Comments on: It’s okay to resist the temptation http://boremetotears.com/2009/07/06/its-okay-to-resist-the-temptation/ Here to "pour over the excrutiating minutia of every single daily event." ("Elaine Benes," Seinfeld) Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:35:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: boremetotears http://boremetotears.com/2009/07/06/its-okay-to-resist-the-temptation/#comment-2707 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:10:02 +0000 http://boremetotears.com/?p=4489#comment-2707 I’m w/you, Nance. I only caught a glance this morning (at a dr. appt.). They were broadcasting the car (w/his body) on the freeway – which struck me as so reminicient of the infamous OJ freeway chase. I didn’t watch long enough to see if people were gawking from overpasses as they did w/OJ…

]]> By: Nance Confer http://boremetotears.com/2009/07/06/its-okay-to-resist-the-temptation/#comment-2705 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:26:05 +0000 http://boremetotears.com/?p=4489#comment-2705 I am deliberately not watching the news today. It’s all just too creepy.

Nance

]]> By: boremetotears http://boremetotears.com/2009/07/06/its-okay-to-resist-the-temptation/#comment-2703 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:58:36 +0000 http://boremetotears.com/?p=4489#comment-2703

omg, he wasn’t a HEAD of STATE

:)
Apparently, I can’t resist the temptation to laugh afterall. That is very funny! [rofl - sigh]

]]> By: JJ http://boremetotears.com/2009/07/06/its-okay-to-resist-the-temptation/#comment-2702 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:28:08 +0000 http://boremetotears.com/?p=4489#comment-2702 But this is getting (oh dear, sorry to day) pretty tacky.

]]> By: JJ http://boremetotears.com/2009/07/06/its-okay-to-resist-the-temptation/#comment-2701 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:27:15 +0000 http://boremetotears.com/?p=4489#comment-2701 My own Head of state crack got me remembering the first public, televised funeral ritual I ever saw — JFK’s. Jackie Kennedy was said to have planned out all the symbolism to the nth degree, and it sure had the desired effect on me, even as a little kid.

]]> By: JJ http://boremetotears.com/2009/07/06/its-okay-to-resist-the-temptation/#comment-2700 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:22:30 +0000 http://boremetotears.com/?p=4489#comment-2700 Or dig up the rest of his mortal remains to reinstall it in its fitting station? [shudder]

I have the memorial service running in the background (omg, he wasn’t a HEAD of STATE, not that even they get this level of tribute?!!) and a poised brunette (Brooke Shields maybe?) said in a eulogy that he “saw everything with his heart” rather than his eyes. So what if it had been his heart (or eyes, which competing symbology considers “windows to the soul”?)

You have to think all this through, write the story as if you were JKRowling instead of Sarah Palin.

]]> By: boremetotears http://boremetotears.com/2009/07/06/its-okay-to-resist-the-temptation/#comment-2698 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:23:34 +0000 http://boremetotears.com/?p=4489#comment-2698 Interesting point. I wonder how much thought was spent pondering the casual suggestion, “(they can just) bury the brain later on.” Will they bury the brain beside the body? In an adjacent plot? At a different site? Should fans plan to “visit” Michael Jackson at his body burial site or his brain burial site?… My lizard brain needs to know :)

]]> By: JJ http://boremetotears.com/2009/07/06/its-okay-to-resist-the-temptation/#comment-2697 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:07:35 +0000 http://boremetotears.com/?p=4489#comment-2697 Burial ritual is so symbolic anyway (like all ritual) that I’ve always thought one should take great care with it, to be sure it’s expressing and reflecting what you intend. You can think about alternatives and plan it all out but then you too will experience it at the lizard-brained level in the moment, true even for us highly evolved brains. So you have to be a master of Story in advance, use your um, brain!

]]> By: boremetotears http://boremetotears.com/2009/07/06/its-okay-to-resist-the-temptation/#comment-2692 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:28:26 +0000 http://boremetotears.com/?p=4489#comment-2692 I think this one is a heart short ;)

]]> By: JJ http://boremetotears.com/2009/07/06/its-okay-to-resist-the-temptation/#comment-2682 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:20:15 +0000 http://boremetotears.com/?p=4489#comment-2682 Clearly he’s not the only one a cranium short! . . .

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