justice is viciously victorious, in another a brutal patricide is symbolically forgiven and allowed to escape the law. In summary, she's very good and worth the effort.

It is possible that concussions in football will become so much a problem that the game will erode. Most players have been willing to accept the orthopedic risks but the neurological risks are different. And there is a different , additional element: The injuries are uncertain and difficult to explain. More, there is the subtle hint that management knew the significance was greater than admitted. If colussion is suspected the league will suffer terribly.

Malkin is playing better than anyone else in the league. The question is, what is necessary for him to do this?

Plane thoughts:
In this world of equality and fairness, why is there first class seating on airplanes and why can't I use their bathroom
------and is that why are stewardesses suddenly so old?

At breakfast at an airport over 60% of the customers were drinking alcohol before 10 o'clock.

A lot of "purse dogs" on the airplane. Very much like the scenes in Florida where elderly women push dogs in prams. "Children of Men."

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