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6.1.2002
"Between 7 pm and 7:40 pm, the National Weather Service issued separate tornado warnings for north-central Fairfield County, southern Litchfield County and northern New Haven County." And we - myself, Sheila, my mother, the two dogs Petie and Marty, and the two cats, Macguyver and Winnie - were all in our cellar, waiting it out. What a sight we must have been, since we live on the second floor and have to go outside in order to get into the cellar. And poor Winnie - she's so ornary, I had to stuff her into a duffel bag, zip it up and run out and downstairs before she figured out how to get out of it (which she almost did!). The storm was pretty fierce, and things were a little scary for about 10 mintues there, but mostly we were just laughing our asses off.
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"I don't think either side is that irresponsible to go to that limit," Musharraf told CNN in an exclusive interview. "I would even go to the extent of saying one shouldn't even be discussing these things, because any sane individual cannot even think of going into this unconventional war, whatever the pressures."
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Pakistan's President Musharraf assures the world that the current conflict between his country and India will not escalate to full out nuclear war. I feel somewhat reassured. I was reading some of the news stories about this yesterday and I couldn't even write about it, it frightened me so. That level of mass destruction and loss of humanity is beyond my ability to comprehend it. If I think about it too much, I can literally feel the panic begin to settle in, and then my mind just shuts down, a defense mechanism. I think a lot of that is a result of growing up when I did, before the Wall came down and relations between ourselves and the Soviet Union (the only other real nuclear threat at the time) thawed. Now, with the proliferation of nuclear weapon technology wider than ever (and in the hands of countries that are not particular friends of ours), the old fears are starting to awaken. 5.31.2002
Brand new college graduate Steven Spielberg finally gets his degree in filmmaking. Hmm, I wonder what the chances were of him failing? And imagine the poor professor who had to grade his projects and papers!
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Seriously, though, props to Mr. Spielberg for going back and finishing what he started, when he clearly didn't have to. 5.30.2002
More than eight months after the September 11 attacks, New York City says a final goodbye while Mueller admits the attacks may have been preventable.
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I think our sense of imperviousness as a nation, our naivete, and a false sense of security are as much to blame as any one individual. As much as I prefer that false sense of security and complacency, I bet that if there was the same level of high paranoia in the intelligence community as there was during the Cold War, the attacks would indeed have been prevented. I don't think the CIA and FBI should return to the tactics of the Cold War era (Christ, the CIA is largely responsible for creating the likes of Osama bin Laden, Noriega, etc.), but there has to be a middle-ground somewhere. 5.29.2002
At last, after years of mediocre gardening success and the senseless death of many otherwise perfectly healthy plants, my hard work has paid off. You've heard of Kentucky bluegrass? Crabgrass? Well, feast your eyes on the new variety I've managed to cultivate:
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Don King Grass!
5.28.2002
Filmwise Fun
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Been a while since I visited the Boyz. You can find their most recent Invisibles quiz here. (6 out of 8!) They also have a new contest, Author! Author!, wherein they've taken the heads of famous authors and inserted them into a still from a movie based on their work. Sort of frightening, but funny, too.
Salon Masterpiece: Star Wars.
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We watched Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back on Sunday night. I think I'll pop in Return of the Jedi tonight. My favorite is Empire. What's yours?
Team members will carry a Persil sports kit of socks, sweatbands, baseball hats and mini towels, at the International Naturist Pétanque Championships. It's also all they'll be wearing.
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WARNING: photo included; and remember, nudist does not equal supermodel
James Burgett is a big, burly biker and an ex-heroin junkie who is building a trash empire from recycled computers.
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Great story.
If you're an Audiogalaxy user, you may want to start downloading all those songs you've been meaning to download - they may not be around much longer.
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The cleanup effort at the site of the World Trade Center ends today, with the removal of the last steel beam.
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Concert pianist likes the X-Files theme so much, he slipped it into a Mozart concerto.
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[thanks tvtattle] 5.26.2002
San Diego man has pet hippo removed from property. I know it's illegal to own one, but after ten years, that hippo is going to miss the place.
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