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burstdream, i flying flames of muscle, eyes borne from one end of doorsky to the other.sky rushes away.my brother a phonecall placed from high edge of his hip bone.balance created by thrown blood we share-universe broken floor.wh e r e a r e y o u i a m a l r i g h t. no thing happens for mile inbetween empty eyes and blindtouch of tongue.the new tomorrow lays burnt and fallen.come. come for me then.collect me as though you were my father. i rush to ground now no name or address.why did i...
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Worked a corporate gig at a major talent agency during this period while moonlighting the bars. My favorite client for whom we booked speaking engagements was The Honorable Ann Richards. She had no qualms about filling us in on the depths that W would sink to win. (He of all people brought public her ages-old bout with alcoholism during her schoolteaching years when he ran against and unseated her as Gov. of TX - so much for anonymity). I was listening to the Rolling Stones' Some Girls CD on...
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Letter emailed on The Day: Like alot of folk, I imagined I could walk downtown and have a look. I got over to the river, joined the crowd standing still and silent, staring at the thick single plume of black smoke. I started walking downtown with others. We were stopped at Houston Street. People were trying to force their ways through the police barricade: "I live down there!" "My husband's waiting for me!" "My dogs!" Cops were fighting to keep people from crossing Houston... One cop...
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I loved that S'tan... thanks for sharing I think one of the most upsetting sight were the hours after 9/11 - First the panic that there was more to come, then the sheer chaos of the people rushing around to hospitals, posting flying looking for loved ones they truly believed had made it to hospitals. Tragic. The way Union Sq was transformed with endless candles, posters, flyers and friends and family searching for loved ones. Then there was that acrid smell and dust- I remember walking...
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The phone rang early that morning , My Daddy calling to tell me to turn on the TV. I saw the first plane sticking out of Tower 1..I dressed and ran out of the house to the intersection of Seventh Avenue and Greenwich Ave and stood in still silence in the middle of the street with a million others watching as the second plane hit Tower 2..I ran home and got my little orange girls bicycle and peddled feverishly towards the towers. I made it all the way to White Street. Stopped by police...
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Hope you all are alive and well this morning, that's all I have to say. I wrote a few haikus about 9/11 in my journal, and a long rant about Bush and the war on terror and the fact that Bush was starting to regret the war in Iraq. I read it when I "finished" it and thought --Damn that's harsh--and I wish that we all could stop mourning and start living life again. For some of us it's easier sad than done. It still pisses me off, what happened that day, and what happened since then. And you...
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Here is the post I was looking for... "Never Forget" but remember too... The USA is NOT innocent!
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I began my annual remembrance tonight, watching the incredible docko "The Falling Man" - was finally on the Discovery Times channel. IMHO the best film piece yet on 9/11 - NOT for the faint of heart, as it focuses on those who jumped, including the famous - and quickly supressed - photo of the man falling to his death. In the morning Nova and I will go around the corner to leave flowers at the firehouse on East 13 Street. Those 12 plaques on the building are as close to Ground Zero as I need...
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This morning I woke up late for work and rushed to get ready, forgetting that today was 9/11. Looking in the bottom drawer for a note pad that I wanted to use at the office, I pulled out Time magazine 9/11/06 with the cover shot of the towers collapsing and thought how odd to pull this out of nowhere and on the anniversary of that dreadful day. I still think of all those beautiful and brave firemen who died and it brings tears to my eyes even now.
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The Motherboards Remembers 9/11/2001
Well, it's nearly here, with the corresponding blue skies and gorgeous afternoons. So much of our personal 9/11 experience took place on these boards, I thought it fitting to start a topic here.I just pulled out this old piece of writing from the New...
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9/11 unfolds on the Motherboards: Waiting for the End of The World
Strangely we awoke early today. I am sorry to say that I laughed when I first saw the footage of the hole where World Trade used to be. I just couldn't process it. There are war planes flying over the East Village.We began our day on the roof, where...
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Walking home from a big poetry night at St. Marks Church, the tribute in light was on, and I thought once again of that morning now eight years ago. This year in remembrance, I have featured the topic from that morning and the days that followed - it will stay on top of this forum till the weekend, then go back to its permanent home in Best of the Motherboards. http://motherboards.infopop.cc...6060101/m/5516048701
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Last night as I have done for the past eight years I left two dozen roses and a note under the memorial plaques naming the six lost firefighters on the front of the firehouse at the end of the block. The roses were there with several other offerings. This year, the firefighters took the roses and the note inside. There is a zone in me still lingering ungrounded, after years we still do not know where this will have us collectively end up.
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Been away from the boards for quite awhile but never stopped missing many here. anyway... It has always bothered me that wars always start within a small community of fanatics & blows up into killing innocent people with NO affiliation to ideas of said fanatics. Be them church or state sponsered ect. what ends up happening everytime ... the waring parties get tired of the bloodshed & make up again without concern of all the missing fathers/children/ families, hopes & dreams lost.
