tags: WTC
2001
July
- 2001 Jul 30
- The City that Doesn't Sleep and Other Ramblings
New York and a few random epiphanies.
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2005
September
- 2005 Sep 27
- nyc — revisiting the big city (continued)
In some ways, Gotham has been on my consciousness for a slightly longer time than the Windy City has. The first time I came out here was in January 1993, and from what I remember, it was not yet fully Giulianified. Me and others from my high school were only there for a night, I think, on an East Coast college tour. I remember being cold, staying in a place infested with roaches, with holes in the walls where some guy on probably PCP decided to take out his aggression on the building. Ah, those were the days.
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2006
April
- 2006 Apr 21
- meaning (and the lack thereof)
So I should know better than to write when I am intoxicated, but I don’t know, I’m overcome once again by this sense of numbness. What does any of this matter?
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September
- 2006 Sep 1
- confusing the sacred with the profane
So maybe all Republicans aren’t religious fundamentalists, but I kind of wonder if there isn’t some sort of congruence between the two mind sets—namely, the kind of ignorance and stupidity that makes you so sure that what you know is absolutely right and anyone that disagrees with you is absolutely wrong.
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2015
May
- 2015 May 29
- 1 WTC
Before this last trip, the last time I was at the WTC site was in 2004. It was still just literally a hole in the ground and they hadn't started building the Freedom Tower yet. On subsequent trips, I eventually got used to the palpable absence of the Twin Towers, so on this last trip, it almost felt like 1 WTC had been Photoshopped into Lower Manhattan's skyline.
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