Trina Letter - Police Chasing Pigs

Friday, October 28, 2005

Hey, Navy:

Fall is here and with it is the lazy feeling of watching the leaves change, which is far more interesting than watching the grass grow or paint dry. The kids in the neighborhood don’t run down the street; they huddle into themselves, as if they can force summer to stay within their arms by the sheer force of their will. No one can because the seasons change and we go on.

Biked over to the new Wal-Mart today because it is so keen to have a new store open in town. Barely holding onto my excitement, I wandered through the aisles and discovered it looks exactly like the one down south, except the floors are brown and the signage is a tad more 21st century. And they say nothing happens here in Carson.

This is how much fun we have here: YM and I were discussing the fact that on The Dukes of Hazzard, the Duke boys and Daisy are all cousins to each other, so they do not have a common set of parents, and Jesse is their uncle. YM pointed out there are two more Duke cousins wandering the planet and, again, they don’t have the same parents as Bo, Luke, and Daisy. So not only are they the result of a big family, no one knows what the hell happened to their parents, and we’re talking about quite a few adults (counting the other two cousins, that’d be ten parents becoming corpsified). It must have been some serious food poisoning from the local KFC or BBQ rib place.

BTW, please let me know if the Navy is still making “grinder chicken” jokes.

Watched The Cider House Rules starring Tobey, Charlize, and Mr. Caine, who is such an excellent actor. It was worth the time. And I finished The Time Traveler’s Wife, which turned out far better book than I expected. The common thread between the two is that even though love can hurt, it’s worth it.

Well, that has been an upper of a letter. And then there’s the rampant crime in the world:

- LONDON (Reuters) - The "flying" Ford Anglia used in the Harry Potter films has been stolen from a film studio lot, police said on Friday.

- SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Stealing fake tombstones from a haunted trail in broad daylight isn't a good idea. Particularly if the trail is operated by a Fraternal Order of Police Lodge.

- SEOUL (Reuters) - This wild piggy went to an upmarket hotel. This wild piggy went to a historic palace. And all the wild piggies were chased by South Korean police. Police in the capital have been battling an invasion of wild boars that have come down from the mountains into densely populated areas in and around Seoul foraging for food before the onset of winter. Friday, one turned up at an apartment complex in Kuri, east of Seoul, media reported. Police failed to catch it after a 90-minute chase.

All my love,
Air Force