Dexter stars Michael C. Hall, most known for his role as David in the HBO drama Six Feet Under. Michael C Hall plays Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter specialist working in Miami for the police.

A lot has changed for Dexter this season. He’s married with a new house and he’s got a new baby in the world. It’s taking a toll on our favorite serial killer. He’s messing up at his job because of his lack of sleep.

Season 4 is pretty incredible. Dexter just keeps getting better. It’s been a while since I wrote this and I just didn’t have time to post these, so I decided to do so this week. Here you go!

Warning: Spoilers ahead and strong language.

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LaGuerta tells the brass about her relationship with Angel. This won’t be pretty. Deb was shot in the last episode. She’s still alive, but Lundy was killed. Trinity outplayed Lundy easily, because he wasn’t astute enough.

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Dexter arrives on scene. Some idiot uniform tries to stop him from seeing Deb. Deb is still alive. Lundy is dead. The MO smells like the Vacation Murderer. LaGuerta and Angel send him to the hospital. Lundy was shot twice. Deb was left alive. It sounds like the MO.

Christine arrives to see Quinn. Dex checks Lundy’s hotel room. He made his life to search for Trinity. Dex takes his evidence.

Rita answers Dex’s phone and learns that Dex still has his apartment. Deb wakes up. She didn’t need surgery, just a couple of stitches. Anton arrives, as well as Rita. Rita tells him about the pipe bursting at his apartment. Rita wants to talk about it later. Deb tells Anton that she slept with Lundy. She wants to break up with him.

LaGuerta told the brass that she made disclosure about their relationship. The Deputy Chief is waiting and hovering around. Baptista planted a story about Johnny Rhodes in the papers, using Christine. It may pit Nikki against Johnny.

Dex is at his place. It’s no more his sanctuary. He needs it for his Dark Passenger. Deb calls him. She needs him to pick her up. She also needs a place to stay. Dex is starting to listen to Lundy’s tapes. Dex figures out that Lundy was killed by Trinity because he go too close. Lundy couldn’t put together the pieces.

Trinity is shopping for hammers. Dex is staking out Trinity’s next murder place. He realizes that he doesn’t have all of Lundy’s tapes. The last one must be in his recorder, which is locked into evidence.

Quinn is giving Christine some head. They start their relationship back up. Deb stays at Dex’s place. She senses some tension between Dex and Rita. Dex manages to stall her.

Angel and LaGuerta have made up. Dex manages to swipe the tape easily enough. Trinity gets the skinny on the office building. He gets a tour and a lot of info on how to get in.

Rita asks Deb if she knew about Dex’s apartment. Deb is punishing herself by not taking her pain pills. Dex listens to the tape. Lundy ID his encounter with Trinity. There is a shooting at a motel. It’s Johnny Rhodes. Matsuka works the scene. He was shot 3 times. Nikki is cornered behind a liquor store. Quinn tasers her.

Quinn phones Deb that they got Nikki and Rhodes. Deputy Chief Matthews wants a word with LaGuerta. Matthews says that Angel will have to be transferred out of homicide. He will get a promotion included in the transfer.

Deb talks with Dex. She’s freaking out. She tells him that she is broken. He replies that he is. He comes to his apartment and finds Rita waiting for him. She went through his stuff and didn’t find anything. He opens his trunk and there is a gun in there. He says that he wasn’t comfortable bringing it home. Rita says that she is seeing how good he is at lying. He should sleep here tonight. When he comes home, they’ll have a lot of work in order to make their marriage work.

Dex arrives at the building. He’s too late. Trinity is already killing the sandwich guy by bludgeoning him to death. The security guard is fine. Dex goes to the security desk and sees Trinity doing his dirty work. He follows him in his van. He leaves the city. He goes to a home in the suburbs. He’s got a wife and a family.

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Io, Spaghettovolante, nei favolosi anni '70. All'età di 6 anni.

Su La Repubblica del 10 novembre era presente un inserto Salute dedicato all’omeopatia e ad altre terapie alternative complementari. Premetto che non l’ho letto perché non ho comprato il giornale e perché sono troppo pigro per andare in emeroteca, ma indizi del contenuto si possono trovare anche sul sito del quotidiano.

http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica?query=omeopatia&view=archivio

che infatti restituisce questo risultato:

Omeopatia & Co. dove la medicina complementare può funzionare (10 novembre 2009, pag. 29, sezione: SALUTE)

noto poi due trafiletti tra il tragico e il patetico che lodano l’uso dell’omeopatia come coadiuvante delle terapie tradizionali e del vaccino per l’influenza A.

Ne riporto uno, per intero, perché contiene un riferimento preciso a un prodotto di cui parlerò nel sermone seguente (che a questo punto si imponeva).

da http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2009/11/10/omeopatia-prevezione-dell-influenza-insufficienza-renale.html

Mara Zuri e-mail Assumere oscillococcinum per prevenire l’ influenza e nella fase acuta, può avere controindicazioni con un’ insufficienza renale modesta? â-DOTT. ELIO ROSSI Responsabile Ambulatorio Omeopatia Asl 2, Lucca Non esiste a mio parere nessuna controindicazione all’ uso di Oscillococcinum, in una persona affetta da insufficienza renale modesta, naturalmente alle dosi e con le modalità abitualmente consigliate. Mi pare, anzi, che non sovraccaricare il rene usando medicinali omeopatici in alta diluizione, quando possibile, sia una dimostrazione di molto buon senso. - A CURA DI ELVIRA NASELLI

Il titolo del sermone enfatizza il fatto che ogni volta che si dice la verità sull’omeopatia (e per verità intendo carta canta), si viene immediatamente bollati come servi delle multinazionali, oscurantisti, fascisti e chi più ne ha più ne metta.

Ma come pastafariano, io mi devo preoccupare solo di seguire i Condimenti. So che lassù un vulcano di birra mi attende accanto a una fabbrica di spogliarelliste.

Posso tranquillamente fare questo lavoro sporco, che per di più è abbastanza divertente.

Cominciamo

Dunque dunque dunque…qual’è il modo più diplomatico con cui posso definire l’omeopatia?

Pseudoscienza?

Truffa?

Fantamedicina?

Medicina voodoo?

o semplicemente incommensurabile stronzata baggianata?

Sia come sia, occorre fare un pochino di chiarezza: l’omeopatia non è (come alcuni pensano) il curarsi con le erbe. In realtà, anche quando prendete un’aspirina vi state curando con le erbe, e moltissimi farmaci contengono principi attivi scoperti nel mondo vegetale, ma senza voler essere troppo pigna in culo, diciamo che curarsi con le erbe vuol dire sfruttare un principio attivo che non sia di sintesi, cioè che sia estratto direttamente da una parte della pianta, o utilizzando la pianta stessa.

