Another Telpuk photo rescues another boring post: amazing what they can do with photoshop these days, isn't it?
Borev ran this note on the "valijagate" trial in Miami over the weekend and a reader passed the link on to me and said, "So? Waddya think, Otto? Exciting stuff no? Coming to a climax, no?".
No.
I've tried, I've really tried to get all hot'n'bothered about the suitcase trial thingy but it's just not working. Even the nekkid photos of the Telpuk girl were disappointing in that plasticky way, but the main problem I have with all this is that on the one hand you have a prosecution revealing shock truths about corruption in South America (which shocks nobody who lives down here) and on the other you have a shocked defence accusing the USA of meddling in South American affairs and generally stirring up shit for its own good (which also shocks nobody down here).
It's a zero-sum game, y'see. Add that to the fact that I don't like soap-operas, and half the cast of this one are straight out of the worst Mexican telenovela possible. You have the fat dickhead millionaire, the wannabe playboy model who has opportunity knock on her door, high level gov't shenanigans, thrusting truth-seekers with their own ambitions, guilty-person-declared-innocent / innocent-person-declared-guilty (whichever way it goes for Franklin Duran today), then the fast cars, fast women, intrigue, private jets etc etc etc ad infinitum. It's very fitting that the whole thing is going down in Miami, all things told.
So the verdict is supposed to hit the wires this afternoon and Franklin Duran gets anything from set free to 15 years in the can. Whatever way it goes, a squillion words will get written on the affair on both sides of the fight. But count me out as from the end of this post. Sorry, not interested, go get your fix somewhere else.
UPDATE: Against my better judgement, a quick update. The jury hasn't been able to reach a unanimous verdict today and so the deliberations will continue tomorrow.