Posted May 16th, 2005 by Michelle

I’m really confused about this movie being advertised on TV right now called “Tidal Wave: No Escape” or something to that affect. Um, pardon me, but is this something that we need to see in a movie? Could we not, if we found hundreds of thousands of people dying in tidal waves amusing, just search the internet for home footage of this past December’s tsunami? Wouldn’t that be easier, and *more dramatic* since it actually happened? I’d love to know the original release date for this made-for-TV movie. I bet it was in December, but they couldn’t really show it then, right? Who sat at the meeting when it was decided how many months needed to pass before the tsunami dropped out of the collective consciousness of us oh-so-brilliant Americans? They were probably pissed because there were so many darn *relief* shows and Red Cross fundraisers that it took us *weeks* before we utterly forgot about it… and therefore were ready and willing to palate a movie so banal, stupid, and unforgiveable.

I seem to be one of the few people who caught the very early Spiderman previews four years ago. There was this incredible scene where the bad guys were getting away in a plane, but then they hit this huge web which stretched and stretched, then catapulted them back- but they were stuck fast in the web, and as the camera panned back you saw that the web was woven between the two towers of the World Trade Center. It was gorgeous, and in my opinion, a loving, stunning tribute. But it was made before the towers crumbled, and thought insensitive, and cut from the film. THAT’S insensitive- reminding us that those towers once stood, that they were beautiful and strong- but showing a pathetic made-for-TV flick about people drowning in a tidal wave is AMUSING.

Tonight’s post was supposed to be a photoblog covering the last couple of weeks of my life- a wonderful week-long visit from my best friend in the whole wide world, the bluejay that has taken to harassing my cat, my friend Mollie back from Argentina, my friend Russ visiting from New York, and the crazy dividing daisy, but I just can’t concentrate on any of that stuff.

Okay, maybe I can share the crazy dividing daisy:

Check it out! The daisy on the left is normal, but the one on the right is slowly splitting in two. It’s like daisy cell division. Today, four days after I took this pic, it’s even more separate, as if it was trying to fully split, and also it’s dying. Now that’s just crazy.