The blackouts in the Northeast were reported on Korean news, and I read about them online yesterday. Man, doesn't that sound exactly like a terrorist act to you? Disrupting daily life, making it impossible to conduct business, etc. If you've ever read Tom Clancy's Patriot Games, there is a minor character, a domestic terrorist, who dreams of doing precisely what happened yesterday -- pulling the plug, essentially. His goal was to make people doubt the government's capacity to protect them.

Yet the articles I read about the first day show New Yorkers rising to the challenge magnificently. I've never thought that NYC was the center of the universe, as New Yorkers tend to think, but I gotta give full props to them today.

And I also gotta give props to Canadians, for being so funny (and producing Kiefer Sutherland). A Toronto resident was quoted in the WA Post as saying: "Canadians aren't doing too well with Americans this year. We have SARS, we opposed the war, and now we've blown out their lights." The more I find out about you Canucks the more I love ya!

Magnetic D, BC, Dave, Steph, Mia (in Toronto), Tiff (in Albany) and everyone else who got blacked out -- hope you're all okay.
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Later in the day...
Check out this site (http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/shoe/index.html) to see the amazing affects of photo retouching. The most interesting (and kinda scary) are the two women models. The brunette's "before" pictures are particularly striking.