Faces Royally Flushed

Moochy is clearly growing up to be a smart kid - I'd never tell him but he's smarter than i was at that age (his brother is no slouch either). I still have my moments too, those these days they're more often 'senior' moments.

So with me and the Moochy's combined brain power you can be forgiven for thinking we never get caught looking really really stupid. Unless you had been in a certain computer games retailer last year.

Me and Mooch were looking for a new game. We wanted a multiplayer game and preferably one that didn't just require fast fingers. We were looking at board and card games when we got to discussing poker.

"You know it's funny," I said to the 14 year old, "you never see multi player poker games for the Playstation."

Moochy looked puzzled too. "You're right, I wonder why?" he mused.

We decided to ask

The guy behind the counter seemed a little bemused at the question; his head tilted to one side, brow creased as he looked from me to Moochy and back again. Finally he said

"Well, you'd be able to see the other person's cards ..."

We left the shop very soon after.

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Bazza

It's All Lining Up!

On December 6th 2008 the BBC reported that Sunny von Bulow had passed away after 28 years in a coma. A lot of people, like me, were probably surprised to hear she was not already dead. Sunny von Bulow was of course the wife of Claus von Bulow who was first convicted and later cleared on appeal, of putting her in her coma. The appeal case is quite famously recounted in Alan Dershowitz’s 1986 book Reversal of Fortune or the subsequent film of the same name that had Glenn Close as Sunny and perennial baddy, Jeremy Irons, as Claus. I have always been intrigued by this case and the issues around it.

In stark contrast to the cold atmosphere of the film Reversal of Fortune, the film High Society is a warm, jolly, song filled romp and also features in my top five films. Who can resist Sinatra and Louis Armstrong pretty much playing themselves? Add to that Crosby who, despite being in his 50s by then, playing a playboy protagonist in the marriage of beautiful Grace Kelly. Finally to cap it all you get a fine, if somewhat overshadowed, performance from Celeste Holm. Well did you evah?

So why do I mention these two things? Because they are linked of course. Whilst on a very pleasant, and unseasonably mild, visit to Newport RI in March I discovered that the Sunny von Bulow owned and met her untimely fate in the very house where High Society was filmed. Clarendon Court is a typical (if there is such a thing) Newport mansion. Although High Society was filmed there some fifteen years before the von Bulows took possession it is still a bit a weird.

So there you have it; proof that everything in the universe is connected.

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Bazza

More Medic Snapshots

Just got back from visiting my mum in hospital in England, I snapped the pictures below:

For those of you who believe what well off and insured US politician say about the NHS should look at the sign in the first picture. See! the it does cater for everything. Gotta say I was sorely tempted to get a handsome man lined up for my mum.

Wonder why the machine is scared ...

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Bazza