Well, that was a shitty day.
Not for me, personally. Today I signed up for my scuba class, got yet another perfect haircut from Eve the Wonder Cutter, picked up some honeymoon clothes from the nice alterations lady, and made my Best Damn Caesar for Melissa and I to munch on while getting all weepy (again) over Shakespeare in Love.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world – things went to hell so quickly that no one remembered to bring the handbasket.
A suicide bombertanks rolled into Ramallah (again), surrounded Arafat’s Love Bunker (again), and shot up a thug or two (again).
One blogger, much smarter than me, says he hopes Arafat dies slowly. But it really doesn’t matter. Arafat is a joke – even to his own people. The man has made a career out of knowing how to save his own skin. And his skin is at greater risk now than ever. So why another suicide attack? Because Arafat can’t control his own people.
Arafat could never be trusted in negotiations, so his only utility lay in being able to switch off the horror when it suited him. Now, he can’t even do that. The Israeli’s won’t listen to him, his people won’t listen to him, so he has become irrelevant. Alive or dead, Arafat just doesn’t matter.
And for a man who craves the murderous perks of total power, that’s a fate worse than death.
Dude, the first movie Laura and I saw on a date was "Shakespeare in Love." At the Los Feliz III right down the street.
Lovely and goofy movie, ain't it?
Arafat is definitely irrelevant. I do so wish Bush would quit sending everydamnbody he can think of over to talk to the guy. But then, you knew that already, eh? And for what it's worth, I, Mr Macho, trucker, biker, gun nut, rocker, bourbon drinker, and general insensitive lout, liked Shakespeare in love too. ;)
Here's a third vote for Shakespeare in Love! As for that Arafraud guy -- stick a fork in him already, he's done.
He's handsome, he's smart, he's funny, he cooks.... and he watches chickflicks!.
Good Gawd Amighty!
Hate to get off topic here, but speaking of Arafat, he himself isn't the problem so much as the culture that lionizes his "resistance." Does anyone really think that chopping his head off won't get us nine more raving morons just like him?
PS Share your Ceaser recipe? :)
Rob, I've started a new Firday Recipe feature. I've already promised Steve's Perfect Provencal Lambchops this week -- but next week I promise the Caesar.
