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HONG KONG–Required reading and listening: BBC News How ’embedded’ reporters are handling the war; The Independant The uprising that wasn’t, mythical chemical weapons and other items of ‘breaking news’; The Smoke Hammer Bushwacked – the plunderphonics here is just ace; The Fire This Time audio files – ‘… a guide to the language of mass media propaganda’; lighter moment in the form of Brenda and Eddy from a 1997 rant (thanks Al Humphry!).

HONG KONG–Michael Moore at Oscars: “I’ve invited my fellow documentary nominees on stage with us here in solidarity with me because we like non-fiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man who’s sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it’s the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts. … We have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you.” Necessary reading: thefirethistime.org | Howard’s future on line | Get Your War On (no. 22; “shock and awe”). Where’s my cape?

HONG KONG–Gee it’s hard to type in this medical mask ;) Hello and welcome to the near- ground zero of influenza-like outbreaks. Anji just called from a Sigur Ros gig in DC, held up the phone for a section of Staralfur so I could hear. I’m as jealous as heck, as per usual. New additions: The Crunch Movie from Stefi in Germany, one of her multimedia projects; anjiandboysong by me; coming soon – found some VERY bizarre old articles from 1994-’98; a movie from Geet with me sticking my daft face in front of the camera too often. Projects completed: intranet for AOL Time Warner/Turner/Time Inc. for HK (can’t link to it, apologies), michealcaronna.com photography showcase.

HONG KONG–Perth homeys doing it large:

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HONG KONG–“Can’t we just build a fucking bomb the size of the earth and cut a hole out of the middle in the shape of the United States? Drop the motherfucker around us and take care of business once and for all?” – Get Your War On. Hello March. Last days of studentdom pics here. anjiandadmsong vid here. last days of mp3 eepeeanjiphive here. SPC, for some reason your assistance is necessary on weekends here at the moment.

HONG KONG–Operation Enduring Unemployment is in the house! (see Get Your War On.) Plugging away for the crumbs falling off the table at the old co., I have a couple of design projects well underway. If I was a shoe designer I’d get onto reshodding myself. Time to retool! Navel-gazing photo shoot with Ai tonight to document the last days of my student hairstyle before I succumb to replicating the shorn drone look for the HK massive. Ho hum. New vid though: Anji and Boy Song. The last for a while as I just had to sell my video cam to pay rent. Only just ‘in the house’, wot?