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New Moon
Watched an HD movie tonight: An American Haunting. Sissy Spacek, Donald Sutherland and James D’Arcy provided the core of a good ensemble cast. This movie tells of the Bell Witch, an early 19th century century haunting in Adams, Tennessee. There is a cottage industry of folks who believe, including debunkers of other believers. A bit like a snake biting its own tale. The book An American Haunting: The Bell Witch recounts the supposedly true events which ended in 1821 with the death of John Bell. The movie suggests incest, but fails, at least to my satisfaction, to link it to the strange occurrences at the Bell House. Here is a website with further information.
Feel like I’m coming down off a techno high, a sort of cyber electric dream occasioned by optical cables, coaxial cables, HDMI cables, speaker wire, subwoofers and high definition televison. Alice could tumble through an HDMI cable into a virtual wonderland, I have. This is an enchantment of sorts, and as such it must be encountered with awareness, not naivete.
Hey, how about that Hilary, huh? Coulda fooled me. Looked like Obama was a shoe-in in New Hampshire. Just what this means for the race is anybodies guess right now. I love it. Real candidates in a real horse race. Jockeying for position, fighting over the issues and over how to organize campaigns for types of candidates who’ve never run before in this serious a manner. This is (to use a much abused phrase) a historic moment for American democracy. It can be a time when we win back the world’s admiration if we allow ourselves to enter the process without cynicism. Hard, I admit, but possible and desirable. Imagine a campaign about real politics and not weirdo ideologies.
