wondering what the real webcam would look like if it was on, if you could see anything in N.Y. right now...

hope Mark is off in some other town, being bored in a motel room or something...

being alive...
i just got out of the world trade center... tower 1...
just glad to be alive....
thats about it

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trying to get any news site on the internet to load...

glad you made it out opie. wonder what's next

What's going on over there? The rumours are flying thick and fast here in Britain. Is it true both towers have fallen?

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Yes, tragic, Im look for webcams in Manhat.

THIS means war, folks.

God bless N.Y.C.

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How many people do you think got out of the Twin Towers before they collapsed? What percentage? and how many people normally work there? Opie, can you shed any light? The media are giving conflicting figures and are silent on this subject. They're focusing on how many people were on the planes when there were tens of thousands of people in the buildings which is what I thought. . .? R.S.V.P.

cryin, praying, shouting...
shaking the head.
why human (?) beeings
can do this ??!!
i pray for all
god bless You
wolfgang Germany

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cryin, praying, shouting...
shaking the head.
why human (?) beeings
can do this ??!!
i pray for all
god bless You
wolfgang Germany

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I'm sitting at work (in MN) watching your part of the world deal with turnmoil. My god I can't believe it. We pray for you!

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It's shocking - we can't believe it.

Greatings from germany

Condolences to all, hope all the craziness ends soon. Thinking of you all in Ireland

God Bless America and may He bless everyone of you directly or indirectly involved with this. We will overcome this tragedy together!
Peace and Love,
Upstate NY

Dear America, Our Thoughts Are With You At This Time, God Bless You All.

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I'm crying for NYC. I'm praying again and again for peace. I'm a child of the 80's, and I always knew something like this would happen. I'm so sorry that it happened to you. My prayers will be with you every day.

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I'm near San Francisco (which is shut down) watching the catastrophic news about the World Trade Center buildings being destroyed in NY...all the webcams are down, sadly. I hope the operaters are safe. My prayers are with victems, their families and with the rescue workers.

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mark & swine: please
check in if posssible.

love,
s

God Bless America. We will be a stronger nation after the smoke clears, and those who have taken these measure against us have surely been dealt with by our great God above. May those who wish to follow in their footsteps be dealt with accordingly without further violence.

my prayers are with you, we are completely devastated for you. God bless from Canada

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my prayers are with you, we are completely devastated for you. God bless from Canada

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What are you doing!?

Good question


("Good Question" Mista Swine, are you familiar with that great jazz improv? think it's by Herbie Hancock . . ?)

Off to do the right thing....donate blood. My fear of needles will just have to take a back seat today.
Gonna contact the red cross and see if I can volenteer for anything in NYC.

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going to do as Dani will, tomorrow, even though I am deathly afraid of needles. You rock Dani!

was at the office in DC when news broke. we then started hearing rumors that bombs had blown at the Labor Dept and the Old Executive Office Building in DC. security began running through our building ( a DC government building) shouting for people to drop everything and leave immediately.

I truly never was scared for my safety until I heard about, and saw smoke, from the Pentagon.

easily the most terrifying experience, moreso than being mugged.

I hope all my friends and all NYCers in general are physically ok. Mentally, will take some time for us all.

thanks to czarina for asking if I was ok.

Love you all,
Jim

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It was like watching a bruce willis movie..what the fuck is wrong with life..even fucked up, perverted, sick, deranged life? life life life life life life life life life life life life life

hey

this is the greatest city in the world.

we will build better towers. taller, stronger, mightier.

fuck you whoever did this.

still reeling. my home town. what the fuck? i watched those towers being built. i was invited to go up to the top before it was finished. i helped raise the money for wkcr-fm (columbia university's station) to move their transmitter there. god forgive me, but i want the people who did this FUCKING DEAD!! i can't understand the mentality that believes that this is the way to solve things. if bin-ladin is responsible, drag his ass through the streets of new york until there's nothing but bones left. i'm sick of living like this. i still haven't confirmed that everyone i know in nyc is allright. kill them all. FUCKING KILL THEM ALL!!

what about the people on those planes? what about the people trying to get down 90+ flights of stairs? what about the policemen and firemen who were killed while trying to help people get out? find those responsible and FUCKING KILL THEM. KILL THEM ALL.

