Life imitating art imitating life

August 30, 2006 - 9:29 PM by

greys anatomy

I love this. John, an American transplant to Israel, uses an episode of Grey’s Anatomy to help him come to terms with the possibility of suicide bombings in his new hometown. How American is that?

I really like Grey’s Anatomy. It’s been playing on the Yes cable network here in Israel. Thank God for TV distribution.

Last night I watched the latest episode. We’re behind the US – so don’t leave comments giving away details. No spoilers please! :) Anyway, it’s the episode where this guy gets bazooka ammo stuck in his chest and there is a lot of drama around getting it out – he lives, a woman gives birth, people have sex. What more could you want from a hour of TV?!

. . . . Toward the end of the episode, the bomb explodes while a guy from the bomb squat carries it to dispose of it. You see the explosion and at one point his empty bulletproof vest goes flying through the air. Today I went with my friend J to eat a late lunch in downtown Jerusalem. While we were sitting there, I kept thinking back that episode – the horror of the explosion. There have been many homicide bombings in a 2 block radius from where I sat for lunch. I thought about that for a minute and imagined what that must have been like. The visual from Grey’s Anatomy helped me really connect with the power of these explosions.

Thank God that there haven’t been many homicide bombings here lately. (Knock on wood, tfu tfu, tfu, salt over the shoulder, etc.) We’ve been busy dealing with a different type of war and it’s aftermath. I’m still gradually coming to terms with where I live and what that means.

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