September 18, 2005
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The Daily News
1 Sometimes life's a Tim Burton cartoon, I swear.
2 No wonder the guy's famous.
3 I went for a ride in the hills with my daughter Nicole last night, which we do a lot, just, you know, to catch up and, in the case of last night, to enjoy the full moon painted in the cartoon sky.
4 Everything looked right out of a Tim Burton piece.
5 And the thing about it is, we just talked of our lives, and of how different the world has become since everything went digital. The clouds and the moon stood watch over us as we drove up further into the night. Clearly we were on to something. We became two cartoon people painted by the moon.
6 We spoke of how every relationship has become victim to e-mails, myspace, text-messaging, im's, and interacting without the friendship of real, human faces. We spoke of waiting for digital responses to job interviews, college submissions and admissions, attached homework assignments, and most of all, simple, meaningful talks with friends...
7 And as the night moved on, we rolled down the windows and heard the crickets. We talked, listened, stared out at the clouds, the trees, and the moon. We breathed in the autumn wind as it played tag on our cheeks, and we both smiled. The TOONDRA sailed further into the hills, and the night turned strange, with trees silhouetted by the clouds and brightened by the misty moon...
8 We talked of the skeletal rigidity of any one of us sitting frozen at a computer, or holding a hand on a cell phone awaiting that one message that never comes, or of the countless moments of a no-reply that sends our lives and our minds on a journey into dark and swirling madness, all because as human beings, we've simply lost the art of courtesy, of simple politeness, and of a quiet talk on an autumn eve.
9 The whole theory seemed to come alive for us. As miraculous and wonderful as the computer age is, it has definitely taken a piece of our humanity away, and left us often feeling lonely, alienated, and seems to have cast us as leading characters in our own cartoon story...
10 The upside to all of this was that a daddy and a daughter went for a ride in the cartoon hills, talked into the misty night, and needed no more than one another's love and friendship to live the true stuff in life.
11 The picture of the moon was taken last night...I know, I know, but still...
12 I think Tim Burton would have accepted that. I just do.
13 The rest was real, and special, and I just thought I'd share my cartoon night with you.
14 It was real.
15 It takes life to love life.
16 Peace.
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