ROLLING NEW YORK 2008: I Don't Wanna Be Here When The Bomb Drops

How many more years until the inevitable coordinated subway attacks?
I will take no job requiring me to take the subway at rush hour.

(I had a dream about this last night, I'm not just a crackpot.)

i have dreams about this approx. twice a week.

i used to be so scared of this and moved to avoid having to take the train to work through any of the major stations. but now i take the 4 from brooklyn to the UES and hit just about all of them! tralallaa i can't hear you

PANGS OF FEAR ON THE TRAIN THIS MORNING, GUYS.

at least we'll have plenty of bars to choose frum when the cowards leave.

i just don't wanna be under a river when the bomb drops

http://consequenceofsound.com/2008/01/15/maybe-it-is-happening/

ian you pussy

Fuck man, when the cowards leave we'll have our bars and smoke in 'em, too.

i had a full fledged panic attack stuck in a 4 train underground near wall street. i was nervous enough as i was going to tell my folks about a new addition to the family, then the train froze up in the tunnel and all you could smell was smoke. i guess there was a fire somewhere.

well congrats! (not on the panic attack)

i don't get claustrophobic often but that feeling that you're in a sealed coffin with 40 others schmoes happens on a regular basis to a lot of people.

xpost thx, this was a while ago

last week one afternoon when they kicked us all of the red line because a girl told the conductor she smelled smoke and then she saw smoke coming out from under the train (I didn't see anything), I was reminded of the way the PATH smells every day.

"smoke? no, ma'am, that's just subterranean hoboken"

I worry more about train collision than being stuck in a tunnel? Have never had the panic attax altho no, do not want to be underwater when shit explodes.

Wait, taking sides: UNDER the water, or suspended at a deathly height on a bridge OVER it?

at least we'll have plenty of bars to choose frum when the cowards leave.

-- Dr Morbius, Saturday, January 12, 2008 2:21 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

this is crass as hell to say, and i know i'm going to regret writing this in the future, but you're not alone in this sentiment. all it would take is a good dirty bomb scenario that gets bungled, irradiates a few blocks with no casualties, and immediately the worst of the worst move out of nyc. rents go down, new construction abandoned, police have better things to do.. you get the idea.

oh and hi future self in 2014 reading this!

If the bomb's worse than you say it is, your hideously mutated future self is going to hate you for saying that.

Wait, taking sides: UNDER the water, or suspended at a deathly height on a bridge OVER it?

i'll take the bridge. at least you can let out one final "WHHHEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" on the way down.

remember how after 9/11 everyone thought nyc real estate would become affordable? lol

too true Matt.

Actually my friend A bought her apt on the UWS right after that!! It's just that it turns out "affordable" is relative.

actually, i do remember some eurotrash in wburg/pratt area abandoning their lofts and subletting for about half market value. of course that was just a good sublet deal until the lease ran out..

rents go down, new construction abandoned, police have better things to do..

...jobs disappear, tax base slashed, cancer rates skyrocket. but hey, no yuppies!

If that's a promise...

I was thinking more of Wall St being underwater.

"Wall St" will still exist if Wall St is underwater, sorry morbs

this is crass as hell to say, and i know i'm going to regret writing this in the future, but you're not alone in this sentiment. all it would take is a good dirty bomb scenario that gets bungled, irradiates a few blocks with no casualties, and immediately the worst of the worst move out of nyc. rents go down, new construction abandoned, police have better things to do.. you get the idea.

-- sanskrit, Tuesday, January 15, 2008 4:12 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

*dials DHS*

I just watched Final Destination 3 today. STAY AWAY FROM ROLLER COASTERS, TANNING BEDS, DRIVE-THRUS, WEIGHT MACHINES UNDER SWORDS, NAIL GUNS, RUNAWAY HORSES, FLAGPOLES, FIREWORKS, AND SUBWAYS AND EVERYTHING IS OK.

El Tomboto speaking, how can I help you mr gbx

I carefully stay away from all but one of those

isn't everybody bored of terrorism yet? can we get back to machine revolt?

nothing gets between a gabbneb and his flagpole

My weight machine has an axe over it, I'm assuming that will be perfectly safe?

lol

final destination 3: really final this time, guys, we promise.

I did not see Final Destination 2 but I could follow ok after readin gthe wiki plot synopsis.

http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2007/07/26/cloverfield-poster-thumb.jpg

that dirty bomb thing would cause me to move out of nyc. does that make me a yuppie? also: anthrax/sarin gas/some other nasty stuff in the subway ventilation systems

I have 6 gallons of distilled wated in my upstairs closet. Maybe I need more.

gah, or water. I have not yet begun to carry a jar of apple cider vinegar or whatever with me wherever I go.

i made an emergency evacuation kit for valentine's day once. lady got all weepy.

If you run out of room for water storage just keep some bleach around, apparently you can disinfect water with a small amt of it and still drink it safely. You could keep iodine tablets around too but personally I'd rather drink chlorine.

i never think abt this except in a vague what if... sort of way

my friend nikki has an excellent evacuation kit that her dad gave her including a RADIATION SUIT!

i was trying to figure out what route would be the safest way out of the city w/out using any major highways or bridges and the only thing i could come up with was driving out to the end of long island :/

if yr kidneys are in good shape you can cycle your own pee, what, six times through? probably depends on how hydrated you are to begin with though. keep it clear everybody!

but then you could take a ferry to CT or something, though that didn't work out too well in war of the worlds

was trying to figure out what route would be the safest way out of the city w/out using any major highways or bridges and the only thing i could come up with was driving out to the end of long island :/

Take the ferry from there to Connecticut.

xp

i could do a babyfap lunch, depending on the day.

