Yeah, the house is quiet and all is right with the world. The house-guest has flown back to London.

Here’s how I know the man is crazy, and it’s not just me. Early in the day yesterday, when they still hadn’t counted the dead in London, I emailed M. that maybe his bud shouldn’t leave quite yet. Sure I wanted him gone, but not in a killed by terrorists sort of way or cavity searched by hyper-vigilant security.

M.’s response was “Naaah, forget about it. If he ain’t going to London, he still ain’t staying here.” (Well, not that exactly, since M. isn’t from Brooklyn or a 1940s movie script.)

So, we come home last night, and I say to the house-guest something like, “Shit, what are you going to do?” He replied that the trip to London (so he could hop on over to France to see some bike racing) was still on. Since I had been listening to the BBC on the ride home in my car, I, in turn, replied something like “Yeah, well, they just said on the radio that the trains are running again.”

I mean, it’s pretty fucking huge when London shuts down all of its transit.

His rejoinder was “Oh, yeah, well they were running again on Tuesday, so I’m going into the city first.” The shithead thought I was talking about San Francisco’s subway system, because earlier in the week the union for the BART system was threatening a strike. In truth, the trains had never stopped running in SF, since there were late night negotiations and agreements, and no strike was called.

In the end, he said he didn’t think London would be a problem, because they’d “have it all cleaned up in a couple days,” and it would be a whole other day by the time he arrived.

Dude, fucking London, during high security G8/Live8, went BOOM. Knock yourself out on the maintaining your tourist agenda, but maybe a little perspective. It may very well be something of a deal when you get there.

Maybe some of your traveling on credit card debt fantasy adventure should include a cruise by the British Medical Association building. They probably haven’t hosed all the blood off yet.

In the end, I’m not surprised that during his visit he bragged to one of our friends that “He never wastes his time with television news or newspapers or anything, because it’s all just slanted and made up. You can get enough news by reading it on the Internet.” Or something like that.

The grand stupidity of that statement is twofold — (1) Does he really think he’s avoiding big media when he reads Google or Yahoo news, like he said? Where’s he think those stories come from and since odd news bits run side by side with conventional stories, how is it less slanted, more informative and less cartoonish than CNN? And, (2) fucking stay aware of everything and sort out your personal values. Don’t ignore shit that’s out there and say news is irrelevant, because it doesn’t affect you and is just lies. Last time I checked, lies can affect you too.

Arghh. But, it’s quiet and I am free.