12.29.2004

That's what you get for not celebrating Christmas.

Part of the world celebrated the birth of Jesus last weekend. Another part paid the price for not.

the death toll continues to rise. up to 80,000 as this is written. one of the worst and possibly the deadliest natural disaster in the history of man. i can't think of anything more deadly, especially as the number of deaths is expected to rise even further. and when the outbreaks of disease from bad water and rotting corpses start to spread, more will die. it's incredibly sad. i feel helpless, as i am. i have no prayer power. i have no money and no helicopter loaded with food nor helicopter pilot's license. nor proper tap shoes with which to put on a benefit concert. i do have tap sandals that i made myself but they are not fit for a fundraising event.

when you consider that this could have easily happened in the pacific and killed thousands on the west coast, it makes the disaster even more frightening. obviously, i have no less care for humans living on the indian ocean than the pacific. it's just the thought of a disaster of such proportion hitting closer to home that scares me. and allow me to be a bit of prick when i ask, "what would that do to the entertainment industry?" all those actors and set pieces swept into the sea never to be seen again. It would be like a big reset button for all us chodes dwelling out of LA waiting for the right moment to pounce, hoping we can pounce somewhere else like New York or Chicago. Right back to zero. I’d have a gamer’s chance at stardom then.
Even more strange, what if only half of Hollywood was erased, leaving just porn and Steve Martin? Hmmmm. Or how about just porn and The entire cast and crew of Seventh Heaven? Or what about just porn? Porn probably accounts for half the work in Hollywood all by itself, right? Luckily, Bollywood is far inland on the Asian continent.

Getting back to the point of me being here writing, WOW. 80,000 people. That’s a huge fraction of the Earth’s population. I read somewhere too that the earthquake caused the Earth’s rotation to speed up making the day a fraction of a second shorter than it was just last week. That’s all I need; less time to sleep at night. Apparently, as a plate was subducted under another one, the Earth is now more compact and spins faster. amazing.

The final number is going to be so huge. I thought it was pretty high Sunday morning when I saw that it was 13,000 people with a few thousand more missing. And here we are at 80,000. the only thing I can hold it up to (tragic wise) is the world trade center and I think the death toll from that was around 3,000. considering everything that it did to our country, to our culture, it will be interesting to see how these humans react to such an astronomical loss of life. Of course, the circumstances are different as this act was perpetrated by nature or some invisible magical force from the sky as some would have it. And the act of 9-11 was enacted by fellow humans or an invisible magical force from the sky as some would have it. So they are different in that respect. Nonetheless, mega tragic and something everyone on the planet should feel for if not just briefly.

These people should be missed and remembered by all people on Earth, not just their newly homeless loved ones.

80,000! F**K

fuck,
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chodes