Cool, we'll post someting when we know what we might be doing.

are you guys scheduling armageddon in your fancy parent codes

fear the babyfap.

tiny hands across the water........

oh, dear. i hope i didn't cause any offense to the family porkpie.

hush, no. Is fine.

Does anyone else do the ugly baby face whenever they show the newborn on Friday Night Lights? Or am I the only one watching that show? Ugly babies crack me up.

I am so not into baby culture. All my friends or relatives who have newborns, I end up getting their travel books because they won't be going anywhere for 12 years.

I do love that Rody for kids though.

haha, terrorism fear morphs into parenting thread -- COINCIDENCE?

I really draw the line at vaginal mega-closeups.

-- Dr Morbius, Friday, January 18, 2008 3:03 PM (Friday, January 18, 2008 3:03 PM) Bookmark Link

haha, terrorism fear morphs into parenting thread -- COINCIDENCE?

-- Dr Morbius, Saturday, 19 January 2008 17:13 (2 hours ago) Link

I DON'T WANNA DIE ALONE, DADDY.

VAGINAL MEGA CLOSEUPS

health alert: is there some kind of PINKEYE EPIDEMIC in nyc? a couple people in my office are out with conjunctivitis, and my kid woke up today with his right eye reddish and gunky.

developing...

I'm not trying to hear this, gypsy mothra!

wash yr hands! don't rub yr eyes!

That's like trying to ask... never mind.

Does anyone else do the ugly baby face whenever they show the newborn on Friday Night Lights?

YES. that baby is really weird looking

Not that I know of, J. But I learned a couple of years ago that "pink eye" isn't a particular virus or bacteria, it's really just a name for ANY infectious irritation of the conjunctiva (that "surface of the eye" to you). Anyway my boss refused to let me come to work without a doctor's note and seemed to think that I could get drops ON THE SPOT that would make it not-contagious. Like magic! Which is not at all the case with a virus, of course.

It turned out I just had a scratch and not an infection at all.

Yeah, I just confirmed with my itchy google finger what Laurel says, that there is no particular agent.

yah. my wife heard that this particular affliction is bacterial, fwiw. (i don't know where she heard that, health information just seems to sort of appear.) kid's going to the doc for a looksee. as for laurel's boss, grr. in my own supervisory stint i was always trying to keep people from coming in sick. rather have one person out for a few days than 5 people out the next week.

(and i've gotten almost irrational about now that i have a kid. don't come to work sick! i don't care if it's just a sniffle! your sniffle means i'm gonna be mopping up kidsnot for a week.)

oh i wish you were my boss. i promise i wouldn't abuse your good nature except for when i have a REALLY bad hangover

Pinkeye Dinkeye Doo.

ROLLING NEW YORK 2008: I Don't Wanna Be Here When the Giant Baby Sea Turtle Monster Drops

Haha she doesn't have kids but she's the same about sickness! It's just that she was ultimately wrong that there was any one cure for my apparent "pink eye", and she kept insisting STRENUOUSLY that my doctor (who was Korean and a combined Eastern/Western practitioner) was a kook and RONG and she made me go to the optometrist in the same morning. Two co-pays! I wouldn't put up with that again, I shd have just gone home.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/nyregion/02machinegun.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1202101200&en=deac334204f54d3a&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin

FEELING MUCH SAFER THANK YOU NYPD/BUSH/RUDY!!!

As if the 20 cops who stand around the subway station entrance staring at you like you're Osama bin Laden wasn't enough.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0805,tucker,78874,2.html

^ thank you nypd!

nothing so soothing as the sight of an m4 rifle

this ipod is a pipe bomb

we invade this wednesday, don't know how soon we'll get into manhattan as for one thing we want to get some shopping out the way (ie making the most of our healthy pound at Woodbury Common to clothe Aidan).

I have the free pass for the 11th so I can come in for the Liverpool game and lots of photography while wandering (and eating, lots of eating)

Anyone know of anything unmissable coming up in the next couple of weeks?

i just don't wanna be under a river when the bomb drops

-- mookieproof, Saturday, January 12, 2008 7:31 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

^^^ safer than a bridge, rite?

pp, this is happening on the night of the 11th:

http://nymag.com/daily/food/2008/02/global_grub_abounds_at_voice_c_1.html

oh WAU.

not to sound dense, but when you go to one of those things do you basically just pay the door fee and then you get to walk around to different vendors and get as many little tasting portions as you want?

i think being underwater is scarier than being on a bridge in a claustrophobic, buried alive kinda way

yea asphyxiation underground / underwater / from fumes sounds a lot less fun that being incinerated or plummeting to your death

hurting, i have no idea. kind of worried that it will be a clusterfuck, but we're gonna find out.

daer metroptlitan diary
who would have thought! homeless man returned my check i dropped. to the sunspa next door. jenny from sunspa slipped it under my door. thanks jenny! thanks homeless man! thanks new york!

i would clusterfuck with all of this food vendors

what if "the bomb" goes off in, say, pittsburgh or denver instead?!?

residents of those fair cities would be more than welcome to start their own threads.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01122009/photos/news019a.jpg

park slope otm

Tottenville also OTM for like 50% of NYC.

I don't believe that 18% number for a second.

btw, didn't I read that NYC Health Dingdongs classify you as a "binge drinker" if you have 5 drinks in a night, even ONCE a year? At last a club we can all belong to.

what part of PS is 11217 anyway? neighborhood creep.

50% of NYC is not dominated by twentysomethings

so looks like chelsea residents = damaged goods.

gays fyi