9/11

[lapsedmodernist]

if you weren't in NYC on 9/11/01 i don't want to hear any of your your clever "get over 9/11" rhetoric.

if you were, you may proceed.

sorry, that's just the way it is.

Comments

[totalvirility.livejournal.com]

Done and Done. Sort of.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

i just wrote you a long friendster message.

have dinner with me! plz.

[totalvirility.livejournal.com]

I'll go check it. I'm at a job that won't let me check email though, so Friendster's a good alternative.

[totalvirility.livejournal.com]

Whoops; didn't finish the message-- but yeah, I can have dinner with you, but I am absolutely going home and changing first.
I'm at a shirt-and-tie job today, and as I hadn't been expecting a more formal thing, I had to borrow Cameron's clothes, which are a few sizes two short/small for me, so there's no way in hell I'm going to dinner in them.
Happy September 11th!

[klingrap.livejournal.com]

Bill and I went up to his roof, lit a candle, and spent a few minutes in silence watching the city go by below us. Then we sat down and looked up into the blue blue sky and talked about it for a while. Less would have been disrespectful - more may have been too much.

But a happy 11th to you, too.

[claudelemonde.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't there be a caveat for those who weren't in NYC but who still aren't over it? Geographical discrimination is so right-wing, V.

[joemorf.livejournal.com]

I was there. But I haven't seen any "get over it" posts, clever or otherwise.

~j

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

that's fine; my statement was assymmetrical/one-way.

it's like those permutations/combinations/logic syllogisms

people who weren't in NYC who aren't over it=fine
people who were in NYC and are "over it"=fine
people who weren't in NYC and are being loud and obnoxious about being "over it"=not fine

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

if you are on springheel_jack's friends list you can see the post that provoked my post.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

ah, you don't even have to be on his friends' list anymore to see it, it's general access now.

[joemorf.livejournal.com]

Wow, he didn't lock it. That took a certain amount of balls.

Still, I submit that springheel_jack is an asshat.

~j

[joemorf.livejournal.com]

I guess he wasn't getting enough attention.

~j

[joemorf.livejournal.com]

You can still get on to friendster? I haven't been able to get that page to load in months.

~j

God, people are idiots.

[(Anonymous)]

Hey Anthro-

It's Japhy, who you never see, but stalks your LJ anyways.

I was going to say that we as new Yorker's need to respect that people who did not experience the event firsthand and realize that they view it through an entirely different context (a TV show vs. Reality). Then I saw that assholes's post and all the idiotic comments attatched. Fuck them. You know what I hate most of all? The attitude that 'Everybody experienced 9/11" no matter where they were and that NYC is a gentler "more human" city now.

Truth be told, most people move here because they couldn't stand the asswipes back where they came from and really, they need to shut the fuck up. I mean, what kind of callous world is this? "Yo, Grandma- get over the fact your entire family was gassed.", "Hey, Japan- boo-hoo, we bombed you and scarred your culture for fourty years because of it!", "Iraq, so sorry we took out all your basic needs for living. It's your responsibility to fix it!"

All in favor of New York ceceding from the U.S. say, "aye".

- J

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

i think he locked it then unlocked it then locked and unlocked it again.

word on the asshat submission.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

yep!

aye

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

yep, it would be "united states of new york" like giuliani said on 9/11
and bill clinton would be our mayor/president
and we will be able to smoke in bars again.

Re: aye

[totalvirility.livejournal.com]

Can we aim higher than Clinton, and get someone really good in as president?
Like Kucinich? Or even Nader?

Re: aye

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

i dunno, i kind of dig the idea of Clinton as mayor/president of NYC.

can you come on AIM? i have a new theory i need to share.

Re: aye

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

or better yet wanna have lunch? i can meet you in manhattan...i was gonna have lunch with claire but she's a no-show

[tomorrow-devil.livejournal.com]

There's a "get over 9-11" rhetoric?
I thought there was just the snide hyperreality-Bush's-fault stuff that I've been hearing from all the cool white kids for the past couple of years.