Well, old news now I suppose, but Kobe's off. All charges dropped and all that. The case never even saw trial. This was only to be expected, I imagine, since OJ and Jayson Williams both managed to get off after a trial and everbody knows that they actually did what they were accused of. Frankly, I'm surprised a he-said/she-said celebrity case even made it through the hearing. So Kobe's free, and money still buys freedom in criminal court pretty easily, all the world is as it should be...
I didn't make it to the internet club yesterday because, for the second time in my life I can remember, I had a strange case of the shivers. The first time happened back in high school. I wake up in the morning feeling a bit weakish, but not really nauseated or anything. Then, sometime in the afternoon, in temperatures in the high seventies, I suddenly feel really cold and start shivering, getting weaker as the day goes on.
This time I went right to bed and kept a hairdryer on while I read a little and it wasn't nearly as bad as I remember the last "attack" being. I took a nap a little later on and woke up with a fever, sweating. I watched a replay of the MTV Video Awards. Good perfomances this year, although Outkast seemed counfused about being part of the whole VOTE! thing MTV always pulls at election time. And both of the Simpon sisters can just disappear anytime they like. The Newlyweds is funny, but not funny enough to justify Jessica's existence in the spotlight.
I went to sleep, slept about twelve hours, and woke up as good as new. Wouldn't even know I'd felt bad yesterday. Strange how these things work sometimes.
By the by, I finished reading Gone With the Wind while ill-ish, and having never read the book nor seen the movie, it was a fascinating read. I've seen bits of the film. I knew about Rhett's "frankly" line and Scarlett killing a yankee and tearing up some curtains and I remembered this bit where she shouts "Ashley!" a couple of times. But I was pretty much going in blind and loving it. My favorite quote isn't good ol' Rhett's "Frankly, my dear yada yada" but Grandma Fontaine's "Scarlett, you just aren't smart." I don't think any line properly summarizes the book or the character as well as that one. Every person she knows tells Scarlett that Ashley's a doofus, but she never listens, never sees. Never sees anything really. She really just isn't that smart a person, for all her independence. Great story about a very dim woman. Melanie's a great character though, you have to love Melanie.
Now I imagine I'll have to see the whole movie at some point. Should be fun.
Posted by Rob at September 4, 2004 02:08 PM