L’omeopatia è invece prendere una certa sostanza e diluirla. Poi diluirla ancora. E ancora. E ancora. Ma il passaggio più cruciale di tutta la lavorazione è la dinamizzazione, che è un modo figo per dire che le fiale devono essere agitate ben bene. Il “medico” tedesco Samuel Hahnemann che fondò l’omeopatia determinò una scala della diluizione: una diluizione 2C si ottiene prendendo la sostanza e diluendola in 100 parti di acqua, poi da questa diluizione viene prelevata una dose e la si diluisce ulteriormente in 100 parti di acqua. A questo punto avrete la quantità di sostanza di partenza diluita in 10.000 parti di acqua.

Ma per un omeopata una potenza 2C è una sciocchezzuola, infatti un “rimedio” omeopatico comune, l’Oscillococcinum (TA-DA! Ricordate il trafiletto?), ha una potenza 200c, cioè ci sarebbe una parte di sostanza in 100²⁰⁰ parti di acqua. Il condizionale è dovuto al fatto che alla fine della diluizione nella vostra fialetta non ci sarà nemmeno una molecola. Lo dice una elementare costante della chimica, cioè il numero di Avogadro.

da http://www.cicap.org/new/articolo.php?%20id=100040

Ora si sa che una grammomolecola di qualunque sostanza contiene un numero di Avogadro N di molecole, pari a 6.022 . 10²³

E’ facile fare qualche calcolo; consideriamo per semplicità una sostanza con peso molecolare pari a 100 (per es. CaCO₃). Un grammo di essa in 100 mL di soluzione, quindi alla 1CH ) contiene 6.022 x 10²¹ molecole. Una diluizione 2CH conterrà 10^-2 grammi e 6.022 . 10¹⁹ molecole. Una diluizione 11CH conterrà 10^-20 grammi e 6.022 x 10 molecole. Una diluizione 12CH (attenzione!) conterrà 10^-22 grammi e 0.6022 molecole. Nei 100 mL non resta nemmeno una molecola. Se ora si continua (fino alla 30C e oltre) si diluirà dell’acqua con altra acqua.

Per fortuna che c’è la dinamizzazione (o energizzazione): cioè il passaggio in cui si le fiale vengono agitate. Hahnemann, vissuto prima che il numero di Avogadro venisse accettato, pensava che questo passaggio servisse ad attivare l’ “energia vitale” della sostanza. Ora, i ricercatori Gyro Gearloose e Ludwig von Drake della Duckburg University*, hanno concluso che invece la dinamizazzione sia fondamentale per la attivare la “memoria dell’acqua”: l’acqua mantiene il “ricordo” della sostanza che vi viene disciolta dentro (e che alla fine del ciclo di diluizioni scompare).

Fu Jacques Benveniste a proporre questa soluzione (haha) per aggirare la costante di Avogadro in un suo studio pubblicato su Nature.

Ebbene si, Nature ha pubblicato uno studio dove si afferma l’efficacia dell’omeopatia. Il fatto viene ovviamente sbandierato a destra e a manca su ogni sito pro- voodoo omeopatia

Quello che dimenticano di riportare, è la storia per intero: l’editor di Nature John Maddox acconsentì alla pubblicazione dopo aver concordato che sarebbe stato possibile costituire una commissione ad hoc per indagare sull’esperimento di Benveniste, e quindi fugare ogni dubbio sulla sua validità.

Non solo Benveniste venne in seguito all’indagine sbugiardato senza possibilità di appello (tutto venne documentato accuratamente), ma spuntarono inequivocabili indizi che si fosse cercato di mettere a segno una vera e propria FRODE. Ma il team di Jacques aveva fatto i conti senza l’oste: James Randi. A questo link è riassunta la vicenda, una lettura estremamente interessante.

http://www.brainmindlife.org/benveniste.htm

Qui un documentario, purtroppo in inglese, ricostruisce l’indagine del team di Maddox e testa (di nuovo) l’omeopatia.

Mi spiace, ma non ho finito.

E’ certo che nella vostra fiala non c’è assolutamente nulla della sostanza di partenza, c’è semplicemente un po’ d’acqua e talvolta alcol e/o zucchero, ma questa sostanza di partenza che cos’era? Conteneva un principio attivo degno di questo nome?

No.

Hahnemann riteneva che le malattie si potessero curare seguendo la “legge dei simili”. Per curare un malato, bisognava somministrare una sostanza che normalmente induceva i sintomi tipici di quella patologia, ovviamente diluita. Se volete curare l’influenza, dovete dare al malato una sostanza che provoca sintomi influenzali. L’assonanza col vaccino è solo apparente, questa legge dei simili è totalmente campata in aria.

Prendiamo un farmaco medicinale rimedio omeopatico, a caso: l’Oscillococcinum (dove ho già letto questo nome? Ah si, su La Repubblica. Vedi sopra), popolarissimo rimedio per i sintomi influenzali.

La sua storia è tragicamente comica (link). Un medico francese, Joseph Roy, si trovò suo malgrado nel bel mezzo della più grave pandemia dei tempi moderni, cioè l’Influenza Spagnola, che devastò il mondo facendo più vittime della I Guerra Mondiale che si stava svolgendo (per la serie, le sfighe non vengono mai sole).

Analizzando il sangue dei malati, Roy vide al microscopio un batterio “vibrante” a cui diede il nome di Oscillococcus. Roy ritenne poi di aver trovato lo stesso batterio in persone affette da altre patologie, concludendo infine che l’infame batterio causava una varietà di malattie che andavano dal cancro, agli orecchioni, ai reumatismi. Volendo usare il batterio per farne una specie di vaccino che dopo neanche avevamo il mal di denti, Roy si mise a cercare, finché non trovò quello che cercava nel fegato e nel cuore della dolcissima (e tenerissima) Anatra muschiata (Cairina moschata)

"cresci bene che ripasso" disse l'omeopata

Il “principio attivo” (notare virgolette) è quindi sostanzialmente carne frollata di anatide, ma è molto più cool dire che si tratta di Anas Barbariae Hepatis et Cordis Extractum (le convenzioni della sistematica dei viventi sono un optional per l’omeopatia).

Quanto costa una confezione di pillole di Oscillococcinum, vale a dire palline di zucchero miracolosamente bagnate da acqua con la memoria dell’estratto di carne di una specie di anatra, dove un medico negli anni 20 credette di vedere al microscopio ottico in grande quantità un batterio vibrante, la cui esistenza non è stata mai confermata da nessun batteriologo?

Se E-bay, compresa spedizione, poco meno di una trentina di euro.

Concludo con il lavoro sporco embeddando un geniale sketch del duo Mitchell & Webb, dal loro show That Mitchell and Webb Look, già proposto in un altro sermone.

RAmen

*con mille scuse a Carl (inchino) Barks

When I was much younger, most if not all of the product labels read “Made in America”.  Not so today.  We have labels from all over the globe.  Embarrassingly, on some items I don’t even recognize the country on its label.  Countries such as Liechtenstein and the Grenadines.

