We did watch that movie as the good people in Iowa were doing their thing. The movie: Before Night Falls. The title is from an autobiography by Renaldo Arenas, a Cuban writer who fled from Cuba in 1980 during the Mariel boatlift and ended up in NYC where he took his own life in 1990 at the age of 47 (he didn't have long to live as he was in the final stages of AIDS, completely listless). A strange movie that goes all over the place, from small country dwellings to massive stone prisons to NYC, from Castro's revolutionaries to fellow prison mates who wanted love letters written to a drained and listless Arenas in his final stage of demise. At times hard to follow, not unlike life. Give it a rating of three.
Iowa gives Obama and Huckabee top spots in caucusing. With a whole bunch of the precincts reporting, looks like 37% for Obama and 30% for both Edwards and Clinton. Congrats to Obama and now on to New Hampshire. Haven't read (yet) any spin from the candidates or analysis from the pundits. Expect there will be some on the west coast version of pbs news hour which will be coming on here in about two minutes.
Good news: the warm up is on its way. In the 40's here tomorrow, 50's the next day. Expect to be at the golf course.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
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