Fri 1 Dec 2006
If you’ve heard about todays bomb blast in Colombo, don’t worry, I’m fine. It happened about 15 minutes ago yet I’m sure by now every Sri Lankan knows about it. The target seems to have been the Defence Minister . My workmates are all crowded round the TV drinking tea, eating biscuits and tutting …. A lone cameraman is wondering around the site being continually waved off by harrassed looking soldiers. It’s a weird, unedited, live feed. A car is still on fire and the soldiers rush off to move adjecent vehicles before they explode. The shaky camera sneaks off to explore, finding the remains of the suicide bombers moped and a gruesome, twisted body flung on to the roof of a car. It’s unbloodied but for the lack of a head. You can see the cameraman trying out a few compositions before moving on. Nobody seems particulary rattled by this sort of image … it seems that everyone in this country has seen a severed head or worse. I’ve seen two now. Yech …
December 1st, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Shit, he survived.
December 1st, 2006 at 6:19 pm
And they didn’t suspect a thing …
December 3rd, 2006 at 4:11 pm
The grimest thing is that the face of a suicide bomber usually survives, and bless the Sri Lankans… they usually publish a copy in the papers.
December 4th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
Next time could you please start I’m fine don’t worry and then write about bomb blasting. I’m slow reader and I could get heart attack before you finish. I do understand that if something happened to you there would be no note in the blog but still….
It seems that I’m coming in the right moment.
December 5th, 2006 at 3:20 am
yeah, the last thing we need is for Morgan to start blogging from beyond the grave. An eternity of observations..
just kidding, glad you’re still alive and kicking and am enjoying the chance to share what’s going through your head, amateurly fashioned shrapnel aside…
December 5th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
Grave observations … eternal thoughts.
December 6th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
Bombs and people with no heads is this another one of your B movies. Too gruesome and u said Tarrantino wasnt in sight.
December 6th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
I seem to remember last time I had a Partick pint with you, you’d brought back newspaper cuttings of more gruesome things than thay from Thailand. It’s a terrible pun … but we were drinking in Stumps.