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.

Midway through season 2?!

It was that early? Huh, I could have sworn they were around the X-Files longer than that. I know they were on the first two seasons of Millenium. Was that before or after SPACE: A&B?

I just choked on air and now have to be careful how I blink so as not to smear mascara everywhere from the resulting coughing fit.

I really shouldn't be allowed to call myself a grownup. Or maybe even human.

They left in S2 after Die Hand Die Verlezt to do Space, then returned in a more limited capacity in S4.

"tasty treats for first responders."

::loves Ginger::

I second that.