Monthly Archives: September 2001

…all fall down

…all fall down My heart is breaking, and it is not because I have to go to work.  It’s because they are gone.  I was reading National Geographic last night, an article about light.  Physics, photons, waves, spectrums — it … Continue reading

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This e-mail message was forwarded

This e-mail message was forwarded to me, but unlike most of the garbage forwarded to me by my dear friends (who really do mean well), this possesses some intrinsic value. 

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This story piqued my apocalyptic

This story piqued my apocalyptic fears earlier today, though I could not find the details of it until I got home from work.  Osama bin Laden is the perfect solution for fanatical Arab states.  Through him they are able to … Continue reading

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Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told CNN: “The world is facing an unbelievable danger and we have to put aside secondary skirmishes.” Why is it that only Isreali politicians tell it like it is?  Here in America we swim in … Continue reading

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Doorbell woke me.  Hours ago. 

Doorbell woke me.  Hours ago.  It was Bobby the cab driver, not Bobby the one I love.  Funny, it interrupted a dream of Bobby the one I love:.  He was standing in the sun, turning as if he had just … Continue reading

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Lots of bizarre news stories. 

Lots of bizarre news stories.  It can be a few minutes relief from the story; the obscurestore.com.  I’ve been lost there for an hour. 

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File this under ‘fate’:  Couple

File this under ‘fate’:.  Couple altered itinerary.

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gettin up.

My DSL is back up.  Yay.  I have no TV, recently lost my phone, and when I got home from work, no DSL.  Cut off.  No contact at all.  Here’s a couple golden-hearted young men whose sites I found in … Continue reading

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If you are sitting alone

If you are sitting alone in your apartment, not watching (or don’t have) a TV, and you feel an akward incongruity between the sunny clear blue-sky Saturday going on outside and the wailing grief of a nation, then spend some … Continue reading

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Something tells me this is

Something tells me this is sick, but I wish I was there.  Of course, if I was there, I would have wished I wasn’t — like the 5k who were there.  5k.  A gross impersonalization but, as counterpoint, it emphasizes … Continue reading

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An account from a 1998

An account from a 1998 interview with Osama bin Laden. 

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Where has all the time

Where has all the time gone?  Just getting into bed now.  I just don’t want to be awake in the daylight today — or yesterday.  And maybe not tomorrow.  I think I will call in sick tonight, If I don’t … Continue reading

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This will become the ‘Zapruder

This will become the ‘Zapruder film’ of the World Trade Center catastrophe. 

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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said: “The fight against terrorism is an international struggle of the free world against the forces of darkness.” I know none of us ever thought a whole ton of things that we are thinking today, … Continue reading

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Black Tuesday

Black Tuesday Words have not yet been invented to describe the way this agony has touched me, this nation, and the world.  Hitler taught humankind a great deal about inhumanity, atrocity, and lust for power.  These were things we did … Continue reading

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