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I was first introduced to Simon Harak through Holly from (e:strip). She had him come to UB to speak last year at the onset of the war. It was starnge that he was a Jesuit Priest talking about peace at UB and staying at Canisius. I asked him why he did not talk at Canisius - in fact a Jesuit School. And he said not everyone was as concerned about these issues as him.

That really made me question a lot about the Jesuit institution at large. It had a huge influence on me not applying for the long-term job there.

The reason I am writing about this is I was searching for some more information about him and I found a his essay entitled, "The Siege of Iraq"

Note: It was written in 2000 and its only gotten worse since then.

If you want more information of the seige of Iraq please check out the voice in the wilderness website here

If you like Michael Moore, try listening to Democracy Now on the radio. Amy Goodman loves Michael Moore and I am sure you would love her show. Its also nice because she is really a leader within the progressive community and she is a woman. That seems to be rare, even in the land of the free, home of the brave.

In San Diego you don't even need the internet to listen to it. It is on Free Radio 96.9 FM in San Diego, twice a day from 6am-8am and 3pm-5pm. Although you still can download streaming MP3s from the site if you want to listen to it at other time. The site also has lots of information about current issues.

I think Bush really does need to be challenged on this AWOL issue. How can he send so many of our youth away to fight when he didn't even go himself? Especially for a war that wasn't really defensive. I mean, it would be one thing if foreign troops were invading and a President with no military service sent soldiers to protect. But this war wasn't like that - not even sort of.

If President Bush knew the horrors of war first hand, he would have thought twice about Iraq. Well, I guess at this point we can just be vocal and vote when it comes time for a new president.

We ate Sushi and sashimi at Kuni's. I was treally ecited to go and the food was quite tasty. The price was also reaosnable. We ordered a large Sashimi plate which had lots of tasties from ocean.



My only problem was the ginger. The ginger was chock full of aspartame and I didn't realize till I ate a lot of it at the end of the meal. Right now I can only taste aspartame which is my leats favorite flavor in the whole world.



God, make the chemical sweetness end . . .

So thanks to all my super friends and aquaintences, my birthday is turning out to be quite rad after all. I hope to see you all at the party tomorrow. Its also nice to see more new names on the site list!

On another note, today I got to see some more VR art projects and I am starting to really think it has potential to be something exciting.

Josephine, also cleared up guilty feelings I was having about particpating in art that is not politically based. I really am thinking that working with her could change my life and make me happier.

I had been starting to get stuck in an anti-school funk. Not hat I don't think politically/socially pogressive art is important. After all I dedicate most of my hours to that kind of work. I just always secretly wanted to also work with 3D and VR. After all, its the reason I went to UB in the first place but get swept into a certain unnamed person's world who directed me in a way I really didn't want to go. So I decided for my 27th year I am no longer going to feel guilty about that.

Its my birthday right now. Where is Terry? At the essex with his friends. Where is Mattew, in a bad mood in his room.

This is going to be fun. Time for homework.