Wats happened today in NYC is a sick bloody thing to do. all the people that died in and outside the World trade center and in the pentagon. i say when you find these dicks that did it. NUKE EM. LETS NUKE THE BASTARDS!

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Even if we live so far away in this day of strong pain we are near your sad heart !
A big kiss to all from Italy

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ever seen things like this one, ever heared so cruel action, italia is with yours in this orrendous time

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I am sitting at work. I am an New Yorker living in Italy (veneto). I am still stunned 24 hours after the explosions!

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I'm watching tv Stay strong America.

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what is happened is really horrible! Italy is near America.

Love from Italy, much love!!!

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Many forts embrace from the boys sicialian... we love to you! Sorridete and gone ahead!!!

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I am hoping someone will tell me soon that the only people I know directly affected are the ones I already know about. I had to call a bunch of clients in NYC yesterday to check in, and it was strange to have to tell the real people than answered that we were in New Mexico and we just wanted to make sure they were all o.k. And there were the ones who had the voice mail up and weren't answering -- we took consolation in the fact that someone was able to get the voice mail message going, so that's good news...right? But then there were the ones we didn't even try to call. They had offices on the 85th floor of the WTC1. We got the miracle contact from a guy who worked their...he had missed his train, he was calling everyone he knew to tell them he was still alive. He did not say about the others because nothing could be known for sure. But it did not look good, it does not look good. I am unable to stop watching television even though the things I am seeing make me need to puke. Every time I see Rudy Giuliani I think 'well, he may be a bastard and evil to the homeless and everything else, but look how heartsick he is...listen to the things he is saying....' My friend Adrienne said 'those people were US. They just went to work in the morning, like US.' Things like this have a tendency to render any forceful mandate popular and concentrate power in the executive branch. I was raised by military parents, and I thought the Pentagon would be unimpacted by a direct hit from thermonuclear warheads. I wish people would leave the millions of islamic worshippers alone, the millions of people of arab descent alone. The guy at the grocery store did not do this.

I am hoping someone will tell me soon that the only people I know directly affected are the ones I already know about. I had to call a bunch of clients in NYC yesterday to check in, and it was strange to have to tell the real people than answered that we were in New Mexico and we just wanted to make sure they were all o.k. And there were the ones who had the voice mail up and weren't answering -- we took consolation in the fact that someone was able to get the voice mail message going, so that's good news...right? But then there were the ones we didn't even try to call. They had offices on the 85th floor of the WTC1. We got the miracle contact from a guy who worked their...he had missed his train, he was calling everyone he knew to tell them he was still alive. He did not say about the others because nothing could be known for sure. But it did not look good, it does not look good. I am unable to stop watching television even though the things I am seeing make me need to puke. Every time I see Rudy Giuliani I think 'well, he may be a bastard and evil to the homeless and everything else, but look how heartsick he is...listen to the things he is saying....' My friend Adrienne said 'those people were US. They just went to work in the morning, like US.' Things like this have a tendency to render any forceful mandate popular and concentrate power in the executive branch. I was raised by military parents, and I thought the Pentagon would be unimpacted by a direct hit from thermonuclear warheads. I wish people would leave the millions of islamic worshippers alone, the millions of people of arab descent alone. The guy at the grocery store did not do this.

it's terrible

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SONO ATTIMI TERRIBILI CHE ABBIAMO VISSUTO TUTTI ANCHE SE SIAMO LONTANI

SONO ATTIMI TERRIBILI CHE ABBIAMO VISSUTO TUTTI ANCHE SE SIAMO LONTANI

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From Italy: We r with u americans, LET'S GO USA U'LL WIN

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Just got some great news. From our firm on the 85th floor of 1 WTC -- at this point only 2 people are unaccounted for. We had another firm on the 89th floor, same bldg, and they are all accounted for.

swine's okay, everybody.

thanks agatha. hope to hear from his bad self sometime though

tired of people saying they knew something like this was going to happen.

it makes everything better that you predicted it.

