September 2001

I found an incredible interactive map - Transparent New York - at blogorama.

Wild, Wild Life - Talking Heads

Major League Baseball and the Players Association donated $10 million and announced the creation of the MLB-MLBPA Disaster Relief Fund on Wednesday to aid the victims of last week’s terrorist attacks in the United States.

The Florida vs. Tennessee football game has now officially been rescheduled for Dec. 1, and the SEC Championship game will be played Dec. 8.
Also, the Florida vs. Miss. St. game on Sept. 29th will be televised by CBS and will be a 3:30 p.m. ET kick-off.

State of the Nation - New Order

It’s been one week.

So this is the first anniversary of sorts. And next week it will be two weeks. And then it will be a month since. And then it will be six months. And then a year. And then five years.

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Here is an awesome letter from Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Curt Schilling to the citizens of America.

PBS.com’s Building Big: Databank entry on the World Trade Center

Go read:

• Dave Barry
• Religion’s Misguided Missiles
• What More Can I Give?
• Resources
• Saving a Life and a Bride

Imagine - John Lennon

The Bank of America’s Economic Research Division released a report on Wednesday. They worked pretty quickly (IMHO) to produce gems like, “The economy, which had been experiencing anemic growth prior to the terrorist attacks, is expected to be negatively affected in the short-run,” and, “Consumer spending will weaken from its earlier forecast 2.5% annualized growth pace in 2001Q3.” This is fascinating stuff if you are interested in how our nation’s finances work.

A Grim Scene is - by far - the most gruesome, horrible, tragic … I can’t even begin. This one article is worse than all the rest. There are no superlatives to explain how much this one short piece of reporting can turn your stomach.

And so I’m forced to ask myself, “Why do you blog it?” And I do not know that I have an answer. It is wrenching, this article. I do not think anyone should ever read it, should have to read anything like it. And yet. It is there. It should be read. I hate this.

This article, The Images That Won’t Let Us Go, is painfully true. The Challenger explosion seems like nothing to me now. This is just so much. You don’t even need to say it. Everyone knows. Everyone in the country, in the world probably … You can just say, “Did you know anyone there?” Or, “Have you heard anything else?” You don’t have to say, “the World Trade Center,” or, “the Pentagon.” What else could you mean? Is there anything else? Did anything else happen this week?

While I was riding around Boston with my dad the week before last, we started talking about one of my favorite Hemingway lines:

“The war seemed as far away as the football games of some one else’s college,”

(from A Farewell to Arms).
At WorldNewYork I just read:

“I tried to read this morning’s newspaper this afternoon, but the pre-bombing news seemed irrelevant, like news from twenty years ago.”

This Sunday seems like it’s happening to someone else. It feels as if I am not who I was last week. Has the world changed? Have I? Who is this person that I am now? It’s very odd. Last Monday there was so much … I don’t know … So much stuff that seemed so important then just really, honestly doesn’t seem to matter. It sounds hokey … cheese … but it’s true.

I’m going to guess that the gunmen in India who shot a 10 year-old-boy and left a note warning the government not to support the US in any retaliatory action against the Taliban didn’t read The Dalai Lama’s letter to the President of the United States of America.