Will the Sun come out, tomorrow…

Note on the weather – despite the nor’easter being well over, the gray skies have yet to clear up around here; ugh. At least I’ve a bunch of tulips blooming in my office to give some color, otherwise it’d be really dark and dreary.

“Raines” episode of April 13, 2007 – pretty good, I have to say. The judge who takes drugs finds that life really, really sucks. Linda Park as Officer Lance has to deal with being the APA chick stereotype, when she shoots a perp. And Goldblum as Raines – hmm – the man has issues, to say the least.

I would hope that NBC renew the series – it has such potential and a bit of heart to it (honestly, we need more hopeful stuff on tv – don’t get me started about how “24” had made me plain tired of stress and horror) – but I won’t expect very much.

Then again, ABC renewed “Grey’s Anatomy” after its first season of only eight episodes, so you never know. Depends on whether NBC is as much desperation now as ABC was then.

Speaking of tv – having cable means having SNY and watching way much more NY Mets than I have in quite some time. The SNY announcing team is pretty good – Ron Darling is turning out to be a good commentator – and nice to see an APA out there (he’s a Hawaiian hapa, a Yalie, and it’s all cool); Gary Cohen’s a great play-by-play (Alma Mater alumni magazine even did a cover article on him; goes to show you how far you can go without running for president…); and Keith Hernandez… well, he and Lee Mazzilli (who analyzes from the studio) – I think the two give off way much of the 1986 Mets machismo, but whatever. Having good baseball is simply a major plus.

Tai chi helps your immunity from… shingles?

NY Times reports that Fordham Law’s former Dean Feerick has been selected to the state’s ethics commission.

Someone’s going to have to explain to me one of these days if legal academia and the business of law really do cooperate with each other or not.

The passing of Kitty Carlisle Hart. I had recently read about her – how she was once romanced by George Gershwin, and what it was like in that bygone era of the arts. Kind of strange to think that this longtime veteran of the arts has passed away.

Last, and hardly least: the tragedy at Virginia Tech — well, not necessarily going to lay out all my thoughts on it, although I’ll ramble off some of the thoughts. The story is still unfolding, and it doesn’t sound like it’ll get better.

My main wonder is whether the media is overdoing it – and it certainly feels like it, now that I have cable and can witness directly how nuts CNN, FOX News (boo!), MSNBC, etc., go at it. Slate has this interesting article about the media coverage. Plus, NY Times publishes an article on the South Korean reaction of shame and regret on the shooter being Korean – which surprised me to some extent; taking a broader view, I wonder more about how does this affect Asians/Asian-Americans? Does it affect APA’s; should it affect APA’s at all? What does this say about American culture in general, or the state of an individual and the creative mind gone terribly wrong? What about universities – their responsibility, if at all, or what could they have done and how far; what about how we as APA’s or Americans overall address mental illness, or guns or what – or maybe this is indeed a horrific example of random violence that you just can’t foresee.

But, perhaps the Internet age doesn’t make it any better. On the one hand, you can hope that we can try to communicate and understand each other better. On the other hand, maybe we’re just inundating ourselves with stuff and not arriving at a resolution.

You can examine the Virginia Tech tragedy from so many angles that it kind of makes the head spin. Lots of questions; what are answers – well, I guess life is where we try to figure things out as best we can.