Archive for March, 2003

Command Post

Posted by brownpau on March 24, 2003. No comments.

The Command Post: your source for quick rightwing-slanted war news, aggregated from a giant cadre of warbloggers and non-warbloggers. Pretty good resource on the conflict, even for an ambivalent moderate like myself.

Poor Raffy…

Posted by brownpau on March 23, 2003. One comment.

I called up Raffy today to wish him a Happy Birthday, and was greeted with a raspy, laryngitis-stricken voice. Aw, poor Raffy. Why not pay him a visit and wish him a speedy recovery? Somewhere in California, some fun contemporary worship service is missing his angelic tenor. Get well soon, bud.

Sub Gloom

Posted by brownpau on March 23, 2003. No comments.

Dark reflections in a dirty Metrorail windshield. Photo taken with an Aiptek Mini Pencam 1.3MP SD.

Southbound Platforms

Posted by brownpau on March 23, 2003. No comments.

Arriving at Union Station, Washington, DC, on the eastmost raised platform. The platforms viewed here serve rails under the station and further south into Virginia. Photo taken with an Aiptek Mini Pencam 1.3MP SD.

Poshlost, Hermitage, and Surrender Leaflets

Posted by brownpau on March 22, 2003. One comment.

(Hmm, no wonder all those Iraqi soldiers are surrendering: who could resist a surrender leaflet offer like this?) Light blogging volume right now, because I’m really busy working on Whyblog.org (now with blog!) while simultaneously following all the war coverage, but I’ll break the silence long enough to say that jh3k is back with a [...]

Armory

Posted by brownpau on March 21, 2003. No comments.

The grim walls of the National Guard Armory near Baltimore State Center. Photo taken with an Aiptek Mini Pencam 1.3MP SD.

The View from Iraq

Posted by brownpau on March 20, 2003. One comment.

Iraqi blogger Raed/Salam looks around Baghdad the morning after. He says Saddam’s “got verse!” Mm-hm. Meanwhile, IraqTV appears to have been hacked, and Kuwaiti bloggers wonder how Wolf Blitzer stays awake.

Godwinist Irony

Posted by brownpau on March 20, 2003. One comment.

Linnwood shows us a bit of Godwinist irony from Japanese antiwar protestors. How times have changed.

The Day After

Posted by brownpau on March 20, 2003. No comments.

Ugh. I had intended to go home around midnight, but work on WhyBlog.org, combined with the multiple distractions of following war news, reading blogs, and chatting on #mefi kept me up till 3am. I zonked out on the couch in the lab, meaning to catch the light rail home at 5am, but that never happens, [...]

Iraq War Begins

Posted by brownpau on March 19, 2003. No comments.

It begins. As air raid sirens, anti-aircraft fire, and missile explosions flood the skies and streets of Baghdad, may the good Lord protect the innocent civilians of Iraq in this time of war and terror. I was a bit startled to find myself agreeing with Willis and Kottke tonight. There are deep-seated issues at stake [...]