Dearest Readers, Please Bear With Me.
My stack on “Presumed Innocent” and “Fatal Attraction” is going to be a little late. I think you may know why.
I was just finishing the following paragraph when the news flashed across the pale purple page:
“In 2024, the 1987/Scott Turow version of Carolyn seems like a relic. The conniving temptress still exists but mostly in Lifetime movies, historical and fantasy dramas, and cartoons. If you’re watching the current series, you know that the Carolyn of the current series wears virtually no make-up or jewelry—not even updated for 2024. She looks like she belongs in an L.L.Bean catalogue rather than a Chanel #5 (or Viagra) ad. She breaks it off with Rusty, not because he thwarts her ambitions, but because they’ve gotten too close to “the falling-in-love part” and “I just don’t want anyone to get hurt.”
That was the end of my ability to concentrate on Rusty Sabich or Carolyn Polhemus today.
Just yesterday, I’d posted on Facebook about my distress and anger at the Democratic Party’s public airing of concerns about Biden that should have remained out of the media’s grasping hands. My heart ached for Joe and I worried about the future.: “They fed him piece by piece to the media,” I wrote, “Full of sanctimony and professions of concern for the nation and love for him, they created and spread a story that’s unfair, cruel, disrespectful—and destructive. And should they succeed in bullying Joe into dropping out, I don’t trust them not to do a Hillary on Kamala, out of ‘concern’ for HER ‘electability.’ The party is supposed to do everything it can to MAKE their nominees ‘electable’—to shore up their vulnerabilities, to promote their strengths.
We could have been in such a different place right now. It’s hard to sleep.”
Well, now, although the road to getting here has been gruesome and the path forward not assured, we are in a different place. And of course, I have to follow how the pols and the media talk about it tonight.
I promise to get back to erotic thrillers tomorrow and to have it to you well before the finale of the “Presumed Innocent” series this Wednesday. (And no spoilers!!! Besides which, I honestly don’t know how the series will end.)
Have a great Sunday night, and I’ll be back with you very, very soon.
Hugs, Susan
Coming Up:
The way it happened was horrible. It'll take a while to get over that public humiliation by supposed friends and allies, and I'll always feel sorry that Biden gave it his all for them and for us and was treated in such disrespectful ways. But I'm a realist and monsters are at the gate. We MUST help Kamala win.
I'll be writing about it tomorrow, too. I'm going to need to sleep on it.
Thank you, Susan, for your commitment and your efforts. We can do this!
The announcement was like an earthquake. Then came discussions on TV and Zoom calls and donations by small donors totalling huge sums and 28,000 people volunteering in 24 hours to help the campaign (without a call for volunteers, just wanting to be part of something).
And something that had flittered away over the past month - a new Hope.
I hate how President Biden was treated by the media and by his colleagues (and if we did not need a free press I would curse it), but Joe is a hero, putting his country and its people first.
Thank you, Joe!