My family likes to visit various dollar stores.  Last month I searched a dollar store in hopes of finding a product or two with “Made in America” on its label.  Nothing.  Nada.  Zilch. 

That’s okay.  I still bought a few dollar items, but that got me thinking.  What does my “label” read and how about your “label”?  Made in America?  Made in Africa?  Made in Asia?  Where? 

If you really think about it, we weren’t made in America, Africa, Asia or elsewhere. We were made by God with heavenly hands and placed here on earth. The Bible says in Genesis 1…..”He created us in His image.”  That’s our “label”.

I have heard and read that some claim to be self made.  Sort of a Clint Eastwood attitude.  You almost can hear Dirty Harry in his own words saying that he got up early, pulled up his boots, dusted off his hat, worked the land, did things his way on his terms, no need for help, don’t depend on anyone, just “git r done”. 

Honestly, that couldn’t be farther from the truth for my “label”.  My “label” has many people’s influence, impartation, teaching and guiding, opportunities, smiles and words of encouragement, times and places where they chased me down and were instrumental in turning me back on the right track, loved me, graced me, mercied me, and – well you get the picture.

I am not self made.  Very far from it.  If I had a “label”, it would read:   Made by God.  Developed and improved by many others from around the globe.

What does your “label” read?

Brilliant. Time to talk about our Ten lists once more, so settle in for the long haul and try and keep up. Much discussion ensues as Sam tries to extol the virtues of Ingmar Bergman, praise the magical realism of Billy Liar and attempt to make sense of All About Lily Chou-Chou. John continues the theme, causing slight, though understandable, consternation with his uncensored views on Raging Bull and confessions of multiple tears during Schindler’s List. Tom rounds the night off in business-like fashion with praise for The 400 Blows, controversial dislike for the second half of Stalker and man-crushed love for Le Samourai.

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Στις 30 Οκτωβρίου 1938, μια ημέρα πριν τη γιορτή του Halloween ο Orson Welles μετέδωσε το επεισόδιο “Ο Πόλεμος των Κόσμων” της ραδιοφωνικής σειράς του Mercury Theatre της Νέας Υόρκης. Η ραδιοφωνική απόδοση του κειμένου του Η.G Wells ήταν τόσο πειστική που οι ακροατές (ειδικά αυτοί που έχασαν το discalimer) πείστηκαν ότι όντως είχαν προσγειωθεί Αρειανοί στη Γη και είχαν αρχίσει να εξολοθρεύουν ανθρώπους. Ο πανικός που επικράτησε οδήγησε πολλούς ακροατές στα πρόθυρα καρδιακής προσβολής ενώ άλλοι προέβησαν σε ακραίες συμπεριφορές που θύμιζαν θρησκόληπτους αιρετικούς πεπεισμένους ότι το τέλος έχει έρθει. Ένας άνδρας στο Πιτσιμπουργκ επιστρέφοντας σπίτι βρήκε τη γυναίκα του με ένα μπουκαλάκι δηλητήριο στο χέρι να αναφωνεί ότι προτιμά να αυτοκτονήσει απο το να εξολοθρευτεί από εξωγήινους ενώ πιο τολμηροί τηλεφωνούσαν στην εφημερίδα και δήλωναν εθελοντές στο πλευρό της αστυνομίας στη αντιμετώπιση των εισβολέων!! Ακόμα πιο ακραίοι ακροατές στη Βοστόνη ανέφεραν ότι είδαν φωτιές που άναψαν οι Αρειανοί στο Boston Globe ενώ φυσικά δεν έλειψαν και έκτακτες προσευχές των απανταχού πιστών στις εκκλησίες προκειμένου να ζητήσουν βοήθεια και φυσικά οι πιο ετοιμοπόλεμοι που μάζεψαν τα πράγματα τους και εγκατέλειψαν τα σπίτια για λόγους που ακόμα και 70 χρόνια μετά αγνοεί η κοινή λογική.
Παρανόηση που οφείλεται στο απύθμενο ταλέντο του Orson Welles όπου εκείνο τον καιρό έκανε τα πρώτα βήματα της καριέρας του ή συμπεριφορά μιας μάζας με μηδενική ικανότητα κριτικής σκέψης όπου ακροβατεί κατά μήκος μιας λεπτής διαχωριστικής γραμμής ανάμεσα στην αλήθεια, το ψεύδος, φαντασία και τη μυθοπλασία;Υπεύθυνος χρίζεται ο καλλιτέχνης λόγω απόδοσης υπερβολικού ρεαλισμού ή το κοινό για το λόγο που προαναφέρθηκε? Μοναδικό ελαφρυντικό του πανικόβλητων πολιτών ίσως να είναι η ελάχιστη εμπειρία που μπορεί να είχε εκείνα τα χρόνια απέναντι στη (τότε) βιομηχανία του θεάματος και στο περίεργο μαύρο κουτί όπως αναφέρει και και ο Orson Welles στο βίντεο που ακολουθεί. Παρ` όλα αυτά, αναφέρεται πως ο Orson Wells όταν ρωτήθηκε να σχολιάσει το συμβάν αντιμετώπισε με εμπαιγμό και αλαζονεία την αντίδραση του κόσμου αλλά δεν μπόρεσα να βρω κάτι σχετικό στο διαδίκτυο. Για την ιστορία πάντως αναφέρεται ότι το γεγονός ήταν αρκετά αξιοπρόσεκτο και για το λόγο αυτό γυρίστηκε η ταινία “The Night that panicked America” (1975). Αυτούσια η εκπομπή του Γουέλς υπάρχει στο Youtube (part 1, part 2) ενώ το παρακάτω βίντεο περιγράφει την ατμόσφαιρα που επικράτησε στην Αμερική την ημέρα της μετάδοσης με μαρτυρίες ανθρώπων που έζησαν το συμβάν.

