caitri | *Holding onto my coffee cup** (Reply)

So sleep deprived this morning--went to bed late (but not too late), and just as I was drifting off the dogs needed to be let out. A few hours later Varamathras starts badgering me for breakfast, because he is under the impression that I will happily feed him at 4:30 or whatever. Then a bit after 5:30 get a text alert that a cop was shot in our area and to be extra vigilant etc. etc. Around 6 the police and news helicopters are out in force, which made the dogs anxious. Around 7 an all-clear goes out, they re-open the streets behind neighborhood, the helicopters depart, etc.

Now that it's over, it turns out the guy just shot AT cops and actually shot himself by accident. Which, I'm not sure if the initial reports were deliberate misinformation or just an accident (because I am cynical, what can I tell you) (I'm just saying, Tuesday night in Boulder before the students are fully back, what else did they really have going on?). Also with the abrupt time frame with the copters and their removal, I mostly thought of the scene towards the end of Fahrenheit 451 where the PTB manufacture the dramatic onscreen capture of Montag, when it's really some random guy who perhaps liked taking walks and who was filed away for just such a purpose because police state.

Anyway, now I really want to go reread Bradbury.