Making a career out of being useless. Too lazy to get work done and I lack the genius to get people to approach me so am compelled to get of my big butt and start the running around. 'Tis a bad thing to be lazy and it is even worse to have no work and be unoccupied. Compliments and praises do not provide one's meals and I still have a long way to go in that department.
Saw the movie "12 Angry Men" which has to be one of the best films ever made. Grappling with the issues of justice, personal prejudices and people's natures its a movie that holds your attention and doesnt let go till the very end. I had seen a recent version of it with George C. Scott acting in it and I wish he had been available while they had been making the old version. No disrespect intended to Lee Cobb but the fact is that Mr. George brought a greater sense of rage to the role and had a look of insanity in his eyes that held me the first time I saw it. Watch the old version because it is the original and watch the new version for George C. Scott
The tsunami relief continues to pour in and yet there are perhaps years of work needed before we can even begin to consider that we have truly overcome it, that is purely in the economic sense. The people who have suffered due to it will never forget it. It is only the couch potato sitting and viewing the situation as displayed on a cathode ray tube or LCD screen who will forget it as soon as its off the news. And it will be. Once the dead are counted, once the basic repairs are begun and life beigns to reach some sense of normalcy the news cameras will vanish. It is then that the true test of the rehabilitation efforts will begin for then the greedy will no longer have to fear the media and the theft that has been delayed eventually will occur. It is a recipe to line the pockets of the corrupt but yet I hope that there will be a change and the rehabilitation will continue unabated and unhindered until it is truly completed.