Month: April 2003

Phitre wrote in incredulous at the last entry re: GI Joe and Cubano. Here’s a pic:

I downloaded my first movie and watched it – totally subverting the Hollywood machine. I logged on to Kazaa and was shocked to find a copy of Phone Booth ready for download in MPEG format, split into two parts. The picture quality was alright and the image was pretty small – the audio was nothing […]

And of course there’s the age old debate of is the death of a pregnant woman double-homicide? This is such a perfectly emotionally charged issue for both sides of the abortion debate – if Laci Peterson’s murder was a double homicide then what separates the killing of her unborn child from abortion (note that intent […]

The sign at Manhole for this week is ‘Make sure your discharge is honorable.’ I love the slogans they have each week (they’re motto is: ‘Women and children last.’). My favorite still remains: ‘Tomorrow’s forecast: 9 inches’. Ron is in San Francisco visiting Gilbert so I went out by myself. I get so much more […]

The Beeb reports on the symbolism behind the celebrations in Iraq. Oh, and you saw the pics of them tearing down the statue of Saddam? Looks like the whole city is in celebration? Look again.

Been awhile since I wrote – I’m writing this at the coffeeshop. Just met a guy who is an opera tenor – I was surpised to see him reading an opera score – he looks like Carl Lewis, tall built black guy – I figure he was a dancer or something because of his poise. […]

”’It’s simple. They want water. I have it, as long as they agree to get baptized,” he said. First, though, the soldiers have to go to one of Llano’s hour-and-a-half sermons in his dirt-floor tent. Then the baptism takes an hour of quoting from the Bible.’