Back at work after spending the day yesterday at home with my husband and baby. Weird that I felt so frightened when I don't even live in New York anymore. Guess my heart is still on Spring Street. My husband's brother was one of hundreds of people making a long trek on foot from Wall Street to 104th Street and over a bridge to the Bronx.

Am praying for NYC.

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Wondering why the Israelis are blowing up civilians, terrorists or opponents of theirs by targeting political enemies of theirs and blowing them up with rockets from helicopters)


State sponsored terrorism and it was condoned by this government.


There was a conference on racism in the world starting about two weeks ago. (Colin Powell was supposed to be there but he decided not to lend his ponderous presence to something that was so anti-Zionist.) Lower-level functionaries walked out for the United States.

Fidel Castro was there.
Other heads of state were there. Jessie Jackson was there. Nelson Mandella too. The sticking point is progressive people say Zionism equals racism.
That's why the United States delegation and the Israeli delegation walked out.

about 5 days ago the
u.s. and israeli delagtations, - - -
(each country) because they refused to tolerate being called racist (Israel did) and the US walked out with them in sympathy.

Meanwhile in Israel they're discussing putting up the equivalent of the berlin wall between the Palestinians and the Israelis in Israel.



State Sponsored Terrorism and it was condoned by this U.S. government.

I'm crying my eyes out. Far away in Holland but in shock. My haert goes out to you all. Side by side we will fight terrorism!

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Leslie the Mean Lion Tamer. He fed the leopards bleach and sneered when they lost their spots. But the chimpanzee got even with them. cos they smeared liver on his lapels. Leslie got killed in the lion cage, when he stuck his head in and they ate his head off.

sinking into complete depression. USS George Washington is guarding us from off the coast of Long Island. barges are hauling bodies off north manhattan. i can not even wash dishes through the tears in my eyes. civilians can not get into Manhattan from 14th Street on down, armed machine guns racing down the West Side Highway.

if i never thought of it before, i think of it now any time i open the door and go outside: New York City is the greatst city in the world, in the greatest nation ever possible. The assholes will be buried and forgotten. America will prevail.

Please know that I am thinking of you and praying for the lost souls of these terrible tragedies. The sun will shine again and the militia will go away. Keep looking up.

is putting Mexican horse blankets over her windows on the East River because the chemical smell in the air is stinking.

is putting Mexican horse blankets over her windows on the East River because the chemical smell in the air is stinking.

is putting Mexican horse blankets over her windows on the East River because the chemical smell in the air is stinking.

I'm glad I hated my job at Lehman Brothers

If I had tried to climb to the top of the corporate ladder I'd be at the bottom of pile right now.

God Bless New York.
God Bless America.

Having sex!!!!!!!

Wanting to learn how to have sex and type at the same time without being incredibly uncomfortable.

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Where is Don Rickles at this moment in time?

He's the best.

wow, it would appear this has turned into some sort of online book of condolences (sp)

so what the heck

My thoughts are with all of you in NYC right now, especialy those still waiting to hear from loved ones or those who have lost loved ones.

may the people who did this to the world burn in hell for ever

telling Dani that I'm not sure about why you couldn't have comfortable sex while typing. Just sit on him like a desk chair... and type and bounce and type and bounce and...

please excuse this moment of jest, folks. Could not resist.

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Sitting in California wishing I could help look for those still unaccounted for. This whole thing is sicking. It's like a horrible nightmare...that we all wish never happened. But it did, now we all must come together and help one another. We are ALL in this together. Who know's what will happen next. What we do know is...we will WIN.

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My thoughts are with New York. At least the Pentagon was Military, but the WTC is(was) a building full of hard working men and women just like me.
The pictures they keep showing on TV of Downtown from the ocean kill the heart.
God Bless you, New York.
Indeed, God Bless us all.

There are many more uses for my fingers and hands that I would prefer to use during sex besides a keyboard Jimbabe!!

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Wow, thanks so much for that link Jimbabe...I totally forgot all about that hysterical conversation back in '98. That was 3 years ago already. Hard to beleive how time flies. I was so happy with my life when we had that thread going. I sometimes miss those days so bad I just wanna be able to snap my fingers and be back there in July of '98. Hard to beleive I went from being on cloud 9 to this. Which I didnt realize was that bad till I read that thread and all the memories came flooding back to me.