Την ίδια δεκαετία με τον “Τhe Night that panicked America” το Hollywood πλάσαρε τον Dirty Harry, το σκληρο αστυνομικό του εκφυλισμένου και παραδομένου σε κάθε λογής έγκλημα Σαν Φραντζίσκο. Ο “κακός” της ταινίας ήταν ο Scorpio (Andrew Robinson) όπου ο Dirty Harry, ως θιασώτης της μηδενικής ανοχής, ύστερα απο ανελέητο κυνηγητό και με τη βοήθεια του ιερού του πέλεκυ (Μαγκνουμ) καταφέρνει και τον σκοτώνει.Η κινηματογραφική φιγούρα του Clint Eastwood ενσωματώνει τη βία και τη δίκη στην συμπεριφορά του ή ακόμα καλύτερα εκφράζει το συλλογικό αίτημα της περισσότερης αστυνομίας και της περισσότερο τιμωρητικής δικαιοσύνης, αίτημα που αναβίωσε εν μέρει και τη δεκαετία των `90 και `00. Δεν θυμάμαι πόσες ταινίες με τον επιθεωρητή Callahan βγήκαν (και πραγματικά δεν είχα καμιά όρεξη να ψάξω) αλλά μια παρόμοια τύπου παρανόηση μεταξύ αλήθειας και φαντασίας έλαβε χώρα και εδώ.
Η δεκαετία του `70 ήταν αυτή των Μαύρων Πανθήρων και των Weatherman ενώ το Σαν Φρανσίσκο αποτελεί φυτώριο ριζοσπαστικών ιδεών και της αμερικάνικης αντικουλτούρας. Κύριο πρόβλημα των νεοφιλελεύθερων αποτελούσε η το κοινωνικό κράτος (welfare state), ένα ενδοσυστημικό κουβάρι που ενισχύονταν απο δηλώσεις συμπόνοιας κρατικών φορέων υπέρ των θυμάτων της αστυνομικής βίας και έπαιρνε σάρκα και οστά απο τις οργανώσεις που αναφέραμε, το γυναικείο κίνημα, του χίπις, τους μπιτνικ κτλ. Ο Dirty Harry αποτελεί την έξοδο απο αυτό το πρόβλημα αφού ενσαρκώνει την εικόνα “πολύ κράτος, ελάχιστη διακυβέρνηση” και που εκφράζεται καλύτερα μέσα απο τη φράση του Φουκώ “κυβερνούμε λίγο”. Επιπλέον, βρισκόμαστε σε ψυχροπολεμική περίοδο και η κόκκινη απειλή στοιχειώνει ολόκληρο το φαντασιακό της επίσημης Αμερικής.
Μέσα σε αυτές τις ιστορικο-πολιτικές συνθήκες, οι θεατές για ακόμη μια φορά παρερμήνευσαν μια ταινία μαζικής κατανάλωσης και κουλτούρας μη μπορώντας να διαχωρίσουν την αλήθεια απο το ψέμα, το μύθο απο την πραγματικότητα. Ο “κακός” της υπόθεσης Andrew Robinson (Scorpio) δέχτηκε απειλές για τη ζωή προφανώς απο αφελείς θεατές της ταινίας. Η κόκκινη μάσκα που φορούσε κατά τη διάρκεια της ταινίας ταυτίστηκε σημειολογικά με την “κόκκινη απειλή” και κατάφερε να φοβίζει και να τρομοκρατεί αυτόνομα το κοινό ακόμα και μετά την έξοδο απο τις αίθουσες. Στην προκειμένη περίπτωση δεν μπορούμε να καταφύγουμε στην ασυλία της περίπτωσης του “The world of the worlds” αλλά η γραμμή ανάμεσα στην αλήθεια και το ψέμα φαίνεται ότι παρέμεινε δυσδιάκριτη.

Διαβάστε: “Ο Βρώμικος Χάρυ ώς κοινωνικό αίτημα ” ΠΑΝΟΠΤΙΚόΝ 8, τετράδιο ολικής αντιπαράθεσης.

Brilliant. Time to talk about our Ten lists once more, so settle in for the long haul and try and keep up. Much discussion ensues as Sam tries to extol the virtues of Ingmar Bergman, praise the magical realism of Billy Liar and attempt to make sense of All About Lily Chou-Chou. John continues the theme, causing slight, though understandable, consternation with his uncensored views on Raging Bull and confessions of multiple tears during Schindler’s List. Tom rounds the night off in business-like fashion with praise for The 400 Blows, controversial dislike for the second half of Stalker and man-crushed love for Le Samourai.

Download The Movie Overdose Episode 40.5

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Catching up on the long overdue tale of a summer trip… To review: Picture it. San Francisco. August 2009. A hotel. A business meeting. Name tags. Number 2 pencils. And newcomers exploring the city in the down time.

During the weekend, Matt and Tom had been wandering the streets of San Francisco while I working at the meeting in the afternoon. One of the neighborhoods they passed through was Japantown. We had hopped a crowded bus out there one afternoon so they could return to the annual street festival spread along the main road. “Street festival” usually meaning local, canopied merchants selling pop art t-shirts and pottery and beaded things, food vendors selling messy barbecue on Styrofoam plates, and a cover band. Fairly standard things, although the band outlasted the dismantling of the vending tables and we took seats near the stage to watch the cover band in amusement. The cover band that featured one male and one female singer played through a string of disco and new wave hits that compelled most of the middle age people out of their seats and into the aisles to dance. Even two ladies who must have been in their 70s didn’t seemed bothered by the boom of the stacked speakers as they stood in the corner near the stage to dance.

Being in Japantown is a lot different than Chinatown. The distinctions may well be a microcosm of the real differences between Japan and China. Japantown, like the larger Pacific Heights neighborhood where it sits, is pure, pristine urban-suburbia; a small section of the city with clean streets and perfectly trimmed hedges. There’s a mix of gyms and condos and cafes and Japanese cultural institutions and symbolism (a 5-towered Peace Pagoda, for example, marks the neighborhood’s center as a memorial to victims of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki). It is white collared. And it’s also rather unique – Japantown San Francisco is only one of two official Japantowns in the country.

On the other hand, Chinatown in San Francisco is the oldest Chinatown in the country, and it’s age is very apparent. It’s very blue-collar, like what you seen in Big Trouble in Little China (which was filmed in San Francisco’s Chinatown). The streets are grimy and crowded with tourists browsing cheap souvenirs. Walking around late at night, we saw frazzled old women dragging out huge garbage bins from the stores, passed by dark gated doors to clubs or loud people speaking Chinese behind them, and even saw drunks pissing in the street. In the afternoon, clothes were strung out from apartments above the stores and it looked like old photos of tenement housing. Though I’m not pointing this out to criticize Chinatown, but merely point out what a contrast it is to Japantown.

We’d taken a less crowded bus over the North Beach neighborhood for dinner, which is just beyond Chinatown, its own boundary being an intersection lined with buildings covered with 60’s-era illustration that made the strip joints advertised within them seem rather comical. (Many of the clubs were used in Dirty Harry). While sandwiched between Chinatown and Fisherman’s Wharf, North Beach actually was at one time a beach. The main drag along the North Beach neighborhood is something of a Little Italy, except that the strip is almost entirely filled with nothing but restaurants.  The busy street and the elegant towers of a Catholic Church nearby create a facade to an otherwise indistinct section, which may say a lot about more than San Francisco, with commercial sections being a neighborhood’s defining characteristic.

