Month: September 2001
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Life goes on in London. According to the BBC, we remain on “high security alert”. I think most of the City buildings are open though. (Any word, Jann?) All the flight paths going into and coming out of Heathrow have been altered, which means whenever I look out the window the planes are going in…
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Roger Ebert went into a movie screening at 8:30 in the morning yesterday and “walked out two hours later into a different world.” His wife and daughter were in New York City (they’re safe). He puts into words what a lot of people were feeling. He’s a good writer.
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Slate has collected all of the day’s editorial cartoons. You know, a cartoonist can really make an event hit home in a way that video footage cannot. I really found myself getting choked up at a lot of these. A lot of cartoonists used the theme of the Statue of Liberty sobbing and averting her…
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Oh God. Beau works in Manhattan, right? Has anybody heard from him?
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I’m compiling a list of blog reactions I can find in the NY/DC area. Here’s what I got so far: New York: Andy’s Chest; East/West; UltraSparky; CamWorld; superhyperdemonchild; Everlasting Blogstalker; BroadwayStars.com; Saran Warp; Scripting News DC: fredosite
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Notre Dame‘s cancelled all classes and activities and declared it a “Day of Prayer”. That’s an understatement.
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They’ve evacuated most of the City of London. (The City is the square mile financial district in the middle.) Canary Wharf, the London Stock Exchange, the Natwest Tower, the Lloyds of London building… All empty. This is frightening.
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Oh my God. Oh my God. Can you believe this? Our whole office is clustered in the kitchen watching the news footage as it rolls in. The BBC site seems to be swamped. My cousin IMed me from the States to say she’d just seen the footage. I IMed my mom and told her to…
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Excerpt from an Instant Messenger conversation: Snookums: What is disputed? The fact that there is always carrots or the source of these carrots? The presence of carrots is ubiquitous enough to make it into at least 3 entries in this excellent list of regurgitative euphemisms.Kris: Dude, you’re just making this worse. You know it all…
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Damn. My perverts page is catching people, but a bug in my code meant that their “appeals” weren’t getting recorded properly. It’s fixed, though, so hopefully we’ll get some suckers today. Oh, and I changed the poll. 🙂