I'd give up the houses and the trucks and cars and probably my soul to be as happy now inside as I was then. And back then I had nothing but a heart full of love.

Enough of that.
I'll be in New Orleans Jimbabe and you and I are still being roomies.Remind me to call hubby and let him know where I am when I arrive in New Orleans...I'm sure I'll forget to mention it before I leave!!!

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looking at whoever Trace is with my head all cockeyed and what not.

I am far from a supporter of big military prowess, but I take great umbrage with what you said about "atleast the Pentagon is Military," and "but the WTC is(was) a building full of hard working men and women just like me."

I'm hopeful you didn't mean to infer one attack was more acceptable or justified than the others.

Sure, NYC was utterly devastated, as was also Washington, DC and the country for that matter. I'll bet my life those that died at the Pentagon were just as hard working as those in NYC.

I'm glad you ended your posting with "god bless us all." We all truly need it.

I can't testify for what is happening now in NYC -- I purposely watched no coverage today as I'm just raw from watching. But here in DC it's chaos central. Two bomb threats to the Ronald Reagan Building (next door to where I work). And our security detail only learned of the first threat after the 2nd had been defused (the threat itself, not an actual bomb). All day long we hear and see sirens, speeding secret service vehicles, nevermind the military vehicles and fighter jets swarming constantly.

It's terrifying. I can't even fathom what life would be like in DC today had the plane that hit the Pentagon hit its intended target -- the White House.

My next door neighbor's house was broken into today during broad daylight. While she's understandably shaken by it, she said, "I have no room to complain about this. So, my TV was stolen. So what."

Very little matters in the big scheme of things anymore. So what, indeed.

Everyone be well.

P.S. I went to donate blood today. Could not do so because I am a sexually active gay man. So, upon my next payday, I will be donating cash.

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Jim,
I work for the military. We lost 3 collegues there. It is no less or no more a tragedy, however, even I accept some risk working at the Air Force Base. Working for the Military always carries that risk. Working in the Trade Building should NEVER involve such risk.

thanking Trace for clarifying previous words.

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Thinking it is totally weird that Mark's latest stories mention hijacking and planes crashing into buildings.

Watching my American Flag thats hanging from my mail box wave proudly from the winds of this tropical storm. Also watching the National Prayer Service on CNN.

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Smiling broadly.

Last night, I had an anxiety attack. Then I didn't sleep at all, not one minute.

I felt like I wanted to die this morning, I was so tired and depressed. I went to work only because I had two projects due this morning.

Then I went to church across the street. It was so full that people had to stand on the steps outside. The "handshake of peace" lasted about a few minutes, as everyone wanted to shake hands with nearly everyone else.

Afterwards, instead of going back to work, I walked around town for a half an hour. It's pretty chilly out today and there's a strong wind. But the sun was shining and the clouds were big and fluffy and the day was just beautiful.

I'm so happy to be alive. Life is so good.

well, that was nice while it lasted.

went to the candlelight vigil on times square tonight. lots of scavengers with cameras and camcorders bottom-feeding off the faces of the attendees. photography is theft.

it was quiet and somber until a lunatic started yelling about how the world trade center had commited treason against the united states, and there would be Sasquatch on the Square. "I AM A VIETNAM VETERAN AND I HAVE BEEN SODOMIZED BY THE WORLD TRADE CENTER."

the f15s looked like specks in the sky, it was hard to even be sure you were seeing them.

from the windows at work we saw snipers on the rooftops of the buildings next door. they were ours. the President landed at the heliport a few blocks from our office building. black helicopters. in me there was a constant suppression of vomit that any of this is happening, perhaps an exhibition the general emotional flab of America. on wednesday i woke up screaming. that is not exactly unusual around here, but this time at least i knew what was making me scream.



i am going into the war zone on Sunday night. part of me doesn't know how i got into this, but away we go, whoever we are. anything will be better than sitting here or sitting there doing nothing and feeling useless.

i got a call today from a friend in nyc who didn't have phone numbers for a mutual friend whose company has offices in the trade center. when i told him that she didn't work there and that i had spoken with her and she was ok, he just sobbed. we are all fried because of this. it's just horrible.