By this point everyone was exhausted and we slowly made our way through the weekend crowds and aromatic sirens. Tom had heard about a place called Pasta Pomodoro, mentioning that it was a chain, but a relatively affordable place that got rave reviews in one of the travel blogs he’d come across. Perhaps evident of how busy the resturants get on the main streets of North Beach during the summer weekends, the waitress politely cautioned us that they were nearly out of everything on the menu. Even beer. Tom had enjoyed the bread so much that, before the main course was served, she offered to bring more, but then remembered that they too were out of that now. I’d never been in a resturant where they had run out of food before. Like the Cinecita, a pizza place two doors down where Phil and I had lunch one afternoon (he would arrive in town later in the week), there was a common decoration scheme: posters and photographs from Italian movies. And, thankfully, not from the limited repertoire of gangster films like the pizza place has back home, but actual Italian cinema, and especially (what I presume is) the nation’s most iconic film, La Dolce Vita.

El asesino serial más querido del mundo (que morbo) regresa con una nueva temporada, donde no sólo tendrá que enfrentar su habitual tarea de perseguir a los olvidados de la ley mientras se escabulle de sus mismos compañeros de la policía y su hermana, sino que además tendrá que encarar sus nuevas responsabilidades como padre.

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Capitulo 5 – Dirty Harry

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Ya lo vivimos en durante la season premiere, pero ahora ¡Dexter ha roto nuevamente un récord de audiencias! El episodio emitido el domingo pasado fue el que mayor audiencia tuvo en Showtime desde el 2004, sobrepasando  al estreno de temporada. Más de 2 millones de televidentes vieron Dirty Harry, uno de los mejores episodios de la temporada que mantuvo a la audiencia pegada al televisor durante los 50 minutos que dura.

A esta altura ya no me sorprende, y es que esta nueva temporada se pone cada vez mejor y hoy en día quien no ve Dexter debería terminar envuelto en plástico y tener una profunda charla con el señor Morgan.

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Al igual que Dexter y Trinity, yo también tengo mi ritual a la hora de ver un nuevo episodio: apago las luces -en caso de que sea de noche, el mejor horario para ver Dexter-, cierro puertas, ventanas y cortinas; y me olvido del mundo, sólo quedamos el hermoso televisor que me regalaron mis abuelos y yo. Así es como disfruto a pleno de Dexter y su fantástica introducción que nunca me pierdo, y puedo decir que con este episodio he disfrutado el doble de lo normal, porque además de ser un excelente episodio que cierra varias tramas -y abre algunas-, puedo asegurar que estamos ante una de las mejores temporadas de la serie. Y es ahora cuando me acuerdo de la no muy lejana y poca querida tercera temporada, y comienzo a pensar que estaban preparando el terreno para esta excelente trama que estamos viviendo ahora. En fin, ¡vamos a lo que nos importa, review!

• Episodio: S04E05 “Dirty Harry”
• Fecha de emisión: 25 de octubre del 2009
• Guión: Tim Schlattmann
• Dirección: Keith Gordon

Finalmente hemos conocido el lamentable desenlace de Dex Takes a Holiday, el Súper Agente Especial Frank Lundy ha muerto. ¿Soy yo o era cantada esta muerte? Últimamente he estado evitando spoilers, sobretodo respecto a esta muerte anunciada, pero aún así estaba seguro de que era Lundy quien moriría. La verdad que es una pena. A mí Lundy me parecía un personaje excelente, con sus mañas, sus vueltas, era perfecto. Su regreso fue acertadísimo para la trama, pero lamentablemente nos quedamos sin Agente Especial que nos cautive, al igual que la pobre y dañada Debra. Por otro lado, también estaba seguro de que Deb no moriría, es un personaje esencial para la serie y sobretodo para Dexter, su hermana es lo que lo mantiene en contacto con los sentimientos humanos, o al menos era hasta hace poco cuando comenzó a tener sentimientos, pero aún así, Dexter sin Deb estaría… perdido.

Retomando el tema tiroteo, Quinn cree que los culpables son los mismos de los Crímenes Vacacionales ya que es el mismo modus operandi, por lo tanto el Departamento también lo cree así, pero Dexter, como buen cazador que es, se da cuenta al instante que algo anda mal: a Lundy le han disparado dos veces, querían asegurarse de verlo muerto, en cambio, a Deb, la han herido gravemente, pero ha sobrevivido. Es aquí cuando la trama se pone interesante, ya que Dexter comienza a hacer uso de las pistas que Lundy ha ido recopilando a lo largo de todos estos años para poder atrapar al único hijo de puta que se le escapó: Trinity. Ahora la cosa es personal. Ahora el código tiene una nueva página donde se ha agregado una nueva regla: la venganza. Dexter siempre ha hecho justicia por mano propia, pero sólo por una cuestión muy sencilla que todos conocemos, una necesidad. Pero esta vez han derramado sangre Morgan, y no duda un segundo en poner manos a la obra y sale a buscar al asesino de Frank. Que por cierto, siempre tuvo grabadora consigo como habíamos debatido en la review pasada. Y es gracias a eso que Dexter hace un gran avance en su investigación, pero ya saben, lo mejor para el final.

En medio de todo este embrollo, Dexter intenta hacerse un tiempo para comenzar la búsqueda de Trinity, pero ante el apuro de salir a ver a su hermana, deja olvidado su celular y Rita se entera finalmente de su secretito, Rita ahora sabe que Dexter no ha vendido su departamento y comienza a dudar seriamente de él. Y es que Dexter es tan bueno mintiendo que nunca se había dado cuenta antes, pero no todo puede ir bien por siempre, esto es televisión. Rita está tan enojada y dolida que decide ir a la guarida de nuestro querido asesino y confiesa que ha revuelto la casa en busca de pruebas, desea saber qué lo llevó a quedarse con su viejo departamento y porqué mintió, pero por supuesto no encuentra nada, incluso en el baúl de herramientas tampoco hay nada que lo pueda poner en aprietos, bueno… si uno busca bien encontraría, pero Dexter está en todas y no deja que eso suceda. Aunque el matrimonio Morgan ahora va en picada…

Deb ahora está dolida y se siente culpable, cree que la muerte de su antiguo novio es su culpa. Estuvo ahí, no pudo hacer nada y se culpa por eso, y es la razón que la lleva a ser, en cierta manera, como Trinity. ¿Por qué digo esto? Porque cree que merece sufrir como manera de castigo por todo lo que ha sucedido. Hemos visto que Trinity se castiga físicamente, pero aún no queda muy en claro la razón, y ahora Deb está haciendo lo mismo: prefiere tirar sus calmantes a la basura a tomarlos y no sentir dolor físico, prefiere confesarle a Anton su romance con Lundy y le dice que “merece alguien mejor” y prefiere quedarse sola, como siempre ha estado.
Una de las mejores escenas del episodio ha sido cuando Deb regresa al lugar del tiroteo donde Frank ha muerto. Creo que no la habíamos visto así desde el principio de la segunda temporada cuando retomamos toda la historia de haber sido secuestrada por el Ice Truck Killer. Tengo que admitir que esa escena me puso la piel de gallina, una excelente actuación la de Carpenter.

