how beautiful is this?
Harold Pinter, on Samuel Beckett:
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don't want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the shit the more I am grateful to him. He's not f---ing me about, he's not leading me up any garden path, he's not slipping me a wink, he's not flogging me a remedy or a path or a revelation or a basinful of breadcrumbs, he's not selling me anything I don't want to buy - he doesn't give a bollock whether I buy or not - he hasn't got his hand over his heart. Well, I'll buy his goods, hook, line and sinker, because he leaves no stone unturned and no maggot lonely. He brings forth a body of beauty.
His work is beautiful."
from this site.

this is interesting: Red Cross: no more September 11 donations

and so many scary things to list:
-NY Firefighters report illness
-Afghan hospital strike 'kills 15'
-Heavy Bombing Outside Kabul as U.S. Slams Range of Targets
(the use of the word "slam" is particularly nice)
-New terror warning bewilders America
(what, did Ridge get that forwarded email that said "sTay ouT Of mAllS oN haLloWeeN"?)

we knew he was crazy, but still...
Milosevic Calls Tribunal Unfair, Infantile and 'a Farce'
(actually, what he said was, "And don't bother me and make me listen for hours on end to the reading of text written at the intellectual level of a 7-year-old child, or rather, let me correct myself, a retarded 7-year-old.")
...he confirms it over and over and over for us.