turkey talk

so it was 44 years ago today that jfk was killed. i read the mailer book about it and i read the delillo book about it. not recently, but i read them. (i know those are novels, but novels are how i get most of my information about the world. stupid?) i continue to be interested in the story, the mystery. perhaps i'm ignorant and naive but i mark that event as the beginning of the downfall of the integrity of this country. (when did this become a political blog? it's not, not hardly. i hope my myriad readers know i rarely know what i'm talking about - it's just a knee-jerk and morbid attempt at deipnosophism.) or maybe the collapse began before this, but assassinations and coverups, i suppose, received big-time press starting about that time. maybe. television and all of that. correct me if i'm wrong, someone, anyone. help me out. i wasn't actually alive 44 years ago today (kara was, and she was even in texas, but i don't think she could be implicated in any conspiracy, if there was one; she'll be 45 in 2 months 1 day), but i think about how different the world might be today if kennedy had not been killed and did the things he said he wanted to do.

just thoughts, making me a little sad.

and actress/director adrienne shelly's last film comes out on dvd this week (or at least the last one she directed & acted in; imdb tells me a screenplay she wrote is currently in preproduction, and i'll be watching for that). her murder, just over a year ago now, makes me sad too. i don't put it on a level with jfk's murder - though why not? she was a person, he was a person. murder is murder, isn't it? an unthinkable waste.

on the other hand, it's thanksgiving today. happy thanksgiving. let's not even talk about the indians and the origins of this holiday. please? i'm so sorry. let's try and be thankful. i do have plenty of good things in my life now, in spite of all the crimes going on globally, to my shame. i'm even doing some christmas shopping online this morning before attempting plan b of the 2nd story in my heroic story cycle. kara's sleeping and the dogs are still crated. we'll have cinnamon rolls when kara gets up and we'll start a fire. it'll be a good day.