rivercityvibe   “Puerile, smutty, schoolboy nonsense” – My Mom

I am going to see Watchmen in Orange Park on Friday. I don’t know if it will be awesome or utterly worthless.  You see, I CANNOT get past the fact that one of the superheroes is dressed as an owl.

Hoo! hoo!

Bottom right. See what I mean?

That said, I think some of these Hollywood costume whizz-kids can do pretty much anything and make it look cool, these days (apart from Batman’s nipples in the appalling Batman and Robin. That was an error). Here’s the Watchmen trailer to help us think this through (owl alert at 1.33):

I’ll let you know how it goes – if I survive AMC Orange Park. It would not surprise me one iota if I were accidentally caught up in a police-involved shooting.

Police-involved-shootings are close to being the “brand essence” of Jacksonville. Apparently, we’ve only had two so far today. Just the two. I like to think of it as “a pair” of police-involved-shootings. It’s 11.30 am. Let’s see if the JSO can set a record by nightfall.

Reach for the sky, Jacksonville!

I am very open to the concept that every one of the criminals gunned down over the last 12 months deserved it, by the way. Its less a deal about the five-oh and more a measure of the dire crime situation here. Also, I REALLY like to mock authority. I regard it as healthy. Like loving animals and being cynical about the media (I feel that authoring a self-help book is in my future…..)

BTW, while we’re taking a turn to negative town, can someone please tell me when this freak cold weather is due to depart. I am sick of it. It is like Greenland out there.

I usually keep an upbeat tone to my posts about our great city, something that is not difficult. Our climate, our wonderful river and beach life, and our culturally pivotal geography, sandwiched as we are between South Georgia and the rest of Florida, allows us a quality of life that many envy. That said,  I need to touch on, for a moment, something not too awesome. Our AMAZING crime situation.

There were two so-called police involved shootings last night. One of the them  started in 32210. I heard the sirens and my dog went bananas (was it “Little Saigon” that was robbed? I don’t know yet.)  The po pos came under fire and took down two miscreants – shot them dead. These are the 26th and 27th police involved shootings this year. 14 baddies have been killed and four police officers shot. It’s like fucking Deadwood out there.

Jacksonville is worse.

Apparently, according to the apologists, the ridiculous number of shootings is a product of the fact that we have an above average number of gangstas because we sit at the intersection of major drug-running routes, up I 95 and East/West on I 10. We are also vulnerable to go-fast boats from the sea.

Whatever the excuse, it is getting out of hand. I am going to have to hire YET MORE armed guards for Bones’ hideout (with the associated uniform costs), position some more Claymore mines (“Front towards meth-head”) and, for my personal protection I will be investing in the concealed-carry version of this.