Birthdays are the one day a year many people love to hate. They curse the passing of the years in public, but if family or friends host a surprise party for them, their tune changes fast.
Anyway, I’m wiped out from the rigors of surprise party celebrations. Good news though, I’ve coaxed a Q&A session out of Buddhapuss slated for Monday. Ever since his t-shirt hit the streets, the furry guy has been copping a major ‘tude.
Buddhapuss was scheduled to appear this evening but alas, he’s feeling a bit under the weather from the recent heat wave. Attempts to coax a new column out of him met with extremely stiff resistance.
The cat will compose no blog before it’s time. I shall try again on Monday.
In other news, the revision process continues. Still awaiting word from the propsective agent.
Wrote 8 pages today and now my eyes hurt. Check back for Buddhapuss on Friday.
Normally this blog end runs around current topics, but one news event this week was just too disturbing for me to overlook.
Mary Kay Letourneau, the 42 year old teacher was released this week from a seven year stint for child rape. Legally she is barred from any communication with her victim, now 21, who’s also the father of two of her children.
Even though this relationship has cost her a teaching job, made her a felon, damned her to sex offender database, led to a divorce and a protracted estrangement with her other children, Mary Kay is back on the prowl for Vili Fualaau. Tragically, Mr. Fualaau is ready for round 3 too, and already mounted a legal challenge to overturn the ban on his contact with Mary Kay. After all now he’s an adult.
Here’s my theory: If we all stop paying attention, they will break up. And better yet, the news will stop reporting the Mary Kay and Vili show.
I don’t want to watch the TV movie with the paperback book tie-in and Barbara Walters pre-broadcast interview. I don’t want to hear her shrill voice on Howard Stern, or look at her centerfold in Playboy. More than any other story this year, this is the one story I want to die.
Let’s not hear from either of them until again until their obituaries.
Rant over. Thanks for tuning in.