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osprey in the fog
Tuesday, September 28 1999
There's all sorts of weird energy in product & engineering these days; I suppose it's to be expected given the sudden spectacular demise of the infrastructure re-engineering effort. I wonder who gets to move into that back room where all the fired com/object developers used to sit? Meanwhile, however, there's been an impressive string of successes over in corporate development. Today we were all herded into the main room, several cases of champagne were uncorked, and we toasted an impressive new strategic partnership with a huge multi-national media & technology conglomerate. For the first time in a long time I had the feeling that all the hype might actually have some basis in reality.
This evening as I was riding my old Huffy bicycle home along the San Diego River, I saw a thick grey fog crawling in from off the cold Pacific. It was unusual weather for sunset. Such weather must be what brings the osprey to the Sunset Cliffs Bridge, because there he was on top of a lamp post. He's usually there every morning, but before this evening I've never seen him there any other time.
After dinner Kim and I watched a videotape of the movie Heavenly Creatures. It's the dramatic true tale of two girls in 1950's New Zealand. They're complementary soulmates with a juvenilized & lesbianized Wacky Jen - Deya dynamic. They live in an imaginative fantasy world (called "the 4th World") full of medieval characters made of clay. It's all extensively documented in the Deya character's diary. So when, in an effort to prevent their separation, the girls commit murder, the authorities have all the evidence they need.
Co-protagonist Kate
Winslet does a superb job in her role as the murderous Wacky Jen character.
And now I see that Heavenly Creatures was directed by the maverick New Zealand genius, Peter Jackson, whose comic splatter masterpieces Bad Taste and Braindead I've already seen and raved about.
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