From the Warren Ellis email list - From: WarrenE@aol.com To: badsignal@lists.flirble.org Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 08:25:56 EDT
bad signal WARREN ELLIS
To answer a ton of email and forestall some more: I wasn't in London today, and I'm fine.
Right now, it's looking like seven explosions, 150 injuries, two dead. The dead count is obviously going to go up -- the bus had its bomb on the top deck, and it butterflied it -- but they're still bringing live bodies out of the tube stations. Blair, standing with the G8 leaders as he made his statement, has of course been given a political gift.
Those of you trying to contact London friends and family should be aware that the mobile phone system is still locked down in parts of the city.
I'd remind my foreign readers that, although it's been a while, this sort of thing is not something we're unused to over here. There's not going to be a lot of freaking out from the generations that remember explosives in litterbins and bomb threat drills in office blocks. It was part of the fabric of life for a very long time.
Oh, here we go; footage of Blair being lifted out of Gleneagles by a military chopper.
See, if Paddy Ashdown had become Prime Minister, he'd be in camo gear, carrying a machine gun and clambering into an Apache, proclaiming that he was off to personally hunt down and kill Osama. I think the country really missed an opportunity there.
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Date: 2005-07-07 06:53 pm (UTC)From: WarrenE@aol.com
To: badsignal@lists.flirble.org
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 08:25:56 EDT
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WARREN ELLIS
To answer a ton of email and
forestall some more: I wasn't in
London today, and I'm fine.
Right now, it's looking like seven
explosions, 150 injuries, two dead.
The dead count is obviously going
to go up -- the bus had its bomb on
the top deck, and it butterflied it --
but they're still bringing live bodies
out of the tube stations. Blair,
standing with the G8 leaders as he
made his statement, has of course
been given a political gift.
Those of you trying to contact
London friends and family should be
aware that the mobile phone system
is still locked down in parts of the city.
I'd remind my foreign readers that,
although it's been a while, this sort
of thing is not something we're
unused to over here. There's not
going to be a lot of freaking out from
the generations that remember
explosives in litterbins and bomb
threat drills in office blocks. It was
part of the fabric of life for a very
long time.
Oh, here we go; footage of Blair
being lifted out of Gleneagles by a
military chopper.
See, if Paddy Ashdown had become
Prime Minister, he'd be in camo
gear, carrying a machine gun and
clambering into an Apache, proclaiming
that he was off to personally hunt
down and kill Osama. I think the
country really missed an opportunity
there.