Listening to
a remix of Metallica
Dont Tread on Me tribute to the WTC disaster.
WE ARE NOT ALONE

Listening to
a remix of Metallica
Dont Tread on Me tribute to the WTC disaster.
WE ARE NOT ALONE
This must not be allowed to happen again. We must stop this. We cannot waver, not another fire fighter, not another policeman, not another mom, dad, son, father, brother, sister, NEVER AGAIN

I don't know your name, or names. We may never know who you are -- so I can't address you personally. Today, you killed several thousands of our friends ... perhaps not people who we knew personally, but people like us. People who worked hard to make a living, who loved somone, who were loved by someone, who worried about making a better life for their children and grandchildren, who believed in God and the American Dream, who ciritcized this country for its insufficiencies and acred enough to try and change things and ensure a better future, not just for us, but for the world. People who leave behind scores of loved ones, friends, pets, neighbors, coworkers, and members of their faiths. Perhaps even people who derived from your own country and who sought refuge here. Your act was a slaughter of the innocents.

You are like an insidious cancer that strikes without warning, ravages bodies, tears families apart, and in the end can naver destroy the soul. You are the ultimate coward. You may topple our buildings, collapse our communication systems, disrupt our government, crash our markets, and leave behind the carnage of bodies, but you will never destroy the soul of America. We made this country from the bits and pieces of the rest of the world; we took the best and worst of every culture and nationality, race and creed, and made an alloy that may be dented, but not even a trial by fire can melt.

I don't know what god you believe in, or what hateful rhetoric you espouse, or what your misguided political beliefs might be that allows you to do what you did today without a fear of eternal damnation. I only know that you may win a battle or two, but you will never win this war. We have the entire history of the world on our side, and no dictator, despot, or madman has survived as long as America has thrived and prospered. If you accomplished anything at all, it was to give America a wake-up call, and we will now rise up stronger than before. You are defeated before you've even begun, there in your private and later in your eternal one. Someday your people may even need our help, and because we are America, we would repond.

May God bless the friends we lost, their families, friends, neighbors and coworkers. We will help them rebuild from the ashes. May God continue to bless America, help her protect us all, and may she continue to shine as a beacon of democracy and hope to the rest of the world.

pondering drivng past the Pentagon tomorrow morning. part of me thinks this will make me a gawker. another part of me feels like I have to actually see it with my own eyes, to fathom it. still another part of me feels like I have to do something.

anything.

something.

i'm also wondering when they are going to open the roads up around the white house to vehicular traffic again. sadly they will probably now keep pennsylvania avenue permanently closed near the white house. as of late there has been a groundswell to reopen it to help ease our horrible traffic congestion.

washington, dc is my home town. proud to say I'm a third generation DCer. how dare anyone make us live this way.

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listening to the backstreet boys as i search for a town in Maine to visit.

who picked this music?

i'm going to vomit.

wondering wandering moment to moment "Space,"
Spock! beam me up

hey

Watching the strangely compelling event on C-Span (Friday's National Prayer Service at the National Episcopal Cathedral). . . watching these people try to react or in Bush's case overreact.

Altering my website (which is supposed to exist on a virtual "Spring Street" in downtown Manhattan) to acknowledge the terrible loss all of us with homes and hearts in New York (and Washington, and the world before Tuesday) are experiencing.

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trying to say something, but realizing that i still can't maintain even a semblance of lucidity for even the shortest length of time.

thanks for thinking of me. sorry for any worry i might have caused by not checking in earlier-- i've pretty much been incommunicado since the morning of 9/11.

after witnessing the first tower collapse and hearing of the attack on the pentagon, we holed up in my girlfriend's apartment on the upper west side until we could rent a car and get out of the city.

she told me we were going to the catskills because we needed a vacation. i told her it was because we needed serenity and time to reflect. of course it was all bullshit-- we fled in a quiet frenzy because we caught a glimpse of hell and thought it was the end of the world.

i'm not exactly sure why we came back or why i'll be getting up tomorrow morning to go to work in the city.

what i do know is that at this moment i couldn't wish what has happened here on anyone.

tit-for-tat wholesale destruction will obviously do nothing but sap whatever humanity we've got left.

you know, i used to laugh at people who thought nyc was dangerous. i always felt safe there. these bastards have ruined that. i hate them. i can't stop thinking about the towers falling. what the fuck has happened to my home? all those innocent people,...this is religion? this is the way the solve problems?? i just don't know what to do.

