November 15, 2004

• Update: Fixed link.

  I'm a few days late, but I just wanted to point out Teresa Nielsen Hayden's 11/11 'blog entry. It's quite excellent.

  37 million.

  How many more war memorials are there going to be?

  Also, I've always wondered about the end of Neil Finn's 'Into The Sunset,' which has these lyrics:

  And I'm away from home
  And it's a way of life
  And now I'm flying high
  And I'm a wheeling gull
  Here now I come to rest
  Under a lion rock
  Over marine parade
  Maybe this time
  Here I'll stay

  It turns out that there's a yearly Anzac Day memorial service at a place called Lion Rock in New Zealand, Finn's country of origin. Celebrants place wreaths on the rock at low tide. The wreaths float out to sea as the tide rises.

  I don't know if there's a connection or not, besides the one in my mind.

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