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| Michael Jackson's Brain is Not With His Body.For some reason this is really bothering me. I don't think the guy should be in that casket and buried without that brain. We tend to sense our existence in our brains and it kind of feels like that is where we are but maybe it's just because the eyes are up there.
I have read that the ancient Egyptians believed that the center of their existence was in the heart, probably because it moves. I'm not so sure about the seat of existence but I feel like I'm all jammed up inside my head and that is where I live. My body is just attached at the bottom and it moves me around.
Perhaps I'm just sentimental but I would feel very uncomfortable if someone I loved was buried without their brain.
I know that for autopsy reasons and probably because he was the artistic talent that he was, his brain is greatly desired for research purposes. I know it is also being used to help with the determination of the cause of death investigation.
I also know that when someone dies, supposidly the body is just a shell that rots away and the person is gone forever but for some reason it just bugs me that people get taken apart and sometimes their brain is not buried with them.
Some religions do not believe in desecrating the body after death. Jews are not embalmed and must be buried within 24 hours, I think for religious reasons but I'm thinking that not embalming someone would be reason for a swifter burial as well for sanitary reasons.
There are religions that believe the body will come back to life and imagine coming to life without a brain! After an autopsy all your organs and stuff are generally just sewn up inside your big empty cavity anyway, but it's all there, except the biopsy bits that go to pathology and stuff that gets burned. Your blood goes down a drain.
How would you feel about being buried without a brain, or since I guess you wouldn't be feeling anything at all at that point, hopefully (!) but how would you feel about yourself or your loved one being buried without the brain?
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| A Very Nice Manhattan July 4th Celebration!
We ended up on the West Side Highway on 57th Street where the road has an incline. This was as far North as you could go to get a view. We had been herded like cattle up 10th or 11th Avenue all the way from 52nd St.
The frustrated crowd was turning into an angry mob. They were only letting a few people in at a time down the numbered streets toward the highway which borders the Hudson River.
Being barricaded off is annoying and cops shaking their fingers and yelling at everyone to stay on the sidewalk is a bit much when the sidewalk is too full to walk on.
Crowd control is frustrating for all concerned I imagine.
The barges had been stationed, according to the graphic in the newspaper, from 20th St. to 50th St. I was certain they had underestimated the crowd and we weren't going to be able to see anything, a scenario I've been in before, however I was pleasantly surprised. They must have spread the barges out accordingly.
We had pretty much a front row seat and we were having a pastrami sandwich in a diner on 8th Avenue at 8PM. Considering the show was to start at 9:20 PM, we did pretty well.
People had been camped out since early in the day.
  The fireworks were very nice and new, even ones that exploded into boxes, squares, and drums with the illusion of drumsticks batting them, and smiley faces. It was a pretty long show too, it had to have gone on for nearly an hour!
 I made a video of what I thought was the 'grand finale' and it ended up being 21 minutes long. Way too long to put on Youtube. If I ever figure out how to cut it down to 4 or 5 minutes I'll put it up, but... Time to fiddle with pics and video is scarce...
Hope you are enjoying your holiday weekend!
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| I'm Going to the Times Square Area Against my Better JudgementI'm taking the camera and going with a friend to the Times Square area to behave like a tourist and watch the Macy's Fireworks Display over the Hudson River tonight. We may catch a movie or the Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum.
Midtown West... and we're playing it by ear.
I am having a "bad feeling"... like something bad is going to happen. I have not had a "bad feeling" for some time. I am choosing to ignore it.
When I say "bad feeling", I mean of the national security type or disaster type.
I see how this feeling may have prevented me from enjoying things in the past.
Ok, so this is an anxiety attack I'm having over crowds and terrorism and the celebration of our independence.
I was looking forward to going earlier. I slept most of the day.
I'm charging the camera battery. Tomorrow I'm fully intending to have photos and something to say.
I will watch the country's largest Fireworks Display in the World's most Wonderful City!
Still, I'm on edge....
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Hopefully expressing this fear will prevent anything from happening and tomorrow I can tell myself "see, nothing happened".
Don't you hate it when you have one of those days where you just gotta give in to, and acknowledge your feelings, now matter how magical thinking like they are?
That's the problem with people who complain about so called "magical thinking", they often fail to address the feelings attached to the thoughts...
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| Why is Wheel of Fortune on Right After Jeopardy?Is that when the stupid people get home?
I know you have to pass a very difficult test to get to be a contestant on Jeopardy but I'm wondering what type of test you must have to fail to get a chance to spin that wheel.
I just watched the show where nobody could get;
" _OOD-BURN_NG STOVE", in the category of {in the kitchen}.
They tried coal, hood, even said "food" twice and the one girl who repeated "food" and said "hood" finally said "WOOD!" and gave it to the other guy, who of course spun the fateful wheel and asked for a W and won a bit of extra cash before saying "WOOD?"...
I like to shout out the words as much as the next guy but this was just sad to watch...
I cannot be THAT OLD. "Wood-Burning Stove" as far as I am concerned is still part of the norm in awareness of the world I would hope.
I don't know. Even Pat Sajak was a bit dumbfounded by the ignorance of these three players at the magic wheel.
Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm a game show snob but doesn't it seem that the two games are polar opposites in SOMETHING?
Jeopardy is intense, challenging, and played and hosted by highly intelligent people.
Wheel-of-Fortune is kind of like screaming and jumping up and down and you don't really need to have a brain to play it....
Has anyone else noticed this?
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...hood burning stove?
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| How Will You Celebrate The Fourth of July?I was thinking of Coney Island, I have never been there on the 4th of July but they have the Nathan's famous hot dog eating contest and of course the Fireworks at night.
I'm not sure I'm up for a full day of hot sun and I wouldn't be going on any of the rides except maybe the dark rides to film and photograph them. All it would mean is sitting in the sun, sitting on the board walk, sitting in a bar, looking around and taking photographs all day...
...actually I'm having second thoughts...
I am now thinking of not going to Coney Island because they do fireworks every weekend during the summer and I could go when it is less crowded.
The Macy's Fireworks Extravaganza will be held over the Hudson River this year as a change from the usual East River. This is said to be because it is also the 400th's anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery.
I was hoping to get invited to a rogue, mafia sponsored illegal fireworks display and block party somewhere way out in Queens or Brooklyn but I haven't been so far.
The Macy's display claims that 30 percent of the 'works will have never been seen before.
It is always very very crowded to get anywhere near the river to see them and you usually have to get there well before sundown, if not stake a space and camp out all day and that I don't believe I will do.
I have stuff in the apartment to do and paper work to tend to and that will also keep me busy during the day. I'm also on a tight budget and don't want to waste anything... I'm certainly not traveling.
I've always had a lazy, dull and relaxed feeling, although at times bordering on boredom related to Independence Day... not a negative feeling...
I might not do anything, I don't know... I may buy hot dogs over the weekend, and watermelon. Watermeloncholy.
Will you do anything special this weekend? If so, what?
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