Paralelamente, la trama de los asesinatos que investiga el Departamento de Policía continúa, pero también llega a su fin. Batista no duda y le tiende una excelente trampa al único sospechoso hasta el momento, y la trampa funciona a la perfección cuando una de las mujeres con las que estuvo lo termina asesinando. Ahora creen que se ha hecho justicia por Deb, pero ya veremos si esto sigue así cuando comiencen a indagar más en el tema.
Y continuando con las tramas secundarias, tenemos las amorosas de siempre. Quinn regresa con la reportera, que, una vez más, muestra todo y nos encanta Quinn, amigo, pensá con la cabeza, no con la verga. Batista y LaGuerta comienzan a tener problemas cuando María decide hablar a espaldas de Ángel y aclara todo el asunto amoroso con las autoridades policíacas porque cree que “es lo correcto”. Pero lamentablemente hacer lo correcto no es correcto y las cosas salen mal para ambos. Hace su reaparición el Capitán Matthews y comunica que Batista debe ser trasladado del Departamento y además lo ascenderá. No me imagino la serie sin Ángel, creo que una vez más, ambos terminarán solos, dudo que saquen a Batista, es un excelente personaje que no pueden perder, es otra persona que en sus momentos ha hecho conexión con Dexter y lo ha hecho ver el lado humano de las personas. O tal vez mientan y sigan ocultándose nuevamente, ya veremos… ahora que está en juego el personaje de Ángel sí comenzó a importarme la relación.

Trinity cree que debe terminar lo que comenzó, debe terminar con el ciclo, con su ritual. Y sin dudas que lo hace. A lo largo del episodio vemos cómo prepara el terreno para su próximo asesinato y finalmente consigue lo que quería: mata a un padre de dos hijos a golpes con un martillo. Y es por su necesidad de hacerlo que Dexter finalmente conoce quién es. Lundy no se había equivocado del todo, acertó en muchas cosas, pero se equivocó en algo: este asesino serial no es un solitario como él, Dexter y nosotros creíamos. Es un lobo, sí, pero vestido con traje de cordero. Trinity es igual a Dexter, es un hombre de familia, un padre y esposo. Aún no podemos asegurar que también tiene un código, pero ciertamente tiene un ritual. Y por todas estas razones es que Dexter, aparentemente, decide que aún no es tiempo de poner a Trinity en una bolsa, la expresión de su cara al final lo dice todo.
A esta teoría la había comentado en la review del primer episodio, y aunque la vi venir, me encantó el giro que dieron. Es posible que ahora Dexter vea a Trinity como un ejemplo a seguir, un asesino que ha estado matando gente por más de treinta años y que, al igual que él, tiene una familia por la cual preocuparse y cuidar. Insisto en que esta trama promete mucho ¡y además me tiene muy intrigado!

Y como se está haciendo costumbre, nota al margen respecto al título del episodio. El título hace referencia al emblemático Clint Eastwood de 1971 que protagonizó Dirty Harry, película en la cual Eastwood interpreta al Inspector Harry Callahan, un policía de San Francisco que comienza a hacer justicia por mano propia para detener a un francotirador sociópata llamado Scorpio que ha sembrado terror en la ciudad.
En este episodio, Harry, o la consciencia de Dexter mejor dicho, es como el Harry el Sucio de las películas de Eastwood. Sale en busca de venganza para atrapar a Trinity, muy parecido a lo que hacía Callahan para atrapar a Scorpio. Además, el otro Harry (Harrison, el hijo de Dexter), se caga y ensucia un pañal, tal vez eso también cuente.

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“Dirty Harry”

October 25th, 2009

When “Dirty Harry” begins, the problems start before the episode even does. After the exciting finale to “Dex Takes a Holiday,” which was a strong episode which really connected with the qualities that make the show work and which ended on that cliffhanger of Deb and Lundy bleeding on the pavement, things seemed exciting in a way that the show was struggling with early on.

However, the lengthy “Previously on Dexter” sequence reminded us that the things that made that episode great were an exclusion (of Rita and the kids) and a shock (that won’t be recreated in the next episode), which means that “Dirty Harry” is immediately handicapped. And while there are some stories that seem legitimately compelling, those seem to be at a standstill while the “drama” comes from conflicts that are either entirely uninteresting or which feel like the sort of simple “Dexter meets Suburbia” type stories the show has been dealing with this season.

It proves once and for all that Dexter is a series best watched in extended bursts on DVD, because the hype is going to create expectations that this season isn’t able to live up to.

I want to make clear that Jennifer Carpenter does some amazing work in this episode as she rushes her way through an emotional breakdown following Frank Lundy’s death at the hands of an unknown individual. If this were a show that wanted to move at a slower pace, then Deb’s breakup with Anton would have been a single episode, and her breakdown at the site of the shooting would have been saved for a later episode. But there was something to be said in the sheer speed at which Deb broke down, refusing her pain meds and recovering physically while her emotional state fails in turn. Carpenter has been through similar arcs before, but her breakdown at the parking lot was powerful enough for me to look past the similarity to past storylines and acknowledge her pain.

However, that’s the only real note that really did much for me in this one. I actually felt that this week’s twist, that Trinity has a family of his own and lives in the suburbs, was the kind of plotting that I despise on this show. The idea that he and Dexter are “OMG TOTALLY THE SAME” is convenient to the point of contrivance, driving home just how much this season (not unlike last season) feels choreographed rather than unfolding in any sort of natural fashion. Michael C. Hall remains compelling, but I was kind of just looking forward to seeing Dexter try to get inside the head of a different serial killer, as opposed to realizing that the head he was getting inside was really his own. It’s one of those storylines that probably sounds really great on paper, but in practice it seems blindly philosophical in a way that does nothing for me no matter how well Michael C. Hall can sell it.

The episode also suffers through the overuse of Harry’s ghost, a tool that was intriguing when it made sense but that now seems kind of creepy. It’s one thing to have Dexter’s Dark Defender take physical form, and it’s one thing for Harry’s code to become part of his self-conscience to the point of visual representation. However, the ghost is neither a direct extension of the Dark Defender or a pure defender of the code, being used however an individual scene requires. It’s basically a constant foil so that the show isn’t just Michael C. Hall talking to himself, but the solution to that potential problem is relying less on expository dialogue, not just dividing it between two characters. Harry’s ghost might have proven a convenient excuse for Dexter keeping his apartment, but his value to the current storyline is not nearly as clear. I like James Remar, but the device already seems tired.

We’ve known ever since we found out Dexter kept the apartment that Rita would eventually find out, but I thought the episode did nothing with it. It was the kind of thing where it’s just played as a distraction from Dexter’s real work, and the episode’s efforts to connect it with Deb’s emotional moment was forced at best. I think Rita’s naivete about Dexter is starting to wear thin, which makes sense when we think about it logically, but dramatically I don’t think it improves the show in any way. In fact, Rita’s paranoia is actually by design a hindrance to the parts of the show that “Dex Takes a Holiday” represents, which actually makes it even more frustrating for us as viewers. The game of cat and mouse between two serial killers is hindered when there’s other games of cat and mouse which we know are far less important and yet which by design need to FEEL more important to create barriers for the interesting stuff.

