So i'm not blogging as much, you say?
**I DEMAND to know the identity of the painfully few people who comment on this blog, dammit!! Control freak that I am, it bugs the hell out of me to get commentary sans identification...though i'm sure my saying that will only egg you fuckers on more. So I just got a comment that i'm not blogging as much. Yes, very astute observation, dear reader. It's like anything...the novelty wearing off. But I still blog a reasonably great deal, I think. Though I know there's just an avalanche of thoughts I never put to paper, er, keyboard. I WILL make a concerted effort to be more productive in this arena again. For starters, here's some random thoughts to satiate you...
*Late at night on Sept. 11 the other day, I re-caught PBS' "American Experience" documentary on the entire history of the World Trade Center. I first saw this on the anniversary of the attacks in 2003. It was mesmerizing then, perhaps even more so now. Not to mention profoundly sad and disturbing. Not what I should have been viewing, perhaps, right before bed. It was hard to watch to the point where my stomach was getting upset...and that NEVER happens to me. But that's how I was on That Day in 2001, too. But it's one of the best things I've viewed about the attacks. It's devoid of flashy graphics and dire music and slo-mo bullshit. It just very simply and straight-forwardly gives the facts and horrifying video of that day. Which is awful enough. But what makes it even more poignant is that it shows the HISTORY of the building...from the early blueprints to the painstaking construction of these majestic 110-story twin towers. You're shown Frenchman Philippe Petit's staggering 1974 high-wire walk between the 2 towers. And the 1993 bombing. Everything...the entire history...complete with one awesome shot after another of these 2 towers, night and day, from every angle. You get such an idea of the incredible amount of time and manpower devoted to these buildings. There's just such an overwhelming sense of LOSS viewing this documentary. And as I viewed it, at the end of the 5th anniversary of the attacks, I truly realized how much my life had been altered by 9/11. I mean, I knew it before, but it was like a major re-affirmation. Change with me is usually more like a dripping faucet than a bursting pipe. I'm not the type to run out and do something rash. And to the casual observer, I may not be different at all. It's not like I was a Wall Street shark who quit my job and took up farming, dumped my suit for overalls, shaved my head and started chanting...it's not big, obvious changes like that. But I ABSOLUTELY am a different person than I was 5 years ago. What I value, who I value, what I have patience for...never much in the first place, lol. So I was just so struck sitting there in bed realizing how the effects of that awful day had slowly permeated through me over the past 5 years. How terrorism is CONSTANTLY on my mind. Hell, the day after, on Tuesday, I was on the PATH train at rush hour, looking around closely at all the other passengers, thinking how I COULD be blown up at any second...the London commuter bombings on my mind...breathing a sigh of relief once I got to my station. And it's always like that now. Pleasant way to live, huh? But you learn to live with it...I certainly don't mean to imply i'm a shaking wreck who won't leave the house. Not remotely. I'm just noting how that day TOTALLY changed my life, and you make adjustments and adapt the best you can. And i'm also noting how it's often only in retrospect that the past makes sense. That's a pretty lengthy "random thought," I know.
*Here's a shorter one...Letterman is as funny and surreal as ever. My new fave is the warm, maternal waitress coming over to Dave's desk to take an order, pour some coffee, ask if he wants the check, etc...RIOT!
*Late at night on Sept. 11 the other day, I re-caught PBS' "American Experience" documentary on the entire history of the World Trade Center. I first saw this on the anniversary of the attacks in 2003. It was mesmerizing then, perhaps even more so now. Not to mention profoundly sad and disturbing. Not what I should have been viewing, perhaps, right before bed. It was hard to watch to the point where my stomach was getting upset...and that NEVER happens to me. But that's how I was on That Day in 2001, too. But it's one of the best things I've viewed about the attacks. It's devoid of flashy graphics and dire music and slo-mo bullshit. It just very simply and straight-forwardly gives the facts and horrifying video of that day. Which is awful enough. But what makes it even more poignant is that it shows the HISTORY of the building...from the early blueprints to the painstaking construction of these majestic 110-story twin towers. You're shown Frenchman Philippe Petit's staggering 1974 high-wire walk between the 2 towers. And the 1993 bombing. Everything...the entire history...complete with one awesome shot after another of these 2 towers, night and day, from every angle. You get such an idea of the incredible amount of time and manpower devoted to these buildings. There's just such an overwhelming sense of LOSS viewing this documentary. And as I viewed it, at the end of the 5th anniversary of the attacks, I truly realized how much my life had been altered by 9/11. I mean, I knew it before, but it was like a major re-affirmation. Change with me is usually more like a dripping faucet than a bursting pipe. I'm not the type to run out and do something rash. And to the casual observer, I may not be different at all. It's not like I was a Wall Street shark who quit my job and took up farming, dumped my suit for overalls, shaved my head and started chanting...it's not big, obvious changes like that. But I ABSOLUTELY am a different person than I was 5 years ago. What I value, who I value, what I have patience for...never much in the first place, lol. So I was just so struck sitting there in bed realizing how the effects of that awful day had slowly permeated through me over the past 5 years. How terrorism is CONSTANTLY on my mind. Hell, the day after, on Tuesday, I was on the PATH train at rush hour, looking around closely at all the other passengers, thinking how I COULD be blown up at any second...the London commuter bombings on my mind...breathing a sigh of relief once I got to my station. And it's always like that now. Pleasant way to live, huh? But you learn to live with it...I certainly don't mean to imply i'm a shaking wreck who won't leave the house. Not remotely. I'm just noting how that day TOTALLY changed my life, and you make adjustments and adapt the best you can. And i'm also noting how it's often only in retrospect that the past makes sense. That's a pretty lengthy "random thought," I know.
*Here's a shorter one...Letterman is as funny and surreal as ever. My new fave is the warm, maternal waitress coming over to Dave's desk to take an order, pour some coffee, ask if he wants the check, etc...RIOT!
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so it's me again, the reader with the prior astute observation :) to be honest, i stumbled across your blog one day a few months ago, as i sat staring at an open blogger.com page, deciding whether or not to start one up of my own. saw the random blinking blogs scrolling up under 'explore blogs', and something about your title drew me in no less - and i guess within just the first few reads i was pretty darn intrigued :) your writing style is all class and fully entertained me.. and i've got to say it'd be a shame to see you stop - so i hope the novelty hangs on a little longer :)
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