salam pax, where are you
i've been searching on the internet for salam to see if maybe he has some kind of other blog going on somewhere. but i also just read that baghdad is totally dark. when the coalition troops moved in that's what they saw--darkness. a black spot. they claim they did not target the power grid. very smart. scare the crap out of them. i wonder if salam is alive. i am worried for him.

mom is going to be in manila soon
i hope she will be okay and not get sick with that SARS going around in asia. my co-worker came back from asia and was one of the 2 new yorkers quarantined when news broke out of SARS a week ago. he had all the symptoms, we were reading about it on the site. but the hospital claims he didn't and sent him home when he got better. i hope they were right.

media fear-mongering
sometimes it gets to me despite the fact i know it's all designed to make us nice and compliant. i felt like watching Michael Jackson on that MSG show he did with his bros on VH1, after seeing the war coverage and SARS shit over and over. it takes a lot for me to watch that psychotic freak dancing around, unless it's Jackson 5 songs.