This Blog In September 2001: Day Twenty-Four.

Void

Time stopped.
Or so it seemed.
For him, floating in the void, nothing worse could happen.
The loneliness wan't like anything he had experienced before in his life -- perhaps, he thought, to anyone in anylife.
After all - he was the first to get into this situation, he supposed.
Strangely, he didn't feel the terror he should have experienced in expectation.
He felt oddly optimistic that something eas going to happen.
Soon.
Time went by.
He tried to remember how he had found himself in this situation.
He found it impossible.
He began to spin.
He didn't know why he was spinning.
As he spun, he tried to use the inertia to move even quicker forward.
He succeeded.
The problem was he wasn't going anywhere.
He didn't care.

TV US attacks in West Wing storyline -- at a time when the US entertainment arts when actively ignoring world events, it's not surprising that the current second best programme on TV (behind Buffy, obviously) should be confronting this issue head on. It is difficult to see how as such an event within the fictional realm of the series would more than likely cast a show. Dream sequence?

Radio Danny Baker is broadcasting again -- on the not at all nation BBC London Live. Aha -- but it's broadcast on the web -- between 8am and 11am on a Saturday, while I'm on my way to work. Denied, I feel...

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