The inevitable first Sept. 11 thread ....

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Always remember ...

Anyway, first thing I put on when clock struck midnight in the East? Andrew W.K.'s "I Get Wet." Can't front on the sentiment ...

Hope everyone is good, well or at least contemplative.

― Chris O'Connor (Chris O'Connor), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Happy birthday Moby!

― Coat Hanger (c_hanger), Thursday, 11 September 2003 08:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I know! I can't believe Richard Ashcroft turns 32 on September 11. Bizarre! Happy Birthday Richard!

― False Name, Thursday, 11 September 2003 08:58 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A716591

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 11 September 2003 09:59 (twenty-three years ago)

My son was born on 9/11/01
What a day

― yaeger, Thursday, 11 September 2003 10:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Geir - today's 2nd New York Times editorial

― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 11 September 2003 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The fact that 13,000 people have died in Afghanistan and Iraq since 9/11 is at the forefront of my thoughts

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Only 13,000?

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

The fact that 13,000 people have died in Afghanistan and Iraq since 9/11 is at the forefront of my thoughts

Oh how nice for you.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Incidentally, I'm not reacting to the inarguable fact that countless innocent Afghanis are dead, but rather to the needlessly smug, self-serving and tastelessly-timed comment from Dadaisms.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

On 11. September 2001 - according to some right-wing sources - the Islamic world tried to kill the Western democracy

On 11. September 1973, the US killed the Chilenean democracy.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 11 September 2003 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

worst thread ever

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 11 September 2003 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Let's get it together people! The important thing is that we catch these men!
http://www.bertisevil.tv/img/laden.jpg

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 11 September 2003 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.bertisevil.tv/img/bert-sadam.jpg

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 11 September 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks for putting it in perspective, Geir.

― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 11 September 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

i was standing quarter deck watch during my last few weeks of boot camp when 9 11 happened. heard it on tv, thought it was just a sick saturday night live sketch. it's kinda like the cinderella song, "don't know whatcha got til it's gone", ya know?

― ryan hoffman, Thursday, 11 September 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

was looking at the pictures, not to sound naive, but what's wrong with bert, or ernie, i forget his name? but is that just a little comic relief to add humor to a dismal time, or is there something political about bert?

― ryan hoffman, Thursday, 11 September 2003 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Ya know, and I'm sorry if it seems insensitive, but who gives a fuck about Chile?

― Chris O., Thursday, 11 September 2003 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, given the date today, and the already acknowledged unpleasantness of this thread, and the very likely possibility that absolutely zero good can come out of continuing this conversation any further, can we just all look the other way and let this one die please? That would be really nice.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 September 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I second that. It wasn't my intention for Bert and Pinochet and smug conspiracy theory anti-Bushism to be introduced here. I just wanted to acknowledge the event on ILM; it's deeply personal to me.

― Chris O., Thursday, 11 September 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

So go build a shrine to Bush in yr bedroom or something. I would have liked to see it end after Fritz's post, but don't admonish posters whose views differ from your own and choose to post to your corny "inevitable" thread (which belongs on ILE in the first place).

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 11 September 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Also: 25th anniversary of man being stabbed by umbrella.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 11 September 2003 17:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, I'm as lefty as anyone else here. But on a music posting board, you'd figure we'd be appropriate enough to keep the posting to musical observation/tribute/etc.

Oh, and ok, that Osama and Bert thing IS funny as hell.

― Chris O., Thursday, 11 September 2003 17:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Not as funny as this.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 11 September 2003 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

who gives a fuck about Chile?

Hey, I'm as lefty as anyone else here.

― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 11 September 2003 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know about "lefty," but you sound clueless.

― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 11 September 2003 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

this thread sucks but MTV have been showing some very nice short 9/11 themed films all day. one in particular that grabbed me was a dark blue screen with faint lines of text scrolling slowly upwards, they are the names of all the victims and their names light up sporadically in turn. the camera slowly zooms out to reveal the lines of names are in the shape of the two towers, faint and spectral on a Manhattan skyline. i think it was a 3D animation by Simon Davies.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 September 2003 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Bit off-topic it is, I agree.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 11 September 2003 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

it's adornos's hundredth birthday today. maybe the only genius in the last century. but you have to be very clever and fluent in german to get him...

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 11 September 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Today is nine year's since Jessica Tandy died as well.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 11 September 2003 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Incidentally, I'm not reacting to the inarguable fact that countless innocent Afghanis are dead, but rather to the needlessly smug, self-serving and tastelessly-timed comment from Dadaisms.

Excuse me - what exactly is smug and self-serving about it? If you'd read two years worth of "Warballs" in Private Eye you might understand where I'm coming from

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 September 2003 11:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I took exception to the italicizing of the word "my," as if to call to attention how "in tune" with world events you are.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 September 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

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