I drove past the Pentagon last night.

395 North into DC.

I couldn't see it very well over the highway divider, but it was all lit up and I got a few seconds' worth of eye contact with that ugly black hole in its side.

i was just down by ground zero. the enormity of the destruction is, like the towers themselves, so much more massive than TV can possibly portray. it felt good to be in motion, doing something, but that only lasts as long as there is anything to do. actually getting to the stock exchange was a commando-style urban phantasm, racing through streets i never even heard of in Chinatown and lower Manhattan. what really amazes me is that it is not more chaotic than it is, and that the whole area is so tightly secured and well organized.

Watching C-Span with a non hot headed view of these events. (54)

The "BBC World TV Channel" is available on U.S. tv services that offer upward of 200 channels (satellite and digital cable.)
"BBC Newsnight" was just rebroadcast live on C-Span because it offers a cooler-headed two-sided point of reference on the news. For instance they don't have a subgraphic that offers a rating-building "theme" for the news. Namely "America At War" with an American flag. fluttering in the digital wind to emphasize their point.
I understand all the U.S. network tv ahcnors (Rather, Brokaw Jennings. . ) are wearing U. S. flag lapels.

Outside the U.S. the media are not beating the war drums.

That just tells me the foreign countries are just pussies.
TAKE A PLANE UP YOUR ASS AND SEE WHAT DRUM YOU BEAT

Uncle Sam Wants You, Dead or Alive

haunted by the sight of those towers falling. those sons of bitches were so pissed off that their 1993 attempt didn't work (and the guys who did it were caught on top of it) that they were bound and determined to get it right. they did, just like little children who must have their way. fucking bastards!

then, some asshole "crisis counselor" in virginia gets on the news and proclaims that EVERYONE she knows is only one person removed from someone who died at the pentagon. (?) give me a fucking break. there were "only" 180 deaths at the pentagon. her claim is virtually impossible. why does the dc area have to compete with nyc even at a time like this? why don't the folks in northern virginia go out and cheer the rescue workers like the good people of new york? c'mon guys, get real.

oh, and by the way, to all you wall street assholes who made a fortune today by selling short, FUCK YOU!! i hope you all burn in hell. you couldn't set aside your greed for one fucking day to help shore up this country's spirit? FUCK YOU. you will pay the price. maybe not tomorrow or the next day, but your greed will catch up with you. oh, i'll bet you're all so fucking smug right now, but i'd give my eye teeth to be a fly on the wall when you go down.

I'm getting jaded.

I'm tired.

I'm sick of putting together pages of what happened.

I can't stand to see it on tv anymore.

It honestly makes me cry. All I can think of is the people who are missing - what must their families feel...? Especially when they see the news coverage over and over again of what happened

And Joe, I'm sorry, but life does go on. I bet you never spared a thought for any other country that had an act of terrorism against it. Your country doesn't send troops to places that don't directly effect its production and money making profit growing thingybobs.

I'm not coming back until this has been discussed 4 million ways with varying opinions and its gone from the boards. Or at least a couple. Its too much.

Yes, I am still shocked. No I don't have the answers, but you are alive, and you can try to do something to stop shit like this happening again.

Don't think I'm bagging what happened. I was genuinely worried about the NY Sorabjites, but I can't read anymore.

Seeya later guys.

~moonit

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I am only one person removed from 3 someones that died at the Pentagon.

glad to see that england, new zealand, and i assume the rest of the free world are starting to get annoyed with us again. feels like the u.s. is getting back to normal.

somebody emailed me that "proposed wtc rebuild" picture this morning: one tall building with two sets of smaller buildings on either side so that it's giving the terrorists, or maybe just the rest of the world the finger. cute.

even the porn is getting patriotic:

NEW YORK WHORES

BITCHES WITH ATTITUDE


I pledge Allegiance to the flag, of the United States of America,and to the Republic, for which it stands,one nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty, and Justice for all.

