The News is Killing Me Redux
Originally published on this Blog Nov 21, 2015 There was a day when I stopped time Or better said: I saw time stop to check its hair in a mirror Watching Kuwait invasion on TV at a bar, while reading that day's paper which held - you know - the previous day's news It took many beers, years, cigarettes, and news editions to get to the moment Where the datelines chase the deadlines and portend the news about diplomatic shuttles and armed buildups on a border. And you could see the future there even though it was the day after like sam spade Sam spade in The Maltese Falcon reading The Shipping News and He sees a notice, the La Paloma is arriving. A little column of type not even spinning in animation. He circles it. In the film he heads to the docks. Emergency is evident. The ship is on fire Fire foretold in a close up of a column in a paper. Just like the wormhole of Kuwait.
