~ annoying phrases: ‘bleeding edge’, ‘teach-in’, and hearing terrorist attacks referred to as ‘911’ and/or ‘nine-eleven’.

~ one tie to the west coast has been cut by the angry red planet upon the discovery of a trader joe’s accessible from manhattan via the lirr. stockpiles of ‘vitality’ and ‘rice-um’ were acquired.

~ from the angry red planet inbox:

“Following is a list of names that sci-arc students have submitted as nominations
for Director……..

Steven Holl = [explicit]

Sheila Kennedy = bad work
Robert + Mary Ann = are they serious???,,, two insane directors?
Coy Howard = run the school yourself you whiiiiners
TERRY SURJAN = i thought he hated sciarc?
Daniel Liebeskind = word! but i doubt it
Samuel Mockbee = well we didnt pikk him last time,, lets give it a shot
Shigeru Ban = who?
Evan Douglas = who?
JEFF KIPNIS = word
Karoline Schmitt-Bauer = are they kidding?
Anderson brothers = rednex
Will Alsop = who?
Chris Genik = dear god no!!!
Herzog and De Meuron = yeah right
Wolf Prix = drunk
Richard Rogers = hahaha
Rem Koolhaas = give me a break
Stan Allen � have already declined interest
Liz Diller � have already declined interest

this sounds like a list that a freshman would cook up because they
think their program is bad ass enough to warrant some bigshot director

i’m glad i was there when kulper was director

-jt

~ johnny cash has entered the hospital with bronchitis. the angry red planet wishes a quick and full recovery for the man in black!

~ the northern alliance is claiming that 40 commanders and 1,200 fighters have defected from the taliban. just last week, these ‘defectors’ were defending a regime that has systematically destroyed human rights and sponsors a network of terrorists. have they suddenly had an epiphany, awakening to the error of their ways? or are they just running to the side that currently is not being pounded by the united states air force and navy?

if the northern alliance can cozy up to the fanatics who defended that breed of scum so quickly, how can they be expected to be cool when it is time to construct a new system of ordering society?

if the northern alliance wants to topple the taliban, more power to them; that makes more sense to me than having the u.s. or russia meddling – since i doubt either of these powers seem like they would work strongly for the ‘establishment’ of anarcho-syndicalism [w]. but if they are going to turn out to be as big of a group of assholes to the afghan people, as rawa [w] seems to indicate, i would rather they didn’t do it with the help of u.s. funding, troops, and training. i know that the u.s. needs to team up with some local forces in order to facilitate operations and to ensure the safety of u.s. soldiers, but it would be a whole lot cooler if the northern alliance is not just intent on making a deal of trading osama and some of his cronies in exchange for u.s. support of their own military regime.

~ remember: fight war, not wars…

~ if you are at all concerned at the possibility of new restrictions on civil liberties in the united states brought by the ‘uniting and strengthening america act’, then peep the new action alert online at aclu.org. especially frightening is ‘section 213’, which would allow the badge to inspect a house or apartment in secret. luckily, senator feingold is intending to amend this, as reported in yahoo news [w].

~ when paul mccartney releases a single to benefit world trade center relief efforts, he seems like a decent guy; when Michael Jackson does it, he seems like a child molester.

~ we still have not reached a conclusion concerning the finale of peter parker #35…

~ “The storm of airplanes will not stop. There are thousands of young people who look forward to death like the Americans look forward to life.”

-spokesman for al-Qaida

damn. pretty bleak view. can’t we airdrop some xboxes or something for these kids?

~ take care to notice that our url is not www.theangryredplanet.com [w]

~ from aim:

   terra cimmeria : “The two-pound HDR packages are designed to be religiously and culturally acceptable to all people. They include rice, vegetables and fruit and no animal products, such as pork, which Muslims do not eat.”
   terra cimmeria : read: The two-pound HDR packages are designed to be ethically and culturally acceptable to all vegans. They include rice, vegetables and fruit and no animal products, such as pork, which vegans do not eat.
   terra cimmeria : why don’t they drop that shit around here?
   xxxx xxxxxx : after protests ensued at local krust burger restaurant krusty has issued the following statement, ‘this, i dont need’
   terra cimmeria : did you and jjj go to those protests?
   xxxx xxxxxx : jjj doesnt care anymore
   terra cimmeria : was jjj demanding that they serve astro burgers
   terra cimmeria : care about what? his cause?
   xxxx xxxxxx : he is going to ‘la’ on wednesday
   terra cimmeria : noooo!!

~ if photographs are considered idolatry by the taliban, why is osama bin laden allowed to have his face printed on the t-shirts peddled by taliban supporters? for that matter, since teaching english is also forbidden, why are the t-shirt slogans written in english? maybe the assumption is that only infidels will be looking at the shirts. since afghanistan has a literacy rate of 30%, it is safe to assume that 2/3 of the taliban cops will not realize this. or, perhaps the t-shirt hawkers are secretly thankful they live in the liberal state of pakistan, because the guys they are praising would bust their chops if they caught them breaking the rules.

~ are americans supposed to be offended by a burning u.s. flag? we can do that here if we want to, for pete’s sake. let’s see some ‘militants’ with the balls to burn their own flag.

~ sigh…when do we get back to the class war?

~ ‘america will never dream or know or taste security or safety’

pretty tough words for a guy who spends his nights hiding in a freaking cave.