This destruction is just disgusting.*

You may be acquanted with one of the major tourist attractions in Barcelona. It's architectural, as most such sites are, and by Gaudi, obviously: Parc Güell. At the entrance is the instantly recognizable mosaic-lizard fountain. I still have a picture of my brother and I sitting on the lizard when we were little, back when you could still touch it without getting whistles blown at you by guards.

Yesterday Some Idiot took a crowbar to it resulting in the destruction of its mouth.



Some things should be beyond vandalism.

I just can't fathom why someone would do this. It's like taking The Little Mermaid Denmark's head (which they've done twice). How can people do this? I mean, they can't even claim political reasons. It's a tourist mecca, an innocent little fountain...

I do not get it.


After hearing that news yesterday afternoon, I went to pick the kids up and chatted with their gran a bit before being left to our own devices. The kids were having cookies in the kitchen, playing around with "guns" (a bendy-ruler and a plastic calper), when, after creaping out into the living room (there were beasties lying in hiding), one kid rushes in and closes the kitchen door.

So what?, you say.

Oh, nothing, except that the parents forgot to mention that there's no bloody doorhandle. ( Read more... )

Add to that my dream about getting a call that mom's dead and grieving over it, then going to my brother in the TV room to complain that he ate all 3 pairs mocassin slippers only to find him munching one, and you can see how these past few days have gone.

ETA: As a side-effect of my trying to transfer files from the office computer to a CD, you can now download William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", read by Johnny Depp. Enjoy**. (Limited to 100 downloads or 7 days.)


* Carolyn Battaglia
** I've yet to listen to it.