September 11th. I usually don't jump on the bandwagon, but here I am.

So today is all about remembering those who died on that day. And every year on this day I read comments like this

"Some of us have not forgotten and I for one never will. The cowards who did this will never give up, and we should be vigilant about bringing them to justice. My prayers to all the suffering families, not just today but every day. I hope we will not pull our troops out of Iraq until we “win” this war. To do otherwise would be admiting defeat, and Americans are winners, not losers. Three Cheers for America! That’s all !"

Now I am not that politically aware, but I do know that Iraq was not responsible for the attacks on September 11th, 2001. They did not claim responsibility for the attacks but they did applaud what the terrorists had done.
Osama Bin Laden is supposedly and likely the man who financed and orchestrated that day. He is Saudi born, and had been living in Afghanistan at the time of the attacks. To find out more about why he did what he did you can read
GW Bush and his cronies used 9/11 to further another agenda, remove Sadam Hussein from power. Iraq and Afghanistan are not that close to each other geographically but because of our poor understanding of politics, religion, and geography in general (see Miss Teen South Carolina 2007 for an example of this) is was easy for them to pull the bait and switch.
And as for winning the war in Iraq.....nobody will win it.
This is a highly abbreviated response but you can always go out and read! Look at maps, realize that the US is not the center of the world and that outside the US there is a world that many people from this country know nothing about.

Oh, and joining MoveOn.org will leave you in your inbox more than enough food for thought,
They paid for this to run yesterday in the NYT:
http://pol.moveon.org/petraeus.html?id=11221-7592134-l00wmj&t=4
But for now I have work to get done and no time for this.........

Really? I mean REALLY?!?!?!?!

I guess one should think twice before ordering a nice Fra Diavolo in Chicago anymore.

What does this mean??

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
( ) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
(x) Blazing Saddles
(x) Airplane
(x) Braveheart

Total: 9


(x) The Princess Bride
(x) Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
(x) Napoleon Dynamite
(x) Labyrinth
( ) Saw
( ) Saw II
( ) White Noise
(x) White Oleander
( ) Anger Management
(x) 50 First Dates
( ) The Princess Diaries
( ) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Total: 6

(x) Scream
( ) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
( ) Scary Movie
( ) Scary Movie 2
( ) Scary Movie 3
( ) Scary Movie 4
(x) American Pie
(x) American Pie 2
( ) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp

Total: 3

(x) Harry Potter 1
( ) Harry Potter 2
( ) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
(x) Resident Evil
( ) Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
(x) Little Black Book
(x) The Village
(x) Lilo & Stitch
(x) Finding Nemo
(x) Finding Neverland
(x) Signs
(x) The Grinch
(x) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) White Chicks
( ) Butterfly Effect
( ) 13 Going on 30 (Suddenly Thirty)
(x) I, Robot
( ) Robots

Total: 13

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(x) Along Came Polly
(x) Deep Impact
(x) KingPin
(x) Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
(x) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
(x) Joe Dirt
(x) KING KONG

Total: 10

( ) A Cinderella Story
(x) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(x) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumber & Dumberer
(x) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
(x) Halloween
(x) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
(x) Surviving X-MAS
( ) Flubber

Total: 6

(x) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
(x) Practical Magic
(x) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
( ) Hellboy
(x) Secret Window
(x) I Am Sam
( ) The Whole Nine Yards

Total: 5

(x) The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child's Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
( ) Ten Things I Hate About You
(x) Just Married
( ) Gothika
(x) Nightmare on Elm Street
(x) Sixteen Candles
( ) Remember the Titans
(x) Coach Carter
(x) The Grudge
(x) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask

Total: 7

( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number Slevin
(x) Ocean's Eleven
(x) Ocean's Twelve
(x) Identity
(x) Lone Star
(x) Bedazzled
( ) Predator
( ) Predator II
(x) The Fog
(x) Ice Age
( ) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George

Total: 7

(x) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
(x) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
(x) Christine
(x) ET
(x) Children of the Corn
(x) My Boss's Daughter
(x) Maid in Manhattan
(x) Frailty
(x) War of the Worlds
(x) Rush Hour
( ) Rush Hour 2

Total: 10

(x) My Best Friend's Wedding
(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(x) She's All That
(x) Calendar Girls
(x) Sideways
(x) Mars Attacks
(x) Event Horizon
(x) Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
(x) Big Trouble in Little China
(x) The Terminator
(x) The Terminator 2
(x) The Terminator 3

Total: 14

(x) X-Men
(x) X2
( ) X-Men 3
(x) Spider-Man
( ) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
(x) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Others
(x) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of Fire
(x) The Skulls
(x) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
(x) The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2

Total: 11

( ) Swimfan
(x) Miracle
(x) Old School
(x) The Notebook
(x) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf's Tribe
( ) A Walk to Remember
(x) Ice Castles
( ) Boogeyman
(x) The 40-year-old-virgin

Mr Butch died today

If you lived in Boston anytime in the last 25 years and walked thru Kenmore Square or Allston, you knew Mr Butch. Always a smile, always made my day better. I grew up in Boston and met Mr Butch when I took a few courses at NESOP before I went away to college. He was a good man. I knew many homeless people who went the way of the pipe and Mr Butch was not one. He gave me reason to smile when we exchanges "hellos". Always had a good line when asking for change. I was a sucker for a funny panhandler.
When I was a messenger I saw him more, he came to our parties sometimes. He came to the shows. He was a pretty laid back and very smart man.
He will be missed, and I hope he knows what he meant all the people that he was kind to over the years.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=32593568

Change

Some strange tweaky things happened to my page and I have been so consumed with the new business that I haven't done anything to fix it. So now I am trying to play catch-up.

Really interesting project..............

http://www.suitcaseexhibit.org/indexhasflash.html

Some good advice.........

I want to live more green, I was raised with most of these things in practice. My parents did most of this because it was cheaper. My mother was a big fan of "just go put on a sweater". I now live in a house that was built with leftover lumber and tries its best to be low-impact. I want to build my own place someday (soon!). This is what I want: http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm I can now be a hobbit. Hobbits live pretty green, they ate local produce, didn't drive, their houses were the difinition of low impact.......I think Thoreau would have loved the Hobbits.
Check out this Walden site:
http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden00.html
very readable.
It could be that I also come to all of this genetically. A great, great, great, great, great (I don't know how many)Uncle was a contemporary of Thoreau. He also gave it all up to live in the woods.
I find it very interesting that I was raised in the city and lived in a city up until fairly recently. But the minute I left I found the quiet that I have been seeking. I don't like big urban spaces for more than a few minutes, I hate the mall, even Costco makes me kind of dizzy. Most of the men I know find it interesting that I hate shopping. (Because women as supposed to love shoes and shopping.....how sexist). Anyway before I come off sounding arrogant or self-important I will stop writing.

Love, love, love Nina