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I just got my big 300.00 tax cut check. Now I can go out and prop up the economy.
I’ll buy you a beer.
FYI, find the meaning of acronyms PDQ.
Central Park, NYC
Gopnik said "surreal" and Armani said "cinema, cinema"
I finally got my online service back, and have been trying to digest the last week. I am fine, but have not yet been allowed to return to work at 26 Federal Plaza. The building is within a few blocks of the Trade Center, but we got out unscathed, in the minutes between the second impact and the first collapse. The north wind spared me the dust cloud. I made it to Diti’s, at the edge of downtown, where we saw the towers fall on TV. We were joined by Steve, and later made our way to the Lower East Side, to gather with Jim, Mary Beth, Linda, Mike, Dave, and other friends of this family of friends. I’m often happy to be alone, but this was a time to be with the people you love, and I want to thank everyone for just being there, and for just being. I’ve seen some of you since, and that’s been a comfort, but others have been out of reach, and being cut off from the net has been frustrating. It allows me to be isolated yet connected at the same time. Losing this capability at a time of crisis reminds me of how tightly the internet has been woven into my life, and of just how fragile the high-tech filigree of our civilization really is.
Mixed feelings are on the menu, and I’m sure we’ll all be going through this for some time. I’ll be trying to figure out what I feel, and I’ll try to let you know what I think about that. Meanwhile, some of the most beautiful days of the year are passing, and Fall arrives on Saturday. In irony or irrelevance, the natural world goes on without reflection. We will reflect, but we too will go on.
Our moron-in-chief used the word "crusade" to describe our response. Now there's a word without too much baggage.
Perhaps we need a search and rescue team to look for Dubya's tiny little brain.
apparently if you are not an american you dont exist --
"According to London Times, there are nearly 2,500 foreign nationals missing or dead from 42 countries. Those foreign nationals are not included in the estimated 5,000 missing."
do we have any way of describing the event other than "surreal"? is "unreal" more correct in this circumstance? i know im as guilty as the next for using it but wouldnt surreal mean a move not merely to the the extraordinary but beyond to something entirely otherworldly and dreamlike. had the towers taken on organic characteristics and become elastic to avoid the planes that i think would have been surrealistic. than again, "unreal" doesnt quite seem to do justice to the cataclysmic visage. i bet the germans have a good word construct for that sense of dislocation.
NEW YORK (September 15, 2001 6:21 p.m. EDT) - Some 11.8 metric tons of gold worth around $110 million and 30.2 million ounces of silver valued at $121 million are buried in the rubble below one of the collapsed World Trade Center buildings, The New York Times reported Saturday.
nostradamus not
anybody online? ive still only got cbs channel 2. im wondering what the coverage is like. theyve reported that the towers are gone but they havent shown any pictures of it. nor have they gone to the national news but kept the local anchors on. whats the rest of the world seeing?
bill look out your window
George Spitz NYC
new low-cut levi's comercial with lots of bellybuttons singing "I'm coming out"
excreman Hong Kong
The Tingler
jim are we going to do somethink like this on a small scale
get happy with your 24 other neighbors
if you want to get away from it all
speaking of malicious gossip...
"We'd pass her in the hall and Brad would say 'Heyyy, Jenna, wanna beer? I got one in the truck'" -- Jennifer Aniston, on teasing Jenna Bush, who worked at her and her husband's management agency this summer (US Weekly).
from abuddha memes Esoteric Info on Electromagnetic Weapons.
"Human Tolerances to whole body sinusodal vibration: Head Pain 13-30Hz, Impaired Speech 13-20Hz, Jaw Pain 6-8Hz, Chest Pain 5-7Hz, Abdominal Pain 4.5 - 10 Hz, Lombotacral Pain 8-12Hz, Urge to defecate 10.5 to 16 Hz, Urge to urinate 10 to 18 Hz."
"Possible effects include instantaneous death, heart seizure, severe emotional disruption, loss of control of internal functions, diseases, disabling of the immune system, and even implantation of thoughts, emotions, and ideas which are interpreted by the subjects as their own."
jim holds the unoffical universal record 4:19 minutes--from 4 seas ice cream shop in centerville mass to rivington st nyc
TRUE??
On May 23rd 2001 the Taleban authorities in Afghanistan confirmed that all Hindus will be required to wear a strip of yellow cloth sewn onto a shirt pocket in order to identify themselves. They claim that the measure is for their "protection".