The beginning of this episode implies that there will be chaos, but then the episode throws that all away: by having Lundy’s death quickly become a vacation murder in the eyes of the police, and then by having the Vacation murderer conveniently die, all of that chaos is gone by the time the hour ends. The chaos seems like it could have brought out some interesting shades in even the dullest of supporting storylines, but only Deb really felt the tension involved, and everyone else’s problems (like Batista’s imminent transfer, or Quinn’s sex with the reporter) were just as boring as they were before. They both felt like storylines out of an episode of 24, storylines that seem like pointless diversions that are only there to remind us that these people are human beings. However, what would have made them seem human is if they had been part of the chaos as opposed to cleaning it up so the season can keep cycling between cliffhangers.

“Dex Takes a Holiday” was about more than a cliffhanger, and the ending didn’t hurt; “Dirty Harry,” meanwhile, is a weak episode of the show to begin with, not only due to these problems but also because it was only repeating what we’ve seen before. Dexter didn’t discover anything new in Lundy’s notes that we didn’t already know, so we were sitting around waiting for him to discover what we already knew. The buzz about the final moment might be relevant, but all it does is reinforce story elements that to be honest I’ve felt have been overly present already this season, which makes me less than excited about what’s to come.

Cultural Observations

• I’m curious to know if the scene of Trinity buying a hammer for the bludgeoning was, in fact, an intended homage to the opening scene of The Wire’s fourth season, an absolutely amazing sequence wherein Snoop purchases a powder-actuated nail gun. Just the other day my parents were researching tools and came on the term powder-actuated, and I was transported back to that hardware store. The comparison really took me out of the scene, which was probably creepier for those who didn’t see how much more subtle (and thus, more creepy) the Wire scene was in the end.
• The Batista/LaGuerta stuff is reaching a breaking point for me. It has officially become a 24 storyline, especially with the edict that he needs the transfer order by Monday – in the world of 24, that would mean that it wouldn’t actually be dealt with during this season, but at least in this case something will have to happen with it (albeit with a 99% chance of being uninteresting).
• Quinn’s reporter girlfriend is literally only there for her boobs, so forgive me if I don’t offer indepth analysis of her orgasm.

Gracias a Todo Series nos llegan estos pequeños trazos que nos dan una idea de la línea argumental que tomará la temporada a partir del quinto episodio que se emitirá mañana domingo, y sólo tenemos sinopsis hasta el décimo. Espero, por el bien de todos, que la sinopsis del último episodio no se filtre sino hasta último momento, cuando en realidad la publica Showtime en la página oficial, sería una lástima arruinar la sorpresa, ¿no creen?, porque estoy seguro de que, como viene la temporada, el final será impresionante. En fin, ¡vamos a lo que nos importa!

• S04E05 “Dirty Harry”
  • Los últimos acontecimientos guían a Dexter a su propia investigación del caso del Trinity Killer. Sus motivaciones ahora son personales y el reloj está en marcha. Pero cuanto más se acerca Dexter, más cuenta se da de que Trinity es el monstruo más diferente con el que se ha encontrado. Mientras, Debra se culpa a sí misma por una serie de eventos que están fuera de su control. Batista y Laguerta siguen con su relación y Angel descubre que la relación de Quinn con la periodista puede serle de mucha utilidad.
• S04E06 “If I Had a Hammer”
  • Dexter sabe que es cuestión de tiempo que el Departamento de Miami descubra el último trabajo del Trinity Killer. Por lo tanto, debe trabajar duro para estar un paso por delante en la investigación. Dexter ha empezado a darse cuenta que, cuanto más cerca está del Trinity Killer, más comprende la forma de actuar de esta bestia diferente. Trinity se esconde tras una máscara y traspasar esa fachada requerirá un gran esfuerzo por parte de Dex. Mientras, Debra se siente frustrada al ser apartada de su propio caso y Laguerta y Batista discuten sobre si tomar una importante decisión.
• S04E07 “Slack Tide”
  • Dexter goza de un momento de tranquilidad. Finalmente ha encontrado el equilibrio entre trabajo, familia… y otros trabajillos. Cuando la Policía de Miami descubre un conjunto de asesinatos vinculados a un fotógrafo importante, Dexter encuentra la oportunidad para matar. Sin embargo, todos sus planes parecen frustrarse. Por su parte, Quinn ha renovado su interés por la vida nocturna de Dexter. Y los planes de Dexter por mantener ocupados a Astor y Cody con nuevas actividades se irá al traste rápidamente. Incluso Harry está en desacuerdo con las elecciones de Dexter para su tiempo libre, instándole a que centralice sus esfuerzos en el Trinity Killer.
• S04E08 “Road Kill”
  • Dexter siempre ha sabido que el código de su padre fue creado para protegerlo. Después de cometer una serie de errores, se pregunta si ha sido diseñado para protegerse de alguien incluso más peligroso. Eso es una emoción humana. Cuando descubre que Trinity está planeando un viaje fuera de la ciudad, Dexter encuentra la oportunidad para ir con él y tratar de entrar en la mente de un monstruo. Aún así, Dexter no parece preparado para las revelaciones de su propio pasado que salen a la luz.
• S04E09 “Hungry Man”
  • Para la mayoría, el Dia de Acción de Gracias es tiempo de familia y tradiciones. Pero para Dexyer es la gran oportunidad para acercarse a su adversario más peligroso. Cuando Dexter entra en la psicología del Trinity al acercarse más a él, se da cuenta de que está en un mundo bizarro y lleno de complicaciones. Mientras, Rita está hasta arriba de trabajo preparando comida para una gran recepción en casa, que incluye algunos invitados inesperados. Batista se acerca a un antiguo caso y Debra aprovecha sus vacaciones para continuar la investigación del Trinity.
• S04E10 “Lost Boys”
  • Dexter finalmente considera que entiende a la bestia conocida como Trinity. Sin embargo, cuando desaparece un niño de 10 años se replantea todo lo aprendido. Es una carrera contra el reloj. Y a cada paso que da se da cuenta de que comparte muchas más cosas con el Trinity de las que querría. Abundan los secretos: de Cody, que se siente forzado a apoyar una de las mentiras de Dexter; de Masuka, que no quiere confesar lo que vio en Dia de Acción de Gracia; y de Debra, cuyos descubrimientos ponen a una persona de su entorno en una situación muy comprometida.

Mientras voy pensando cómo comenzar a escribir la review de esta semana, les dejo unas cuantas imagenes promocionales del episodio de la semana que viene titulado Dirty Harry, en las que vemos -en parte- en qué quedó el cliffhanger del S04E04 y algo relacionado a Trinity, entre otras cosas.

