locally, snow continues in the mountains... after these messages.

its interesting what makes the news and what doesn't. admittidly, editors pick and choose what is newsworthy... but based on what?

i tend to avoid news anymore, particularily local tv and radio with the exception of opb and npr. i simply couldn't take anymore after the invasion of iraq and the subsequent nationalism and faux patriotism. it became... excessive.

locally, news tends on the 'bleed and lead' side, of course. preying heavily on fear in order to sell cars and dishwasher soap. i find the whole affair disgusting. people i've never met, having the worst traumas of their lives and a boogieman on every corner.

having made that preface, there is a strange facination with the unknown, dangers, and perils of life that people can find themselves in.

so...

a man i've worked with for nearly twenty years had his brother go missing last month. upon searching his house, the family found only large quantities of dried blood. his car was found a few days later in the mount hood national forest. subsequent searches of the area turned up no trace of him or what happened to him, but the winter snow had already well covered most of the terrain.

now they wait for the spring thaw to continue searching.


none of this made the news, and i don't know if that is a good or bad thing.