Sunday, April 6, 2003

Regime Change Advancing down the road from Niniveh Death paused a while and said 'Now, listen here. Your see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside-out. Take Eden, further south: at dawn today I ordered up my troops to tear away its walls and gates so everyone can see that gorgeous fruit which dangles from its tree. You want it, don't you? Go and eat it then, and lick your lips, and pick the same again. Take Tigris and Euphrates; once they ran through childhood-coloured slats of sand and sun. Not anymore they don't; I've filled them up with countless different kinds of human crap. Take Babylon, the palace sprouting flowers, which sweetened empires in their peaceful hours - I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a byword for despair Which leaves Baghdad - the star-tipped minarets, the marble courts and halls, the mirage-heat. These places, and the ancient things you know, you won't know soon. I'm working on it now.' - April 4th The latest poem by the British Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion. More.. 10:20:27 PM    comment [] SARS 'R' Us! Its amazing how close you can come to something that is the subject of such media attention. I was paranoid as usual about SARS, but never thought that someone that I knew could have come very close to the initial "cluster" of patients (as they refer to it). I was talking to this friend of mine who told me that his wife was in Quarantine because she worked at the Scarborough Grace Hospital. Thankfully she didn't develop any symptoms. But that was kind of close.. :) I always knew that she worked at a hospital in the east end, but don't know enough about GTA hospitals to have remembered that it was SGH. Well.. My friend never had to wear a mask and didn't seem too concerned about it. Today I was at Noah's Foods and saw this elderly person wearing a mask. I wasn't sure if he had it.. it seemed more like he was freaked out cuz elderly ppl don't seem to survive it and was wearing it as a precaution.. Still I find hard to understand the fact that the workers at two major GTA Hospitals can be so careless with contagious disease that their behaviour causes the shutdown of two hospitals.. I mean.. this wasn't even a real epidemic.. how would these ppl cope with a real epidemic.. or worse yet.. ??? The only safety seems to be in the odds these days. 7:31:39 PM    comment [] Bloggin from the hinterlands guess who's back.. back again.. Brought the iBook with me.. this "tied to the desktop" metaphor is getting to be as pain in the A** for over a year now.. so I better do something.. but whats cool is that my "Inn" room comes with a broadband internet connection so I can surf and blog and bore people during the week as well.. Anyways.. I've checked in.. the road was clear.. sunny sunday.. I think I like this porject.. 7:23:28 PM    comment [] Who da F**K are you trying to fool? so CablePulse is showing footage about the toronto war protest on Saturday It was a big gathering .. but guess who they interview: One woman wearing hijab -- obviously a Muslim One Indian Woman One Guy with an arabic accent I see tons of europeans.. (Non Ethnos if you will) but the 24 hour toronto channel doesn't try to depict the fact that there are people from all backgrounds there.. what's going on here? The media wouldn't be trying to send you a message would it? a message like.. "only a niche .. foreigner minority .. possibly Arab.. because they feel for their "arab" brethren/sistren came out to protest??" Sometimes I marvel at the quiet viciousness of the art that is racism in this country.. "hey if I don't like this country I should leave right?" or maybe I should try to make it better? as any concientious [sp] citizen should! 9:59:55 AM    comment []

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