Things whot cross my path today

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Today, I was driving down a side street when a black cat crossed the road in front of me. I slowed the car to a crawl and stopped. The cat got 2/3rds of the way across, stopped, stared at me, and turned around and trotted back whence he came, (ie, crossing my path again) and ran into a house where a girl in an orange sweater was sitting on the front steps next to a pumpkin. I would've said hello, but she was on the phone.

Then I drove past Mother Church's place, where they had six "Yes on 1" signs within 12 feet of each other, and another seven ringing the religious school. Really, mother? Really?? Do lots of swing voters have visual blind spots or suffer severe short-term memory loss?
Over at Aunt Church, they announced precautions for swine flu...they're not giving up the handshakes yet, which are *big* there (get up, mill around, bless everyone you can)...but they put out a big bottle of hand sanitizer for everyone to use before and after mass. (Mother Church, last spring, did away with handshakes for a month with no clear alternate ritual indicated, meaning my favorite part of mass became something no one bothered to do.) The Reverend (Elizabeth) also spoke of Aunt Church's struggle to adapt fully to the changes in society, rather than just tweaking things enough to get by.
(Later, during the community announcements part of the service, the owner of a local old-fashioned toys store made a baby/bathwater plea, saying the change that was needed was to bring back what used to work in our society, to go "back to the future". Later, thinking mistakenly that there was some useful I'd missed in what he said, I asked him to reiterate, and again, "back to the future", 'cause ipod isolationism is driving our society towards the cliff... I restrained the urge to suggest this cliff overhung the dead schoolteacher chasm from the second movie. restrained, I say. I deserve xp. )

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[malpanda.livejournal.com]

sorry, that was the third movie, wasn't it? (it dawns on me that nobody cares and it doesn't matter, but that is not the geek path. Therein lies continuity reboots and Bruce Campbell movies, and time travel stories that look cool but don't really make any sense, like... oh.)