Wednesday, September 10, 2003

God fucking damn it, Walt is still alive?

For anyone who didn't watch coverage of the war with me (which excludes about 6 billion people) back when we were in "combat," Walter Rodgers, or as he was simply known to me, Walt (biting tone), was my fucking arch nemesis. It all started one of the first nights when they were driving across the desert, and he was waaaaaaaaay too excited to be driving over fucking sand in a personnel carrier. He was the one who coined that stupid phrase "wave of steel." Yeah, that fucker.

Then there was another night where we the The Airport Formerly Known as Saddam International was under seige. Walt wasn't at the airport, oh no, he was on the road to the airport. Apparently, we'd blown up some sort of Iraqi tank or armored vehicle of some sort, and there were a couple of dead Iraqis laying around. I was doing something else at the time (probably downloading pornography or chatting with other perverts), and just left the TV on. Walt proceeded to describe the scene, in detail (not many details... shit's on fire, people are dead), like seven fucking times before they either cut away from him or I just turned the shit off.

There were a couple of times when someone in the media died or was killed. When I first heard the news, I got a little flutter of hope - "Was it Walt?" Then, when I found out that it wasn't, "Fuck!"

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