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2/25/2006

Last night I saw Hotel Rwanda and I cried like a little bitch. Am I the only one? This movie reached inside and touched me. This movie was based on true story that took place in Rwanda during a genocide of nearly one million people. Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, with a sense of duty, and a pair of balls, singlehandedly saved the lives of nearly 12,000 people.

On the special features of the DVD of Hotel Rwanda, Paul visited one of the execution sites. I was shocked to see a pile of children with their skulls sliced open by machete. You can almost make out the frozen screams on the corpses. Who is capable of such a horrific act? Is the person holding the machete more or less human than anyone else?

Throughout history, it is evident how man can be manipulated. How can thousands of people follow one man into war? Or for that matter, join a cult? Better yet, how can one convince another to murder his own neighbor? If they were alive, we could ask, Hitler, Stalin, or Napoleon, how they won over such a large number of people. For a bunch of humans we act a lot like sheep following anyone, that appears they know the way.

When I was in Europe, I was amazed how much world news is covered. On the ten o'clock news I see more updates on American Idol than casualties in Iraq? Why is that? We are spoon fed ideas of what we should look like, what we should wear, what we should listen to. Top dollar is paid for our minds people and the media controls it.

I am a little disgusted in our human race right now. I feel a sense of duty but I don't know where to start. I look at Paul Rusesabagina and feel so little. Followed with, what have I done? Nothing really. I do make people laugh without getting paid, that is a form of charity isn't it? I'd like to do something more meaningful with my life. Maybe I could befriend a midget? Does anyone know any midgets, that like to dance? I could use a midget, for my dance show on March 25th @ The Bowery Poetry Club. Maybe all I have to offer the world is some good jokes and a dance to "Part Time Lover", by Stevie Wonder.

You see silly monkeys I snuck in an advertisement and you didn't even notice.

Anyway, thanks for listening blog, you remind me of doogie howser.