Saturday, December 29, 2007

World's best (controlled) implosions --

Stormy sky --photo copyright Kyi May Kaung


http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/12/29/relerford.old.file.cabinet.stocks.whdh

Do I hear my friends in poor countries like Burma going, "Oh, oh, oh! -- Perfectly good buildings!"

Notice how skillfully the implosion is carried out.

Don't you wish it were a neat metaphor for old defunct systems like dictatorships and command economies? Unfortunately, political and economic systems don't (can't) go down, or be brought down, that neatly.

Kyi May Kaung

Special Friday Night post--Robert Graves' I Claudius--just beautiful--poetic--because written by a poet

who needed money. Derrick Jacobi as Claudius, the Roman Emperor. The Voice--narrated in the first person, is unmistakeably Graves'--has ...