All losses are restored

Ahh, I am back on coffee. The healing is complete.

A weekend of scribbling, reading, rehearsal and housework (seriously - the post-illness house is spanky clean). Pummelled through Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep; I really want to read the Blade Runner script now - fascinating choices made in the adaptation.

Anyhoo, for now, let's return to penguins. Or one penguin in particular, with honed survival instincts and problem-solving capabilities.



Whaddaguy!! Although I gotta say, with killer whales circling, I'm surprised no-one in the boat panicked and suggested tipping the little guy back in. Or maybe I've just seen too many movies...

No harm, no...

Well, what else would you send out there on Thanksgiving but Sarah Palin and her turkey-pardoning-cum-slaughtering antics.

The uncensored interview (here) is funny enough; following a token turkey-pardoning, Palin is interviewed while work gets underway behind; the interviewer hams it up, asking about state programmes 'on the chopping block'.

But the news report on the interview adds a whole other level, complete with real-crime-tv blurring out of turkey parts and headline titles worthy of The Onion: "Turkeys die as Gov. Palin takes questions from media"; "Gov. Sarah Palin keeps talking while turkeys get slaughtered behind her"; "Turkey-killing fowls Palin's news conference":



I'm not sure on whom this reflects most poorly.