louise on the left (coast)

Here's how (my new favorite artist) Lucy Pepper introduces her film short: "a story you'll know quite well if you've lived on this planet for more than a week. If you are new to this planet, then you'll need to understand that there's nothing we like better than a POSSIBLE crisis"

Is the proverbial sky really falling, or is this Swine Flu scare just more freaky crap to distract us from the fact that our economy is crumbling underfoot, and there's no more money? Hard to say. Yesterday I was contacted by a health reporter for Associated Press who had at one time interviewed me about my child's peanut allergy. This time she inquired "...we are l ooking into whether people have made little changes to their routines or lifestyles due to the threat of swine flu. Do you have any friends/acquaintances etc who might fit the bill and whom I can speak with? " Looks like I'm the "go to Gal" when it comes to Chicken Little reactions to health concerns. I told her the truth which is that my kids are far more excited about the prospect of more "home days," than worried about illness, and that as I see it, the cat's out of the bag. Mexico dropped the ball on this one, for whatever reason, and now the virus is simply all over the