Impact
: I was reading Rossi. If you read me regularly, you know that makes me happy. I like her writing. I like her soul.
She started with an observation that echoed mine from the last week, the Week of 100 Terror Warnings. She and I had the same reaction to helicopters. Since 9.11, they seem like bees drawn to bad news, hovering and buzzing over the city, trained like their explosive-sniffing cousins to find 11 o'clock video, their honey. They scare me now because I wonder what they're buzzing about, I wonder what's wrong.
Rossi writes:
Now they say the work at ground zero will end and there will be a ceremony and all those men will try to go on with their lives and so will we, and I'm sitting here wondering why I don't feel happy that the work is ending.
Maybe some part of me feels that as long as there are people there working and searching for bodies and answers, there is some kind of hope.
Hope for what, I don't know.
It's been a rough week for me, to tell you the truth.
First there were the terror alerts, rekindling all my paranoias. I climbed the stairs to the roof the morning after the alerts hit the airwaves to have my coffee in the sun. It was a beautiful crisp morning.
It was hard not to feel an eerie deja vu sipping my coffee as countless helicopters whirled by. Most of them whirled about downtown.
The Brooklyn Bridge was just off to the downtown east of me.
The World Trade Center had been just off to the downtown west.
I don't think the helicopters would have bothered me much if it weren't such a pretty morning.
Pretty, crisp, sunny mornings tend to make me nervous now.
What I mostly felt, as I watched far too many helicopters whirl by, was lonely.
And this leads to something far more important that Rossi has to say, another observation, another emotion that I've shared: The impact of 9.11 is loneliness of one mutation or another.
For Rossi, it's a very sad loneliness now. But I'll let her
tell you about that.
Pop this!
: Wow, AOL decides that customers may actually deserve respect:
America Online subscribers may finally get some relief from the barrage of aggressive pop-up advertisements that greet them when signing on and off the online service. Reducing the number of pop-up ads is a part of the online service company’s grand scheme to get back on the growth track, people familiar with the company’s plans say.
Now if only they can decide that shareholders deserve respect, too.
Back
: Since starting this thing soon after 9.11, I've basically not missed a day (except for Blogger outages). I missed yesterday. Nick Denton scolded me. I was doing important things. But now I'm back on the couch, my blogoffice. I'm back until I fall asleep.............
Holywood
: If this weren't about our lives at stake, this would be funny.
So the latest New York terror warnings came from references made by a jailed terrorist to the movie Godzilla:
The captured Zubaida told his CIA and FBI interrogators in the course of marathon debriefings that al Qaeda terror cells had discussed the possibility of hitting "the statue in the water," meaning the Statue of Liberty, in a new wave of attacks on the city, the sources said.
Zubaida, who speaks English, also mentioned "the bridge in that movie," referring to the 1998 American remake of the Japanese Godzilla series in which the monster emerges at the Battery.
Puzzled interrogators had to view a tape of the movie to learn that the final scene involved Godzilla's demise after becoming tangled in the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge.
So what else should we fear that they saw? Bruce Willis
Diehard movies? Put more highrises and airports on alert!
King King? Evacuate the Empire State Building.
Bridges of Madison County? Oh, we don't need terrorists to destroy our bridges; we're doing that quite effectively domestically.
Map thyself
: I always do what Nick Denton says. So I just mapped myself. If you're in New York, do likewise.
Impact
: I was reading Rossi. If you read me regularly, you know that makes me happy. I like her writing. I like her soul.
She started with an observation that echoed mine from the last week, the Week of 100 Terror Warnings. She and I had the same reaction to helicopters. Since 9.11, they seem like bees drawn to bad news, hovering and buzzing over the city, trained like their explosive-sniffing cousins to find 11 o'clock video, their honey. They scare me now because I wonder what they're buzzing about, I wonder what's wrong.
Rossi writes:
Now they say the work at ground zero will end and there will be a ceremony and all those men will try to go on with their lives and so will we, and I'm sitting here wondering why I don't feel happy that the work is ending.
Maybe some part of me feels that as long as there are people there working and searching for bodies and answers, there is some kind of hope.
Hope for what, I don't know.
It's been a rough week for me, to tell you the truth.
First there were the terror alerts, rekindling all my paranoias. I climbed the stairs to the roof the morning after the alerts hit the airwaves to have my coffee in the sun. It was a beautiful crisp morning.
It was hard not to feel an eerie deja vu sipping my coffee as countless helicopters whirled by. Most of them whirled about downtown.
The Brooklyn Bridge was just off to the downtown east of me.
The World Trade Center had been just off to the downtown west.
I don't think the helicopters would have bothered me much if it weren't such a pretty morning.
Pretty, crisp, sunny mornings tend to make me nervous now.
What I mostly felt, as I watched far too many helicopters whirl by, was lonely.
And this leads to something far more important that Rossi has to say, another observation, another emotion that I've shared: The impact of 9.11 is loneliness of one mutation or another.
For Rossi, it's a very sad loneliness now. But I'll let her
tell you about that.
Pop this!
: Wow, AOL decides that customers may actually deserve respect:
America Online subscribers may finally get some relief from the barrage of aggressive pop-up advertisements that greet them when signing on and off the online service. Reducing the number of pop-up ads is a part of the online service company’s grand scheme to get back on the growth track, people familiar with the company’s plans say.
Now if only they can decide that shareholders deserve respect, too.
Back
: Since starting this thing soon after 9.11, I've basically not missed a day (except for Blogger outages). I missed yesterday. Nick Denton scolded me. I was doing important things. But now I'm back on the couch, my blogoffice. I'm back until I fall asleep.............
Holywood
: If this weren't about our lives at stake, this would be funny.
So the latest New York terror warnings came from references made by a jailed terrorist to the movie Godzilla:
The captured Zubaida told his CIA and FBI interrogators in the course of marathon debriefings that al Qaeda terror cells had discussed the possibility of hitting "the statue in the water," meaning the Statue of Liberty, in a new wave of attacks on the city, the sources said.
Zubaida, who speaks English, also mentioned "the bridge in that movie," referring to the 1998 American remake of the Japanese Godzilla series in which the monster emerges at the Battery.
Puzzled interrogators had to view a tape of the movie to learn that the final scene involved Godzilla's demise after becoming tangled in the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge.
So what else should we fear that they saw? Bruce Willis
Diehard movies? Put more highrises and airports on alert!
King King? Evacuate the Empire State Building.
Bridges of Madison County? Oh, we don't need terrorists to destroy our bridges; we're doing that quite effectively domestically.
Map thyself
: I always do what Nick Denton says. So I just mapped myself. If you're in New York, do likewise.
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