2003-04-03 - 1:32 p.m. -



so, half an hour & i�m outta here.
leaving work soon to go home & finish packing for my trip. i hate being away from home, but i also think i need the few days away thinking about other things. i also just need a good road trip & now i�m taking one.

i wont have access to a computer until i get back on monday night, so no updates from me for a few days. (yeah, i know, your heartbroken about it. yeah, right) try to be nice to each other until i get back.

the US will most likely be in baghdad by the time i head home from chicago. brace yourselves kids� this is when it could all hit the fan. i still can�t believe that we are doing this. but then again, the government does a lot of things i can�t believe.

there is a wooden statue from the early 15th century sitting on my worktable right now. the man in the statue is in full armor , ready for whatever battle he is the hero of. there are many more like this in storage� only the names & dates are different. so many knights, so many battles, so many people who thought that they were on the side of God. they are all dead & gone. their statues are dry-rotted & full of termite holes. their names long since forgotten, their grand battles lost to the pages of history.

there is a metaphor in all of this somewhere�

see you all on tuesday.
have a good weekend.
be well.
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�I�ve invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us. They are here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time when we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it is the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts. We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush. Shame on you. And any time that you have the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.�

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