Remember, Val Kilmer & Sophie

.1. Srebrenica.

.2. I hope everyone has had…a relatively calm weekend. All friends and family are well in the UK; have spoken with everyone and am looking forward to getting over there at the end of the month. Am also very excited that will see one of my oldest celebrity crushes – Val Kilmer (shut up!) – on the last night of his play in the West End. Understand he is a wee bit more bloated than when I last swooned (somewhere between Ice Man and The Saint) but am still excited as it is Val Kilmer.

Itinerary is as follows >> Will be in Scotland laying in the grass and staring over cliffs to drown my imagination in the sea.

Then. I will jump on an airplane, fly down to London for an approximate 18 hours, during which I will meet Hannah for the play, eat dinner at The Ivy, stay awake chatting about nonsense and all sense until I jump back on another plane to head back to Glasgow…

Pretentious, isn’t it?

.3. Months back, I mentioned Sophie – the wife of Mohamed Harkat, one of the four men being detained without charge under the guise of the ‘Security’ Certificate issued in order to…erm…to…keep Canada ‘safe’. Recall that the fifth man, Adil Charkaoui, at whose bail hearing we were last, is not being detained, per se, but is residing under restrictions fit for someone guilty of drugging, raping, torturing and murdering some young girls (but then again, Homolka has no alleged ties with Al Qaeda and so she can’t possibly be that bad).

Right. So Sophie and I have been conversing for the last couple of months and although having run into one another at several events, we are finally going to sit together tomorrow evening. I have already sent her some rather intimate questions as I am interested in writing about the impact of the ‘Security’ Certificates on her, as a woman, and not on her, as someone who was chosen by history to be some sort of activist.

Also, Tuesday evening will be another night spent with her, well…actually, it will be a night spent watching her, and so I hope to have the article written by some time next week.

.4. I will keep plugging away at deleting Bob’s comments (Laura & Jez, I was forced to repost your comments, hence the odd time stamp!), all the while keeping only the one comment section on so as to get a sense of the work involved in dealing with Bob.