Monthly archives: September 2004

9/11 in Baghdad

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I doubt you’re going to read any more powerful review of Fahrenheit 9/11 than this one from Baghdad Burning.

I constantly wonder, three years after 9/11, do Americans feel safer? When it first happened, there was a sort of collective shock in Iraq. In 2002, there was a sort of pity and understanding- we�ve been through the same. Americans could hardly believe what had happened, but the American government brings this sort of grief upon nations annually� suddenly the war wasn�t thousands of kilometers away, it was home.

How do we feel about it this year? A little bit tired.

We have 9/11�s on a monthly basis. Each and every Iraqi person who dies with a bullet, a missile, a grenade, under torture, accidentally- they all have families and friends and people who care. The number of Iraqis dead since March 2003 is by now at least eight times the number of people who died in the World Trade Center. They had their last words, and their last thoughts as their worlds came down around them, too. I�ve attended more wakes and funerals this last year, than I�ve attended my whole life. The process of mourning and the hollow words of comfort have become much too familiar and automatic.

(Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader)

If your names on the list you're not coming in

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This looks cool- Birth of a Nation by Aaron McGruder (of Boondocks) Reginald Hudlin and Kyle Baker. When Florida style disenfranchisement means most of the population of East St. Louis can’t vote in a Presidential election a dumb Texan fronting for extreme right wingers gets into the White House. East St. Louis’ idealistic mayor, spurred on by black nationalists and a dubious billionaire, decides the city should secede from the Union. The Republic of Blackland becomes rich from “offshore banking”, but can it last?

Reviewed in today’s Permanent Damage.

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Round Are Way

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Of all the days to forget my camera I had to choose the one when they opened up loads of the buildings in Ancoats. Oh well. It was an informative wander and I have a load of targets for later photographing.

I ought to open with an apology. I’ve been ranting about the rebranding of Ancoats as �New Islington�, thinking it was developers ashamed of the heritage. Turns out, when that area of the industrial suburb was built, lots of the streets and sections were named for London landmarks. So there, it was actually the Industrial Revolutionaries who were ashamed of the local heritage.

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Oh sugar, you just made the biggest mistake of your whole life

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The teaser trailer for Sin City is up, and it looks good. This is probably going to be the most faithful comics adaptation ever, if the intercut original art is anything to go by and the fact that it’s co-directed by Frank Miller. I recognise That Yellow Bastard as one of the source stories, and possibly Big Fat Kill and the original series. It even has the feel of the comic art- black and white with spot colours.

Update Practically the same time as I was writing the post, the trailer got taken down. Probably because there was a huge surge in traffic and it was shafting their bandwidth. There is a trailers page, you can check back later to see if the footage goes back up.