…that the World Trade Center is STILL burning? It was infesting the air in my neighborhood again. I just can’t get used to the new-look skyline. Maybe I should start referring to it as the ‘World Trade Pile’ instead? (I know…very dark humor. So shoot me. It helps.)

Can someone please explain to me why CNN apparently is incapable of operating microphones? Like many Americans, I’ve been glued to the news networks much more than usual, and I had always thought (or been told, anyway), that CNN was a really together network. But the production competency I’ve seen is comparable to public access. [...]

Though the dust settles, the haze hasn’t really lifted from this city. Now that my neighborhood is open again to traffic, it feels more normal, but there’s something different about this place now. Most of my friends and I walk around, and we still all stop every now and then, looking south, I guess in [...]

Wednesday night Glenda and I went out for a walk, all around the city, and there’s an eerie calm over the city right now. The air smelled of burning plastic, and made your eyes water. We actually have “smoke reports” along with weather reports on the local news (complete with maps of which way the [...]

Yesterday afternoon I decided to get on my bike and go downtown. I wanted to all day, but I assumed it would be like a police state down there; that they wouldn’t even let me get close. Well, that is true; I didn’t get too close, obviously (7 world trade hadn’t yet collapsed), but I [...]

So they took away my beautiful view and replaced it with a plume of smoke. For those who have never visited NYC, the World Trade Center is (was) an absolutely immense structure. Maybe not the most elegant skyscraper in the world, but definitely one of the most immense. It was the most visible marker on [...]