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Thursday, April 06, 2006
Sad Tales
An article in a local paper relates how a park was promised to locals as a place for their kids at the adjacent elementary school to play. But the city never got around to building it. Just a long parade of excuses, and now that they are finally starting to build it (12 years later), they expect everyone to be ecstatic about the news. One parent laments that he had promised this park to his 6-year-old, who is now 18. What a waste.
Ironically, this story almost makes me sadder than the ones about children getting killed in car accidents or molested by deviants. The kids near that park were not only expecting a full life, like the crash victims and molestees, but they were also promised a place to have growing up in.
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Heading off to a benefit comedy show for a friend who was in that movie of mine. She needs emergency retinal surgery and has no insurance so the likes of Patton Oswalt (King of Queens), Bob Odenkirk (Mr Show), Louis CK (lotsa stuff), Dana Gould (Simpsons), and other medium weights are headlining at the Center for Inquiry West (CSICOP's new home... go figure... they do TONS of comedy there now). I figure since I was Bank Robber #2 and she was Female Police Officer #2, we have something in common.
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Ironically, this story almost makes me sadder than the ones about children getting killed in car accidents or molested by deviants. The kids near that park were not only expecting a full life, like the crash victims and molestees, but they were also promised a place to have growing up in.
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Heading off to a benefit comedy show for a friend who was in that movie of mine. She needs emergency retinal surgery and has no insurance so the likes of Patton Oswalt (King of Queens), Bob Odenkirk (Mr Show), Louis CK (lotsa stuff), Dana Gould (Simpsons), and other medium weights are headlining at the Center for Inquiry West (CSICOP's new home... go figure... they do TONS of comedy there now). I figure since I was Bank Robber #2 and she was Female Police Officer #2, we have something in common.
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