Thursday, July 17, 2003
I am not awake.
Yesterday, I began a new story, "The Dead and the Moonstruck," for the Candlewick anthology. I did 1,266 words, so it's off to a very good start and I should have it done by Saturday evening, at which point I can get back to Chapter Six of MOA (the book, not the extinct bird). This new story, which takes its title from Lovecraft by way of Chapter Five of Threshold is actually about one of the characters from Low Red Moon. You haven't met her yet.
The San Diego Comic Con starts today. I've never done San Diego. Anyway, hopefully the con will yield confirmation or denial of the rumours that Henson is readying to shoot a Farscape mini-series to finish the story left hanging at the end of "Bad Timing." Hopefully, it will yield confirmation.
One of my favorite quotes to come from the revelation that Bush, his Administration, the CIA, and mass media lied to us about WMDs in Iraq has got to be this gem from White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, regarding the claim Bush made that Hussein was buying uranium from Africa: ''That is not known. We don't know if it's true but nobody - but nobody - can say it was wrong. That is not known.'' I'm guessing Ari didn't do so well on the high school debate team.
I'm not sure if I'll continue to talk about the war in this journal. Yes, I did regret having silenced myself before, but, at the same time, this whole mess leaves me sick at heart and mind and soul. And I shudder to imagine the real lies, the ones that these lesser deceits are masking. But you don't need me to point fingers. Even Time magazine's getting into the game. The world turns, Americans discover we aren't getting a quick McWar after all, the economy still sucks, and opinions change like fashion. Oh, you mean our soldiers are going to die, too? Was that supposed to happen? You mean the Iraqis aren't grateful we invaded and threw their already beleaguered nation into a state of utter, murderous chaos? That the tide may be turning, and the fact that Bush and his buddies may drown in the backwash, is in no way comforting. We don't learn from history. Maybe we can't. Sure, it makes us more cynical and callused, but we don't learn. We keep making the same idiotic, selfish mistakes. We've seen all this before. I've seen all this before. Different names. Different dates. Different countries. But the story's just the same.
Like Mr. Rotten said, "This is what you want . . . This is what you get."
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