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notes from the home office | joanna

On behalf of the currently all-chick two-twenty and our hometown of New York City, I would like to take the opportunity to welcome the rest of the United States to terrorist-threat-level orange, where we in Gotham have been sitting relatively pretty since September 11th 2001. Word from our man in Bags is that the media stationed in Iraq have also been prepared for a holly-jolly bang-bang Christmas, prompting Ash and I to wager, in typical macabre fashion, on who's gonna get messed with first. He's so sure that he'll win this one he set the stakes at a bottle of aged Johnny Walker -- a poison on my very short list of unpalatable potables. On general wagering principles I almost contended that a bottle of Kettle One was a more egalitarian prize for not getting wailed on by nut jobs, but since calling his sat phone costs about $1.40 a minute and more than one of our telephone exchanges have been punctuated by the sound of distant fire, the money seemed better spent on the booze -- his booze. So Ash, if you're reading this, you’ll take what you get and what you'll get is vodka.

As close readers of two-twenty no doubt already know, Alex is currently home in the bucolic suburbs of Boston for the holidaze. Given we enable each other in bad habits as much as we do productive practices, it's likely that you'll see a slight decline in our postings while the hive mind operates long-distance. Nonetheless, we will try our hardest to keep you, our dear readers, properly distracted from the impending doom.

Amid Terror Concerns, Ridge Urges Mix of Calm and Caution | NY Times
Military in Iraq Is Warned of Attacks During Holidays | NY Times