Jan
21
A Sad End to a Tale
ByJust after lunchtime today, while I was at the gym, I saw television pictures of the whale being hoisted onto a barge and of all the people crowding the riverbank for a look, and I thought how amazing it all was and how, contrary to predictions, the whale was going to make it. Then the whale died.
4 Comments
January 22nd, 2006 at 3:08 pm
That was so sad. Imagine if one got found in the Hudson River. New Yorkers would just watch it die whilst sipping martinis. Yay for england. At least we tried.
January 22nd, 2006 at 3:47 pm
Workig less than a mile from the whale we watched it on the Telly transfixed. A colleague called me about something really important, I told him about the whale and he so completely forgot about what he’d called me to speak me about. The poor thing it seems got lost then confused, pretty much doomed after that. Shame.
January 22nd, 2006 at 4:02 pm
Oh man, I was so sad! Sean, I can’t believe you were right there. We were covering it here at work all day then word that it died hit our urgent cue…I was so bummed. I’m a huge animal nut and am entirely too sensitive to anything that wrongs them…even if it is far far away from my everyday life.
January 24th, 2006 at 2:23 am
pd, I posted a horrible Ode to the whale. I know it sucks, but thought you’d like to see anyway.