Month: September 2001

That article exulting Americans that I posted two days ago was written 30 years ago. I updated below. I don’t watch this much TV in a month. I can’t stop. The repetition and the lack of commercials provides a constant, steady press on my brain. I find that I am ultra-cranky lately. I feel like […]

I feel so terribly ignorant: Inevitable ring to the unimaginable IF the attacks on America have their source in the Islamic world, who can really be surprised? Two days earlier, eight people were killed in southern Iraq when British and American planes bombed civilian areas. To my knowledge, not a word appeared in the mainstream […]

“People went to the roof and, after 20 minutes or so of increasing heat, jumped off – frequently in pairs holding hands. I saw no jumping triples.”

Scathing indictment of the causes of recent events from Michael Moore: Because the airlines consider my safety SO important, they pay rent-a-cops $5.75 an hour to make sure the bad guys don’t get on my plane. That is what my life is worth less than the cost of an oil change. Too harsh, you say? […]

I slept on the futon all night and whenever I woke up I’d turn on the TV. It just gets worse. Stories of hijacked passengers calling their loved ones one last time. People calling for help on cellphones, trapped in the basement. It just keeps stunning me over and over again how low-tech this whole […]

I keep waking up and each time I do things are even worse. Tom Clancy was on talking about the need for stepped-up intelligence and it’s negligence in that it’s not a high-profile activity for the defense of this country. Clancy also tamed the rabid reporter that the religion of Islam condemns suicide just as […]

Just got off the phone with mom and dad. They said they’re students think it’s sorta cool looking – they’ve seen imagery like this in entertainment so often. The initial crash image did remind me of the opening of X-files. And Heather said a Tom Clancy novel has a similar situation – though with a […]

“I was on the first floor. There was a big explosion, some guy came out, his skin was all off. There were people jumping out of windows. It’s horrific.” “About 10 minutes later, the second building went off. It just blew off. People jumping out, people just kept jumping and jumping and jumping. You could […]

Unfathomable. Shocking. Madness. It just got worse and worse and worse. Perfectly and cleanly executed and carefully calculated. Get attention and then make it even worse – expose the weakness and then push the knife farther and farther – wipe that smug smirk off the face of this earth. They evacuated my building and I’m […]

Had a great weekend. Sinister was clunky at the end on Friday but wonderful on Saturday. Sitting in the audience watching them on the edge of their seats to see what happens next was so damned satisfying. Left the show and went over to Ron’s. We went to Roscoe’s and danced a bit – his […]