Death and Destruction

The Duff has lost half of his Saturday to the Sandman. He's pissed.

Speaking of Sandman, Neil Gaiman came into his town this past week. Hordes of fans queued up for his autographs at the local Border's and Kinokuniya. For those not in the know, he is the author of the well known graphic novel series The Sandman and Marvel's 1602, as well as various other novels like Mirrormask and Neverwhere. Mostly fantasy stuff. The real kind that just grabs The Duff and dumps him in another dimension. But sometimes, he hates it. When it gets too ethereal. Too subtle. And his barbaric brain fails to process or understand the profound meanings behind the words and images.

Maybe he's just stupid.

War of the Worlds was an extremely good show. The Duff caught it on Wednesday. The sudden violence and random death was a welcome jolt to an otherwise lacklustre week at the slave camp. Once again, Spielberg proves to be a master of emotional sci-fi. The Duff thinks its actually quite a simple formula. Normal workday leads to sudden action and death from nowhere, leading to desperation, leading to more action, leading to quarrels, leading to action, leading to hugs, leading to more action, leading to more hugs and kisses, leading to final action scene and ending in redemption.

Another oscar in the bag. Even if it was bypassed by the large categories, some technical awards will always be given to the movie. And there's always the MTV Movie awards. Just as long as its not the Razzies The Duff says.

So the Duff was ending his Thursday slave day when his Maternal point of origin sends him a short message service over the ether, to inform him that London has been attacked by some sinister force, most probably human. A quick search on CNN.com lead him to some initial articles the contributors had put online, attributing to some incidents in the London underground and a bomb blast in a london bus that had caused it to be a mushroom in an instant. They had attributed the incidents in the underground as electrical of origin. But I could never see how that would cause people to come up to ground level covered in blood, and not necessarily theirs.

The HORROR, The HORROR!

Apparently it was by terrorists opposing the G8 summit. But it also came after the IOC voted for London as the host of the 2012 olympics. Double Whammy.

The Duff thinks that was quite a bit of blood for the week. And it had only been over a 2 day period, and half of the blood was a ketchup mixture of sorts, but still. Society can only numb itself as a form of self defence.

Truth of the week, blood sucks. And see how the Londoners handle it. Much better than the pussy Americans. The British are actually used to this sort of violence. They had lived through it for decades battling the Irish.

What were your truths these past week? let the Duff know.