Wednesday, August 7, 2002

How Would You Parody This? In a world where fat tourists wander lower Manhattan taking voyeuristic pictures of whatever carnage is still visible in "Ground Zero Rescue Team" T-shirts and country stars are goosing their careers with 9/11 references, I guess I shouldn't be offended by this. And yet, I am offended. Here is Coach Bowden's attempt to explain the Florida State football team's use of "Let's Roll" as a slogan: That guy, on that plane, knowing they were fixin' to die and they were going to try to keep it, save the, save the White House or whatever they were gonna hit and I heard that guy, they said he said, 'Let's Roll,' I could really relate to that, and you know that's exactly the motto we're trying to get to our players, is, hey, the season has started, we got bad year last year, let's roll. And then, of course, in honor of those people who died on that plane. Maybe that's another reason that I can't wait for October--the whole one-year anniversary thing will be over. 9:40:47 PM     What do you think? ()

Do You Think People Will Get It? Chris Green is an English drag queen touring as Tina C. He/she (I never know what to do with the pronouns in these cases) is performing songs like "Kleenex to the World" and "9/11:24/7" from his/her as yet unreleased World Trade Center Tribute album. Here again we enter the dangerous territory of satire, as he/she points out that: The attacks were a huge thing in Nashville. There was a lot of product released and a lot of people who had their careers slightly augmented by 9/11 material... I really love country music and I think it has a wonderful emotive quality that nothing else has. But as I say in Kleenex to the World, you don't need to write songs about people dying on 9/11. We can work out that is sad. 10:29:25 AM     What do you think? ()

Is It October Yet? When I was a child, my extended family and a dozen or more friends went camping in North Truro every summer, right after my brother and I got out of school. Sometime in the 1980s, we stopped going. I went back a couple of times in college, and then started going to Provincetown regularly with my wife almost eight years ago (we got engaged there). However, we went in the fall rather than summer, and we've been going later each year. Last year, we went at the end of October, and almost all of my family and many friends joined us for my father's memorial. This year, we're going at the end of October again, and even more family and friends will be joining us. So if anyone would like to join us for a week of peace and beauty, let me know. Seriously. I've been watching the Commercial Street Web cam, thinking that by the time I stand on that spot, the heat will be over, our apartment purchase and renovation will be completed, our move will be done, and I'll be a happier person. I can't wait. 10:16:15 AM     What do you think? ()

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