Shoes, blues, and inconvenient truths

I present to you
a story of woe
Tis rather long
(This I know)

So lend me your eyes
Just for the moment
And I’ll share with you
My tale of torment:

In my closet
Where my clothes nightly rest
Yesterday I discovered
An uninvited guest

My shoes, you see
Had been invaded by mold
And quite a lot of it,
Truth be told

One pair, two,
Three, four, five, six
The mold had enveloped
all of my kicks!

So I did the only
thing I could do:
I threw them in the trash
(No… that’s not true)

I took them outside
To wipe them down
But I got distracted
And never got around

Then today the rain came
With my shoes you know where
And now I have moldy shoes
With moisture to spare

……………………………

After all that, we still managed to get to the movie theater to catch “La Verdad Incómoda” (“An Inconvenient Truth”). And let me tell you: If there’s anyone one that can carry a movie all by himself, it’s Al Gore. I mean, that smile, that charisma. He should run for public office or something.

Actually, I wasn’t all that impressed (by the movie, that is). It got the point across, but I thought the editing job left something to be desired. Was it a movie about global warming, Al Gore, or both? I don’t think the director ever really made that choice. But maybe I was just too busy reading the Spanish subtitles. “Sequía” means “drought,” in case any of you were wondering.

My review aside, I would still encourage all of you to go see the movie, or at least surf over to to this site to see how you can help. Go on, you can do it. I promise I’ll be right here when you get back.