OUR TSUNAMI OF COMPASSION AND CONCERN A NEW YEAR’S EVE DISCUSSION CHARITIES TO SUPPPORT I know that I swore up and down that I was taking the week off but the Tsunami rocked my world too, however from a distance. Having made a film in the Indonesian island of Sumatra, I was especially shocked by [...]
Please try to help the tens of thousands people in Asia who have been devastated by the killer tsunami and earthquake that shattered so many countries. You’ll find resources on Google’s Tsunami Relief page: http://www.google.com/tsunami_relief.html A word of sorrow closer to home: Writer/critic/human rights advocate Susan Sontag has died after a long battle with cancer. [...]
XMAS EVE–LAST BLOG OF THE YEAR “WAR IS OVER” THE POLITICS OF CHRISTMAS HAPPY NEWS YEAR ‘Twas the wee hours of the morning before the night before Christmas, and all through my house, nothing was stirring except my fingers hitting these keys, just a few blocks away from where a man named Clement Moore, who [...]
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