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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Prague: The threat level has been elevated to ORANGE

I'm in Chicago... waiting to board an empty jumbo jetliner bound for Zurich. The threat level has been elevated to *ORANGE*. Is this because I'm on the move? I wonder...

Probably not.

That was probably just another episode of *magical thinking*... "Wherein John believes that external events actually involve and at times, are even shaped by, him."

But aren't they?

I'm in a smallish Swiss Air lounge (read: free cookies, wifi, magazines, semi-comfortable chairs and booze) here in Chicago O'hare's International Terminal. It's like somebody kidnapped a bunch of ramndomly-selected Europeans and Americans, injected them with a docility drug, and threw them into a cramped space, filled-to-bursting with IKEA furniture, just to see how long before their nationalities began to abrade, scuff, unhinge and otherwise annoy each other.

That British couple over there is already kind of pissing me off. They're in everyone's way. People are literally walking over and around them... Do they not see how IN THE WAY they are?

But I am a being of light, tonight... A wing-footed traveler with a song in my heart. And therefore, I choose to see only a well meaning, middle aged couple focused on drinking their budget wine and making their way back to "home". Sussex perhaps. Shitshire, maybe. Stratford On Oblivious... Fuck, I dunno.

I'm the dumb American guy who's cell phone keeps ringing...

That blonde Swiss dude keeps looking at me. It's not contempt. It's more like... "ünapologetic interest". I think he likes me or something. Or maybe he's trying to send "a message" of some sort...

I wonder if he's trying to recruit me into some Scandanavian Terrorist Organization... An STO.

I see lots of late night plotting in bright, well-organized apartments sparsely furnished with light-coloured tables and chairs (clean lines!)... We'd devise elegant schemes for making obtuse "political statements" by blowing shit up... in a green way, of course. Hip terrorists watch their carbon footprint, man. It's all about good PR and positive word of mouth. Terrorists know that better than anybody.

"They killed my family... but their car bomb was a Prius... So, I guess I see their point."

I need to keep on my toes. The threat level is *ORANGE* for God's sake...

Posted By John Common at: 12:11 am

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