I was thinking about the movie,
La Historia Oficial (the Official History, or the Official Story) yesterday. It's about Argentina in the 1970s, and Los Desaparecidos, the Disappeared, people who were taken from their homes and families, often in the middle of the night, because of their political beliefs and associations. It's an
amazing movie, and one of the main issues in it is the idea of the stolen child. Many women who were pregnant and taken away had their babies stolen from them, and then those babies were often given to adoption agencies, where they were adopted by families; some who knew the child was ripped away from its mother, others who just thought it was up for adoption. So, aolnews today was running this story: http://news.aol.com/story/_a/adoptee-sues-parents-for-kidnapping/20080219193809990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
and I don't know...it was just what I needed to see. That Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo are still active, that people are still hunting for the truth, that the issue didn't just die with time. It was a terrible thing that happened, but we never talk about it.
Much more shallowly, in the cool category, I got my computer the summer before freshman year of college, so summer 2003. Never ONE TIME has he played a DVD. He's a good boy, and he puts up with A LOT of stuff I put him thru, but Palmero (DUH he has a name!) has always had that flaw. Plays CDs just fine, and I can watch things online or DL a video, but put something into one of the drives, and nada. So I ordered a New Found Glory DVD recently, and it arrived last night. For giggles, I put it into my computer this morning to see if there was a plain audio component before I asked my roommate if I could put it into her computer to be sure it worked...and it started playing. My 5-year old and heaving computer has suddenly decided it is capable of technology.
Way to go, Palmero. I love you more everyday :)
Also kind of amazing, two BLS videos on the internet. And by videos, I mean...20-minute clips. <33
