Greg's Blurty

It's Friday The Fourth Of July, You Bastards
This one of those moments that boldly highlights the schism between the "There are no coincidences," folks and the, "Everything is just random chance," people. It all started (Well, it has always been going on but this latest round begins where I am about to say where it begins) a couple of weeks ago when I listened to the Art Bell interview with George Carlin.

George talked for a bit about how fascinating it is when a murderer is caught and his friends and neighbors say that they never would have suspected him because he was such a nice and completely ordinary guy. He also said that he, the biggest hardcore non believing skeptic this side of Penn And Teller, would be completely open to a super natural experience and that is related to this whole thing but I'm not going to go into it because this is already convoluted enough.

Then there was the mass murderer who was just caught near St. Louis who began his killing spree right here in the general area of the Quad Cities...he even stole a truck here in Rock Island but he didn't kill anyone here, not that we know of yet anyway...and lots of people said he looked like a killer after he was caught but apparently no one thought so before he was caught.

Then there was the Kerwin Summage case and the column that Sean Leary wrote about it [] and how he said that had no clue that Summage would ever be involved in anything like that---I guess that Summage was a rap artist of some kind and Sean had covered his work. That reminded me of the Jay Scott case---he was a very popular DJ here who is now in jail for a similar kind of thing. And he was a country DJ and I point that out not to make any inference to country and rap being the Devil's music but simply to give you all the details.

Then this morning, I watched a Dick Cavett interview with Alfred Hitchcock from 1972 on TCM and even though Suzette tried her best to distract me and draw my attention away from it because she said it was boring, I managed to pay attention to it. And one of the things that Alfred said was that one of his favorite movies was Shadow Of A Doubt (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036342/), which he made in 1942. It's about a serial killer who moves in with his family and how they never realize the truth.

Then, later this morning...while Suzette was taking a nap, which didn't do her any good because she was still in a horrible mood when she woke up...I listened to last night's Coast To Coast AM and one of the guests said that everything is a conspiracy in our world and it just means that a group of people are working together to achieve a goal and it can be either legal or illegal. And right now I'm listening to a Coast To Coast classic edition that features Art Bell talking to Mel Waters.

And all this has led me to conclude that I still don't know anything, especially in regards to who is right and wrong in the coincidence/no coincidence debate except for one thing. And that is that someone somewhere is trying to tell me to not write yet another novel about conspiracy/random chance and secrets.

So that's what I'm going to do today. I'm going to not write a book about all the immense and really cool and sometimes scary secrets that we are totally surrounded by and how most of us don't even have a clue that they exist. And it's not going to be easy because this is The Fourth Of July and I've already agreed to officiate a Twister tournament, judge a bikini contest, referee some oil wrestling matches and I've also vowed to set new personal bests in beer drinking and barbecue consumption. And then there's fireworks to watch.

So it's not going to be easy to work a novel into all that but what can I do? Luckily for me, it's Friday, so the holiday automatically extends to Sunday so it's not as bad as it could be. Is that a coincidence or not?

Current Mood: depressed
Current Music: Coast To Coast AM----Friday August 29th, 1997