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I was there once, Once like you. I reveled in my immortality-- much like you. Safety, community-- No -- in our hollow protestations -- we cannot save the world. We cannot right this ship. So, on that day-- I wept I blame no one-- politics are not the problem... yet I still weep-- I weep.. Do you? T
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Still here. I'm now flying airplanes. The towers gone, the community gone. Nightclub gone. Yet, still I'm here. In the nightclub at the end of the world. I love you all.
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Godess bless - hope everyone here slept late and was nowhere near world trade. peace.
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Strangely enough, I was awake, heard the initial explosion and a woman screaming hysterically on the street. And then the emergency vehicles. I got dressed and went downstairs and was crossing the street when the second plane hit. People were walking north with blood-splattered faces, their clothing shredded. Now, the silence down here is positively eerie, punctuated by the occasional siren, the drone of bombers overhead.
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Hello, Looking out my window, it is a beautiful sunny day. The sky is so very blue. Although, if you stand on first avenue, and look southward, you can see the smoke in the sky. All the hospitals are on alert. I am not allowed to leave. The chairs have been moved about in the patient waiting areas, so that hallways are lined with chairs. They expect them to be lined with bodies. It is all so sureal. Life is about to change in such a drastic way. Just what the consequences will be remain to...
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It must be so hard Diane - we are all so lost today - I DO envy you one thing though - having a job to do. No one else knows quite what to do with themselves - except the odd poster who doesn't seem to have heard yet. I have decided, like many others, to just stay online as much as possible -here and on The Well (where we have more than a decade of tragedies shared historically in this way) and urge you all to post about this when you are ready - there IS no precedent for what has happened...
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I've just returned from riding my bike downtown to see if I could see more than what's on TV. It just didn't seem real on TV. I was able to ride all the way to Church and Warren Streets. People seem in shock and out-of-their-bodies. The strangest looks on the faces of everyone I passed. Then when I returned to my neighbourhood by St. Vincents, the entire intersection was full of people standing, staring at the hospital. All the doctors and nurses standing by the entrance with stretchers and...
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for the victims who have lost theirs in the blast. I don't know of any other particulars. We arrived last night from London and awoke to a bright sunny morning. Di walked off to work and I to my car. I heard the first reports at 8:45 I have been between tears and rage all day. I just want to hear from everyone that I know. I will keep you all as posted as I am with whatever reports that I can get, including any info that I get from Di on the frontline. my thoughts are constantly with the...
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i'm so far away but feel so close to it. the tears keep coming. especially when i think about kids whose parents went in to work there this morning. SO GLAD to see a post from hatches who i know lives close by. seeing your posts, hearing your voices is a GREAT COMFORT to me here on the other coast. i love you and am praying for the victims and anyone affected by this. (i.e., all of us.) here's my quote... "take care of yourselves. and each other." -j. springer
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The update on donating blood- They do need blood but cannot process and screen any more till tomorrow. They will need blood tomorrow, and the next day, etc. Some nearby collection points- Metlife at 5th and 23rd Bellevue hospital. I don't think they want people at St. Vincent's though. LOTS of stores here are closed - an average of two stores open on every block.
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...and since one can't watch any more teevee...the best thing to do is to stay calm. Thus, I think it's time for a cocktail. Or five. Love for those who survived, prayers for those who did not, Minerva
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I have been online all night, it is almost 9:30am here in Melbourne Australia. I have been frantically e-mailing and over-posting here of course. It's surreal, words fail me but tears keep comming. Yet I am numb. I wish the bars would open. God, ANY bar! I feel too far away from you all. Thank Goddess for the MotherBoards. A friend, Andrew Stellman, worked on the 77th floor in World Trade Centre 2. He didn't go to work today. Too close. My thoughts are with you all. I think of Di. She...
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Please dial 1-800-933 blood for info about blood donation locations. Anyone anywhere please give blood. NYC is in dangerously short supply.
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i don't know how i feel yet but i am numb. my father woke me with a call before 9:00am. i went out on the roof just after the second plane crashed. rushed off to 28th street and park avenue (26th floor) where i saw the second tower fall. i still can't believe it. i don't know if i ever will be able to. i pray for all the people who lost their lives and their loved ones. i pray for the people who did this. i was hit hardest when i walked out my door this morning to huge crowds, some in suits...
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i was on location in Westchester today, having my cup of coffee and watching Good Morning America when at 8:50... in came the news... i live in tribeca, and it is now in shambles... the eerie thing is... that as of recently, i had taken to have my early morning walk to the Krispy Kreme at the WTC... [which i might have done on this sunny AM]... phone lines were down, TV stations went static, even channel 41 was adding an english version of the news... needless to say, shooting was at a...
