Fragments From Floyd

Maybe it's cabin fever; the winter blahs; short-day blues, even as they get noticably longer and the world shows signs of surviving another amazingly mild winter. It just seems to me the whole world has not taken its medication. What the planet needs is a good spanking; a dose of castor oil; an exorcism, perhaps. I should never look at "news" first thing. Never.

An exorcism will be broadcast live this week by Channel 4 for the first time on British television. The programme, titled The Exorcism, will examine what happens inside the human brain when the rite is performed, but has provoked anger from churches and psychic groups at the front line of a taboo still entrenched in the imagery of the horror film, The Exorcist, that shaped public perception of the practice over the past 30 years.

I don't trivialize the power of evil, either in individual lives or our collective world, so this parlor trick doesn't sit well with me. It only makes me glad we threw away the TV almost three years ago--not that we could or would have tuned in Channel 4 from Britain. I couldn't find exactly when this was to be broadcast (but this week sometime, so I'm assuming its over.) Hope you all missed it.