Big News From Hugo Zoom

Hugo Zoom is planning to go back to Iraq, where his mother's family is from and he attended kindergarten, and make a documentary:

I've avoided overt discussions of politics in this blog for some time, even though I started blogging way back when rather explicitly because of my political preoccupations. In my case the avoidance has not been so much about political fatigue as a sense of failure...

I want to be hopeful, and start over, trying to do something useful... With that in mind, I've decided to stop blogging under a pseudonym and discuss some of my future plans, and how I want to utilize this blog for those plans. As some of you may already know, my mother's family is from Iraq, and although I was born here, I lived abroad, primarily in the middle east, from the time I was one until I was 10 and a half...

Anyway, my name is Jonathan Versen and I'm going back to Iraq... my intention is to go in the summer of 2007, to stay for about 3 months, and make a documentary. My intention is to try to be unbiased, my intense disapproval of George W. Bush and the rest of the neocon horde notwithstanding. You can judge for yourselves, irrespective of your political predispositions, how successful I will be. And I mean to use Hugo Zoom (I'm keeping the name of the blog, as I'm fond of it) to raise money for the trip. I haven't posted a Paypal or other donate button just yet, but I will, soon. I'm going to try posting 6 days a week from now on, about politics, my plans, and other things on occasion.

More Zoom news as things develop. I myself will certainly support his efforts, not least for his excellent taste in first names.