Disaster

There's an old Chinese curse that goes "May you live in interesting times". I so want to live in uninteresting times. Yesterday, a block from where I live, a crane collapsed and tumbled to the ground damaging a few buildings and one destroying in its fall. Four construction workers are dead and two construction workers and a woman may still be trapped in the rubble. I've watched that building go up and felt that it was such a cramped space for such enormous equipment and avoided it but I never dreamed anything like this would happen (though I did have a weird dream Friday night where I'm driving along with Nancy Grace of Headline News and I see a plane in the sky above me lose an engine and slowly fall to earth and I tell people to get out of the way. Of course plane engines and cranes are very different but that sense of danger in the sky was very vivid and so I remembered the dream). The streets around me are blockaded and there are dozens of police cars and ambulances and other emergency vehicles parked everywhere waiting to see if there still are victims to be freed and rushed to the hospital. Apparently the city had been warned that there were safety violations but heaven help anyone who tries to impede big business from making its profits :(

Riffing

Last night I was watching "Torchwood" where Dr Owen Harper is a walking deadguy. Something began niggling at me - somewhere there was another walking deadguy. It took me a long time to recall Kai, the undead assassin and the last of the Brunnen G, of the TV series "Lexx" as "Lexx" was not one of my favorite shows. "Lexx", though was set in the far future, and was pretty unbelievable. TW is more comtemporary so I wonder how Owen's storyline will play out - will he somehow live again or, after breaking various bones and other problems, eventually drop dead. We have about 5 more episodes until the end of the season to find out unless Owen's state of undeadness carries over to the third season (presuming there is one).