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Dirty Harry. Harry el sucio, así es como se titula el quinto episodio de esta nueva temporada. Puede que conozcamos más sobre el pasado del padre adoptivo de Dexter, quien recordemos, se suicidó luego de ver el monstruo que había creado.
Si se quedaron con ganas de saber más acerca de este episodio, tienen también la nota de prensa y dos sneak peeks de parte de Showtime.

Aún no he visto el cuarto episodio, pero por los pocos spoilers que había leído, tengo entendido que al final hay un espectacular cliffhanger que nos dejará con la boca abierta y comentando dicho episodio toda la semana. ¿Será realmente así? ¡Eso espero! Mientras, si ya vieron el episodio, los invito a ver los avances del próximo titulado Dirty Harry.

Los videos, como siempre, disponibles en la página oficial

Si aún no viste los episodios anteriores, es recomendable que no leas el siguiente texto, podría contener spoilers.

Los recientes eventos hacen que Dexter tome por su cuenta la investigación del caso de Trinity. Sus motivaciones ahora son personales, y queda poco tiempo. Pero mientras más se acerca Dexter, más se da cuenta de que Trinity es diferente a cualquier otro monstruo con el que se haya encontrado anteriormente. Mientras tanto, Debra se culpa por situaciones que están fuera de control haciéndola alejarse de aquellos que son cercanos a ella. Cuando LaGuerta y Batista se acercan más al caso de los Crimenes Vacacionales, Batista se da cuenta de que puede usar la relación de Quinn con cierta periodista para sacar ventaja de la situación. Y cuando Rita descubre un secreto que Dexter le ha estado ocultando, se da cuenta de lo poco que conoce al hombre con el que se casó.

Guión: Tim Schlattmann
Dirección: Keith Gordon
Fecha de Emisión: 25 de octubre del 2009

“. . . you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?”

—“Dirty” Harry Callahan

That quote is from my all time favorite movie — Dirty Harry. In that famous scene Det. Harry Callahan has just thwarted an armed robbery and stands posed over the wounded perpetrator wielding a six-shot .44 Magnum revolver. The prone robber stares up in fear, sizing up whether to make a last desperate grab for his shotgun lying beside him.  Right then Callahan says: “I know what you’re thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five?” The subtext is:  if there is one bullet left in Callahan’s gun he will use it to blow the robber’s head “clean off.” That’s when he asks the crook whether he’s feeling lucky enough to take the risk.  The man decides he isn’t that lucky and surrenders.

Psychologist and luck researcher Richard Weismen might point to this as an example of why luck has nothing to do with superstition.  In Weismen’s view, “luck” is more about paying attention to what’s going on around you.  In the Dirty Harry scenario, a “lucky” person would count the number of shots fired, then seize the chance to get away.  Not that anybody with good luck would need to rob a bank in the first place.

Weisman has spent more than a decade exploring the basis of luck.  He’s convinced that skill and attitude are the only two things that separate the lucky from the unlucky.  In his book, The Luck Factor, after interviewing thousands of self-identified “lucky” people and doing numerous experiments, Weismen was able to identify four basic features or traits that all fortunate people share:

1)    They look for and exploit opportunity

2)    They trust their own hunches

3)    They expect good fortune

4)    They have resilient attitudes that transform bad luck into good

By contrast, the self-described “unlucky” subjects in Weisman’s study viewed themselves as unfortunate and many reported suffering from anxiety.  According to Weisman, their anxiety diminished their capacity to recognize unexpected circumstances: their bad luck consisted in missing out on opportunities because they were too focused on looking for something else.

These “unlucky” people go to parties intent on finding the perfect partner and bypass the chance to make form new friendships.  Or they scan the newspapers intent on finding a tailor-made job advertisement and ignore or overlook other types of employment for which they may actually be well suited.

But the good news that emerges from Weisman’s research is that luck in not inherent. It’s a both a skill that can be learned and an attitude that can be cultivated.   And lucky you, it’s a technique that’s well within your reach.

Set the stage for luck to enter your life by trusting your instincts (they’re usually right), being open to new experiences and looking for ways to break out of established routines. Plus, if you visualize good things coming your way, you’re more likely to notice them when they do.

Perhaps the place to start is to ask yourself one question . . . “Do I feel lucky?”

Well do you?

No One – Alicia Keys

Composição: Alicia Keys / Dirty Harry / Kerry Brothers

I just want you close
Where you can stay forever
You can be sure
That it will only get better

You and me together
Through the days and nights
I don’t worry ’cause
Everything’s gonna be allright

People keep talking
They can say what they like
But all I know is
Everything’s gonna be allright

No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I’m feeling
No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I feel
For you, you, you
Can get in the way of what I feel for you

When the rain is pouring down
And my heart is hurting
You will always be around
This I know for certain

You and me together
Through the days and nights
I don’t worry ’cause
Everything’s gonna be alright

People keep talking
They can say what they like
But all I know is
Everything’s gonna be alright

No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I’m feeling
No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I feel
For you, you, you
Can get in the way of what I feel

I know, some people search the world
To find something like what we have
I know, people will try
Try to divide something so real
So ’till the end of time
I’m telling you
That no one

No one, no one
Can get in the way of what I’m feeling
No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I feel for you

oh oh oh…

Ninguém – Alicia Keys

Tradução

Eu quero você por perto
Onde possas permanecer para sempre
Você pode ter certeza
Assim será muito melhor

Você e eu, juntos
Além dos dias e das noites
Eu não me preocupo, porque
Tudo vai ficar bem

As pessoas continuam falando
Elas podem falar o que quiserem
Mas o que eu sei é que
Tudo vai ficar bem

Ninguém, ninguém, ninguém
Pode acabar com o que estou sentindo
Ninguém, ninguém, ninguém
Pode acabar com o que sinto
Por você, por você, por você
Pode acabar com o que sinto por você

Quando a chuva estiver caindo
E meu coração estiver ferido
Você sempre estará por perto
Eu tenho certeza disso

Você e eu, juntos
Além dos dias e das noites
Eu não me preocupo, porque
Tudo vai ficar bem

As pessoas continuam falando
Elas podem falar o que quiserem
Mas o que eu sei é que
Tudo vai ficar bem

Ninguém, ninguém, ninguém
Pode acabar com o que estou sentindo
Ninguém, ninguém, ninguém
Pode acabar com o que estou sentindo
Por você, por você, por você
Pode acabar com o que sinto

Sei que algumas pessoas procuram no mundo
Para encontrar algo igual ao que nós dois temos
Eu sei que elas tentarão
Tentarão separar com algo tão real
Então, até o fim dos tempos
Eu estarei lhe dizendo
que ninguém

Ninguém, ninguém, ninguém
Pode acabar com o que estou sentindo
Ninguém, ninguém, ninguém
Pode acabar com o que sinto por você