Hard to even begin talking about Fahrenheit 9/11. It's brilliant, of course, as everyone expects. Shocking in places, hilarious in others.

I can't tell if it's why I haven't been able to sleep tonight, but it wouldn't be a bad guess.

Would I be happier if I hadn't seen it? Maybe. But it has to be seen. People have to understand the situation. They have to know what it means when the headlines say another hundred killed.

Just be careful when you go and see it. Michael Moore is a brilliant manipulator, and he catches you at the moment you least expect it and shows you what you least want to see.

Maybe it's the memory of 9/11, maybe it's a general feeling of uneasiness about the world, but I just can't get to sleep.

I remember walking down to the CN Tower after a night of drinking a few days after the World Trade Center attacks. I was feeling a bit lost and disconnected (and drunk) and I wanted to go down to the base of the tower and look up. But as I approached the base of the tower, a security guard came up and stopped me.

"Sorry, the Tower's closed, you can't be here."

I was pretty surprised, and told the security guard as much.

As he walked away he called over his shoulder,

"Everything's changed, man. everything's changed."

I guess it has. I guess it has.

-Trevor

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