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From Santa Barbara, via email..
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The actress and photographer, Berry Berenson, also the sister of Marisa Berenson and the widow of Anthony Perkins, was unfortunately on Flt 11 that was the second plane to hit the WTC. She was a very talented and beautiful person. I met her several times and found her to be a wonderful and kind person. I am sure that she will much missed by her friends and fans and family.
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Contrary to previous reports, TriBeCa is not particularly in shambles; most of the devastation seems to be confined to an area south of Chambers Street. I did hear that the huge antenna that used to top WTC is impaled straight into the ground. I wonder if it's true; very Planet Of The Apes. Canal Street seems to be a huge holding pen for earth-moving equipment. Cranes and flatbed trucks with concrete barriers on them are parked outside my window. Last night they would not let me return to my...
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I'm an hour north of NYC, and was on the phone doing an interview with someone in the city when the news came in. We thought it was just a piper cub or some amateur-hour pilot making a small "whoopsie" into the building, and kept on talking. We just had no idea. Happily, most of the tribe I'm in contact with has checked in, shaken and stirred, but OK. Got the email that the show will go on tomorrow, and I'm depserate to come to the city to SEE people and connect. But if the area below 14th...
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Together we weave Magical and truly beautiful Art. A Tapestry that is continuously Woven. We are threads of different colours. Some threads be shinier or darker hued. Flecks of gold and silver run through it. We weave this together. We weave the tapestry in revelry and happiness. Brought together together with all the pains and disappointments. We are healed by the weft that is the common experience. Suddenly, this fabric of our shared consciousness is raveled. The Tapestry becomes frayed.
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You kept me sane yesterday on the WELL, honest. Thanks for that...BTW I've noticed that pretty girls are being granted a bit of leeway at the great ropes to Lower Manhattan that stretch out right at my corner - 14th Street.
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I read your report, and thought that the dust that later spiraled through the air was partly cremains. Thinking of so many people I care for, my 'kin', under that flurry of souls was crushing. I'll check in throughout the day tomorrow. If it looks like you guys *will* be up and running at 2nd and 2nd, I will try to flirt my way past the barricades with bottles of Gatorade or something. I don't mean to be crude, but, uh, there's no dress code tomorrow, is there? I think I'm gonna have to blue...
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Lily, There is no Dress Code Thursday but I will be there. Dresscode hope to see you.
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I feel hurt, insignificant and helpless. I've suffered several losses in the WTC disaster. I'm angry but know in my heart that anger is not the answer. Strength is. I pray for the souls of the people who have perished and I pray for their families and loved ones. With personal strength and God's help, we'll get through this.
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I just had to report that me and the wife went for a walk to the west side and saw something amazing. At Christopher and West Side Hway there's a group of people standing there cheering and clapping as rescue vehicles head up and down the highway. Some people have signs that say "Thank You", some are holding up flags. It really was moving to see these people just giving what they could to the tireless workers downtown. And you culd tell their cheers were being appreciated. That's all for...
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Been watching CNN from Omaha and saw everyone cheering the rescue workers on the west side highway and the vigil in Washington Square. I am so proud of all of you. I just arrived last May, but I hope to be able to say someday that I am a New Yorker. God bless all of you, and God Bless America!!!
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There is a list server for Tom Waites fans called Raindogs. Here is a posting from ground zero. Sorry for mass mailing this but I've been telling my story so much I figured this will save me telling it a few dozen more times. Firstly, if anyone was there or had loved ones there I hope that you and yours are okay and (physically at least) unscathed. The phrase I heard a lot while I was downtown all day and night was what soldiers say about a war zone. I was in 'the shit'. Our headquarters is...
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I worry about the jump in american flag sales. I worry about the young men and women rushing to enlist in the army. I worry about a shaky american president, and a psychotic secretary of state. I worry about the cries for revenge. I worry about attacks on innocent immigrants. These are my thoughts upon waking today...
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I'm just glad everyone of you is ALIVE and well. Every hour or so I get teary-eyed .... I'm speechless, I feel helpless and very, very sad. I'm not even afraid for my own safety anymore. I just feel such enormous sadness for all those people in their offices, the rescue workers, the passengers on the those planes and everyone who was killed in this nightmare scenario. And that those two gorgeous buildings, practically like the Great Pyramids to most New Yorkers and such an integral part of...
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betty domination phoned me tuesday and told me to buy water and canned goods. well i didn't, went out last night to get some supplies. toilet paper, water, bread, peanut butter sold out. i got the last few cans of tuna. i worry about the air. my neighborhood is covered with smoke today. but i feel strong and know we will rebuild the greatest city in the world. i am proud to be a new yorker and glad to have such good friends.