'Dirty Girls'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
If the tests are successful, you may hear three to four muffled explosions per day on alternating weekdays for approximately two months.
"Hey New York! We want to test your emotional bedrock and post-traumatic stress levels by fucking with you for the next two months."
Something about the name "Freedom Tower" really rubs me the wrong way. Not sure if that makes sense....
And while explosions are genearlly cool, mabye NSM in this case....
Tommy - I feel the same way about the name. Makes me wonder if people were all eyerolly about the "Statue of Liberty" at the time.
"Hey New York! We want to test your emotional bedrock and post-traumatic stress levels by fucking with you for the next two months."
Yeay, residents of Tokyo were equally unhappy about the Giant Godzilla Balloon tests....
Something about the name "Freedom Tower" really rubs me the wrong way. Not sure if that makes sense....
Maybe it's the Freedom Fries debacle.
A/C repair man has been by. I need a new circuit board. It has to be ordered. no timeframe. then when it gets here, I have to miss another part of a workday in order to have the work done.
Oh, lovely. My building just sent out the following notice:
To All Tenants:
We have now been advised that engineers will detonate test explosives at the World Trade Center site beginning on Monday, June 12, 2006. This procedure will test the use of charges to clear bedrock for the Freedom Tower’s foundation. If the tests are successful, you may hear three to four muffled explosions per day on alternating weekdays for approximately two months.
Haven't you been hearing three to four explosions a day at work for the past several months, though?
Maybe it's the Freedom Fries debacle.
Well, that's part of it... but not all. I was annoyed when Reagan wanted to use the name "Space Station Freedom" or whatever.
Pro'lly the way the right wing associates "freedom" with laissez faire capitalism and jingoistic patriotism.
Those are for the South Ferry Terminal, and thankfully, out of earshot for me. The WTC is right across the street.
Something about the name "Freedom Tower" really rubs me the wrong way. Not sure if that makes sense....
It's a side-effect of the whole freedom-naming frenzy from a few years back -- makes it very hard to take anything named "Freedom ____" seriously.