Rant #2,012: Don't Let the Rain Fall Down On Me

Today, I am going to use the rain as both an actual thing and as a metaphor for what is going on in Hollywood.

First, the supposed purveyor of everything "right" in the world--I mean, they have had the audacity to tell us who to vote for and how to live while they lounge in their multi-million dollar worlds bathed in total fantasy--has unearthed another deep dark secret, and if anything can top the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal, this has to be it.

Kevin Spacey, one of the most well-regarded actors in this emerging Sodom and Gomorrah world that Hollywood is being exposed as, has not only come out as gay, he has come out as a pedophile, admitting to sexually attacking a young 14-year-old boy years ago.

The young boy is another fellow actor, Anthony Rapp, who is one of the stars of "Star Trek: Voyager."

Spacey has admitted that he has had numerous sexual encounters with men over the years, has now chosen to live as a gay man, but you have to wonder if all of this is a smokescreen to cover up the fact that he attacked an underage child years ago,

You know, to gain sympathy for himself, living in this cruel world as a gay man.

I don't think anyone would care if he came out as gay, and that was that, but then this thing gets thrown into the mix, and you really have to wonder ... what other deep, dark secrets is Hollywood hiding, and why has it taken in some cases decades for it to all come out in the wash?

And talking about the wash, I could have washed my clothes outside yesterday with just a little detergent.

It rained and rained and rained some more, and yesterday has to go down as one of the worst Sundays, weather wise, that people in my part of the world have seen in a long, long time.

The interesting thing is that the weather forecasters, with all of their advanced analytics at their disposal, predicted that it would be much, much worse than it really was.

The South Shore of Long Island was supposed to get hit with a convergence of two storms, and while this sounds eerily like what happened exactly five years to the day with Hurricane Sandy, while this weather disturbance brought lots of rain, and later gale force winds, it became pretty much a distant cousin of Sandy, with neither the poof nor the punch of that storm ... and for that, we all have to be grateful.

Some forecasters predicted near five inches of rain, and while we didn't get that, we got plenty yesterday.

For all of those people who work outside, I am sure they got drenched to the bone, but that was pretty much it.

And again, we all have to be grateful with that.

Five years later, and many people in my neck of the woods are still reverberating from Sandy. One more similar weather occurrence could have pushed these people over the edge.

Happily, that didn't happen.

The rain is supposed to stop today, and Halloween is supposed to be a good one for the kids.

With Hurricane Sandy, Halloween pretty much got wiped out where I live, so at least the few trick or treaters in my neighborhood will have their holiday.

Good for them.