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it's not a fucking competition of who has suffered the most, for christ's sake.

get a grip, people. grief is personal and handled in different ways.

and yes, the world, which is composed of individuals, goes on.

i'm with moonit.

wanting mark to please bring back the Where is The Lord? prose.

providing a link to that poem

http://www.sorabji.com/tpogh/potery/thelord.html

providing a link to that poem

http://www.sorabji.com/tpogh/potery/thelord.html

warning that doing "reload frame" after posting a message to wayd results in duplicate postings. Realizing that this warning probably will not save anybody

wondering who invented the first pastry.?

I am fully realizing the level of my buzz. Wow.

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just talked to dad. i've avoided talking about it out loud, but now i know i am resigned to the reality that the unthinkable has happened, but that worse things are coming.

i don't have the capacity to manage my emotions about any of this, or any of anything any more. sunday night, we were at a hotel on canal street, and in the course of a thousand other urban adventures that night we stopped at canal street and 7th avenue, and i never imagined myself doing this but i reached over to them and put my arms around them and they accepted the gesture and the 4 of us stood there and gazed at the asshole of smoke and fire that used to be the world trade center. i don't know how they felt about standing there like that, but being with friends and colleagues for even those few moments made me feel better for as long as our time there lasted. now i ma listening to a batch of songs "For Americans & Their Friends Around the World" that i found on Usenet. i am going to get past this, but for now the sadness soaks me to the soul. i know i am vulnerable to this sensation anyway. sitting here flexing my eyeballs within their sockets.

Feeling oddly detached and separated from my thoughts and feelings, as though they were being reported to me via email alerts or downloaded snippets of video. Attributing this to last Tuesday's disaster, though it might be something else entirely, but it all seems to fit. Had a desire to go to New York today, (which probably I won't be able to fulfill anytime soon), but being uncertain why. Meanwhile, have to go to Urbana again and probably talk about disintermediation and such...

wondering. i had a thought
after looking at some
pictures of new york. i saw a
picture of a place that offered
food and water and rest etc.
and i was wondering if the
homeless community in ny
was offering their services in
the clean up. if the food and
water is free (don't know if it
is or is not), it seems like a
good way for those who are
able-bodied to get some food
for work and also, perhaps,
help bolster their feeling of
belonging to a community.
maybe that's naive. maybe
not. if i were single, no
family, i'd have been there by
now to help out.

back here after a long
time away. just got
back from the summer
in italy a week before
all this went down.
what a welcome.

still trying to smile at
people on the streets.
maybe even more than
normal. i only hope it
helps diffuse the heavy
smell of revenge on so
many people's breath.

i just pray that we don't
kill innocent people to
take our revenge on the
deaths of innocent
people.

always seems like i'm
on this board when
things are heading in a
downward direction.

wonder why that is.

wondering if swine's
still makin' music.

www.staying away from the 20 year old foreign girls.com

I tried smiling at these two muslim ladies walking from the store to their car yesterday.
They had the shroud on, with the stone in the fore-head, but otherwise were wearing street clothes, including tennis shoes.
They just gave me a sour look and walked away.

I'm still slighty dazed...
can't believe what happend. Wish you NY-ers a lot of strenght.

Lets all do the right thing!

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feeling ill and the smell of food cooking isnt helping

resting and drinking beer. it's the second beer I've had this week. forgot to buy any other beverages, needed something cold, depleted the guest beer...

tonight was the yearly booksale and I had signed up to help. it was preview night which meant a lot of dealers and bibliophiles paid $10 for first dibs on the library rejects. this is in the old library which is only used for storage now. it has those old metal shelves with steel girders that are about 2 feet apart... it was quite crowded and you really notice how people smell in these circumstances. this particular group of people had noticeable types of smells, alcohol predominating. It seemed as though they had all been to a cocktail party before coming. Or perhaps bookish types are drawn to very strong colonges and aftershaves? For a moment my mind turned to drinkers I have known in my life, from the man who lived behind the side the fence, who tried to get friendly and lure me over it, to an uncle of mine who was very extroverted in an insufferable kind of way, to my college boyfriend who drank everything from beer to raki. The smell of alcohol on someone produces an instant, almost subliminal reaction in me, but it's complex. My analytical abilities are blunted right now. We'll leave it at that.

