obitcheries

The actor Rutger Hauer has died.

He was most famous for a momentarily evocative scene in the objectionably violent, vapid, vacuous, flash over substance, science fiction film Bladerunner.

In the film's only memorable scene, he and Harrison Ford have been engaged in a fight to the death on a roof top but now Harrison is injured and Rutger is closing in for the kill.

It's pouring rain.

Rutger has a dove cradled in the palm of one hand.

In a one minute speech that's so well declaimed, acted and filmed, that people have become convinced the otherwise thoroughly vacuous two hour long pornographically bloody Bladerunner is a deeply meaningful film, Rutger says:

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shores of Orion. Cee beams glittering in the darkness off the Tanheuser Gate. A humourless television series styled Monty Python being hailed for decades as comic genius. There's not a single belly laugh in it. The utterly unwatchable Jonathan Ross being paid 20 million a year to present an utterly unwatchable television programme for the utterly unwatchable ultra leftist BBC. For years... All this will be lost... like tears... in rain... Time... to die."

He lets Harrison live.

i am a prism

 time's prismatic lens

coalesces diadems

of the past

into the present

what i was

fifty years ago

i see now

an infant child lying on a bed

in my grandmother's house

listening to the sounds of wood pigeons

cooing outside

lullabying me awake

and wondering how long

i will remember their song

half a century later

it is with me still

quite immediate

whenever i want

the feeling of that morning

the music of it

the dreamlike timeless rhapsody

momentarias are jewels of the soul

priapic maunderings

 Flicking through the channels on the sexevision.

I come to MTV, the music channel thing that was set up a generation ago to help debauch young people more efficiently.

Truly they have made a difference.

Tonight a rather characterful Canadian woman styling herself Allanis Morissette is singing a rejigged version of one her famous caterwaulings.

(Caterwaulings is Candian for Hits - Ed note)

Allanis sings thusly:

"Little Ahmed

Made a clock for school

President Barack Obama

Said his clock was cool

And as they shook hands

In the White House Rose Room

Little Ahmed pushed the detonator down

And the clock went boom

And isn't it ironic

Dontchya think

It's like Jiha-a-a-a-a-d

When you're already late

It's a free ride

To the Caliphate

It's that Sharia law

You just had to break

But who would have thought it matters

Tim Cooke Apple Computers CEO

Refused to help the FBI unlock a Jihadi phone

After San Bernadino

And when the Jihadis killed another 50 people

At Orlando

Tim Cooke said

Well

How was I to know

And isn't it Islamic

Dontchya think

It's like Jiha-a-a-a-a-a-a-d

On the freeway

It's a free ride

To the Caliphate

It's that Sharia law

You just had to break

And who would have thought it matters

Pope Francis

Called for the collapse of Immigration Law

Chancellor Angel Merkel of Germany

Liked what she saw

And as the doors of Europe

Were flung open wide

Ten million Jihadis said thank you

And stepped inside

And isn't it ironic

Dontchya think

It's like Jiha-a-a-a-a-d

In the Caliphate

It's a free ride

To the Islamic State

It's that Sharia Law

You just had to break

And who would have thought it matters

Life has a funny way

Of giving you a kick kick kick in the bawls

And life has a funny way

Of giving you a tick tick tock in the bawls"

interview with the manager of an alzheimers care facility

 "Have you noticed anything that might lead to a cure for Alzheimers?"

"No James. There's nothing. There's no hope in these cases. No cure. Nothing can be done."

"I mean in all your years here. Have you seen anything that lessened the impact of the disease? Everyone gets used to being told by doctors and medical professionals that there's no hope. But sometimes someone like you who works at the coalface for years and years, sometimes someone like you notices something, even a little thing, that the supposed experts miss. Anything? Anything at all that you saw and that gave you pause. Anything that improved things, even if only slightly?"

"Okay. I think I noticed that some people who didn't go the medication route managed better than others who did."

"Did you notice anything that might indicate a cause for Alzheimers? Why do we get it?"

"The only thing I noticed is that in many cases people had suffered some great trauma or some great sadness or some great hurt in their lives that they never quite managed to come to terms with."