Just one day over a decade ago, 9/11 changed everything. It did. But we got through it, because after all are we not Americans -- that's what we do, "get through" a constant sewage stream of economic and moral disasters. It was 10 years ago. Certain authors remember it well. “9/11,” they say, sitting down to tap out think pieces about that fateful day, “I remember it well. It changed everything. But is not America still, after all, America?” Let’s skim through some of these poignant “remembering 9/11” columns and incisive "how has this horrible decade affected Things on Earth?" essays, and compare and contrast, as a terrible beauty is born.
If only he had not died seven years later, I am sure Napoleon would have made the trip to Belgium to "remember, heal, and commemorate" Waterloo and build a museum, memorial, and memory wall of names on the tenth anniversary.
did anyone read / remember anthony lane's review of 'phantom of the opera'? one of the most delightful things i've ever read beginning with:
<i>What does it take to shake a movie fan? Whether we are critics or bug-eyed buffs, so many of our evenings are spent in the company of crimes and misdemeanors that we can hardly be blamed for developing the hide of a pachyderm. Just occasionally, something slips through&mdash;a thin shudder of monstrosity, enough to remind us of what it means to be afraid. And so it came about, this week, that I gazed at a black screen and saw words so calamitous that they might have been written in my own blood: &ldquo;Screenplay by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joel Schumacher.&rdquo; </i>
And yea I say unto you, they shall raise up the least among them to the highest post and he shall appear as a monkee and they shall call him &quot;W&quot;.
The sheep shall follow and the lies shall flow like water from the sea. They shall proclaim his deceptions and follow him unto war with the wrong nation.
And Cheney will shoot some guy in the face also, too.
No.
&quot;armchair intellectuals&quot; - as opposed to those fightin&#039; intellectuals, on the front lines of our current three wars?
If only he had not died seven years later, I am sure Napoleon would have made the trip to Belgium to &quot;remember, heal, and commemorate&quot; Waterloo and build a museum, memorial, and memory wall of names on the tenth anniversary.
2001 had no facebook. 2001 had no twitter.
i wish 2001 would call us back.
did anyone read / remember anthony lane&#039;s review of &#039;phantom of the opera&#039;? one of the most delightful things i&#039;ve ever read beginning with:
<i>What does it take to shake a movie fan? Whether we are critics or bug-eyed buffs, so many of our evenings are spent in the company of crimes and misdemeanors that we can hardly be blamed for developing the hide of a pachyderm. Just occasionally, something slips through&mdash;a thin shudder of monstrosity, enough to remind us of what it means to be afraid. And so it came about, this week, that I gazed at a black screen and saw words so calamitous that they might have been written in my own blood: &ldquo;Screenplay by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joel Schumacher.&rdquo; </i>
scrumptious.
And yea I say unto you, they shall raise up the least among them to the highest post and he shall appear as a monkee and they shall call him &quot;W&quot;.
The sheep shall follow and the lies shall flow like water from the sea. They shall proclaim his deceptions and follow him unto war with the wrong nation.
And Cheney will shoot some guy in the face also, too.
- Lobotomy 9:11
And a few of them are still in office. :(
<i>See also</i> Americans, Native.
I&#039;m talking morning, day, night, afternoon, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick. How many dicks is that? A lot.