I miss Peter Jennings.

Saying "regular programming" seemed a much more succinct way of phrasing it.

Oh, good point.

It's a strong memory for me, because, there is a big difference between murky, violent TV show with young Canadian himbos and bright, humane TV show with less-young American man occasionally wearing a dress. And being so Nice. Niceness is underappreciated. It was a We've secretly replaced their regular coffee with Folger's crystals type of deal. I was glad to notice.

In conclusion, let's all make out.

Good idea!

Wasn't Space: Above and Beyond a Chris Carter show, or am I misremembering?

Close - it was Morgan and Wong. Their leaving is when the wheels started coming off the X-Files (Millenium didn't last long enough to get to that point, though the last (third?) season certainly showed it was in the offing).

Cereal:

Wasn't Space: Above and Beyond a Chris Carter show, or am I misremembering?

Morgan & Wong. Also formerly of the X-Files.

I miss Peter Jennings.

Me too.

I watched the coverage pretty steadily, and by the end I had acquired such a mental bond with Peter Jennings that I just sobbed when he died. When I felt like I had to get away, I escaped to HGTV and the Food Network, which thankfully had not cobbled together "how to repair your home after a terrorist attack" and "tasty treats for first responders." I just remember having this terrible need to ::do:: something, and having nothing I could do. I also spent a lot of time on the NY Times website, which did an astonishingly good job of updating. I wish I had found the Buffistas by then, because the one online group I was a member of turned into a snarling mess of people saying that the U.S. deserved to be bombed.

That was one nutty x-post.

runs away

When I felt like I had to get away, I escaped to HGTV and the Food Network, which thankfully had not cobbled together "how to repair your home after a terrorist attack" and "tasty treats for first responders."

::loves Ginger::

Happy Birthday, Trudy & Kara!!!

And, thank you to all my Buffistas who have enriched my life during good times and held my invisible hand during bad times.

Strangely, I agree with both of these comments:

1. The aftermath of that day was the basis for our becoming a community

2. I think in my mind we became a community after TT went pay and we were all alone (relatively) in the wilds of WX.

I've been part of the board since TT, but I lurked long. I delurked on occassion and then went back to lurking some more. To some degree, because of RL demands, I still do, but it was five years ago that I started posting regularly and started to feel more a part of the community rather than just a watcher.

Close - it was Morgan and Wong. Their leaving is when the wheels started coming off the X-Files

Midway through season 2?!

Salon Olbermann interview: [link]

When asked if he was "courting liberals":

You know, every once in a while you should bring the flag out and say, "What does our country stand for?" The first thing that I think of is the statement that I disagree with your beliefs, but I will fight to the death for your right to express them. When the secretary of defense and the president of the United States make statements that indicate those statements are no longer operative, then you have to say something. It's no longer liberal versus conservative at that point. It's American versus truly un-American. So I'm not courting anybody with these things, I'm saying these things because I think they need to be said. I think they need to be underlined and underscored in the public discourse.

eta: On the media focusing on the Lewinsky scandal:

This is, what we're going through now, monumentally more important. Monica Lewinsky, and the events surrounding Monica Lewinsky, will get a paragraph, perhaps, in the history books. This era gets its own chapter, at least, and in the history of this country it may be as pivotal as the time of the Civil War. There has never been, I think, since then any kind of comparable political struggle going on over what we are, and what we represent, and what our standards have to be whether we are under attack or we are not.