A grey day so I’m dressed in grey except for my green handmade socks! I have a meeting and recorder rehearsal. Then, the afternoon to play around with Flash. We have a new non-profit client who might like some simple educational games, and I discovered that I have a copy of Macromedia Studio 8 on my shelf. Cool! I installed last night and ran it and was pleased that it seemed to go just fine with the new operating system on the Intel mac. So, I’m going to try to make a Hanukkah activity in which you light each candle and learn about the prayers and what happens each night.
Meanwhile, I stumbled on this CNBC clip of an interview with John Cusack on his new movie, War, Inc. Very good. I think he articulates how I feel about the war: things are going on that we just can’t know about and some of that is the people who are making huge profits while young Americans die. Susan Jacoby, who wrote the recent book about dumb Americans, suggests that the problem with the war isn’t that we were lied to, it’s that we weren’t plugged in enough or we would have known. I disagree and I don’t want to sound too conspiracy theory about this, but I think there are activities going on that, even if we read the paper everyday and are active in the world, are hidden from us. Couple that with the arrogance of someone like Cheney whose response to the fact that Americans are increasingly against the war was “so?” and you are in a situation where just being knowledgeable isn’t enough. It is time for protest.
