Rabbitzes July 25, 2005 – Posted in: Aberrant Normalcy

Saturday was one of those perfectly blue days that come around once a year. It wasn’t too hot, and the sky held this cerulean blue usually only seen in film after the CGI boys do their work. The clouds too were perfectly puffy and formed, unlike the usual chalky haze present over the city in the summertime. I was sitting by Stevens Tech reading from Alchemy and alternately Magic for Beginners, by Kelly Link. And while I was reading all these rabbits (no kidding) started to come out of the fences and the bushes and just sit there and stare at me. Not sure if you’ve read Link’s “Stone Animals,” but rabbits feature a very large role. Funny thing was, I didn’t put two and two together until this morning. Partly it was because the day was so beautiful, and partly because I was reading a different story and thinking about the state of the world. I did not see any faeries riding their necks, thankfully.

How would you like to be this guy who, while innocently working on his computer, had a meteorite crash through his ceiling and land on his floor? Apparently, the meteorite was one of several that fell over Chicago that day from a large fireball. The article says, “the average homeowner should expect to repair direct meteor damage every hundred million years.” I hope you have insurance.

Finally, did you hear that New Jersey wants to ban smoking inside your own car? I understand the reasoning for banning smoking in public places like offices and restaurants, but in your private spaces too? That’s taking the law too far. From this AP article over at The Smokers’ Club, a smoker says, “The day a politician wants to tell me I can’t smoke in my car, that’s the day he takes over my lease payments.” Ditto! While I do occasionally sample the tobacco from time to time, I consider myself a non-smoker, but a proposal like this just makes me want to take up chain smoking just to spite the politicians. The proposal was sponsored by Assemblyman John McKeon who says that one percent of all 32,000 traffic fatalities last year were smoking related. That’s 320 deaths caused by smoking while driving. Meanwhile, since January of this year, 342 American soliders have died in Iraq and somewhere around 23,000 Iraqi civilians (note: not insurgents) have died since the war began. World to Assemblyman McKeon: go do something better with your time.