Stabbing

Last night about 9:42 a guy got stabbed on the corner a couple houses down from my house by the busstop. I was going out to get firewood and I heard a bunch of angry yelling so I went out onto the sidewalk and watched. There were a couple of groups of people. One big white guy caught my eye. He was in the middle of the street screaming across the intersection. I guess he felt disrespected and wanted to let everyone know that he wasn't to be fucked with or something. Stupid kids shit....anyway a few seconds later a kid from the other side of the street lurches down on the pavement as a car pulls up. A bus pulls up. The yelling guy and the crowd around him start moving away. I walk toward the collapsed kid and see that he's got blood all down his shirt and pants so I call 911.
The cops show up as I reach the dispatcher. Other people have already called. Two cop cars at first. One officer trying to figure out who saw anything while keeping the stabbed guy lying still. The stabbed guy wont stop sitting up and rolling around...acting drunk. Like he sortof feels it but doesn't know whats going on. I hear him moan something about a ceasure. One young black kid on a bicycle is yelling "Send an ambulance! He's dying man! He's dying!" The stabbed guy says he cant breath and slumps on the ground. The cop tries to get people to stick around but a bunch of them leave in the confusion when the ambulance and more cops show up. The kid on the bike leaves...even though he was right there when it happened.
The paramedics work on him. Hook him up to an ekgish thing. Start CPR. Stop CPR. Unhook him. I hear a paramedic say "Already too far...." to one of the cops. I ask a blonde officer, "Excuse me officer...Is that man dead?" She looks kindof like she doesn't know what to do and an older cop tells me that everything will be explained later and could I please step over this way for right now. So I do...with a few other people. A cop takes my info and interviews me briefly. Then they tell me I need to go wait on the bus. I go wait on the bus. For four hours. The detectives interview me about 2:30 in the morning. I am exhausted. The body is still lying on the pavement uncovered when I step back into my house. I've never seen anybody die before.

Frontline's Bush's War

I just finished watching Frontline's 2 parter Bush's War online. It details the the immediate aftermath of 911 and the beginning of the push toward Iraq from the neocons. The book cooking at the Pentegon under Rumsfield. Powell's UN speech. The invasion. Bremer. Abu Ghraib. The insurgency. Rumies ouster...and the surge.
What a shitty goddamn ride! I recommend that you all watch it. If for nothing else just to put the whole mess of horrible news over the last seven years into context... and to remind us all just how important it is we elect a president who is COMPETENT this time around. It took so many bad calls from the top to bring us to this point. It's heartbreaking and it makes me angry.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/

Show Date Correction

Shit...they gave me the wrong date. The show won't be the first friday in may...
It's happening in June...so the first friday would be June 6th.
So I'll be there with the painting on the 6th then if anyone is in the neighborhood.

Just A Headline From The Net That Made Me Happy

Bush Begins Long Farewell on World Stage

Show Date

I'll be showing this painting at the Side Door during May.
I'll be there in the evening on First Friday May 2nd.
The Side Door is at
425 SE Washington St
Portland, OR 97214
(503) 233-8553

Cute Avian Frolicking

Look. We got two ducklings!

The little one we're calling Mill

And then there's Lou.

It snowed a bit this morning. Not normal March weather.
I'm happy the starts are in the new greenhouse...
In a warming box...

It stays about 10 degrees hotter in the greenhouse
than outside...and another 10-15 degrees hotter in
the box than in the greenhouse.

And then there's this...pretty self explanatory.

Parents Pick Prayer Over Docs; Girl Dies