mel, i bet you're wrong. i don't like the fact that we are the policemen of the world only when it benefits us. i hurt for the people who died in nyc and their families. i hurt for any victim of random violence. i don't like those in dc who would use this situation just to aggrandize themselves. and, yes, those of us who grew up in nyc feel a loss that no one else can understand.

Well Joe, what am I wrong about?

Prehaps you could get in the line of people with complaints about me today.

Add it to the fucken list.

Apparently I worry too much.

I'm too emotional.

I think about things too much.

I over analyse situations.


Why can't I just be happy with what I've got.

No apparent future - someone who thinks that 'living together' is enough of a commitment.

No plans to buy a home.

Does not want children.

WHAT IF I CHANGE MY DAMN MIND??????????????????????

going to leave today at 3 and going to take tomorrow off.

I'm going to go crazy, and I'd rather not do it in public.

*ahem* please ignore that very drunken and crying-ish post up there. NO DONT LOOK! I'll just go away and have quiet time until I sort my self out.

Whatching our President being ver Presidential.

Whatching our President being very Presidential.
Wondering how much longer it will be

mel, please don't freak out. i've been there,...for a long fucking time, and i'm finally out. you just have to keep moving toward what YOU want; not what anyone else wants. if you keep the goal in mind the results will come. i promise. i'm sorry if i seemed insensative earlier. i'm just mourning for the place in which i grew up. i love nyc and i can't stand to see it suffer.

i can't spell when i'm drunk.

ruined.

feeling like a potato.

being friday...wandering if i can still submit payphone numebrs on this site...need a good project

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i am tinking about how odd it is to see calendars and tv shows and friends episodes that have the trade center towers ars sky scrapes, and backgrounds, and how will they change it? will they redo all the tv shows in new york this season? i am not trying to be petty, but i wonder, what to do with this constant reminder, when this hige landmark isnt there, this big gaping hole, and does ti even seem like new york to see those images anymore?

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holy shit, it's billy. what a weird coincidence - i couldn't help but think about you and wonder where you had gone when i started reading all the WAYD posts that poured in last Tuesday from several people in Italy.

are you not in Italy any more? what ever happened with the girl?


christop: it's your turn to check in.

wondering, like a person who phoned in "If we Do go to war, How will we know if we win?"

I'll have at least one extra towel.

yes, i heard that also.
it was a walk-through the audience session during a "Town Hall" edition of the CNN "debate" show "Crossfire" and the question was posed by an audience member: "How Will We Know When The War Against TerrorismIs Over? How Will We Know When We've Won?"

we don't know who we're fighting. that's what's fucked up.

trying to decide whether to feel nothing or to scream.

trying to decide whether to feel nothing or to scream.

Ah, a brand new day.

in pain. from tequila and beer. you know, take a shot of tequila sans salt and lemon and then chase with negra modelo. i think my cat thought i was dead.

'SEMINOLES FALL HARD TO TAR HEELS'

well i am writing a report on new york i live in arizona eeeeee your pictures are very helpful thank you.

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hye folks

quick message to let y'all know I am ok, limited net access now, just a few minutes.


got some good stories to tell when I get back to Columbus next saturday. So glad that all my friends in NY and DC are ok.

talk to you soon
love ya

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"One disturbing tendency in the recent commentary is an insistence on conformity with the perceived national mood. That's what tyrants and fanatics do; that's what our enemies do. But it's also what some of us do, from the Rev. Jerry Falwell most egregiously to neoconservative pundits to well-meaning liberals, when we seize on the present crisis to admonish what we despise. Whether it's nonstandard social behavior or secular spiritual beliefs or academic styles of discourse or the racket of corporate pop culture, none of these caused the events of Sept. 11, or are invalidated by them."
-ny times 9/23/01