cinema veriterror
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lapsedmodernistI kept playing with my new camera last night, making "movies" of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
constintina, nuncstans and superchango; mostly trying to learn to zoom and focus on this camera. but i wish i had taped what transpired when they first came over, because then i could cut it together with other moments in the evening, creating a three-minute, or whatever, snapshot of post-code-orange life. cuz every few months the aforementioned people and sometimes totalvirility and myself have conversations that are some sort of variation on yesterday.
We are sitting around, a plane landing noise is heard, as usual, because we live near La Guardia.nuncstans twitches. I comment on the twitching. she says that's nothing, superchango has been super-paranoid for the last 24 hours. i unwisely ask why. he explains about a story about cargo plains crashing into buildings, bridges and nuclear plants, and DC and NYC muslims encouraged to leave the cities, and how this story is all over the international news, but not US press (we end up seeing a diluted version of it on CNN later on). i start twitching and longing for chicago, then the usual conversation of is it true/is it planted/what does it mean that we're not on code orange, should we turn CNN on on mute so that we know if something happens (hahahah, get it? it's a joke, because CNN does not report shit), we are mad and reminiscing about the very special Valentine's Day Code Orange, we eat Indian food and twitch, twitch, twitch every time a plane goes over particularly low.
and the thing is, it's typical at this point. that's why i wish i had videotaped it. because every few months this happens, and we twitch while commenting that the administration wants to keep us terrified. well, i am sure i will get another opportunity.
constintina, nuncstans and superchango; mostly trying to learn to zoom and focus on this camera. but i wish i had taped what transpired when they first came over, because then i could cut it together with other moments in the evening, creating a three-minute, or whatever, snapshot of post-code-orange life. cuz every few months the aforementioned people and sometimes totalvirility and myself have conversations that are some sort of variation on yesterday.We are sitting around, a plane landing noise is heard, as usual, because we live near La Guardia.
nuncstans twitches. I comment on the twitching. she says that's nothing, superchango has been super-paranoid for the last 24 hours. i unwisely ask why. he explains about a story about cargo plains crashing into buildings, bridges and nuclear plants, and DC and NYC muslims encouraged to leave the cities, and how this story is all over the international news, but not US press (we end up seeing a diluted version of it on CNN later on). i start twitching and longing for chicago, then the usual conversation of is it true/is it planted/what does it mean that we're not on code orange, should we turn CNN on on mute so that we know if something happens (hahahah, get it? it's a joke, because CNN does not report shit), we are mad and reminiscing about the very special Valentine's Day Code Orange, we eat Indian food and twitch, twitch, twitch every time a plane goes over particularly low.and the thing is, it's typical at this point. that's why i wish i had videotaped it. because every few months this happens, and we twitch while commenting that the administration wants to keep us terrified. well, i am sure i will get another opportunity.
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Date: 2003-11-09 03:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-09 08:09 pm (UTC)"We are going to live in an insecure world. It cannot be avoided. We have to learn to live in it with dignity, with idealism, with steadfastness."
- Z. Brzezinski
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14360-2003Nov7.html
-mjm
fighting back with humor
Date: 2003-11-09 08:19 pm (UTC)just a reminder about what you've read already:
“On Monday, Attorney General John Ashcroft issued a terrorism warning, asking all Americans to be on high alert this week. . . . I think I speak for all Americans when I say, ‘Bitch, I can’t be any more alert than I already am. O.K.?’ I’m opening my mail with salad tongs. I take my passport in the shower with me. I am watching so much CNN I am having sex dreams about Wolf Blitzer.”
- Tina Fey
-mjm